Father, I don't want to get married to anyone, especially the Europeans, I don't want to have anything to do with them, Father, please... Eunice begged. 

You don't want to get married but you want to eat my food in my house, I clothe you, and send you to school despite being a girl, you were supposed to learn how to farm, sew, and cook, but I your father decided to educate you, and you think you have grown some wings girl, don't dare me or I will slap some sense into you. 

Hey, nna'm(an Igbo word for father) don't get offended by a child who doesn't know the great plans you have for her. 

Will you apologize to your Father right now!! you stupid girl, you are the first female in this community to catch the eye of the Europeans and you said what? That you don't want to marry. Wake up child cause it won't be happening, your father and brothers toll all day and night to feed you, while you spend your time reading those things that don't put food on the table, I don't blame you I blame your father for wasting such good money on you, said Eunice mother. 

"O father am sorry for the disrespect, but please look at it from my perspective, I mean view I don't want to marry a European. 

"you will be bringing Africans closer to the Europeans and he is not just a European he is half-breed, half-Asian, half-European, he is the third son of the king in his early twenties, and you are just eighteen, you will be bringing three continent together don't you get it? And a good life for me your mother and brothers. 

Father, please... 

"I have spoken and that's final, obidiya(a pet name given to married women meaning a woman who knows the heart of her husband) talk to your daughter, am leaving to discuss the marriage plan with my inlaws he laughed and walked out. 

"Mother, please, bikonu(please), I don't want to get married, said Eunice. 

I heard a thunderous slap on my face, shut your mouth is our condition pleasing to you? Don't you want us to be inlaws to the royal family, what is your problem, I won't let you ruin this for us, and she left. 

I sat down thinking about why I didn't have a say in this, this is how it is for women we never have a say in anything we just accept what is been thrown at us. 

I am Eunice the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Sylverster, I have four brothers, and unlike my elder brothers I am educated, I am educated I just finished high and came to discuss and ask about the next step only to receive this shocking news. I never saw this coming and I wondered why most of my mates were married and some with kids, or maybe it was the fact that I was being sold to some royal family