Chapter 63

AMARACHI

     I woke up with a splitting headache asides my heavy heart. I had cried so much last night, my eyes felt too big for the sockets. It felt like my eyes could pop out.

The first thing that rang in my head was the painful truth aunty Lydia told me yesterday.

All this while, I actually believed no matter how bad Lydia and Ogechi treated me, I was still their family; that blood ties were still there keeping us connected.

   But that single truth I believed in all these years, that single truth I clunged to all these years, was broken yesterday.

Who would rape my mother?

Why?

My mother endured trauma and now I'm doing the same.

Who is my father?

But perhaps aunty Lydia could be lying. Perhaps she was just saying that to shatter me.

Emeka could still really be my biological father.

I immediately wiped my tear stung eyes