All Chapters of Bound: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Salisu 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

A year later. L"May His soul rest in peace, May Allah forgive his 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