CHAPTER TWO

The gods had given her a chance to take her future into her hands,and for that she was grateful.it was no coincidence that she had been allowed to spend the previous night alone in her bedroom.if anyone had seen her creep through the lone window in the room,she would never have made it past the mud wall which encircled her father's compound.

Her beads were tucked away safely; she had carefully removed and hidden them for this particular journey. Nothing feels as good as waking up beautiful every morning with ur beads hanging on your neck, dancing around your feet and resting on your waist and hands;Oniyinye would usually sing at the stream. That song did not matter to Ada now. She would sell the beads off to whoever was willing to buy ,and she had saved up enough cowries to come in handy later on.

The beads were safely hidden in her skin bag with one wrapper, papa had spent a week's work worth of cowries in purchasing the skin bag for her.it was meant to accompany her to ikena's house today, the long waited day of her marriage

'So what if ikenna was the handsome prince?Who care if he was the most skill Archer in Afudo and the neighboring villages?