Pain

Soma happily walked to the back of the hut but what she saw made her halt midway . There at the back stood her friend Nneka with Soma's love interest standing beside a tree with Nneka's back leaning on the tree with Chike's hands on her waist , and they were making out with passion with their tongues dancing in each other's mouth .

The pain of betrayal Soma felt was immense to ignore, it kept tugging at her heart , she crouched low not minding if they will see her , she kept wondering why her friend chose to betray her after advising her not to get close to Chike nor fall in love with him The pain she felt was indescribable.

Minutes passed with Soma still there and nursing her pain of seeing the oblivious duo making out intensely at her front, gathering enough strength she walked out of Chike's compound and his life for good .

Annaki was sweeping the compound when she saw her daughter walking absentmindedly with tears streaming down her face, seeing her mother Soma let go of the plate she's been holding and ran into her mother's embrace and the tears she's been trying so hard to control streamed down her face freely.

Annaki held her and cuddled her allowing her to free her self of the pain she's been holding up, telling her to let it all out she wept like never before. After a few days Soma sobered up and continued with her life , all this while she's been sorrowful Eze has been visiting and encouraging her to be strong .

Her relationship with Eze waxed strong with each passing day , Eze was constant and he was also a successful palm wine tapper she married Eze without difficulty and together the set up a palm wine store where people come in every evening to drink and have fun and the news of their store continued to spread across the village .

Their marriage was a successful one as many would say , but one thing was missing in their marriage . " Child" their lack of having a child bothers Soma so much that she was being traumatized by her mother in-law to give her a grand child.

Soma was devastated she didn't understand where she went wrong, she has lived a good life as a spinster not involving her self in things that will discredit her and her mother's name, she didn't live a wayward life unlike others. She pays her dues and offers sacrifice to the gods as required but it seems like fate was against her. Soma wallowed in self thought " have I wronged the gods?, is Eze not my real husband?, did I offend anybody?, she kept questioning herself without any answer to them.

She heard from her husband that her mother in-law will be visiting the next day, and she knew the reason for her visit . Each time her mother in-law visits it's almost a constant reminder of her current predicament of being a childless woman and it's hurts her deep down.