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Returning from the Dead: His Secret Lover novel Chapter 1820

Richard is looking for his cigarette around his room as usual, it has always been his way to cool off and not think of the world but he couldn't find it. He stares at his hand and in his head they were all filled with blood, bloods of John and bloods of other people he had killed.

"She's right, I shouldn't have killed John."

In 1989, Richard was two years old and he had just discovered his power. His mom Mariam, a middle age light lady wearing heavy accessories is talking with a doctor, she is clearly disappointed by Richard's power.

"This young boy is expected to take over the throne and rule the mafia underworld but his only power is teleportation." She talks arrogantly, the doctor tries to reason with her.

"Teleportation is quite a useful power Ma but there's no way I can change his powers." The doctor says, she sighs.

"He'll need alot of training, I need to prepare him." That night, Mariam goes to her room to join her husband, Jacob about same age with Mariam, very tall sits at the edge of the bed.

"What did the doctor say?" Jacob ask curiously, Mariam sits beside him

. "He has teleportation." She places her head on her knee, unlike Mariam Jacob is optimistic about it.

"That's good news, he can help with all the stealth missions." Jacob gets really excited and stands up to check on his son, Mariam grabs his hand.

"We can't make him excited about this, we have to intensify his training. The only reason why people are afraid of you is because of your transformation to monsters, we need to make him work hard."

By 1995, Richard has started getting different training on how to handle and take care of himself. Be moves to a dining room and he is given a timetable.

Mondays for physical training

Tuesdays for Language study

Wednesdays for power training

Thursdays for participation in missions

Fridays for Dinner with other Families.

Jacob insisted that Saturdays and Sundays should not be added and Richard should rest after all the stress, Mariam isn't happy about this but she plays along. On one particular Tuesday, Mariam is with Richard listening to him speak in French, she stares at him firmly.

"Start." She says boldly, Richard stares at her and his feet starts shaking but he manages to speak.

"Je ne dois pas être faible car les faibles perdent toujours et finissent par mourir, je ne dois montrer aucune émotion.........." He stutters, knowing what he has done and Mariam is quite aggressive he quickly apologizes.

"I'm so sorry..........." He quickly begs, she slaps him on the right cheek before he could complete his statement. She grabs his cheek with her hand.

"You'll die as a weak child." Mariam walks away disappointed.

In 2004, it's Richard birthday. He sits on the dining table hoping his parents will show up, he knew they wouldn't cause they never showed up for his birthday but he had some kind of hope in him, his doctor walks in with a chocolate cake and drops it on the dining table. The doctor looks around and sits down on a chair beside Richard.

"I'm sorry." He pats Richard on the shoulder, the doctor had always taken care of Richard immediately he knew his mom didn't like him he made a promise to himself that he'll always look out for him.

Richard finds himself in a forest, he looks around and runs out of the place. He leaves the forest and gets to a roadside Richard is quite confused about where he is, a huge wave of emotions hit him when he used his power something he had never done, a woman passes his side and he talks to her in a very awkward and creepy way. "Where I'm I?" The lady uses her purse to his him on his face scared that he might be a kidnapped. "Fimile jare." The lady runs off, Richard sees a newspaper on the floor and picks it up to look at the location, he sees his in Abuja and screams. "I've never gotten this far with my powers, from Lagos to Abuja." Richard talks to himself, Richard wasn't planning to head back to Lagos he had no family apart from his Mom or even friends apart from the other mafia children he didn't plan to visit the doctor cause he knew he'll put him in a lot of trouble but even if he wanted to go back to Lagos he couldn't cause his power weren't working. "Come on, at least get me out of this forest." Richard walks around the road with no family, no phone, no money and no way back home.

Two months later, Richard doesn't stop drinking and smoking his condition has gotten quite worse since he had on where to stay. Most times he ends up sleeping on the ground of the street or uncompleted buildings he used his clothes to cover his body and at one point he had to start wearing rags. One particular morning Richard sleeps off outside in front of Papa's house, Papa and Ayo come out of the house starting at him Ayo is particularly disgusted by the way Ayo sleeps cause he snores. "Should I carry him out of here?" Ayo says, Papa feels pity for Richard. "Bring him in, he probably doesn't have a place to stay."

A hour later, Richard wakes up and finds himself on a comfy chair unlike other days he woke up peacefully, he looks around and finds Papa starring at him from behind.

"Who are you?" Richard quickly gets up, Papa sits down on the chair.

"I saw you sleeping in front of my house and I thought that you might need help." Papa talks gently and folds his arm, Richard is dizzy cause of the drinks he drank yesterday.

"I don't know what you think........" Richard throws up on the floor before he could finish his statement, Papa stands up.

"Stay and heal, go and meet Ayo you'll probably find him intriguing." He points to the kitchen, after few minutes Richard knows he has no place to stay and Papa is actually kind to him he thinks of staying, he goes to the kitchen and sees Ayo cleaning the dishes. He isn't shocked about Ayo looks he had seen worst during his time.

"So you're some kind of robot?" Richard says and chuckles, Ayo turns around to confirm who was talking he sees it's Richard and sighs.

"You look terrible." Richard didn't bother to look at his body, he hadihad a shower for a very long time and he wasn't even bothered. "What is this place?" Ayo drops the dishes and cleans his hand hand. "I guess for people like us to heal."

4months later, Richard settles in Papa's house and has a very strong brotherly friendship with Ayo. Papa always referred to Ayo as the elder brother while Richard as the younger one, due to Richard multiple training whole he was growing up he helped Ayo with his powers. One night they are both coming out of a forest, Ayo is flabbergasted about Richard's knowledge of Supernaturals power. "How do you know so much about this?" Ayo ask, Richard laughs out loud. "My parents." Ayo hits Richard hand. "Aren't you lucky?" Richard sighs and starts talking about everything he had gone through to Ayo, he never told Papa about this Ayo was the first and Richard felt comfortable about it, he knew Ayo actually cared about him and would actually protect and watch over him. Richard was happy and he never had any plan to go back to Mariam but he wondered why she hasn't sent a search team to look for him.

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