Chapter Two : Echoes of Blood
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Twenty years later... Lagos. 4:37 AM.
The room was dark and silent, except for the shallow breathing of two brothers who’d seen too much too young.
“Tola. Wake up.”
No answer.
“Tola!”
SLAP!
“Ahhh!”
Tola jolted upright, eyes wide, gasping for breath.
Taye stood over him, arms crossed. “It’s time for hustle.”
Tola rubbed his face. “ I still had that nightmare again"
Taye sighed, voice flat. “It’s just the past. Let it go.”
Tola’s voice cracked. “They murdered our parents. Ripped us from everyone we loved. And now we fight every day just to survive.”
Taye looked away. “You can’t keep bringing this up.”
Tola lowered his head, ashamed. “It was my fault.”
“What?” Taye’s brows pulled together.
“I was weak. I hid. I froze. If I had been braver—like you—we could’ve saved them.”
A long silence.
Then Taye sat beside him, eyes far away.
“Hmmm…”
He took a deep breath.
> “Let me tell you the full story… the one Uncle never told you.”
Tola turned slowly. “What do you mean?”
Taye looked him in the eyes.
> “It’s been twenty years…
But it still looks like yesterday .”
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> The truth they were never told was darker than the blood they saw that night.
And it was time to uncover it.
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