Chapter IX

 

At twenty-five years old, her grade twelve results were in place littered with eight distinctions. The young lady was a true example to girl children who left schools because of one or two setbacks. She did not sit back and waited for a suitor to come her way for marriage but tirelessly, she moved forward and corrected her mistakes.

At the end of three years, Ima was managing a new opened subsidiary of Times Café in the town center in Lusaka. She proved herself to her boss to be the most reliable employee with the unbroken record of honesty and integrity. It had taken her time to meet face to face with the boss. She was an elderly woman with immeasurable influence in society. To her surprise, she never honored up to being the one behind her many invitations to social gatherings that Ima was getting invited to attend almost once every month.

She sat in her small office at the back of the Food Palace Pub and Grill along Freedom way when an elderly man walked in. She did not he