Ben was caught unawares when he saw me. He didn't recognize my compound because there were grown-up weeds in front of it.
Tears welled up my eyes and flowed in torrents down to my face.
He saw the tears streaming and immediately ran into his car and drove out.
I still love Ben with my whole heart. He was my first love and he equally helped me during our days in the University –resenting him was truly difficult.
"Why are you crying and why did he leave without saying a word?" My daughter queried me as though she suspected that something must have gone wrong.
"No! nothing, don't worry" I replied.
"I thought I'd lost you" I added as I kíssed her on her left cheek.
Victory was wreathed in smiles and promised to narrate everything that happened.
When we went inside, I gave her the remaining food Edith brought to eat. After she finished eating, she told me every bit of what transpired.
She told me that the abductors took them somewhere and she was rejected while others were accepted.
"They dropped me in the middle of a tarred road and that man who brought me here stopped as I was sitting at one corner of the road and carried me to his house" Victory verbalized.
My eyes were on stalks as I kept listening to what she was saying.
"When I got to his house, his wife's countenance made my blood run cold: she did not even respond to my greetings" Victory uttered.
I raised my eyebrows and was impressed at how my two-year-old child was narrating what had happened to her.
"How did the man know that this is your village?" I asked her.
"I told him the name of our village and he said that he had been to this territory before" Victory replied like a dog with two tails.
"You will tell me the remaining part of the story later but for now, you've to rest" I muttered and smirked.
"Okay mum" she replied and lay down.
I knelt instantly and started thanking God for bringing my beloved daughter back to me.
I also thanked him for giving me such a brilliant daughter.
After praying, I lay down with her and my happiness was restored.
The next day, Victory's headmaster and some of her teachers visited. They were happy as a jaybird.
She shared the same story with them and they were amazed.
The headmaster was wowed at how a two years old child can narrate stories in such a way. Even her teachers were all struck dumbed.
The headmaster was also a bit sad because of those innocent children that were butchered and he said that they had met with their parents.
They gave Victory a huge amount of money to buy drugs and other things and they left.
Three years later, my daughter was five years old then.
She participated in a quiz competition for kids held by the government and won a scholarship to finish primary and secondary school education without paying a dime.
She was also given a token of a hundred thousand nairas.
I was jumbled when I heard this and then I knew that my daughter will wipe away my sorrows.
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To be continued
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