CHAPTER 18:THE FAREWELL( A WEAKNESS CALLED LOVE : MEMOIRS OF AN AFRICAN HOUSEMAID )
It was settled. The in the next two days I will go back to town. Laraba gave us short notice. We were going to be taken together with Rabi and her gang. The things I will do for Mudi. For he is my motivation, my reason for conceding. Every time I remember I am going back to town, I felt heaviness in my chest. It felt like I was being stabbed by 100 invisible daggers in my chest. But what choice do I have. My only ambition was to have Mudi as a husband, the way to achieve it is going back to town. Sometimes I will tell myself perhaps this time it will be different, maybe I will be lucky like the newbie but who was I kidding I was never lucky when it comes to that. I will laugh at my stupid talk and forget about these illusions. Then out of the blue, Something momentous happened. Two days before my trip, young likita came to our house and said, “Ladi there is a man outside waiting to see you. He asked me to call you”. Who could it be? I wonder I know my Mudi doesn’t visit me, I was