Adenuke's Breakthrough

“Is everything okay?” Tayo asked.


“I’m fine” I quickly melted into my bed sheet and buried my whole body in it.


Later that evening, I was discharged. I stood in the parking lot and kept wondering where to go. Tayo suddenly took my hands and dragged me inside his car. He told me he knew I had nowhere to go and that he wasn’t planning on leaving me in the streets. I tried to protest, but I couldn’t.


I had an odd feeling, as I looked at his eyes, it was something I hadn’t felt for a very long time, I felt it so deep, it was… TRUST.


Weeks in his house was hell; not for me, for him. I treated him like he was my enemy, I was cautious of every step he took and would yell if he comes too close to me. All this time, he would just smile and quietly leave, he was too nice, and that made me suspicious.


He always acted cool until one night, that was after one year of living with him. I had one of my night-mares and screamed from my sleep. He rushed down to my room half-dressed and I shouted at him, I screamed and asked him to leave, I accused him of rape, and he became so mad. He said a lot to me, he told me how hard he was trying to help me and how unfair I treated him, and he said it hurt him so much that I wouldn’t open up my past to him after one year. He said so much with so much hurt…


The next morning, I sat down lost in thoughts, he came in and asked what the matter was. I couldn’t say anything, I was just crying, he started to apologize for what he said the night before, and I told him he didn’t have to apologize. I opened up everything to him; I told him my life story and apologized for how bad I had treated him.


He was so mad, and he promised to fight my aunt with everything he got.


Tayo fought for me in court and I got back my inheritance. He also wanted to charge my aunt and uncle for rape and attempted murder; but I told him not to, I told him I had forgiven them for everything.


I got married to Tayo 3 years later. Although I wasn’t able to bear a child for him due to my damaged womb, we adopted 2 children; a boy and a girl. Tayo became my whole family; my mum, dad, brother, sister and husband. I couldn’t ask for a better life.


Tayo and I started a Non-Governmental Organization for young girls and boys who have been abused and needed to start a new life…


My life started all over again…