CLARA THE GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER EPISODE 2

CLARA THE GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER 

I was busy enjoying the roasted yam my mother
served me when I got an unexpected call from
my boss. I nervously answered the call without
wasting time, equally wondering why he was
calling by that hour. ‘’agent val, where are you?’’ my boss
asked in his usual gruff voice. ‘’I’m at home sir’’ I stammered,
standing up nervously as if the man was right
there before me. ‘’report to my office immediately. It’s very
urgent. You have five minutes’’ he ordered. ‘’yes sir’’ I breathed sharply even though
deep down I was extremely unhappy. I planned
spending the weekend with mum after staying
away from home for so long and I just couldn’t
imagine how disappointed she would be, seeing
me leaving just an hour after I got home. Anyway that’s exactly the life of an agent. My
life and everything belonged to the government
and I had no reason to protest because I clearly
knew what I was getting into when I applied to
join the department of state services. ——————— I slowly made my way to the kitchen to tell my
dear mother that I was leaving again. Luckily for
me, I had no much explanation to do. One look at
my face told her everything. She simply
shrugged and bit her lips as I made my way
towards her. ‘’I guess the call was from your office?, when
am I seeing you again?’’ she asked. ‘’maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Once I’m
free, I will be back here’’ I answered with a
forced smile as I hugged her. ———————- one hour later @ DSS Quarters Owerri As I drove into my work place, I couldn’t help
but wonder why my boss needed me so
urgently. I wasn’t really holding any sensitive
material or position at the moment. The general
election of the previous year and every post
election security matter has already been dealt with. I really had hoped on having a wonderful
weekend with mum only to be ordered back to
the office. Yes I really was far from happy but I
hid my feelings as I appeared before my boss
who was in his office with a senior colleague
who was in charge of the governor’s security. ‘’agent val, I gave you five minutes to report
here but you took an hour?’’ my boss asked
with a frown while I quickly apologized. ‘’I’m reassigning you. From now you are
part of the state governor’s security, any
problem with that?’’ he asked. ‘’no sir’’ I answered, wondering the
reason I was chosen for such a job since I clearly
knew that we lost none of the agents working
with the state governor. I instantly felt there was
more to it. ‘’agent mike will brief you more on your new
assignment’’ my boss added, nodding at the
senior agent who smiled at me while I nervously
stared back at him as he opened a file he was
holding. ‘’According to your file, you are currently
26years old. A law graduate, did remarkably
well in law school, been out of the country twice,
still single and from a royal family’’ agent
Mike calmly summarized my life as I stood still. ‘’have you ever been in real combat
before?’’ he asked. ‘’no sir?’’ I answered, wondering why he
asked such a question, since he was with my file
which clearly stated that I had been in the
department for just a year and few months and
only worked at the vetting department. ‘’good, the governor needs a well educated
and exposed agent of your age to watch over his
rebellious daughter who will be arriving the
state this evening. She is 24years old. A Harvard
graduate and it’s her first time of coming home
since her dad became the state governor, so listen carefully to what I have to tell you. Before
accepting to come home, the girl made her
father promise not to cage her, nor suffocate her
life with security and bodyguards. She wants to
live a free life and mingle with people like she
used to do in the past. But you know we can’t let that happen. Her father needs someone
within her age range to be with her all the time
as a friend without her really knowing that the
person is an agent and that’s where you fit in.
You get me?’’ he asked. ‘’yes sir, I understand. I think I have seen a
similar movie sometime back’’ I answered
freely. ‘’shut up. This is real life. Don’t mess this up
or you will see yourself out of this department.
The governor is very close to the president and
he can ruin your life if you play with his
daughter’s safety’’ he threatened seriously
while I instantly hid my smile as my heart froze. ‘’I need not to tell you that the governor has
a lot of enemies and you are being assigned a
very tasking job’’ he added while I looked
down with slight tension as the burden of my
new assignment played before me.. It really
would be my first major tasking assignment outside office work and I couldn’t imagine
protecting a very rebellious governor’s
daughter all on my own without any backup. Yes
I was a good shooter but I really was yet to face
any combat and with the way I was seeing my
new assignment I felt a day would come when my shooting skills would be needed. I hated
being with rich kids, talk more of protecting a
rebellious one who could spend all her time
putting herself in harm’s way. ‘’lord help me’’ I breathed.

 To be continued on Episode 3