Fall to Rise

Four

The life I'd dreamt of was all I ever envied, away from Akwolle District demands. Working in a farm, having a good education, good clothing and being valued as a human not just a female.

To cheer me up, Lue and I could go hide in the caves and pretend like nothing was ever wrong. I was the teacher and he the student.

When I asked for an answer to a question in his books.

If he failed,he'd get a scolding. Atimes I felt he'd just fake failing to impress me.

This made me so happy

I'd feel like am in control.

His responses too, "Ma'am am sorry, I don't know the answer to that." fake shying off.

Then I just laugh.

He was my only love. At least I had an assurance that no matter the costs, Lue loved me and wishes the best for me.

I trusted him.

Though deep down I knew, eighteen wasn't the right age to think of entrusting my life to any man.

Because anytime from now, anyone would turn against my back.

Marriage.

And making it worse to Kaffo Reinard, the famous rich blacksmith.

Kaffo was the most talented man from Akwolle who lived in the city. He was known to own so many hectares of land, businesses and further more.

Many wives and children.

But people of Akwolle still envied him and dreamed of marrying they're daughters off to him.

He was a charmer to the poor. Always offering loans inexchange for items.

They didn't see fault in this vice.

Others would even give in two daughters at ago.

But what beats my understanding, what would Kaffo do with all this women.

Lue once said, he employed them to work in his farms that's why he was a very prominent man of wealth.

Personally, I hadn't come face to face with him but I already dreaded our encounter.

He was a lying bastered, who prospered out of the sweat of the poor people living in Akwolle district.

I also heard that he owned very many machetes and swords since he was a blacksmith of the city and made deliveries to very many districts afar especially those having wars.

So to many he was a hero except to me.

How I desired that his reign of terror would end and come to a stand still beginning with the connections and alliances he made with people of our society. Then the women.

Because all he saw in us was moving commodities in disguise.

He was my personal enemy now ever since he made that stupid alliance with father.

To trade me for a certain sum of money.

His only daughter.

In so many ways this was wrong because I remember Lue telling me that children are a gift from God. That stuck to mind.

Am a treasure and of value.

In the future, they both had to be dealt with after all this was over.

Would that dream surely come true?

But I promised to live to fulfill this dream, whether it was tonnes off years from now, so be it.