Her Secret
Sadiqah said and Aziza swallowed hard.
“Abu told us about his father wives and how they always fight on getting his attention, that was the idea I had about Polygamy as a young child, the movies we watched as well were movies about women battling for superiority in marriages and sometimes because one wife could not give birth to more kids, and so when Abu got married to a second wife , I had this idea in my head that he did that because he no longer love our Ummu or because we were girls. To me, I thought Ummu was lying about her knowing about the marriage from the beginning, I guess I just believe what I want to and we lost her few years later to cancer.” Sadiqah said cleaning off her tears