The Wedding Reception

Pelumi was just eighteen years old when the men in black came knocking on her family door one night. Their house had seen better days, so it wasn't hard for the robbers to break in. Pelumi recalled they were four of them, all heavily armed. It was like they prepared for a mini war but Pelumi and her parents later learned that the robbers had robbed the whole floor that night, so they had come prepared in case of any unforseen incident.

“Get on the floor before I blow your brains out”. One of the robbers barked orders at Pelumi and her parents. They all immediately laid flat on the floor. As far as they knew it, if they complied, the robbers would take what they needed and leave without causing any harm to them.

They had been wrong.

After the robbers were done looting their valuables which took about fifteen minutes, one of them decided he would love to have some fun with the beautiful lady who was laying beside her parents. Pelumi's dad had shed a tear as he watched the masked man dragged his daughter into a room and closed the door. Pelumi struggled but the man was way stronger than her, she remembered seeing a tattoo of a phoenix bird on the man's right hand just as he pushed her to bed.

Three weeks after that incident, Pelumi fell ill. She had told her mother that it was just malaria but her mom had known better, she knew her daughter was pregnant. So she talked to her husband about it and they both decided she would have the baby. She had not brought this upon herself so she would not go through it alone. They both would be with her to encourage her throughout this journey.

Five years later, Pelumi met a man who loved her and her son as if he was his. He was a godsent, almost too perfect for her. So when this man had popped the big question to her after two months of dating, she had said yes without any hesitation. She loved this man, he made her happy and she deserved to be happy.

The wedding came and guests trooped in. The smile on Pelumi's face was as bright as a diamond. Her son was with her mother, looking cute in his little tuxedo. The couple said their vows and were pronounced husband and wife. The wedding reception came and everyone was having a time of their lives when Pelumi's husband introduced her to his cousin.

The smile on Pelumi's face immediately vanished the moment she saw a phoenix tattoo just as the cousin shook her husband.

“Is everything okay baby?” Pelumi's husband asked and she nodded her head, telling him everything was fine. But of course everything wasn't fine, how would she tell her husband that his cousin was her son's father.

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