CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

"Bunmi you can't keep doing this to yourself," Esther stood over her friend with a plate of rice, "you have to eat something."

"Not one, but two Esther. She took two of my sons away from me." Mrs. Akande's face was gloomy, as it had been for the past few days.

"Hmm… I understand you but don't you think you might be mistaking the whole situation."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Akande's expression immediately changed.

"I mean, I have seen Shola several times and she seemed like a very good girl. Even you said once that she is like the daughter you never…"

"Don't dare finish that statement!" She had no interest in hearing Shola's praises.

"If it wasn't for her presence in Samuel's life I would have still had my two boys with me by now. I don't care whatever you think!"

On the day fated for Samuel and Shola's meeting, there was no way Mrs. Akande could have guessed things would turn out this way. And even if she did, would she have been able to stop it?

Guess not.