David: “I know there is nothing I can say that will help right now, but I am terribly so…” Lola: “Shhh…you know, you deserve an Oscar for your acting, dear husband. Why didn’t you become […]
Enitan woke up that morning feeling sad, it has been more than a year since she started working for Lola and her husband but Lola had not kept her part of the agreement of registering […]
Lola was in the office when she received a call from her mother that the woman she spoke to about getting her a girl had brought the girl. During lunch break, he went to her […]
David: “Just calm down and tell me exactly what happened”, he tried to pacify her. Lola: “I should be asking you what you told your mother that she thinks I am a wicked woman who […]
David got up to walk away but Kunle stopped him. Kunle: “you haven’t said anything and you are walking away?” he asked. David: “What do you want me to say? Your suggestion is as stupid […]
The next morning, at about some minutes past 7, David knocked on his mother’s door. She was already awake, watching the world come alive through the window. David: “mama, you are awake already. I was […]
Mama David was already getting worried about her daughter in law’s inability to conceive. She had raised the subject several times with her husband but he had waved her off, advising her to allow the […]
David found a local buka that sold local Nigerian delicacy and began to patronise them anytime that he wanted to eat. In subsequent time, Lola was becoming so engrossed in her work and had little […]
The flight back to Nigeria was uneventful, Lola sat beside David in the plane but there was no form of conversation between them. Lola was preoccupied reading ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’, by Gabriel Marquez, […]
David woke up in the middle of the night and turned, Lola was not beside him on the bed. He assumed that she was in the toilet and so he drifted back to sleep for […]