Chapter 2

Deborah is a 22-year-old beautiful girl from the southeast of Bonerum, Nakara precisely. she came from a family of three and she is the last born and only daughter. Her elder brother, James, an engineer, married with two kids. Her family is not that wealthy but they were able to provide standard education for their male children.

Deborah was the only female child of her parents but she wasn't treated special because she was a woman and in Nakara, women are just commodities for sale. This was one of the reasons why Deborah studied hard and won a scholarship to study Theatre and film study in the University of Bonerum.

She is a very meek child right from birth. Why won't she be meek? After all women in Nakara are taught never to look at a man's eyes. They see it as a form of disrespect when a woman keeps eye contact with a male counterpart.

When she was young, she had always wondered why her mother never objected to her father's rigged and partial rules, but as she came of age, she realized her mother was a hell-bent follower of the custom and traditions of their people. No wonder she calls her father " Lord". Deborah like her mother planned to spend her life worshiping her husband but unlike her mom, she wants to worship a man she loves. After all, a man deserves all the respect in the world if he loves her.

Her mother will always tell her that a woman's pride lies in her marriage to a man. A woman without a husband has no place in society or in her father's house. When a woman is due for marriage and is not married then she will not be respected even by little children. Even if Deborah did not like the arrangement, she did not object to it.

Why would she be scared of not getting married when she started having suitors at the age of 12? It was even a miracle that her father allowed her to obtain B.A. Her mates were long married with kids.

To Deborah, even if she will still have to be a submissive wife, she still wanted to make a name for herself, if not for her community then for those community that values the worth of a woman.