The cool evening breeze caressed gently the trees that boarded the North path leading to the park
Added to make that saturday evening an applying one was the sweet twitter of the birds
Not only were the trees neither the birds know Dr Ryan as he sauntered down the part to the park enjoying the cool evening weather
Dr Ryan who had not had such opportunity of having such intimacy with girls while he was in the village park envied some of the boys as they strolled past with the girls
He observed the girls secretly,he no doubt liked some of them because they were fine looking and naive
But he was put off by the fact that such girls that had the guts to stroll around with boys with such reckless abandon in the village must have been way ward
Instead of coming all the way from London to marry such girls he would rather have married any of the classy girls littering the streets of London
His parents have sampled responsible girls for him,he however had rejected them because he haven't meet with his stranded
He had chosen one girl he had seen in the village church the last time he came home from his judgment she looked pretty,down to earth,innocent and responsible
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"Did you see her? His would-be-mother in-law asked him as he entered the small compound
"I did not see her" He was looking at the slim,petite looking woman whose name was "Beauty"
He guess she might be in her late forties
"Where must she has gone to? Beauty asked looking bewildered
Just then the shaky gate opened.A beautiful girl probably 20 amblemed into the compound
Dr Ryan's heart could not help skipping a beat at the sight of the girl who looked prettier and more naive than Ella his proposed wife
"Where has your sister gone to? Beauty asked the light complexion girl as she approached them,she was just a carbon copy of her mother "Beauty"
"She went to see Fiona her friend" The girl answered,
Turning to Dr Ryan "Good evening sir"
"How are you ? He asked admiring her loviness and humble looks
"Fiona ! But she told me she was going to the park" Her mother "beauty" replied
"She changed her mind" The lady replied walking inside the house
Dr Ryan couldn't help but stare
"Is she you're daughter also? Dr Ryan couldn't help but ask
"Yes Ella is older than her" There was a trace of pride in her voice
"What's her name? Dr Ryan asked nervously
"Sonia"
"She's beautiful and look more innocent"He could not help confessing
"Can I see her? He suddenly asked
"Who do you mean?
"She of course" He replied
"Yes you can,She's miles better than Ells in every imaginable way,she's more homely responsible and a virgin for that better"
"A virgin? Dr Ryan re-echoed in surprise while Beauty nodded smiley
That was what he wanted.An innocent beautiful girl he could trust and be proud of in the midst of his friends in London
That was his primary reason for coming home to marry
Thank God for giving him a virgin,his utmost heart desire in a woman and for giving him a good mother in-law
But little did he know
"Are you surprised? I knew you would change your mind whenever you set your eyes on her"
"Please call her for me!
With excitement Beauty called on her most beloved daughter whom it had been her heart wishes to marry Dr Ryan who was not only a medical doctor but was also abroad based.
It had as well been her heart for sonia to marry before Ella because she hardly get along with the latter
The reasons behind it was unlike Ella who took after her after was not only very quiet,Reserved, Naive but also hated with passion her mother and hunger sisters giddy lifestyle
So what Dr Ryan does not know was that no withstanding Sonia's innocent looks,along with her mother's false claims of her being a virgin, Sonia knew alot about the world more than girls of her age.
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"Mum you called me''Sonia said walking to them.
"He wants to talk to you"Beauty said.
Without Dr Ryan knowing she used her eyes to give her daughter signal that something was about to happen.
Having been in the game for long sonia decoded the signal and began to act accordingly.
"Welcome sir"She greeted in an inviting voice
"Let me go and check on what I have on fire"The older lied in order to give them chance to talk.
"Okay ma" Dr Ryan returned understandably.
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On the traditional wedding day,Sonia was busy preparing herself while Ella watched on with surprise
"Who is the man behind this? Ella asked her younger sister again
They were sitting on the only bed in the room.
"You don't want to tell me?.
"You will soon know! Sonia replied,actually annoyed by her elder sister nonstop probing questions.
"Why not wait to see who it was? She retorted in a dismissal voice walking out of the room to avoid her elder sister from repeating question again.
Feeling defeated ,Ella went out to assist in the preparation in whatever way she could.
She had likewise asked her mother many times who the man that coming to marry her youngest sister was and she had also refuse to tell her.
After all what has she got to lose? She has asked herself at last.
She decided to just be an onlooker in her immediate sister's marriage affair.
She on the other hand prided whosever was the man that was coming to marry her sister in such an hasty manner.
She wished that Dr Ryan has hastened up his marriage plans on her too.
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Soon the compound of Mr Stephanie became filled with people as they waited for the in-laws.
Around 3pm ,Dr Ryan in his BMW car arrived in a convoy of other expensive vehicles.
They pulled out outside the compound.
Ella was arranging Sonia's hair before a standing mirror.
Sonia was putting on her bangles in high spirit.
"How am I looking? She had asked.
"You look beautiful" Ella replied as Sonia nodded.
"Thanks".
The occasion went successfully not until Sonia was escorted out by Ella along with some of Sonia's friends in the name of bridal train that Ella noted with sinking feeling that it was Dr Ryan her younger sister was getting married to.
Her supposed husband!!.
Her heart sank.
She felt her world began to scramble.
She was dazed for minutes but she managed to control herself in front of the public with ultmost difficulty.
She consoled herself with the saying that what was meant for someone is meant for him or her.
She wanted the occasion to end already.
She wanted to be somewhere away from that compound.
Somewhere alone she could give vent to her bitter feelings.
She knew it was her mother's doing.
If her father had knew about this he won't have let the marriage hold.
She felt so broken..
She hated her mother for this!
But what can she do? She already loose him
Dr Ryan took sonia to a court registry in Lagos where they we're wedded as husband and wifeThat was done primarily to enable them get all necessary documents they would need to travel together to LondonTheir church wedding was billed to hold in LondonSonia,Who has not been opportune to be in any city in her life was carried away by the fascinating beauty of LagosShe had heard a great deal about the city but she had not been thereIn London she was absolutely carried away by the magnificent bungalow that was to be her new home~~~~~Six Months LaterThe first two months of their honeymoon was a very blissful experience to the coupleLike all women after she was certified pregnant by the family doctor in the fourth month she began to show her true colors graduallyHer venner of humility and responsibility started to crack"We need house helps in this house,I cannot be doing all this things alone" She complained o
Following the revelation that his wife could not cook , he resorted to coming back from work on time so as teach her how to cook but yet she wasn't ready to learnShe's always on her phone ,getting foods burnt`~~~~~~~The day was fine,cool day as the sky was very brightDr Ryan was going round the wards with some nurses in a ward roundAfter checking the heartbeat and the temperature of the last patient in the ward, he had an over powering urge to surprise his wife with a dress he had seen in a boutique on his way to workBack in his office, he attended to two to three patient more and rounded up as he handed the rest over to his colleague"Excuse me for a while ! He told his colleague on entering his officeWhose name was Dr Anthony but was popularly called Tony"Where are you going this t
Sonia who had heard her husband's voice tip-toad to the bedroom doorShe strained her eyes through the key hole and was hearing him very well"It has not come to that" Tony saidHis eyes evasive, trying very hard so that his tone of voice would not give him away"Maybe she was held up by traffic" He suggested"Her phone was ringing but with time it stopped, I am sick and tired of this mess"Tony recalled the time her phone was ringing with no stopping when they were on his bed ,with his friend on lime , she had to switch it off"You do not need to be , I promise to talk to her in a language she will understand whenever I set my eyes on her""All your efforts so far to make her see reasons are unavailing . Well I'm sorry to continue to bother you with my family problems, Even tho
Dr Ryan was worried sick throughout that night as regards the safety of his wife that he could not sleepWhat further provoked his worries was the upsetting truth that her phone was unreachableBesides which he would have continually kept in touch with her in order to know about her conditionsIf he could not bring her back that night, Though he knew he would have bitten more than he could chew to bring her back that night in spite of all odds, Hr as usual took Care of the kids that night~~~~~~As the day broke, he was filled with mixed feeling of anxiety and expectationsHe was looking forward to seeing her that morning, While preparing the children for schoolMeanwhile he was also trying her number every now and thenStill the line was not going, Not until she was about leaving for work around 8 a.m t
"So you are a lesbian? " There was ridicule in his voice "I never knew I married a lesbain" He was staring fixedly at her as she stood in front of him in utter discomfort "I am not a lesbain' she replied uneasilyShe was looking down on the floor in order to avoid meeting his scornful eyes"Then why are you hugging and kissing a felloe woman, if you are not a lesbain?She was uncomfortablely aware that a relationship with an opposite sex was more admissible than the same sex which was regards as a "taboo" back in NigerianThough there in London, it was the in thing but they were not Londoners "It was not a woman" She replied rather guiltilyDr Ryan who had been battling to control his anger so as not to
Emily fora awoke at midnight, just before the alarm on her night table went off It was not a slow wakening, the do gut stirring that grows in to a stretch The man on, nearly full, hung high in the sky, accompanied by thousand stars bathing London city below in its silvery light Emily could not resit the tempting offer the black woman had made to het earlier the day, The thought had occupied her mind throughout the day even before she fell asleep that night against her will She had asked herself for thousand times what she had got to lose in framing Dr Ryan up They we're not from the same race, neither were they from the same continentSo she was of the view that she had nothing to Lose , but a whole lot of gain&nb
Having succeeded in her evil plans against her husband, Mrs Ryan was then in control of all her husband had with her mother and her siblings "Your dad was a loafer and a womanizer of note,That was why he was deported back to Nigeria" Sonia Amiga,as she went back to her maiden name after her divorce ,was telling her children one evening after she had come back from work. "He was trying to rape one of his subordinates in his office as he had been doing when luck ran out of him" "Dad has been a good man"Her first son,joshua ,noted,sitting in a couch opposite her,He was about ten years old "I could remember all he used to do for us" "You are right ,Joshua " The first and only daughter,Faith stated defensively ,she was about eight years then "Faith"Joshua called his sister to buttress their p
"Hello my big in-law"she called him ,a complacent smile splitting her face Her children equally greeted him in unison "Good afternoon sir" He gawped at them before he could find his voice "Hello Ella is this your face,Are you living here in Lagos? He asked Turning to the children he asked;"How are boys? What handsome boys you have? He managed to ask "Yes we are living in surulere,This is Men and this is Elvis " she introduced her childrenHer hand linked with ken's hand who was presumably the elder of the two boys "And you,Are you here in Lagos?" "Yes,I live at Allen Avenue""It is interesting to know,jam truly sorry over what happened to you in London" "It is one of those things