Her Fiancé Left Her For Her Sister At The Altar, She Married A Disabled Man—Unaware He Was A Bilonai
Her Fiancé Left Her For Her Sister At The Altar, She Married A Disabled Man—Unaware He Was A Bilonai
Elara have you run mad what is this where is my husband to be mommy where is Tundday he is dressing take these people out of here before you disgrace me disgrace you today of all days you are still only afraid of disgrace sweet 12 the key card in my hand opens it follow me all baby this is not what it looks like it is exactly what it looks like it has been what it looks like for 11 months so you brought police to a hotel because of a small misunderstanding the police are not here for the bed Amara they are here for the accounts every coobo of my bride price my salary my music prize money he moved it through your account my own sister’s account tund Lawson we have questions for you regarding 17 million naira in fraudulent transfers chief Chief tell them who I am you have finished us you have finished this family in one afternoon i have finished the family mommy your daughter was in that bed which daughter i see only one daughter crying the other one brought policemen to a wedding listen to me all of you listen this girl came back to us from the village 3 years ago and we took her in since that day one misfortune has not finished before another one starts there are contracts my health now this a witch does not need a broom to scatter a house daddy do not call me that from today do not ever call me that before all of you I say it this girl is no longer a chuku i disown her totally and completely ushers collect that bag the phone too everything on her was bought with
Choco money take it take everything but hear me both of you the god that sees in secret saw what happened in sweet 12 he has also seen this daddy please let her go peacefully even after everything she did to me I forgive her you forgive me amara when your account is open before a judge we will see who forgives who out throw her out of this hall perfect no easy wait let me tell you your future free of charge no family no money no phone who will marry you now tell me a disgraced village girl in a borrowed wedding gown even a gates man will think twice good afternoon sir good afternoon you have been sitting here since morning you watched them throw me away like pure water nylon i watched a woman walk into fire in a wedding gown and walk out of it on her own two feet she has run mad the madness has finally entered sir I do not know your name i can see you have your own battles but you looked at me today the way nobody in that hall has ever looked at me i have no money no family and after today no shame left to lose will you marry me a cripple she’s proposing to a cripple beside the gutter god I will laugh and die today somebody video it well i want to watch it every morning you do not know me i could be the worst thing that has ever happened to you sir i have already met the worst thing that has ever happened to me i was going to marry it this afternoon my name is Zayn and my answer is yes somebody video it well I want to watch it every morning if there is any person here who knows a lawful reason these two should not be joined speak now i have something to say not a lawful reason a truthful one this hall should know the kind of family it is watching tundday sit down no Chief you disowned her publicly so I can talk publicly they told all of Lagos that Elara and Amara are twins twins then why did one twin school in London and the other one hawk Gary in Anra ask them ask Chief why one daughter was hidden in the village like a bad debt tundday if you open that gutter you call a mouth one more time madam the gutter is open amara is adopted there lagos you have heard it from me lies fabrication and you this is your doing hear me now whatever inheritance whatever land whatever cobo you dreamed of I strip you of it today inheritance daddy you are threatening me with inheritance should I tell them should I tell this hall what you offered Al-Haji Dan Ladi 4 years ago when Chuku logistics could not pay its debts you offered him your daughter me a girl for a loan like a goat for festival the only reason it failed is that the Alhaji’s mother said a village girl was beneath their house so keep your inheritance chief you already spent mine the day you priced me zani Okafo could it be look at the wheelchair my friend it is that one the son they threw away after the bridge ah the forgotten one then she has married a beautiful name and an empty pocket by the authority of the
Federal Republic I pronounce you husband and wife enjoy your wheelchair sister when you are tired of pushing it come and wash plates in my kitchen amara a tortoise does not mock the snail’s house while carrying its own mommy don’t worry i know how to reach the orafhors the old woman that heads that family I will get to her and when I do this bush girl will be swept out with the morning dust ah oazani so it is true you have carried a wife mama Reissi this is Elara my wife welcome my daughter welcome this compound has been too quiet anything you need my kitchen is your kitchen thank you ma it is not the Oriental Hotel the Oriental Hotel threw me down its steps this place opened its gate i know which one is a home you should know what you have married all sit my family has money real money i will not pretend otherwise you will hear the name Okafur around Lagos but six years ago I had an accident on the Third Mainland Bridge fire these legs a rich family can forgive many things it cannot forgive a broken showpiece they settled me with a small allowance and this flat far from their circles and asked me to be invisible so what you have married is a monthly allowance a quiet street and a man who cannot stand to greet you is that everything is it not enough it is more than I came with now show me the kitchen a husband should not sleep hungry on his wedding night zane I am your wife now completely i am not here to manage you like a sick person why why why this devotion three days ago you did not know my name a woman like you does not kneel in front of a wheelchair unless she is running from something or running towards something which is it maybe I knelt because a man looked at me like a person on the worst day of my life or maybe you heard a rich family name and decided a broken Okafur was better than no Okafur take that back make me believe I should look at it look well this is the marriage not the surname this
Can you look at this every day of your life and not run away i am looking you know what I see i see that the fire tried its best and you are still here scars only mean one thing Zayn they mean a man refused to die sleep the generator goes off at 11 no please no the edge tundday you were calling him saying in my bed 3 days married you were calling to day listen to me before you build that wall one block higher in the dream they had me on a rooftop tundday Amara my parents all of them pushing me to the edge i was screaming his name because he was the one pushing hardest that is the only way I ever call him screaming and you were there one man against four you would not let go of my hand when they finally threw me over you did not open your fingers you came down with me Zayn you died beside me rather than watch me fall alone it was a dream Lara then explain why out of everybody in Lagos my sleeping mind chose you as the only one who held on sir Leo Chuku logistics how many contracts do they hold with us directly and through subsidiary 11 chairman hage warehousing and the Apapa concession rough ly 2.4 billion a year to terminate all of them all 11 chairman before sunrise invoke the breach clauses their fleet compliance has been falsified for years you have the file and Leo freeze their credit lines with our partner banks quietly let them wake up inside the hole they dug it will be done chairman may I ask what changed tonight they threw away a diamond and kept the glass tonight the market corrects itself good night Leo what do you mean suspended 11 contracts do not die in one night who signed it who signed it chief the termination letters all carry the same authority the chairman’s office Okafo Holdings the ghost the ghost CEO himself the banks too madam our credit lines it is as if a hand reached down and switched off the light i have never even seen this chairman’s face nobody has 6 years the man is a rumor that signs documents what did I ever do to a ghost what did I do to a ghost daddy stop shouting and think a ghost cannot be fought but a family can be charmed the Okafor matriarch holds her gala this month old money the grandmother herself will attend get me an invitation one evening my yubo in that old woman’s heart whoever this ghost chairman is he answers to his family name and your sister what is she married some crippled relative of there even better mommy then the trash has delivered itself to the venue my daughter take my pepper cell gave me too much thank you ma h marriage of one week and your eyes are already carrying load sit with me small talk to somebody ma can I ask you something about my husband ask how long have you known him since he entered this compound quiet man pays his rent greets his elders hides his sorrows that is the thing ma the sorrows he is kind to me kinder than any person has ever been but there is a room inside him with a door locked i hear it at night he thinks
I am asleep the pain in those legs Mama Reissi he bites his pillow so I will not hear him groan and you why does it pain you so much one week my daughter some wives take one year to lend their husband’s footsteps because when he looks at me Ma I do not feel like a disgraced girl from a scattered family i feel like something that was lost and has finally been found nobody has ever looked at me like that so if that man is carrying fire in his legs every night then I will learn how to carry water whatever it takes so it is real ma I said God is real my daughter go and look after your husband i have carried storms beneath my skin smiled while I was breaking deep within every open door became a test i kept hope this is me Anra SS2 how Zane how do you have me until the darkness ended where my heart can rest where I do not have to prove my best hold me when the night is long so it is true mama you did not send word word should I send word to visit my own son or is it this arrangement I should have been warned about this is her the market gossip the disowned chuku girl good afternoon ma my name is Elara i am Zayn’s wife wife the Okafo name has stood in this country for four generations governors wait for our calls and my son crowns his disgrace by dragging a bush girl from the east into it mama enough it is not enough was the wheelchair not shame sufficient you want to add her family scandal to ours ma with respect you may insult me i have heard wars from people who fed me but you will not stand in my husband’s house and call him a shame this man you people settled with an allowance and hid in Soreri like an old debt he is worth more than every named dropping mouth in Lagos you threw him away ma you lost the right to be ashamed of him she has a mouth she has a spine mama it runs in her not in us this is not finished zane the family will hear of this marriage all of it zane your own mother do not ever leave this house without my permission what you heard me lagos is not what you think it is and neither is my family from today nowhere without my permission no more running from the past no more waiting for love to leave let this moment be the place where Madam keep your money for now first the patient is your husband burn trauma 6 years old chronic neuropathic pain yes doctor he hides it in the day at night the spasms come he bites the pillow so
I will not hear and has he been evaluated surgery rehabilitation his family doctor there is no money for that there is only me so teach me teach my hands whatever they can carry come we start with the deep tissue work here and here along the scar bands you will do it every night it will hurt him before it helps him he is used to things that hurt before they help he married me one more thing madam and listen well patients like your husband long pain long shame some of them develop a dangerous habit when the nerve pain becomes unbearable they create a different pain to drown it a cut a burn something they control if you ever find marks on him you cannot explain or a locked door and silence do not leave him alone do you hear me never alone i hear you doctor 12 hours zane I gave you one instruction one and before the mattress of my mother’s visit was cold you vanished into Lagos for 12 hours let me explain where was it him what was it tomb day a week of devotion and the first day my back is turned you run into the city till nightfall everyone warned me a woman who proposes to a stranger in a wheelchair is running towards something i let myself forget it zane you are bean from tonight this door stays locked if Lagos wants my wife Lagos will not find her what are you Lara shut up husband where who taught you that idiaba teaching hospital dr karim physiootherapy unit 12 hours in that is where your runaway wife spent her day learning your pain with her own two hands squeeze the pillow this part will bite i am hungry go and make the food yes husband from your grandmother sir hand delivered to the office she was insistent the gala she said and I quote “Tell my grandson that if he does not bring his wife to my house I will come to Seri myself and sit on his ver until the neighbors ask questions.” She would do it sir the Chukus will attend they secured an invitation through the Adi family and they are bringing the adopted daughter to perform then we attend it is time my wife saw the family that threw me away and if the family looks at her the way they look at you then they will learn what I have learned Leo that woman does not break she breaks things banana Island my daughter do you know what women wear to that gala gowns that cost a plot of land then they are wearing land ma I will wear my own two hands and if they laugh at you Ma I have been laughed at by professionals my own mother has a PhD in it let them laugh they laughed when I knelt in front of a wheelchair too i have never regretted anything less my husband is entering that compound with his head up ma and every stitch of this gown is going to help him carry it the man that found you my daughter God was owing him and God has paid is that not the crippled oak the forgotten one and the wife pushing the chair herself like a nurse no maid no aid the shame of it good evening aunties yes I push him myself gold that you carry with your own hand nobody can steal it from you i’ll do you how did you enter this place good evening Mommy you look expensive is that not the necklace you were going to sell last week lower your voice listen girl whatever bad blood is between us family is family family there it is the word only visits your mouth when you are in trouble daddy the ghost CEO of Okafo Holdings has destroyed us 11 contracts the banks everything overnight you are inside this family now marry to one of them even if it is the broken one find a chairman Elara whoever he is reach him beg him a daughter’s tears can move what money cannot you disowned me before 300 people you seized my handbag daddy my handbag and you are standing at a party asking me to go go and beg a ghost for you so you will watch your own parents drown you taught me how Mommy i watched you both watch me drown for 26 years the most beautiful woman at the party and they let her escape to the garden alone tundday who let you in do the okafos not fumigate aha Claus
I liked you softer i have been watching you all evening pushing that chair up and down fetching his drink a servant with the ring walk away Tundai allara look at me i made one mistake one Amara is a spider you know how she is but you you are wasting the finest years of your life wheeling a useless cripple around in a fancy chair so here is my offer because I still love you these okafos have money somewhere even the broken one move some of it quietly a settlement a signature whatever you can reach bring it and I will take you back me and you like before the instant real pressure lands listen to me very carefully because I will only say it once that man you call a cripple has more spine sitting down than you have ever had standing up if you ever speak of my husband again if his name so much as crosses that gutter you call a mouth my child come here let me look at what six years and a foolish family have done to you grandma closer haha h the eyes are alive again somebody has watered my drying plant where is she grandma my wife allara so you are the girl who knelt in front of a wheelchair in front of all Lagos yes ma i am that girl they say you did not know his family that you married my grandson with empty hands empty hands ma my hands were not empty they were carrying my whole heart it is Lagos that could not see it madame Okafur come and hear how a wife talks this ring entered this family before this country had its name my grandmother wore it i wore it it goes to the wife with the strongest hand lagos I have found her behold enjoy the ring sister in 10 minutes this whole family will belong to me distinguished guests a special performance in honor of our matriarch on the great ubo the classical harp of our fathers Miss Amara Chuku Grandma Okafor mothers of our society this melody is my own composition from my own heart dedicated tonight to the great Okafo family that music is stolen i beg your pardon i said it is stolen every note of it and the theft is taking a bow is that not the disowned sister the jealousy has entered her head ignore her everybody knows Amara was trained personally by Mama Obi herself the living legend who trained you Elara which gutter conservatory elara do it boldly my wife that piece is not hers and it is not new it is an old composition its name is the Phoenix Rhythm and it has two halves a soft introduction which you have all just heard and a second movement amara only ever plays the introduction have any of you asked yourselves why because a thief can only carry what fits through the window give me the instrument don’t you dare touch give her fraud she broke into Mama Ob’s archives this girl has always been a thief and a witch ask her where she learned it ask her mama Obi trains only the best families then let Mama Obie answer you did not think I invited a harp to my house without inviting the mother of all harps 40 years I have taught music in this country president’s daughters professors prodigies and in all 40 years I met true genius only once not in Lagos not in London in a village in Anra a barefoot girl of nine who heard my recording once through a neighbor’s window and composed an answer to it a second movement she called it the Phoenix Rhythm that child’s name was Elara years later a wealthy Lagos family begged me to take their student i refused the girl had hands but no soul then
I learned whose family it was and I accepted as a favor not to the parents to the village girl they were hiding so that through one open door I might one day reach the other instead the student I took stole the prodigy’s music and wore it tonight like a stolen gown amarachuku before this society you are no student of mine from this night never speak my name again no no no no get this family out of my mother-in-law’s house it was supposed to be mine everything was supposed to be mine zane madam stop struggling everything is on camera everything look at me look at my eyes you raised your hand against this family tonight in front of 300 witnesses and you are still breathing that is my mercy there is no second mercy Amara if you ever come near my husband again what the police arrest will not be worth arresting remove the Chuku family from Banana Island and put their names on the gate they do not enter again zane your food is cold zayn they create a different pain to drown it a locked door and silence never alone zayn open this door zen I know what you are doing in there the doctor told me open the door go and sleep elara i will not open it leave me zane I am bleeding zayn I have caught myself there is blood zane sit sit where is the first aid do not move why why would you the glass who breaks a vase in darkness i did i broke it Sesan i caught my own hand because it was the only key that opens that door no no more hiding i am your wife show me you will run i cut my own hand to reach you does that look like running the pain comes at night like soldiers six years all six years I have fought it alone in locked rooms the rooms are finished Zayn hear me from tonight there is no door in this house that closes against me we fight your soldiers together and we are going to win i swear it on my own blood he let you in i did not give him a choice madame Alara what I am about to say I have carried for 6 years he will be angry that I said it say it anyway that is what my spirit is telling me tonight then say it the accident on the third Manland Bridge 6 years ago it was not an accident the brakes of his car were cut deliberately professionally cut by who by order of his own uncle Chief Connor Okafor his father’s brother his own blood the family knew madam the mother knew there was evidence a mechanic willing to talk and Madame Okafor buried it she said a murder trial inside the family would scatter the Okafur name and everything attached to it so the mechanic was paid off and relocated the file was closed as an accident and the son who burned on that bridge was asked by his own mother to swallow it for the family name so the uncle walks free six years while my husband bites pillows in the dark chief Connor sits at every family function madam he carried the Bible at two Okafur weddings leo look at me i swear before God and before this rain whatever it costs however long it takes Chief Connor Okafur will answer for that bridge they asked my husband to swallow fire to protect a name i am going to make that name protect him or I will burn it down myself i have carried storms beneath my skin smiled while I was breaking deep within every open door became a test still I kept some hope inside my chest then you found me where the light was low you never asked me to pretend you saw the parts I could not show and stayed until the darkness ended be where my heart can rest where I do not have to prove my best hold me when the night is long remind me I am still strong i do not need the world to know i need a hand that will not let go if love is home then let me stay be where my heart can rest today we are not the ones