Chapter 156

Mikel was awoken by screams of pain in the middle of the night. He rushed to Arielle’s room where the screams seemed to be emancipating from.

“He’s a bastard alright!” Arielle shouted. Mikel looked around the room wondering whom she was talking about.

“Arielle? Are you okay?” quizzed Mikel.

“Do I look okay to you?” This was followed by another round of screaming.

“What is wrong? Should I get you water?” asked a perplexed looking Mikel.

“Are you stupid? Get the midwife!” she screamed loudly.

“It’s pretty late Arielle, it’s just an hour to…”

“Get the midwife or I will kill you!” Arielle ordered and Mikel ran out of the house. He had wanted to ask her to postpone having the child till it was morning but he knew himself that that would have been stupid and would have earned him a well-deserved slap.

He banged on the door of the only midwife in the little village they had settled to live in after Lida had been overrun. It was also a border