CHAPTER 108

Ruth accepted Nelly's forgiveness which made her as happy as a lark. 

" Can I escort you to your room?" Asked Nelly filled with lots of curiosity. 

" No! Please do not escort me to my room. I want to go to the guest room and have a little conversation with my mama and grandma. I am apsalutely sure that it is what I need right now" said Ruth who left the living room. 

She went to Naomi's and Magdalene's room and was astonished to find out that they were almost about to sleep. She went towards them.and hugged them. This made Naomi and Magdalene to become emotional too.

" Please forgive us Ruth. I know that you think we have ignored you and that is the main reason why we haven't stayed with you till now but the fact is that Ryan said that he was going to take care of you" said Naomi who was filled with lots of guilt.

" Mama! Grandma! You both do not need to worry about me because I am fine. Ryan has taken good care of me. All that I need right now is to find the main reason why Purist did not come to the market. I have spent my whole day there waiting for her. I have even skipped till I became weak. What have I not done for the people I love mama?" Asked Ruth as tears welled down her eyes. 

" Nothing! You have done nothing but love the people close to you Ruth. Do not blame yourself for the mistake of others. They devalued you sometime back and made you feel as if you were a nobody but they did not know that someday they will need you and you will come to their aid since you truly have a good heart. You have not done anything wrong my child" said Naomi who hugged Ruth tightly. 

Naomi felt that Ruth needed a motherly love. She decided to take Ruth to her room in order to rest. Just like the old days, Naomi decided to sing for Ruth a song till she finally fell asleep. She therefore went back to the guest room and finally fell asleep. 

Tere on the other hand could not be able to sleep. This was after she found out that the evidence she had against Ruth had been stolen. She checked through her drawer once more but the evidence was nowhere to be found. She decided toring the bell and summon everyone at the meeting square. This means that she trusted every member of her household and believed that the evidence was stolen by an outsider who had an idea about it. 

" Somebody has stolen what belongs to me and should ought to return it before I go wild. That person sneaked into my room and happened to have a spare key then forgot to lock the door. That person must do it immediately before I go wild or he or she will face serious consequence. This is my first time of asking" said  who went back to the mansion and ordered everyone not to leave at the closer gates not to leave the meeting square .

This was her trick inorder to go back and check if there was anybody at the mansion who had stolen the evidence. According to her, Akeshia might had done it since Akeshia hated her and never wanted anything to do with her because of the way that she treated Akeshia like a maiden. 

She went into Akeshia's room and began to search but had no idea that Akeshia followed her closely while hiding herself in order not to be recognized by Tere. Akeshia entered the room and was astonished to find out that Tere was checking through her things. 

It made her to be filled with a lot of anger who went towards Tere and slapped her. 

" Who gives you the right to search my things? Don't you take me as your mother since you have always loved my son Martin. What sort of a person are you? You do not even know how to handle relations and maintain them. That is what makes a difference between you and the people close to you. That is the main reason why you always loose everything" shouted Akeshia at Tere.

" Who do you think you are? Why do you talk about relations because you are too proud of yourself? Are you not the one who taught me that? You were never a good mother since you abandoned your children ever since they were young. You live like a maiden right under their nose and did not really care of how they felt. So! What makes the difference between you and me? I guess that we both do not know how to handle relations" shouted Tere at Akeshia who kept laughing annoyingly. 

" I know how to handle relations. I spent many years as a maid and a helper but I still took care of my children and made sure that they felt the motherly love they should have felt as required. Everything was going on well not until Ruth came and told him the whole truth about his mother. What did he do after knowing the truth? He loved me unconditionally and warned me against leaving the closer gates because he wanted to be with me. Is that not enough reason that I am a good mother?" Said Akeshia smiling. 

Tere was silent since she did not know what to really say. She left the room angrily and went back to the meeting square. 

" Is anybody ready to speak out now? Everybody seems to be silent but then I feel as if I should do something to make someone talk. Is that alright Martin?" Tere said as she pointed towards Martin who had just arrived.

It made Martin to feel as if Tere was trying to criticize him. 

" Alright! Let me then do it my way the way that I know how to. You come here. Warriors! come with a fork jembe and give it to me" shouted Tere.

Tere took the fork jembe and hit the person which made the person to die at the instant in a pool of blood. This astonished everyone at the closer gates who began to run away from the meeting square. They had never seen such an inhuman person in their life. It made them to be filled with lots of worries.

" You have killed a person! How dare you do that Tere? How dare you feel the people of the closer gates with lots of fear by this thing that you are doing? Don't you know that you are scaring them away. What sort of a person are you? Are you turning crazy?" Martin asked Tere filled with lots of anger.

" I am not turning crazy and I do not care if l am. What I know is that Ruth must go to jail and that fake evidence is what will make her go to jail. I have worked hard for it and I will not allow anyone to ruin it for me and not even you. I will scare everybody living at the closer gates till I finally catch the person who has stolen that evidence" said Tere who took the head of the person she had killed and hanged it at the meeting square.

This made Martin to be filled with lots if fear but he felt like he needed to fight for his people's safety .

" I want to give you a challenge Tere. I want us to fight for the people of the closer gates and make sure they are safe. That's why I want to pick a fight with you. If I win then you will stop hurting the people of the closer gates. If I don't win then you will continue fighting for your evidence" said Martin angrily.

" Challenge accepted. I have so many thing that I hid away from you including the fact that I am a skilled fighter. Let us see who will win this race. All I know is that I will not allow you to win it because I need to find that evidence and take Ruth to jail. I cannot allow myself to be defeated by her. I want the fight to be head on" said Tere laughing annoyingly.

Head on fight was the worst fight ever. It simply meant that one person would end up dying or seriously hurt. They went back to the mansion and changed into their fighting gowns. They went back to the meeting square with Lay Nana as a referee. They chose her because they felt that she had always been a fair lady and won't side with anyone while making judgements. She was also an experienced fighter since she fought with people before which made her won many medal outside town.

" The fight is going to begin with side kicks. Whoever falls looses the game" said Lady Nana filled with lots of worries.

She was afraid that somebody was going to get hurt in the process. 

MARRIED AT SIXTEEN.