Ajike (Book one in the Battered Wives)

"I got someone pregnant,"

A simple word that bore so much weight, it was only the beginning of how they fell apart, of how everything changed.

Those words shattered Ajike's very existence.

Who knew words could shatter the very walls that words had built. 

Àjíkè's dilemma is how to make sure she gets out of it all unscathed. 

This is her story.

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  • Ajike (Book one in the Battered Wives) - Episode 1

  • "I got someone pregnant." My husband of three years gulped visibly, swallowed and rubbed his hand over his face over and over again. He was so tensed, again why...
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  • Ajike (Book one in the Battered Wives) - Episode 2

  • I watched him walk round the room in suppressed anger and frustration, I silently sighed and grabbed my phone.  He rustled through his closet this time and when Jink...
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  • Ajike (Book one in the Battered Wives) - Episode 3

  • Jinke,  You are stealing the stars out of my eyes  with polished lies.  I have resolved to discipline my tongue and accept the fate of my...
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  • Ajike (Book one in the Battered Wives) - Episode 5

  • "Do you remember my first miscarriage?" Nusaiba looks at me with glazed over eyes, by now my eyes were dry and the occasional sniffles was the evidence that I had shed an...
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  • Ajike (Book one in the Battered Wives) - Episode 5

  • "Do you remember my first miscarriage?" Nusaiba looks at me with glazed over eyes, by now my eyes were dry and the occasional sniffles was the evidence that I had shed an...
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  • Ajike (Book one in the Battered Wives) - Episode 4

  • "Now that you know, what are you going to do about it? " Nusaiba and I had lain on a large mat looking at the stars, it was just after Isha.  "Nothing...
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