'Life has truly been unfair to me and my family" Christabel Mum said as the tears she tried so much to hold finally welled down her cheeks.

She tried to use her hand to wipe them off before Desse noticed and offered her a handkerchief.

'It's okay, have this" Desse said while handing the handkerchief over to her.

She collected it from Desse and cleaned her tears as she continued.

'Six years ago I met a very nice and hardworking young man," she said as she managed to chuckle a little.

'He was not wealthy but at least he was able to provide for his poor mother and his little sister. Hmmm I don't really remember how we first met but destiny brought us together. He was the first person to show me how it felt to be loved genuinely." She continued.

'I was from a poor family. I heard my parents died three days after my delivery so I grew up as an orphan who was always called a cursed child

The environment was so quiet for the moment as Desse focused her face and eye on Christabel's Mum who was clearing her throat before she continued talking.

'I never felt that what I did with him on that day was a bad idea because I know it was just a way of appreciating him. He gave me reason to keep pushing without quitting. Weeks later I didn't see or hear from him and his family until I heard some side talks from some girls who said he had relocated and no longer lived in that area with his family. That day I thought my life was crumbling because I was already pregnant and that would be a very big liability to me. My aunt already vowed that if she ever set her eye on me she would not hesitate killing me because I made her daughter lose her first ever suitor. Hmmm鈥� so from then till today my daughter Christabel and I have always been struggling to survive. Christabel has been a good 

Desse and Riel were approaching Christabel and her mother's room when they overheard their conversation.

'Mum, I do not think Madam Desse likes me and it makes me feel really bad," Christabel said in a low and sad tone.

'My love do not say that, you are an ungrateful child or are you?" Christabel's mother asked her eagerly.

'No mum I am not" Christabel answered as she nodded her head.

'Then why are you sounding like this, you know she loves us if she did not like us why she would have not brought us into her mansion as her family without knowing who we are or where we came from and her husband also accepted us. You know why?" Christabel's mother explained and asked her daughter.

'No Mum I do not ' she replied to her mum's question.

'Okay. It's because Madam Desse put in good words for us and it made her husband like us without even knowing what our name was" Christabel Mum explaine

'Life has truly been unfair to me and my family" Christabel Mum said as the tears she tried so much to hold finally welled down her cheeks.

She tried to use her hand to wipe them off before Desse noticed and offered her a handkerchief.

'It's okay, have this" Desse said while handing the handkerchief over to her.

She collected it from Desse and cleaned her tears as she continued.

'Six years ago I met a very nice and hardworking young man," she said as she managed to chuckle a little.

'He was not wealthy but at least he was able to provide for his poor mother and his little sister. Hmmm I don't really remember how we first met but destiny brought us together. He was the first person to show me how it felt to be loved genuinely." She continued.

'I was from a poor family. I heard my parents died three days after my delivery so I grew up as an orphan who was always called a cursed child. I had no friends and my aunt and cousins who were supposed to be my family never loved me. They wo

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