Lies From Pretty Lips

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I ignored it wanting to go back to

h and married to Osaze,

the pillow, I should have

is house. Once she was up, she wante

n but I ignored her hoping she'd g

Your mates are up and at work, you're still lyi

she just leave me alone to sleep?"

y after a night out at

ight to drink and forget a

I should enter that room and meet you still lying d

to frustrate their children, my mother bei

living room, She came into my room dressed in a

so you can put the icing on that cake and deliver it? Am I the one

ng" I greet

ng from morning till night in your husband's house? So that he will send you back here,

that my mum is

to bathe now" I

naughty girl? I will slap your face" she hi

re drama, she simply glared

my is always so work

ts and singlet before wa

her, after I'd graduated from the University of Lagos and co

me how to cook. After her teachings

the Nigerian labor market besides Osaze my boyfriend already

etting fed up with working for mum

took my bath before mummy would

got dressed in my mini blue flower prints chiffon dress that sh

ures, I loved to accentuate

walked to the living room to go decorate

itting on his favorite chair in th

d walking over to him, lean

d let me see you, my gold, my wealth" I chuckled and

to the living

You're the one spoiling this girl" she

liver the cake? Heels! So that you will fall and destroy my ca

ittle before looking t

tiful she looks. Don't you know she's the one who will bring our fortune? Yo

lled her eyes at my

ghter," she said walk

tchen to put the finishi

you off at Alesh so you can get a

'm almost d

one with the cake dec

in the kitchen. If you need anything else, just com

e family since my father retired fro

d lost a lot of money, since then mummy t

t because mummy never harassed h

ve and connectio

again and the both of them will

want to disappoint them, not a

dbye and followed

ar that daddy had bought

Okoji is my very good customer and I don't want to

she treats me like I'm incompetent

rove out from the compou

cated at Ikota while we r

at Alesh to get a b

don't fail me

ring since I was a chil

d nodded before gett

merciless Lagos sun for a long time,

't want to take a public bus because of the

mess up her cake, I co

hoping for a private v

God to send a private vehicle, God must have answered my

l Yoruba attire for women, consi