𝙁𝘼𝘾𝘼𝘿𝙀 (𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲)

Chapter 61

Laila POV

"You know my mother and father?" I asked the woman. Surprise evident in my voice.

I can't believe I will meet someone that know my parents aside from my aunt.

Its like they never existed. You can't actually blame me. I have never heard any one mention them or seen a picture of them.

Sometimes I wonder if I have parents or maybe it's my aunt that gave birth to me but just deny me and prefer me to call her aunt.

I don't know.

But this sophisticated woman is sitting in my front and claiming she knew my parents.

What a perfect coincidence!

The day i had plan to ask my aunt about my parents, she came into the pictures.

"Yes. Your mother was my best friend. Your father is my husband best friend. They were practically brothers. He love my husband like his junior brother because he never had a brother. I met your father before your mother. I knew her through your father. And she was a very fine and sweet woman. Although you look more like your father. In body stature, shape of face, eyes and mouth but you have a thick hair and sideburns like your mother. She had a better hair than your aunty Judith."

"So aunt Judith is my mother sister?"

"You didn't know? " She asked. I guess she expects me to know at least that.

I shake my head in response. "No. I don't."

"Yes. She is your mother younger sister. They were orphan when your mother married your father."

So those this run in the family?

Being orphan?

My mother and aunt Judith were orphan and me too.

This is overwhelming!

"But... But you came over to aunt Judith shop almost six to seven months ago?" I said. "Why now? Aunt Judith never told me anything."

"I never knew it was her shop. I live in Benin with my family and that was where you were born. I came here to meet an important client when I saw those bag displays and I am a lover of bags. So I decided to go and check. I knew then when i met you for the first time in a long time and there was something familiar in you when I first saw you. And your aunty arrival confirmed it." She replied. "I was beyond shock when I saw her. I never expect to see her again."

And she begin to tell me what they discussed that day.

After Judith asked her niece to go bring clothes for her cousin and her check book, she turn to face the woman she didn't want to see and never expected to see.

She had run away from her and her family years ago. But it look like luck isn't on her side. This woman had come back to her life and reawakening memories she never want to remember.

"Is that Laila? Ebosho daughter? Is that their daughter?" Aunt Prisca, as she usually call her asked.

She turn around to face her.

"Yes. That's Laila. I knew I knew her from somewhere. I knew there was something so familiar about her. Oh my God! My little girl is now all grown up." Mrs Badmus said with her eyes glowing with tears.

Judith nodded trying to look unfazed.

"I see you are now happily married. I am happy for you. Is that your son?" Mrs Badmus asked looking at the baby sleeping in his crib some where in the corner of the large shop.