BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART FIFTEEN Erhuvwun was hungry, but chose to fast that day, especially as Amadi was compelling her to go with him to the idol shrine. When she’d turned down her food, Amadi had not been phased. Rather he
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART FOURTEEN Amadi could hear the sound of singing, which indicated that Erhuvwun was almost home. But what had taken her so long? Didn’t she know that he needed her in the morning? Or was she
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART THIRTEEN “Well, I know Him as the Father of the fatherless, because that is how He introduced Himself to us the day Chief Ogboru threw us and our daughters out of his home. We had
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART TWELVE “So, you’re still childless? After two pregnancies?! Hmmm… This is serious oh,” Ejiro said, shaking her head as she looked on sadly at her friend. “How is Amadi taking this?” Erhuvwun sighed, still feeling
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART ELEVEN The sun was going down, and Amadi still hadn’t returned home. Erhuvwun was worried. His leaving this morning was unusual. She’d expected him back since lunchtime and had even gone to the stream to
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART TEN Erhuvwun rarely sang these days, but when she did, they were songs of immense sadness and loss. In the blink of an eye, without any warning at all, her whole world came crashing down
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART NINE Some months later, it was the wedding of another couple of villagers. One of them was the younger sister to a close friend of Erhuvwun, and so she was keen to make the festivities.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART EIGHT Amadi sulked all the way home. He was so angry with Erhuvwun for disrespecting him in the presence of all those nosy and annoying villagers! Why couldn’t she just trust him for once? Why
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART SEVEN “Go! Go! If you don’t want to be here, just go! I’ll come home when my father’s well!” Erhuvwun insisted, not knowing how she got the courage to be so bold. She just knew
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART SIX After they’d made love a second time that afternoon, Erhuvwun rose from the bed, thinking they’d better make the most of the day before the darkness fell. But Amadi pulled her into him and
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART FIVE Erhuvwun woke up the next morning and immediately jumped off the bed. She’d overslept. Amadi had left her sleeping in for the first time ever. She heard the familiar sound of his axe against
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART FOUR Erhuvwun preferred to wash their clothes by the stream. She had told Amadi how the flowing water was ideal for rinsing them off and left a lovely fragrance in the fabrics. After the first
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART THREE The first month was the hardest. Erhuvwun woke up to the realisation that she’d married a stranger, and the scarier part of that was the meaning of marriage, rather than the fact that he
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART TWO Erhuvwun’s first thought was of Akpos, the man she’d wanted to marry, when her father told her about his foolish mistake. She’d been holding out for Akpos for over a year now, and had
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Copyright © Ufuomaee The eBook is available to Patrons via books.ufuomaee.org. PART ONE Onuoha was sober for the first time in five years. Last night, he’d made the biggest mistake of his life, and there was no way he could correct it… What had possessed him to