Cosmic Editor

Chapter 18: Moving in

The young man was clearly African and from the looks of things, Nigerian but he was light skinned compared to most. The man wore a simple suit that hugged his body loosely.

It fit him perfectly and it looked as though the man was born in said suit. As the man stepped out, the atmosphere immediately changed as they all immediately tried to look their best and put on their best behaviours.

However almost as quickly as he set everyone back to their right minds, he made everywhere cheerful and friendly once again with a friendly smile that appeared on his face.

"Ah, good day to you all, I'm assuming you guys are the agents from Works and Housing, right?" The man asked, the smile still on his face

"Yes, and you must be Mr. David Nnaji" the lady replied as she shook his hand and gave a smile just as genuine as his.

She couldn't help it, it was too contagious and its power level, over nine thousand. None of them could help it as they all smiled as well putting everyone in a weirdly more relaxed atmosphere.

"That I am, I hope I didn't keep you all waiting... Abuja traffic go dey use you dey play" David said using pidgin, a new and weird language in Nigeria that mixes English with local slangs.

The language was fairly popular and practically all Nigerians knew it, but one thing was for sure, no one who has gone beyond a certain level in terms of wealth would use it especially on such official grounds.

David, using it meant two things and both were good for them. One, he wanted them to feel equal to him rather than inferior like many of their bosses made them and two, it meant that this was a guy who valued people over money.

However, no matter what conclusions they came to, they found themselves quickly relaxing into the situation despite it being one where they may be needed to shoot the client if necessary.

"Don't worry, it's been less than thirty minutes" the lady said as she turned and began leading David into the fenced site behind her.

"That's good then... Are those the documents pertaining to the estate?" David asked looking at the small pile of documents in her hand

"Yes, and we hoped that you would come with a lawyer but luckily we thought of this and provided one... This is Barrister Williams Abubakar, he will act as you lawyer in the absence of one" the lady said introducing a slightly elderly man who could be seen standing behind her with a briefcase in hand

David immediately stepped up and greeted the man as well as shook his hand both out of respect and for necessity. Nous had clearly told him that he would need a lawyer for the transaction but where was he going to get one.

Every lawyer he knew didn't have the right to practice yet because they were still in university. He couldn't just randomly get one because he couldn't trust them, just like he couldn't trust this one.

Above all, he felt that he didn't need one, Nous was a greater adept in the law than all these old fogeys. If there was anything wrong with the transfer of ownership, Nous would point it out.

"I'm sorry for troubling you, I just couldn't find someone in time, I will be in your care then Sir" David replied as the man nodded and thanked him

"Since you are ready now, how about we go into the property... If possible, Mr. David, would you ride with us so we can make this quicker" the lady said pointing towards a small van in the distance nove(l)bi(n.)com

"I mean it's only four of us, your lawyers and the two of us, we can take mine and your security team can ride behind us if you deem them necessary" David suggested

No way in hell was he leaving his nearly two hundred-million-naira car out here. It wasn't a matter of humility or pride; the car was just too expensive to be left out here even if he was now a billionaire.

"Do you all agree?" The lady asked the lawyers behind her who immediately nodded

Of course, David could easily tell that they were excited to ride in a Lamborghini for possibly the first time in their lives even if they didn't want to show it on their faces.

The lady too may pretend to not care but she was practically the first in the car as soon as he unlocked it. It was understandable even he was still excited to enter the car and it was his.

"Hope you all are comfortable; remember I don't know this area so guide me, so we don't get lost" David joked

Why wouldn't they be comfortable, it was a Lamborghini Urus, the very fact that it was a Lamborghini made it that even if they weren't comfortable. The price tag of the car will quickly adjust them to it.

With the price tag, everything was possible. If the car was uncomfortable then you better adjust. If it was too slow, better imagine it going 200 km/hr as you manage your 60km/hr ride. There was no room for complaint in such a ride.

"No problem" the lady replied as she began actively leading him through the massive estate

There wasn't really much to see since the estate wasn't maintained as much as it should. The main building itself was as he could see that the lights and its immediately vicinity had been cleaned and prepped for him, but all others seemed to have been left to him to take care of.

The lady first led them through the entire estate defining its current boundaries even though the entire mountain was legally his. Her duty was simply to show him all there was to the already built estate.

The house covered an area of about 12 hectares of land and that was enough to tell anyone just how big this mountain truly was. Who knows how much the original prize for it was before the government seized it.