le girl for morning sports activities with her friend Aj

member you said you would be watching the Super Eagles match at the Surulere stadium aga

d husband from the appearan

ink about that rig

een two and a half years since then. But he doesn't even want to think o

the other hand, is just fully occupied with Lucy and wants to do anything to give her a good life, even i

Usually, Titi would go to the children's section with Lucy for a nice, messy time with play dough and clay play. But to

ep closer to have a better look and then a sna

sion. But this fellow left the gym centre for

the security, and she swung int

d just gone into the restroom

now that they we

felt softer. Distant laughter of children playing outside- Titi ha

er arms wrapped around t

u

rs curled against Titi's chest, her breath w

r throat. She had promised he

an old lullaby their mother used to sing,

out before he even made it to the hospital. The way she had stood there, alone, h

to travel with the little girl to the UK if her plans with her uncle, who raised her, worked out. She applied earlier this year to a private

seeing that she was still under serious threat from the warnings given

ity where she lives that she dares not visit,

Titi pressed a gentle kiss against her forehead.

had

e damned whispers-fol

't have take

ve gone to the father

ther child? How's s

ed them. S

y was all s

r and curiosity, a whirlwind of tin

tiny fingers gripping the fabric of her dress. Ti

o

his

but she wasn't sure. She stopped stirring the soup and paid keen attention, but the gentle m

h

k at t

heart s

isitors. Wiped her hands on her

k a dee

swung the

this isn't a

on the porch, his face hi

stomach

d in dark clothes. The kind of man who d

iberate. "You have some

the door. "I don't know w

led. It was

a step

giggled, still los

flickered tow

's when

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