Chapter 61

Her whole family was at the hearing, and she was just at home, thinking of how she was to live. Her mother would lay curses on her for daring to carry the child of such an abominable person as she had started calling Tade after the whole incident spread like wildfire, and her brother, who she had preached abstinence to would be so disappointed. Nneoma was going to ask her if she didn’t have the common sense to use birth control pills or ask Tade to put on a condom, and tell her to thank her stars that she hadn’t contracted HIV at least. The only person who was going to be happy about the news of her pregnancy would be Alhaja Pelumi, who believed children were a gift from God, and would be glad to be alive to see her great grandchild, whatever the sex was.

When the news had gotten out, her mother had been like, “How you survived and grew up well despite watching how your father died, I’ll never know, but I’m proud of you. Not only did you manage to fool those useless demons who