Chapter Seven
"Lati, you've done the spiritual bath, and you need a man in the absence of a husband. Yes," She agreed with herself."It's longer news that your husband plots to to push you out despite the mandate.
"Now, there is no option than to find his substitute." saying that, she continued probing her face before the mirror."
She stood up and stretched her dress, turned this way, turned that way " Glam!" she concluded,"
Her mum had subtly arranged for her neighbor's child to come and work for them and told her to grab him.
She has been weighing the advice 'grab him'
She ran to her bed and crashed.
" How? When? What if?" Afraid of if the mode she will use failed.
This is something she had never done in her life.
Even on the Campus where sweet-looking boys abound, she never even subtly wished to be toasted.
She panicked. The social difference, one.
Lack of love, two. Because she does not love him.
Okay, she will start by cause and effect.
She rolled out of the bed and hung at the window.
While looking for him, her mind wondered how this wahala marriage started: After her service o, she came back to Lagos and went to ushering job with her ex-student at a royal party o, she didn't know King before o, and somebody said the king of Ile Ife wanted to speak with her o. Just like that, her mum said 'go, go... honest young men are scarce'
Still at the window, she saw him and looked strongly at him and reeled with her laughter," Hehe-hey!" with a clap, she did that and kept what she would do pending. No need to rush a task that must be done.
Latifah, you must achieve it at all costs!
You must be pregnant by fire by force and shall bear a child and shall call him Emmanuel.
The next day, she asked Mama Sara again" Is he doing well?"
"He's trying since he's your mum's neighbor's child." said Mama Sara.
"Even if Lati will grab him as Mum said," Lati took a position, "I'll never tell Mama Sara, even at gunpoint," she said.
She went back to the window. It was 7: 30 pm and signaled and signaled until he looked up.
She gestured to him to enter by the kitchen door.
"Mum said he has a wife and four boys! Isn't it enough evidence of his capability? And with him, the affair will remain locked in hell.
Her heart jiggled. She opened the door and held it ajar for him.
He entered and paused.
"Enter." her voice was faint and she watched him enter and jammed the door and they both sat in the sitting room.
"You said you're…your name?" she asked him.
"Jack."
"Is it your…your real name?"
He nodded, "Jackson."
"Okay, you no do like Lagos boy, you're shy?"
He muffled his smile and looked down.
"How old?" she asked.
He muffled his smile again.
"Can't you talk?" she questioned him with a stare.
"Twenty-two," he said and tried to be a man as he looked to see her reaction.
" Me," she told him rather," I'm 25."
Stuck, she opened the door for him and he left.
"Hehe-hey," she laughed, "Rome was not built in a day," she said "Which woman will blame Lati who at twenty-five had done two tests to prove her fertility and yet was given a mandate?
And the worst, they did not let the mandate expire before telling their brother to impregnate somebody first before marrying? Who is this woman that will fold her hands and watch as her husband makes it a point of duty carrying women up and down in her matrimonial home in the name of tasting whom to marry? If you are the one, fine, may you be in my shoes." she prayed and summarized it all," King, if you think I will pack and go, Lati will not until she gives your people a child."
"Mummy," she asked Mama Sara who came in.
"When are we going to the place?"
"Okay. When do you want to?"
"Monday," she said.
She has to go to the place first then come back and grab him
"Fine, Monday is Okay, nothing is wrong with you. But just to keep our hands clean, we will go. When we come back, you will pocket him," Mama Sara said "Wife abuser," she lambasted King."
With this hot affair moving like a rain cloud, when, when, when would the rain come down?
When would the one and only Lati summon the courage to grab him?
How would this love be? Sweeter than expected? Would it lead to a child?
By the way, where are they going on Monday when she postponed the love affair?