EPISODE 8
A couple of tears welled up in my eyes when Madam Iron said that she sold her child which is me to Mr. and Mrs. Ojukwu who I thought were my parents.
Ben's wife was also seated there.
Mr. Bernard left where Madam Iron was kept to see the other culprits.
"Brother, is that you?" Bernard said in bafflement when he peeped through the iron-made protector.
Chief Olewe raised his head and saw Ben.
He sighed in grief and his face was buried in his hands.
"What's all this?" Ben roared "How can a grown-up man like you indulge in rape? - you're not abashed of yourself"
Olewe kept mute and Ben was shouting uncontrollably.
"I don't think you're my elder brother" Ben added
"Police officers make sure you deal with him"
Forthwith, Ben went forward to see the next person who was Ifeoma.
"Who are you?" Ben asked.
Ifeoma showed up her face instantaneously and broke out in cold sweat.
"You, my sister-in-law is also part of this evil act," Ben said with a loud voice and ordered the policeman behind him to call his wife into the office of the DPO.
His wife came afterward and couldn't stand the pace when she saw her blood sister.
"What are you doing here, Ifeoma," she asked Ifeoma.
Ifeoma quietened down. She couldn't say anything - she was just staring at Ben and his wife with contempt.
Ben's wife continued asking Ifeoma numerous queries but didn't get an answer.
She left shortly with her heart full of fury.
"Ben, let's go," she said when she dashed off.
Ben followed her and we left.
We stopped at a boutique and Ben bought some clothes for me because my clothes were disheveled and raggy.
Ben's wife was not happy at all - her countenance disclosed that.
She was dull in the face and Ben consoled her that all would be fine.
I guessed she was utterly disappointed in her elder sister.
When we returned from the boutique, Ben's wife, Oluchi asked me to wear the clothes which we bought at the boutique.
Forthwith, I undressed and Oluchi saw a birthmark on my back.
"Who has this mark on your back ?" She asked.
"Aunty, that's my birthmark" I replied.
"Okay! " Oluchi said suspiciously. She had seen such a mark before but she was thinking of where she saw it.
A few minutes later, she now reminisced that the Mark is also visible on Ben's back.
She became up in her arms. I saw the expression on her visage and I envisioned that she had deciphered that Ben is my biological father.
In the night, Oluchi's face was still the same when we were watching a movie titled "Half of a yellow sun" written by Chimamanda Adichie and acted by Genevieve Nnaji and co.
At 10:00 pm, everyone went into their slumbers.
The next day, Oluchi woke up at 5:00 am panting heavily that she dreamt about me and that I was a witch.
"She needs to be thrown out," she said directly to my face when I ran to their room as I heard her outcries.
My tongue was tied and I knew that the mark she saw on my back developed to all these.
To be continued...
