Olive Branch

There was dead silence in the car, as both Adebayo's mom and his aunties all kept mute, none of them being able to look him in the face or answer his question.

He turned to look at his aunties and they both looked away from him, and then he turned back to look at his mom.

"Did you really keep my father away from me? I want to hear the truth," Adebayo asked his mom.

"Your father had a choice of either picking the both of us, or Joan and her mother, and he chose them. He chose that woman and a child that wasn't even his own over us, he chose them over you Bayo!" His mother said.