Shade of Lust (Episode 31)

I honored her invitation, scared of what

she was planning for me only to discover that all she wanted

was for me to accompany her on a charity work.

‘’I hope you are not angry at me?’’ I heard her ask curiously.

‘’no of course not’’ I quickly replied. She smiled with relief and

signaled to her gate-man who quickly came out with some

cartons of Indomie noodles, children clothes, provisions and

toiletries. My car boot was soon filled up and all I could do

was just to stare at her with great admiration. I used the

moment to examine my life as I realized that I was yet to give

out a single penny to the needy which really was totally bad of

me.

‘’you know nothing sets the heart more at peace than helping

people in need. Have you ever visited an orphanage before?’’

she asked as we headed to the first orphanage located at

Aladinma.

‘’no it has never crossed my mind’’ I answered truthfully.

‘’God blessed you for a reason and the least you can do is to

help the needy, to touch someone’s life with your help. You

can’t believe the number of kids I’m paying school fees for.’’

She added with a smile while I kept quiet.

The evening turned out to be a very long and interesting one

for me. I got to experience firsthand how an orphanage looked

like and how the kids living there were treated. We visited

about five of such homes and I ended up donating five

thousand naira to each of them which really was nothing,

compared to what Jessica gave out.

When we got back to her house, late in the evening, she

invited me inside for the first time.

‘’I’m really proud of you Kelvin. Not many guys would be

happy on what I did. I took you to where you never planned

visiting and yet you contributed your quota. So you now have

the right to pick out the time and place of our next date’’ she

said to me with a happy smile after showing round her

impressive residence. I couldn’t believe my ears.

‘’wow that’s so good to hear, but really you taught me a very

wonderful lesson today’’ I confessed. She drew close,

breathed deeply, hugged and pecked me affectionately.

‘’you are such a wonderful guy Kelvin and I really enjoyed my

evening with you’’ she whispered, melting my heart with her

action and I kind of trembled before her as I tried so hard to

control my emotions.

I so badly wanted to grab and kiss her that moment but

luckily I was able to hold back myself.

I never planned falling in love with Jessica because she was

still my main suspect over my uncle’s death but somehow my

emotions were getting on the way and she looked so pure,

open minded and honest.

It looked as if I was gradually falling in love for the first time.

Or could it be lust??