24/02/2024
*** Married Against My Will ****
Episode 1
My parents were going to marry me off to settle their d£bt.
I grew up in an polygamous family, my mom was the number three wife, my dad has five wives.
I grew up, with twenty one siblings, three boys and eighteen girls.
it was a tribe and tradition for a man to have a male child, my dad frist and second wives were unable to birth any male child, they were seems as bā''rren women, who were unable to bear the real children since a female child is not considered an heir.
I never saw my dad frist wife , only her grā"ve that was behind her hut.
she had given birth to seven girls, according to my mom she had di£d carrying the eighth pr£gnancy, though she was advised by the midwives not to attempt getting pregnant again, but she refused, cause she couldn't bèār the shãm£ of not giving birth to a real child ( male child).
she couldn't bèār to see her co wives give birth to the frist male child, though my dad had also wãrñed her not to c0nceive again but she refused and took in, she di£d during lābour though it was a male child as she wanted but he also pass on with her immediately after she di£d.
that was when my mom came into the picture, she gave birth to six of us, two boys and four girls.
while my dad fourth wife , gave brith to six daughter and a son.
I was worth more than my elder sisters, because I was younger, prettier, more endowed and a v¡rgin.
They had sold us off, one by one, to send my brothers to school and pay for their apprenticeship.
all my sisters were already married off, immediately they saw their womanhood.
Except I and my younger sister ewomi who was 12 years old, and hasn't seen her w0manhood.
We were the sācrificial lāmbs.
My two sisters and fourteen step sisters, and now it was my turn.
We were like corn and yam to be traded for a better deal.
But I had a plan
I was just 15
But I had seen my womanhood one year ago.
So I knew what I had to do even before the set date.
I was the youn