Chapter 55

"What will you do now?" Dare asked his friend, Dapo. They were in Dare's house as Dapo had come on a weekend visit to Lagos with his lover, Yemisola, whose pregnancy was growing by the day.

Dapo had exhausted all options available to him; he had even gone as far as soliciting the help of his uncle, who though assured him of his sworn silence, refused to follow him to Yemisola's father in Osogbo, to ask for her hand in marriage for fear of what his elder brother, Dapo's father, would do to him if he ever found out about his treachery.

Dapo raked his hand through his hair. "Honestly, I don't know, my man," Dapo sounded confused himself.

Yemisola had become unhappy as her father had put his foot down, insisting that Dapo's family owned up to claim his daughter as wife for their son as a proof that th