"Bolu decided to go stay with Fola's father in the hospital. This was because Mrs. Obed was adamant about leaving her daughter's bed side despite the persuasion from Mrs. Balogun.
Bolu left An-nur hospital in Maraba Jos with Femi to Zahrah hospital. On their way to the hospital, they bought some provisions for Mr. Obed.
They got there to meet him crying bitterly.
"Daddy stop crying, Fola isn't dead", Bolu told the crying man who was weeping on the hospital bed like a baby.
He jerked up and looked at Bolu in the face. "Are you saying this to pacify me or what?"
He was confused and didn't know what to believe.
'She told me herself that my daughter is dead and now she is saying otherwise', he thought to himself.
"Daddy, I am serious. It's just that she is in a coma. We mistook her for someone else that was why we thought she was dead", Bolu explained.
He heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you Lord! Come take me there. I need to see my daughter", he said rising up.
Femi pinned him down carefully. "No dad, not now. We need to be sure you are fine and good to go before we allow you. Besides, the doctor hasn't discharge you yet."
"Hope you two aren't lying to me", he looked at them with suspicious.
They both smiled and said, "No."
Femi commented, "Dad, we brought you some provisions. The doctor said you need them because of the rise in your blood pressure."
"Thank you. How is my wife doing also?", he asked them.
Bolu and Femi looked at each other and then Bolu replied with a smile. "She is fine."
They didn't know how best to tell him that his wife had refused to come stay by his bed side.
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"Olamide Garba, do you take Rachel Olukoya as your wife?", the court minister asked.
"Yes I do", Olamide answered with a smile.
"Do you promise to love, honour, cherish and protect her, forsaking all other and holding only unto her?", the minister asked him again.
"Yes I do", he replied.
The minister turned to Rachel and asked her: " Rachel Olukoya, do you take Olamide Garba to be your husband?"
"Yes I do", Rachel responded with a grin.
"Do you promise to love, honour, cherish and protect him, forsaking all other and holding only unto him?", he asked her again.
"Yes I do", she replied sharply.
"Olamide Garba and Rachel Olukoya, in as much as you two have agreed to live together in matrimony, have promised your love for each other by these vows, I now declare you man and wife", the minister said and continued looking at Olamide. "You may now kiss the bride."
Olamide took her lips and kissed her like his life depended on it.
He was already falling heads over heels in love with Rachel for choosing him despite knowing how weak he was. He was grateful and at the same time feeling sympathy for her.
Rachel on the other hand was all smiles. She believed she now has all she had ever wanted. This was her dream and she had been able to achieve it with little effort.
The minister shook hands with Olamide and said to him. "Congratulations."
"Thank you sir", Olamide replied.
Their two witnesses, Mr Garba who was with a grim look and Bisi who was smilling at them congratulated the couple as they took their leave to the house.
The house of no return.
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'That was too low of a wedding for a politician's son', Rachel mused to her.
Then she thought, 'I guess it's for the best since I am a wanted person. The next thing to do now is convince my father-in-law to grant my husband and I the permission to go live abroad. That way, everything will slide down and by the time I am back, they must have forgotten who I am and what I did.'
Then it stucked her, she got married without informing her mother. "I will go and inform her tomorrow", she said to herself as her husband came in from the bathroom.
He smiled at her and she smiled back. Then he moved closer to her on the bed and pecked her lips.
"I love you for choosing me", he said.
"I have loved you ever since I knew you", she replied him honestly.
"But I can't help but remember how you cheated on me with T-boy", Olamide said with a frown.
"It was not my fault. You also cheated on me with Fola. Besides, I made it known to T-boy that you are the only man I desire and want to be with but he wouldn't listen."
"But I didn't do anything with Fola", he defended.
"You dated her", she cornered him.
"Yes and that was because my dad forced me too."
"I understand", Rachel said looking away.
"You need to be punished baby girl", he said flirtingly.
Rachel laughed and said, "No, not in my condition."
"Come on, it's our wedding night", he said moving closer to her. "Let's consummate our marriage."
"Alright, but you need to be gentle on me, for the baby", she whispered into his ears.
That action tickled Olamide and he strike Rachel softly on the buttocks and laughed. "You are a bad girl. Alright, I agree", and he kissed her roughly.
He brought out a whip from under his bed and few minutes later, they were lost in a world of consummation.
Rachel moaned in pain which Olamide mistook for pleasure as he hit her with the whip continuously.
Then, she cried out loud but he wasn't listening. He was in a world of his own.
He whipped her buttocks with all his strength till Rachel collapsed under him.
"That was great babe", he whispered as he laid beside her but he was met with silence.
She touched her and then he realised she had passed out.