Chapter: Chapter FourI walk further into the parlour and sink on to the plush blue rug. It's the softest place to sit in this house."Why haven't you asked to see Adeel, I know that you have your own business and you think you have money but don't forget that that man is going to be your Lord very soon. You should have called him by now. " Lord?Should I tell her I saw him today?,even though it was just a glimpse?I look at her in astonishment, my parents are absolutely shameless people. She wants me to contact a man I've never spoken to. Ya Allah take all this torture away. Take it way before it is too late."Well, his mother called today, they will be coming here on Saturday to ask for your hand in marriage. See that you disappear that day. "Should I disappear jn the real sense, so that you'll never find me?Should I?"Toh, Allah yayi Albar
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Chapter: Chapter ThreeAfter the baby shower ended, as guests were leaving Ajìkè Dikko held my elbow firmly and walked with me to a small living room upstairs."Sit." I did. I sat on a single jet black sofa facing her own love seat."How are you doing, your eyes have looked so sad and tired all afternoon?" I realised that she must have watched me all afternoon to come to that realisation.A very right conclusion. I decide to answer her."I've just had a lot weighing on my mind, a lot has been going on in my little life lately." I try to skim events to see if she'd stop prying. She eyes me amusedly, like a mother looking at her lying child."Afrah, Allah would not give a soul more burden than it can bear, but sometimes the pain becomes too much to bear alone and we must share our burden with someone or we'll be giving room for evil thoughts."I regard her slowly for a few seconds, her legs are curled underneath her abaya n
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Chapter: Chapter TwoLet me tell you a story.Six years ago, when I was twenty. I got married to husband number one, admist pomp and pageantry. I smiled, laughed, blushed and cried. Of course I had to cry, I was getting married. I was leaving my family, except that they had only done one good thing to me. Push me everyday.Push me to study economics, push me to marry husband number one, push me to get pregnant, push me to stay in an abusive marriage.Husband number one, whose name I won't mention, held my hand for the first time at our wedding dinner. He had smiled down at me with his absolutely innocent face. At that point I thought I had found respite from the strain on me from my parents. I thought it was all over.One tip about him;He looks innocent, has soft looks that draw you in, that hold you spell bound. He has this brown eyes, those eyes pull you in. They let let you in on his 'innocen
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Chapter: Chapter OneI swirled my mug of hot date coffee slowly and slowly lifted the mug to take a sip. My mother has just dumped what she feels is a bombshell on me."Afrah, you either bring someone to get married to or marry our choice. Wallah, you've stayed too long in this house. Two years is a long enough time to stay a divorced woman." She heaves as she has exerted herself by shouting. I have no response for her ranting. Instead, I blow my date coffee and take another healthy sip.My mother and my paternal grandmother 'Hajiya Mama' pushed me into my first marriage. Other women have issues with their mother in laws, my mother plots with hers. Now, it's my father and mother's turn to push me into marriage. I laugh internally.I knew when he entered the living room, he didn't see me at first, so he went upstairs to find me.Then he descended the stairs back and found me sitting on the rug in the living room and he walks to me. He doesn'
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Chapter: PrologueI knew when he entered the living room, he didn't see me at first, so he went upstairs to find me.Then he descended the stairs back and found me sitting on the rug in the living room and he walks to me. He doesn't even ask me anything before slapping my headgear off my head angrily."Are you insane?" I shook my head, whimpering in pain. His anger as usual was entirely irrational. Keyword, as usual."So, why would you do the very thing i said you should not?" I sighed. At the beginning, defying him seemed like an easy thing. Now, I can't even find the energy to continue to defy him. He shakes his head at me and sits down, I let tears and snot run down my face. I know for sure I'm done for today. He will best me till he's satisfied. And i caused it, all of it. I intentionally tried to defy him."I'm sorry!!! " I begged with a loud voice. He hissed at me. He got up menacingly and him raising his hand
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Halima Sadiyya Aliyu is a hairdresser who has seen the harsher realities of life. She doubts love and is afraid of the very thought of having it.
At the beginning of the story, she's married to an ailing husband and cannot keep a job because she is solely his caregiver, all the while fending off trouble from his mother and sisters who do not appreciate the work she does. Then he dies and she finds out that all along, she had been lied to and Salisu, her shy, ailing husband has impregnated the maid-cum new wife.
She flees from mourning her husband in his mother's house as custom dictates and is well taken care of in her father's house. She gets a job and meets two girls whom their father forget in the salon where she works. She takes them home and a spiral of finding love again starts from there.
After a while, She and Jamal, the father of the girls are married and secrets of many years are blown off their coffers, and she has to deal with getting closure from those secrets and living happily ever after with her husband.
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Chapter: Chapter FiveA year later"May His soul rest in peace, May Allah forgivehis sins." Halima and Hauwa sat together, on the same mat in Salisu's mother's house.His mother had fainted twice since he was declared dead at the hospital in the early hours of the day, and all she said was that her own was finished. She had yet to wake up from her last faint."Is the ambulance on the way?" Halima vaguely heard someone ask another man. She just couldn't concentrate on the conversation because her head was whirling, she was still trying to absorb all the information she had gotten, shocking information at that."He'll be buried by four In Sha Allah." The breeze carried to her the rest of their conversation making Halima put her hand on her head in pain. How could she have been so stupid. So deep in her own troubles that she didn't see that she was being used all these while?How come Salisu di
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Chapter: Chapter FourA year later. L"May His soul rest in peace, May Allah forgivehis sins." Halima and Hauwa sat together, on the same mat in Salisu's mother's house.His mother had fainted twice since he was declared dead at the hospital in the early hours of the day, and all she said was that her own was finished. She had yet to wake up from her last faint."Is the ambulance on the way?" Halima vaguely heard someone ask another man. She just couldn't concentrate on the conversation because her head was whirling, she was still trying to absorb all the information she had gotten, shocking information at that."He'll be buried by four In Sha Allah." The breeze carried to her the rest of their conversation making Halima put her hand on her head in pain. How could she have been so stupid. So deep in her own troubles that she di
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Chapter: Chapter Three"How much is in our joint account?"Halima wiped her face and sipped some of the cold sachet water she'd bought on the way in. She hesitated to tell Salisu what was remaining in the account."Fourteen thousand."His eyes widened comically and Halima would havelaughed if not for the situation on ground. But,she held in her laughter and sipped some more water and plainly minded her business."We don't have any foodstuff. We'll need to eat before going to look for jobs in the morning, so I propose we take ten thousand and buy some semo, some couscous due to the price of rice and buy some beans and charcoal for the coal pot. We don't have money for kerosine if we don't want to starve." Salisu nodded and leaned back on the throw pillows he was sitting in front of. Then he scrolled through his phone again.Halima had it on the top of her tongue to ask him to stop going
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Chapter: Chapter TwoSalisu took his time to gain his breath, he'd shaken so hard after Halima's question."No oo. I've just been masturbating." Halima shook her head and pulled down her lower facial muscles in a sneer."Masturbating? Do you do it at work or at home?" Salisu clocked his tongue and Halima knew the conversation was over. His mother would take over."Babbana, why can't you tell Halima to stop working so she can take care of you very well. How much does that her work pay her sef." Halima bit her top lip and drew in breaths to feel better."I've been thinking about it, I'll decide soon." Halima's mouth dropped open as she watched them talk as though she didn't just ask an important question, or she plainly just wasn't there."Decide quickly fa, it's not good to see her in all those her yeye skirt and white blouse like lawyer own." Halima turned to look at her mother-in-law but s
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Chapter: Chapter One"What did they say?"She turned to see hermother-in-law standing over her with a glower on her face, if glowers could be called big, it probably classified the look on her face. She shifted on the uncomfortable plastic chair and squatted slightly to greet her husband's mother." No one has come to tell me anything yet ma." Halima watched her hiss and ease her body onto a plastic chair after dusting it with her veil."How will they, you weren't even there when he fainted." Halima sighed and leaned back onto the half broken chair at the University of Abuja teaching hospital's cardiology department."Where did you disappear off to?" Halima fiddled with her scarf and looked away gently, trying not to let her anger get ahead of her."I was at work ma." Her mother-in-law hissed loudly. Halima heard her shift noisily in her chair again."Work ne? T
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