Chapter 21 Moving On

• Chapter 21
• Moving on
• After being nudged to the seamier side of life, Opula’s ordeal at the court made the rounds in Lagos. Her face, Sen Madu’s and Nku’s grazed the front page of Legal Daily and other newspapers for a while. She was soon tagged the emotional lawyer and given appropriate recognition at the bar and streets. In that light Legal Daily resurrected back to what it was. Azuaka Jnr was fascinated to make megabucks everyday and regain his fan-load. Opula held office as the editor-in-chief; threw her fearand pressure under feet and published vulture stories. Azuaka Jnr still nurtured fear and kept hiding in her feathers.She scavenged for a new life after being jilted by Nku; relocating to the media home and being an ambulance chaser got her busy. Nothing could be more interesting than Azuaka Jnr driving on the streets of Lagos, watching Opula controlling a scene of a rich boy who burst bottle on the head of a Gala hawker. In like cases, she sued the rich to treat the poor victim, with reserves of megabucks for herself. And at night she would be a nocturnal editor, outlining vulture stories for the next day. Azuaka Jnr would serve her hot Cappuccino but would come at dawn to see the coffee untouched. Being an ambulance chaser was getting more tedious and risky, and then she got herself a licensed short gun and became more radical; after coming back with the awful face of a street lawyer she would convince Azuaka to relax in his bed while she blazed the gun in the air to scare away assassins. Traces of the fear that haunted Azuaka started confronting her; with the vulture stories she published and the daily threats from opposing clients. But she was irresistible, especially with her gun close and her bible closer. Her philosophy had been ‘any of her enemies that misunderstood the message of the bible wouldn’t misunderstand that of the gun. She pasted it on her desk and door post.