EPISODE 16
I got rats in the attics when Richard told me that he ripped off Chief Olewe's eyes, manhood, and nose while he was still in his slumber.
I felt like puking while listening to him - verily, what he said was irritating.
Instantly, he screamed as though he went ballistic.
"After killing all those villains who got me deceased, I'm coming for you - we all are going to the vault of the Grim Reaper"
My heart missed a bit and I asked him why? I was guiltless.
"I and my mother were murdered because of you" He replied apoplectically "we will all die".
He dashed off subsequently after saying that.
I started shaking like a leaf when he left. My thought was that he came to rescue his daughter and also avenge his death but I was unlucky that what I pondered out was utterly wrong.
My eyes instantly went grim and tears flooded the darkroom like water.
I was just fifteen years facing these malicious situations.
My life was just the epitome of misery.
I had no peace of mind everything had been bellicose.
Right from the days I was in Ojukwu's house, life had always been unfair.
I reminisced when Ojukwu inserted his index finger filled with pepper in my private part only because I saw them fighting and ran away.
And also when he wanted to sell me off for marriage, I escaped to the city and unfortunately, things were still the same.
Mama was very nice to me, she didn't deserve to die. She was the one who would have stood on my behalf.
She thought I was her daughter. I was truly not her granddaughter.
"Who am I?" I asked myself thoughtlessly.
I'm Mezuo, a girl who was birthed out of wedlock.
Madam Iron said that I was her child who was born from the sperm Ben inserted into her.
All were fabricated. She told Ben that, in other, for Ben to consider her while she was in the cell.
The birthmark.
Madam Iron gave me that mark while I was asleep.
She pierced me with her razor blade wrathfully to my back
I asked her why she did that when I woke up but she said that she wanted to check if I was really strong.
I thought that was her motive but my thoughts were wrong.
She planned to show me to Ben as their child because she was Ben's lover and Ben got her pregnant.
She told Ben about the pregnancy and Ben told her to abort it.
At first, she repudiated but later, she heeded Ben's advice without telling Ben that she had aborted it.
They haven't met since then until that day they saw in the police station.
The love of money shattered her plans. Ifeoma convinced her to make me her sex slave forgetting the plans she had made.
Now let me tell you who I am.
I am Madam Iron's granddaughter. Her daughter was just thirteen years when she got pregnant and she died mysteriously after my birth.
She was tormented civilly by her mother for being pregnant at that age.
After my delivery, Madam Iron disliked me, her granddaughter
Then, she opted to sell me off to Mr. Ojukwu which she did.
I was Madam Iron's blood and not Ben's. That was why Ben who feigned to be Richard said that I was going to join him to where he was.
To be continued...
