TWENTY “What are we doing at Zik Hall?” Gloria asked as the car pulled up in front of the building. “I told you I had to do a stopover,” Ike said before turning to push the door open. “Wait for us here,” Henry, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, said to the driver before stepping out. Ike stepped out and sucked in a deep breath. This had been his university campus. The familiarity of the setting relaxed him a little, although the dread that had sat in his stomach since he’d boarded the flight to Enugu earlier on that day hadn’t gone away. He hadn’t seen Lara in over two weeks and he would be seeing her today. How was she coping with her treatment? Was she fully recovered? It was such a short frame of time to speculate. But the fact that she’d made the trip back to Enugu was

