Not So Grey

Coming this November.

Ego is the first fruit of the union between a man and woman who have had children for other people. A family like most families in Nigerian.

Ego! Ego! Ego! How many times did I call you?
"three times papa."
Ego replies with tears threatening to pour down.
"Our people say a beautiful daughter is the wealth of the father. You know the condition in our family, you are our only hope of getting out of poverty. You have rejected 3 rich men in two months. Ego I'm your mother, I won't stir you wrong. Mr Akpan is not that old, he's only fifty something and men never get old. You must marry him. No more excuses. We have already taken wine from him and given him the marriage list. When......

Ego lays on her side of the bed thinking about how to break the news to tony love and how her life will be as the wife of Mr Akpan and cries herself to sleep.