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SASSY AND SLAYING: DIARY OF A SINGLE NAIJA BABE
Episode 49

Dear diary,

March 21st, 2018.

Diary, my diary. Did you miss me? I know you did. I missed you too. I have been busy these past few weeks. I am going to tell you all about my dealings, business and exciting things too.

Let’s start with my ex. I heard from a little birdie that Kingsley and Nneoma got married. I was a little bit shaken. I will not lie. I was hurt too, but not as much as I thought I would be.

This is significant because it means that I have almost gotten over him. Let’s say 90%. 10% left ba? I wish them both good luck sha.

I don’t live in that compound anymore o. I moved out three weeks ago. I now live at Maryland. My one bedroom flat is attached to a motor garage which I converted into my work space. “Ego’s Kitchen”. It also has a mini administrative office.

I am now a CEO with my very own business. Lagosians like my food. And I am pleased. I supply all kinds of people, ranging from busy singles to busy married folks, to the lazy wives who would rather eat out, than cook for their families, and also elderly people who order for daily meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I have people who order for food weekly and some on a monthly basis. I also cater for parties and other out-door events. I have two cooks, three assistant cooks who also wash and clean, two sales rep, one driver (he drives the delivery bus), one accountant, one office assistant, one personal assistant and a cleaner. That’s twelve staff in all. Everybody multi task and I pay them well.

I resigned from Sweet Things Bakery first week of March and plunged all my savings into this business. Mr. Praise, okay, he said I shouldn’t refer to him as “Mr. Praise”.

I am laughing now. Okay, Praise, my former boss... he invested in my business the day I submitted my resignation letter. He was so, so happy for me. The man gave me a cheque of five million naira! And also one of his cars. He said I was now a CEO and I needed to look and act like one.

My mum and siblings are also ecstatic. They are very, very proud of me.

At the middle of this month, Praise took me out on our very first date. I am blushing right now.

We went to a Chinese Restaurant on the island and we had fun. Praise is a hopeless romantic. Hahaha... You should have seen him diary. I was blown to the moon, swept off my feet and I am still basking in the euphoria of that beautiful night.

He dropped me off at my new apartment late that night. He said he would have loved to kiss me, but he said he wasn’t ready to start what he wasn’t prepared to finish. He said if he kissed me, it won’t stop there. He would likely carry me into my flat and f$@k me really hard!

Yes, those were his exact words. He said he wanted to keep things sane, holy, slow and steady. He didn’t want to ruin our relationship before it had matured.

Yes, dairy, you guessed right. Praise is a born again Christian and he is serious about doing things God’s way. He doesn’t entertain compromise, not even in business.

That night, he pecked me on the forehead and on my cheeks too. Even with the pecks alone, I was already wet!

Jesus! The man was right after all. If he had tried to sleep with me that night, I would probably have been way too weak to stop him.

Bit by bit, I am falling in love with Praise and my respect for him grows daily. The way I see it now, Praise had fallen for me way before his wife passed on and I have no idea how he was able to control his emotions and hide his feelings.

Even after he lost his wife, he avoided me like a plague. If I had not started working for him as a cook, I wondered if he would have approached me.

Anyway, I am thankful to God the way everything happened. I thank God for giving me a thriving business and a man to call my own.

I am so, so grateful, diary.

God sure makes everything beautiful in its time!