The knock was brusque. He opened the door swiftly. “You’re late.” He growled. “Unavoidable. He wouldn’t go to sleep and you know I cannot come when he is yet awake.” She…
He touched her in that secret place Mama had told her that no man should touch her. Mama had called it her secret place and had warned her, repeatedly, that no…
“You are married now?” He was shocked to hear it. “Yes.” She nodded, smiled. “Just over three months.” Three months? If only he’d… but it was too late. “I never heard.”…
She waited for him. She knew he would come. He never failed to come every night. She sat huddled at the left corner of her bed, her heart beating so fast,…
The door cracked open and Olanna poked her head in. Ihuoma was sitting on the floor, with her back propped against a wall that had long lost the definition of its…
