
Episode 1
âNow listen carefully, Emily or whatever, it is either your job or your family! What part of that statement donât you understand?â Oswald Peterson shouted in her face and she jerked back. âIf youâre tired already of being a correspondent field reporter, then Iâll get you fired. There are tons of reporters who would kill to get this assignmentâ
Emily Bradley just sat back gazing at the wall-sized portrait of the Nigerian President hanging at the rear wall of the huge office, a million thought flashing her mind. She had gone through hell to get job and had sworn to keep it for a long time; reason, she was the major source of her familyâs income. But her mother who had been informed that she had barely seventy-two hours to live and at most four days.
She was down with a chronic cardiovascular illness known as the coronary artery disease, a type of atherosclerosis meant that her arteries were hardening and narrowing by the moment and if the angloplasty surgery doesnât work out, the arteries could be blocked,the flow of blood would become almost impossible and that would mean death. She brushed the thought off her memory. If not for any other thing but for the fact that save for her sister, she was the only family she had right now. She really had to be by her side during her last days.
âPlease sir, I can get you a doctorâs analysis and report from the hospital. You donât really need to do this to meâ, she pleaded.
Her boss,Oswald Peterson was the last person you would want to get angry with you,so she had choose her words carefully.
With an irritatingly bad temper, Pete had already carved a niche for himself in the world of investigative journalism with his vast experience in numerous major news networks all over the world. Currently,he is the head of the international correspondence arm of the Cable News Network(CNN) in Nigeria.
âNo, no, no. Donât cross the line. This is ridiculous,how can I just give you such an important assignment on a platter of gold, one minute you accepted and the next you come running back demanding a leave cause your mother gonna die on or before Easter? I really donât get it, you canât just keep disrupting the way things are structured here!â
âIâm so sorry sir. But I really donât want to call it quitsâ. She needed to clear her head right now,the cost of the operation that might save her motherâs heart failure at least for some time was very exorbitant and she has to be the one who would pay for it. Her other sister, Eliana was still in college and she had to stop school just because of this. She had tried everything; worked overtime,met some people but things are not as expected.
Her smartphone started ringing but she ignored it.
âI guess this meeting is over,if youâre not in the Vatican City to cover the pre-Easter and Easter celebrations for this news network then Iâll be left with no other option than to fire you,periodâ,he said and pressed a button on the mahogany desk and the glass door slid open.
âHow did it go?â Duane asked as soon as she came out of the office.
âForget it,Duaneâ, she said and slumped down on her swivel chair. Her phone rang again,
âHello Eliana, howâs mum doing? Yeah give her the phoneâ.
âHello mom,just hang in there. Iâll figure something out, trust me. Alrightâ the call terminated.
âS–t! The stupid network providers. Oh my God,Iâm going to go crazy of all theseâ
âThatâs frustration,depression comes after thisâ, Duane said from his workspace.
âJust mind your business,jerkâ
âAnyway,Derek called your deskâ
âAnd you picked it?â, she asked
âTrust me. He said that I should inform you that he would be making a flight stop in italy before heading for the United States for the exhibition,if you wonât mind joining himâ
âOf course,at least it would save me some flight costsâ,she muttered.
âI should have known thick-skinned no nonsense Emily is finally taking up the international assignmentâ.
âJust shut up!â, she scolded and everyone turned to look at her.
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