CHAPTER TWO: SUCH A TREAT ON THE WEDDING DAY!

The Hilltop cathedral of the saints was chosen by Richie as the place to solemnise their marriage. The place was chosen for two reasons, the first was based on its central location, it was in the very center of the sprawling city.

This means no guest who intends to grace the event will go through the stress of crossing through the expansive city to get to the place. Wherever the guest may come from the length of the journey will be almost the same for him and all other guests.

The second reason he chose this cathedral was its unique beauty. The cathedral was built on top of a hill with well spread flat top that is covered with exotic well scented beautiful flowers. To get to the top or descend from this hill you will travel spirally, rounding the hill three times before you will get to your destination. And you will drive through those highly scented orchids that covered the hill. Apart from this, climbing or descending from this hill gives you the opportunity to see the entire city on all sides. In fact, the hill is a major tourist center in this massive city!

Richie's plan to have unforgettable wedding experience cannot be achieved elsewhere in this city than this place. He planned to have a photo shoot with his wife immediately after the wedding, and to have their departure down the hill through those flowers video taped.

By ten in the morning the cathedral was brimming over with the creams of the society. Even the Mayor of the city was in attendance because Richie as a sound financial auditor working for the second largest auditing firm in the country was the head of the team from the firm handling the city's account, and the Mayor likes his work.

Many rich women were in attendance, most of whom Richie has offended in the past; but who forgave him as a sweet demon that they can't do without! They all came due to curiosity to see who the lady is who is able to pin down the man they did all things to pin down but failed.

However, the atmosphere in the cathedral is becoming stuffy and tense, this not because of the hot weather of the country around that part of the year; but because the bride should have arrived long ago, but they are yet to see her.

The solemnisation ought not to last more than an hour, by now it should be in rounding up phase if it started at the hour of ten fixed for it. Now it is eleven o'clock, the bride, her families and friends were no where to be found.

Richie was sweating and becoming irritated and apprehensive by the ticking of the large cathedral wall clock. The Priest called him up and asked him what they should do about his bride who has not shown up?

Richie told him that he should allow him to call her cell phone again to see if it is now on, for he has tried to call her several time before, but the telecom service provider told him her phone and that of all her people were not available.

He tried her line again, the result was the same. With this, a thousand what ifs ripples through his heart!

The fact that non of her known family members and friends were seen heightened the what ifs that are shaking his heart! At this moment the Mayor's personal assistant came to inform him that the Mayor is leaving and he wants to see him before he leaves. Richie beg the Priest to allow him to see the Mayor.

When he stepped out of the cathedral he saw a dispatch rider descending from a bike and he heads straight to where he stands anxiously waiting for the Mayor who at the moment is making a call. The rider came to him and said, "Sir, this letter is for you"

Richie was seriously afraid to collect the letter because he knows it has something to do with the absence of his bride. He asked the man, "Who sent it!"

The man told him that a man dropped it in their office with instruction that it must be delivered immediately to you! At this moment the eyes of all the people around him were glued to him, including that of the Mayor who just finished receiving a call.

Richie collect the letter and open it, immediately he saw the crisp handwriting of Folu his heart jumps chokingly to his throat! With a visible shaking hands he holds the letter while he read its content which was not properly addressed, but which started with this mysterious following header.

I PROMISED YOU A TREAT AND THIS IS YOUR TREAT

When we met, I told you the truth that I was engaged to a man, instead of you to walk away and be saved from this heartaches by putting my fiancé in your shoes, you selfishly and arrogantly pushed yourself on me as a man who felt he was better than all other men!

To make the matters worse for you, few weeks after I decided to humour you and play along. You mistakenly left your evil diaries in which you wrote all the evils you have done to many women open on your table. In one of them you wrote that all women are gullible and must be used and dumped as a piece of garbage! That useless statement sealed your doom! I made up my mind to teach you a lesson that we women are humans that a devil like you should not toy with.

You indeed tried so hard to add my name to the victims list in your diary, but I was smarter than you in all ways and at the end you became the first man in my own diary that I trampled upon.!

I am laughing now even as I'm writing because I remembered how hard you tried yesterday to break through my defence after that stimulating parade of mine; done on purpose to make today more painful to your over burning brain!

I believe you still remembered our last conversation, in case you forgot, let me remind you

I turned around seductively before you to add to the heat building in your brain and loins, while I watch you with secret side glance. You pounced upon me like a cat and I ward you off like a stubborn disease causing bugs!

I said, "Look at me, you can only see this body but you cannot taste it" Hearing that you got angry and asked if I was cursing you?" I calmed you down to delay the revelation that you are indeed a cursed soul!

More so, I want to prepare you for the final knife that would be plunged into your lustful wretched soul, so throatily I said, "Just one more night then you will have your treat"

Hearing that, you foolishly must have thought the treat I talked about was you having my body under your cursed ugly body! But never, my body is for a worthy, noble and decent man that you are not worthy to lace his shoes. Richie, this is your treat, go and marry your mother who raised you to be a monster; I hope you enjoy your treat?"

NB: Do you know that I learn a lesson through you? I learn that lustful men are idiotic puppets that any lady in her right sense can play with as toy! Hello toy, what did you learn?

Yours

The Demon tamer,

Folu

When Richie finish reading this letter, an explosion occurred in the nerve center of his brain, his legs shook violently due to a triggered spastic paralysis, his knees buckled and he fell face flat on the marble floor. He hit his already over spinning head on the hard marble floor and blood gushed out from his nose!

The Mayor and his men were the closest to him of all the concerned people looking at him, they rushed to carry him; and they discover that he was paralysed.

As the Mayor's men rushed him to the city's medical research center, the Mayor bent down to pick the letter that dropped from his hand to read. Just when he finish reading the letter Richie's parent rushed to him and asked him what happened to their son?

Other people also garther around him and all were shouting and asking questions simultaneously. Instead of him answering, he gave the letter to his father.

With trepidation his father read the letter to his mother as if they are alone. Due to this, the news went with the crowd to the city that Richie was dumped by his bride on the wedding day.

This case caused no small stir in the whole city, everybody began to say different things. Some were blaming him while others blamed Folu.

Most of the people blaming him were those who wished they are the ones that should give him such a treat on the wedding day!