Chapter Forty-three

 It wasn't easy for me trying to come clean to my mom, but it would hurt more to keep my life a secret from her. When I think about it, she is the only family that I have left, and the fact that Andre involved her in this whole mess of ours gives her every right to know what had happened and precisely how her child is doing, in as much as I am an adult and has preferred taking care of myself and my messes, I still feel the need to have a word with her, it might be what I need to move on perhaps her advice might give me more encouragement and elevate my spirit into being the type of person I want to be.

" what do you mean 'he took your unborn child?" I could hear her trembling voice over the phone as she queries.

I heave a sigh, " mom, barely a month heretofore, I was pregnant with my daughter but apparently, he didn't want a female child, which led to some disagreements and he asked me to undergo an abortion, however, I refused to do as he said. And then on that fatef