Early Morning Visit

Patrick hadn't yet returned back to City A as he stayed home in his village mansion thinking about what he could do to win Tina back as her audacity still baffled him.

"Tina never loved me and it's so obvious, she hates me, but why?" Patrick asked himself as he was in his room.

Sitting in his chambers alone, Patrick continued wondering about Tina until he slept off.

Mama-Patrick was also told the whole drama and gist that happened at Tina's family house by Amanda whom had gone with Patrick.

Mama-Patrick pitied her son and wondered what kind of heartless young lady her handsome son had fallen in love with and gotten pregnant.

Mama-Patrick was also annoyed, but with the way Amanda kept explaining to her about her grandson handsomeness, features and cuteness, Mama-Patrick calmed and thought probably is all because the lady was beautiful that was why her was magnetized to her.

"Besides they're many cute girls in the city and in our village, why will Patrick go all the way to Ochanda village to get someone's daughter pregnant, ain't there cute girls in the city again?," Mama-Patrick asked Amanda whom sat with her in their living room, gossiping about Patrick.

"Hmph, Mama that lady is fine oo. Just that she doesn't like brother. She's like Sharon's age mate, from the way am seeing herself. She might be a little older or same age with Sharon" Amanda said and Mama-Patrick replied, "All that one isn't my concern, so long she has my grandchild and blood with her, she has to accept your brother and bring my grandchild home, beside he's a boy and not supposed to be raised outside his father's house, does she not know what the custom and tradition of our land demands?."

Mama-Patrick wasn't happy with all Amanda had said to her about how Tina was behaving towards her son, and she continued wondering how come the pregnancy,

"But if you said she was behaving like that to you brother how come the pregnancy?" Mama-Patrick finally asked out, as she didn't wanted to believed that her very own God-fearing son (Patrick) could took advantaged of someone's daughter and she immediately waved off the thoughts or possibilities that it might not be forced as to why Tina hated her son.

"Hmph.." Mama-Patrick finally sighed

"But Mama, what if the lady refused to marry brother, what will we do?" Amanda asked, not wanting to imagined that her cute little nephew wouldn't be allowed to come to their village as she wanted to bragged about him and showed him off to her village friends.

"I don't know yet, Your brother should know on what to do. I will go talk to Patrick now," Mama-Patrick stood up from their living room couch and went into the corridor leading to Patrick's chambers to see him.

Knock knock!

Mama-Patrick knocked repeatedly asPatrick had already slept off on his sofa after thinking too much about Tina.

Patrick loved Tina so much but Tina didn't wanted to gave him any chance to prove his love to her and not even after carrying his baby.

Patrick became tired and slept off and the sound from his mother calling his name out and knocking on his door finally woke him up and he stood up and went to opened the door for her.

"Mama, Since when have you been knocking?" Patrick asked his mother with his sleepy eyes, that was just waking up.

"Where you sleeping?, I had thought same too as I came to discuss something with you and it very important" Mama-Patrick said as she walked passed Patrick and went in to sat on the sofa bed Patrick has just stood up from.

"Mama, What is it?" Patrick asked as he turned to face his mother and he shut his chamber door close and went to his bar to got a drink to cleared off his sleepyhead.

"Are you asking me what is it, like you don't know what you have done Patrick!, Where is my grandchild?" Mama-Patrick questioned out and Patrick frowned hearing what his mother just asked him.

"Mama your grandchild is fine" Patrick replied as he took out a cold drink from his bar and walked out back to sat opposite and across his mother on the couch as he watched his mother's face clearly while he opened up his drink to cool off his mind.

"Tell me Patrick how come my grandson?. Where you not in a relationship before with his mother before my grandson came?" Mama-Patrick asked faintly, making Patrick almost choke up on the drink he was sipping from as Patrick knew his little sister was a gossiper and she had definitely told his mother all that had happened at Tina's home.

Patrick regretted taking Amanda along with him, knowing that she was a parrot and talks all she saw to their mother, because of their close bond of being his mother's last child.

"Mama what are you trying to say?" Patrick pretended not knowing what his mother meant and was driving at, as he had tried avoiding this topic of his mother interrogating him about how come her grandchild was formed?.

How would he not knew about the existence of the pregnancy with the lady, until when the baby was born?.

Mama-Patrick stared suspiciously at Patrick as she sat calmly across to him.

"So you mean you don't know what am saying, tell me the truth Patrick, Did you forcefully slept with that young lady knowing she never love you from the onset?" Mama-Patrick finally questioned out the bombshell irritating Patrick whom frowned.

"Mama I don't know what you're talking about?" Patrick denied.

"Patrick. You know exactly what am talking about. If not why will she not want to come here, what did you do to her that made her detest you so much?."

Patrick frowned as he couldn't lied to his mother anymore, not in a situation like these that made him looked helpless and he said, "Mama am sorry. I don't know what came over me that night.and did it with her against her wish and she hates me for it."

"..." Mama-Patrick was speechless as she didn't said anything.

Mama-Patrick already thought as much as to why the said lady of her grandson hated Patrick and she wasn't surprised at all by Patrick's revelation.

"It okay. You will still have to go and see her again before leaving back to the city and apologized to her again. Amanda told me that she said she already has someone else that she want to marry is that true?," Mama-Patrick asked and Patrick frowned again almost choking on his drink and he replied, "Mama, she cannot marry the person, just don't go thinking much about that for now."

"Hmph. What makes you say so, that she cannot marry nor run away with the person?. You better act fast and know how you can get her to forgive you first before then" Mama-Patrick advised as she finally stood up from the sofa and left Patrick's chamber.

Patrick didn't spoked anything as he continued drinking his cold drink after his mother left him and he calmly thought on what to do to Tina to get Tuna back.

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The next day Patrick drove to Tina's village and he went straight to her father's compound but didn't parked in her father's yard as he didn't wanted Tina nor any of her family to knew he was around.

Patrick parked by a close street and waited for Tina to passed as he knew Tina would definitely left their family house and went to her madam's tailoring workshop.

Tina finished all she was doing at home before 9am and she set to left their house with Godsent, as she.now normally took Godsent along with her to her seamstress workshop.

Godsent 1-year birthday was to be celebrated by the weekend and Tina was preparing for it as Jude and Richmond had gone early to school, remaining only their parents and her with Godsent were at home.

The street was as usual quiet, as most of the workers and students has all gone to their various work places unlike the weekend when most people would be at home or in the street walking up and down and running some errands.

When Tina was thru preparing Godsent and all she would be taking to work, she came out and left their family house with Godsent at her back, tied with a wrapper while Patrick had parked his car in the other street so Tina didn't knew he was around.

Tina was busy walking with Godsent when she bumped into someone that came directly to her front and stopped her as the sun was hot and so the wind and breeze were blowing dust around.

Tina wanted to apologised sorry to the person and instead of cussing why the person would just bumped into her, but as she raised her head, her jaw dropped as she saw the man was Patrick.

Tina became shocked beyond words and she gulped down the apology.