'Why did I come here? What made me come all the way here to my country when I could have been sitting in a huge office and being revered by others?'
As she pondered over what Diamond had just dropped on them earlier, Kiara asked herself.
Kiara came from a family where her parents and elders loved their boys so much as if those boys popped out of nowhere and not in their mothers' wombs.
They were born from females, and yet the elders looked down on all female youngsters.
She had always hated how patriarchal her family was. And what irritated her was that even her mother was just like the rest of them.
She didn't know whether it was just being her mother trying to fit it or what, but the fact that her mother treated her son so well, as if she and her sisters didn't exist, didn't sit well with her.
When she was young, what words didn't she hear from her mother, father and grandparents?
