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FRICTION👇🚫
-AMEERA
I gasped for air, panting heavily as i leaned on one of the plastic chairs ya heena uses at the front yard. I couldn't take it anymore, i was suffocating staying inside that room, so i stood and rushed out as far as my trembling legs could take me, not only mine including everyone else's emotions choked me to the core.
"I only wanted TIME, i didn't know it would cause this much damage"
I closed my eyes as dada's words kept repeating on my head as if he was saying it at the exact moment.
"They took salma away from me..." dada cried bitterly "...sh...she...she was the first sacrifice i made. It was a week after the whole incident, we went to bed but she never woke up. It did look like a natural death, i believed it was. Not until when fatima (her sister), accused marriam of having hands in her sisters death did it occur to me. Everything made sense then, i called usman and he confirmed my doubts. They went ahead and used her against my wish, that wasn't how we had the agreement. The poor girl...i...i...i wouldn't sacrifice her...i would never!. She was the reason i wanted to leave longer..."
"From what i've heard, you didn't totally submit to GAMBO, there were no strong strings and he never allowed you to make your sacrifices yourself." The Mallam cut dada. Dada shook his head and continued...
"I wanted to back out but GAMBO threatened me. He said their are certain rules, you can't make retreats, the earlier commitments and sworn obligations still valid...till you take your last breath. I wasn't allowed to tell anyone, so not even marriam knew about this, it is a secret which i had kept for the past twenty three years"
"By the time you summoned the courage to back out, it was too late because you knew their secret, which makes GAMBO's power over you stronger. BUT that friend of yours...usman. He used you, maybe he had always planned to get you under GAMBO or somewhat different but one thing for sure, he wanted something you had..." The Mallam concluded and dada shook his head yet again.
"Yes, Usman took over my place at the company, much of a betrayer he was.."Dada cleared briefly and continued.
"I never liked that man! His aura screams bad luck!" i'd heard big mummy muttered to herself behind me.
"Truth to his words 'it was a game of BLOOD, the blood of your loved ones. On that day, he pointed out that marriam was next. I couldn't just sit back and watch my wife die, not after loosing one...after so much pleadings, he gave me another option which was my children's destiny. But i only had two kids, they...they wouldn't be enough to quench HIS thirst..." dada quickly glanced at a crying mumcy avoiding eye contact, he swallowed hard and shook his head.
"That...that was how hadiza came into the picture"he whispered but loud enough to everyone's hearing.
"Bukhar you married me to birth you children for sacrifices? To spare your wife's life and ruin mine?!" She screamed
"I'd always tried my possible best to give this relationship a chance though it was a forced marriage. But you kept making everything hard, why did you do this to me?!...bukhar why?!" Mumcy yelled crying, it was such a chaos moment. It marks the first time i'd ever seen mumcy that furious, to the extend she yelled at dada.
Big mummy scoffed loudly, she was also crying as she held mumcy. "And here i was thinking you married her out of love...Bukhar you tampered with my children's destiny just to keep me alive? To keep me alive for what exactly, to watch them suffer? you never treated me better, then what was the use?!"
