Dangerous Love

HE'S A SUSPECT

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"Ire someone hates you, and this is getting out of hands. They are not just trying to frame you but destroy you. Who could it be?" Prince Adedamola held those pictures in his hands looking at them as if it could reveal the person to them. He became worried than Prince Ire himself. He paced up and down the large room immediately Prince Ire told him what happened at the restaurant. This was getting his brother really worried and he wanted to help. Prince Adedamola stopped walking and turned to Prince Ire. "You need to try and remember anything you can from the past. Did you hurt or kill someone?"

"What!" Prince Ire yelled a little bit slowly, getting out of his bed. "I never did such thing. Yes, I was into drugs and I was never in my right state of mind to think everything I was doing was wrong but..." Prince Ire stopped. He sat down back and continued. "I remember paying everyone I slept with well enough that they wanted to be with me again. Except from a particular day.."

"What happened?" Prince Adedamola cut in. "Can you still remember?"

Prince Ire stared at his younger brother. "On this day, there was this particular lady who didn't want to be with me even after offering her a huge amount of money. I couldn't tell why I wanted to be with her because I didn't really like her like that. But I guess I got pissed cause everyone wanted to be with me except from her." Prince Ire closed his eyes and scratched his head unable to continue.

"Bro, you don't have to feel bad now. How does a person under the influence of alcohol and drugs behave? This could help us act quickly. It's your past but you are now a different man. You only want to make things right and find the culprits because if not, they are not planning to stop, and they haven't started yet."

Prince Ire thought about what his brother said and decided to continue. He wanted to know who and who was behind all of these. Ara wasn't safe either, and she knew it even though she tried to act as if nothing was happening in front of him. He sat back on his bed and continued. "I forced myself on her actually." Prince Ire said slowly, ashamed of what he had done. "I discovered she was a virgin and I hate myself for doing such a shameful thing. But I also discovered she was at that place because she was waiting for someone to come pick her."

"So what happened next?"

"We discovered the next day that she drown herself to death....except that, I saw.....Adewale at the scene. He didn't see me though. He seemed disturbed that day, and I wanted to quickly leave the scene to avoid anything that would implicate me."

"Wait! Our Adewale!" Prince Adedamola's eyes came out fully opened. His mind filled up with many thoughts. He didn't want to believe their older brother was somehow connected to this story. Prince Adedamola walked closer to Prince Ire, gently putting his hand on his shoulder. The two brothers didn't want to believe what was happening was because of the story that was just being told. It should be the First Queen or someone working for someone. But that someone, could be anybody. Prince Adedamola eventually said those words out. "Do you think brother can hurt you?"

The two brothers stared at each other, trying to reason what was not there to reason. They were beginning to suspect him, but they wish they wouldn't. They were quiet for some seconds until Prince Adedamola continued again. "Joy framed you and almost ruined your reputation. Someone wants to make you look bad and change how people see you."

Prince Ire was totally confused, but he still look composed. "Joy came through Derin actually. She told me it was to help me. I don't think anyone is behind that except Joy foolishly working for the first Queen."