Chapter Seventy Three

'What a mess life was', Nonso thought. What were they going to do now? He could understand why Felix' parents thought that could not take her back. After living with a man for a full year or more and having been taken to such scary places. One was bound to think that the girl was jinxed who knew the concoctions that been used on her with and without her knowledge and consent.

What if those were detrimental to her as a woman? Making it impossible for her to conceive or being a curse to any man who came close to her or married her? Such things had been known to happen. Hmmh, he sighed deeply.

Gift could not understand what Nonso was still thinking about. She had felt that the story would make him empathize with her and they would end up in bed but such consolation and comfort was not forth coming. Instead she felt a kind of withdrawal. As though he had physically drawn away from her back into himself.