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  CHAPTER SEVEN  Too Much It was a quiet ride to Kasie’s school. Uju needed the silence to help calm her mind from brooding on the chaos of the past few days. She looked out the window and silently counted the nose masks a boy was hawking in traffic in a bid to distract herself from thinking about meeting her dad. She stole a glance at Nnanna. He was driving and was focused on the road. She was grateful he didn’t engage her in any conversation; he must have read her mind. Flashbacks of their conversation at the parking lot earlier made her cringe; Nnanna had given her a dazed look when she had asked why he was at her company and after she got ahold of herself she had blurted out “well, sorry but I was just surprised to see you here. Of course your company and mine might be working together in the future –or soon, so the question was absolutely unnecessary.” “How are you, Uju?” he had asked again with concern written all over his face. “I am fine.” She had replied and laughed n...

CHAPTER SIX  Need  Life has a way of leaving you in shambles when you think you’ve almost got it all figured out. Uju knew she was certainly going to meet her father again after all these years but she never thought it was going to be in this situation. When Ijeego, her mother had told her about her father’s deteriorating condition, Uju knew she was helpless. Her mother had always been helpless when challenges were thrown her way. She knew her mother needed her there and even though she didn’t mention it over the phone, her tone gave it away. She loved her mother, she always had. Even when she couldn’t speak up for her years ago while she was pregnant and her father had thrown her out for refusing to terminate it because he didn’t  want a bastard in his home. Ijeego was with him when he drove all the way from Enugu to Awka to drive a pregnant Uju out of his mother’s house. Ijeego just stood there crying. She had instructed the driver to take Uju there the night her father...