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"You can't get married to a white woman!" King Obi repeated in a much louder and angry voice.

We all freezed in shock and fear that I think I was no longer breathing. I felt Deardre was about to cry so I gave her hand a little squeeze to encourage her.

"papa like I said, she is my choice and we have a son already." Prince Chinonso said in a more apologetic voice, like he was trying not to get offended by his parents reaction when he told them he wanted to get married to Deardre.

We had arrived at the village an hour ago, we enjoyed the ride here. The village smelt of mostly cassava, it was Sandy and quite bushy with alot of kids singing and playing around.

The palace was beautiful and big, more like everything I was expecting it to look like but I wasn't expecting King Obi to react this way.

I was expecting Queen Obi or princess Amanda to react this way but not him.

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