Labiba

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

"Dama na saba wasa da kai ne?" Mummy lifts a brow at me and I can see Labiba trying to stifle her laughter because of the way I'm being. I honestly don't want anything or anyone to keep me away from Labiba today or any day of my life.

"Haba Mummy, kwana nawa fa and-" I look at Labiba to see her shaking her head at me. Clearly scolding me not to say anything but I don't care. I love my wife and she loves me too, we need to celebrate this just the two of us. "Toh naji ma, not because of me, does she want to stay?" I ask confidently.

"Okay, Labiba do you want to spend the night here?" Mummy asks her and Labiba being the traitor that she is, shyly nods her head at mummy.

"Eh mummy." I narrow my eyes at her for teaming up against me and I move out of the room, really upset about the fact that Labiba just gave away our time like it means nothing to her.

I walk down to Baba AbdulSalam's house to meet him over Safiyya and what she has done. I've given her too many chances and each time, she disappoints more than before. He ought to know what she did from the beginning till the end, luckily I meet him sitting in the compound with a newspaper in his hand.

I greet him and he invites me to sit on the other chair that's facing him, I suddenly feel bad for what I'm about to do but it has become necessary. I'm tired of all the lines Safiyya has been crossing.

"Baba dama ba komai bane, maganar Safiyya ne."

He chuckles bitterly "I was wondering when you'll finally get fed up with her and come over."

I sigh in relief because he knows just how much of a trouble child he raised, "Baba, I've always looked at Safiyya as my younger sister. In fact, I've known Safiyya to be my sister even before Zahra'u was born but recently, she has crossed so many lines and the last one she did almost cost me my marriage." I realise it has to be embarrassing for him for me to be sitting here and telling him I have zero romantic interest in his daughter but I don't control my feelings.

"Subhanallahi." He says, looking worried. "What did she do? Kai Allah Ya wadaran naka ya lalace, wallahi Salim ban sani ba."

"Kayi hakuri baba but there's no need to go into details." I tell him. "I just felt the need to tell you because I don't want anything to be weird between our families seeing as my whole family knew what happened. Na san daddy won't talk to you, he'll say this is between us kids but this time around, I can't put an end to it on my own."

I explain to him what happened from the beginning to how she was always snooping around and misbehaving, which she wasn't doing before and how I got her another job but she didn't want to leave. Though I left out the part where she sent out messages to my phone because I don't want to make it any worse than it is. Her father already looks furious and I'm sure she won't hear the end of it today but it's for the best.

"Yarinyar nan na rasa gane me take so." He sighs. "There was a time after Falila's passing, I asked her if she had anyone in mind to get married to, she said there was no one. I asked her not even you? She said especially not you." Thank God she said so but come to think of it, why would she do that?

Surely, around that time, she wasn't as crazy as she has became recently. So what changed? If she had lost interest, what's going on now?

"Ko jiya sai da aka zo neman auren yarinyar nan, masu mutunci daban daban suna mana layi a gidan nan, yan uwa da abokan arziki but she kept saying she was not interested." He explains, his voice laced with rage. "I was even planning to ask you if there was anyone that she gets along with, seeing as she spends a lot of time with you in the office."