Prologue

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• Soiled   Chapter Four

  I 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

• Soiled   Chapter Three

  After 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

• Soiled   Chapter Two

  Let 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

• Soiled   Chapter One

  I 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'

• Soiled   Prologue

  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'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