A Beguiling Ruse

chapter 15

So, in this case, they are the superior.

She wouldn't want to put her daughter in an arranged marriage, and give her to hands of the people they are not in good terms with.

She has to fight for her only daughter.

"Let's not have a misunderstanding over this, see..you can't force her into what she doesn't want, and I seriously can't give my consent to this, is this hard for you to understand"

hajia sohaila tried her best to convince them into leaving this matter before it gets intense and rolled into something bad, but they aren't getting any of this as their mind is already made up about this

"We stood our ground, and no backing out" hajia Rabi glared at sohaila

"Rabi"

"Would you shut it!?"

They both said at the same time, the former been Bashir and the latter sohaila

"No need to raise your voices, we can settle this like the mature people we are" Bashir tried to calm both his wife and brother's wife. He had to make her agree to it, he wouldn't want both the women chopping off each other's neck

Hajia sohaila sat calmly, thinking of a best way to bring an end to this nuisance, she has to do something.

" Hajia sohaila, tho you aren't a Nigerian, you been married to one makes you one. Am very sure you know that your late husband is a hausa-fulani and you know our tradition and culture, so, no need to remind you..." Alhaji Bashir spoke and  he took her silence as a cue to continue

"You knew well that we have right over Ibtisaam too, and even if she's to bring forth a suitor we are to marry her off. And you want to to ruin a union my brother wouldn't hesitate to agree to it if he would have been alive. May he continue to rest in perfect peace" he deliberately brought his late brother into it.

he knows exactly her weak point, it is his brother.

Everyone knows how much they love each other despite the pressure they pass on with his parent about sohaila been an outcast. They fight their battle together till his parent get tired of separating them and accept her with a slumped shoulders. They had to accept her for the love they had for their second child, and to their utmost surprise, their second daughter in law turns out to be a nice girl.

Hajia sohaila knew well than to not accept. Her husband had once talked about it, he would like to rekindle his relationship with his siblings, either of them, by marrying their children.

Right there and then, she agreed to it for the sake of her late husband.

One big thing that's awaiting her is, how to convince Ibtisaam. And she's afraid this will strain her  relationship with her daughter.

"May God bless this union" sohaila spoke absentmindedly. Bashir and Rabi gasped in utter surprise, are they hearing wrong or she did really said that

"Does that calls for a wedding ceremony?" Hajia Rabi asked

"Yes. We have to sit and have a family meeting with the rest of the family members. I also have to inform Ibtisaam and that will take too much energy to convince her"  sohaila said like she isn't the one shouting her guts out in denial of the proposal

The couples let out a very big smile that reaches their eye, feeling very elated.

While sohaila let out a mischievous smile. They want to rekindle their relationship by marriage, then so be it, marrying Ibtisaam to her cousin brother it is.

The two women shared a hug for the longest time in ages, it's been a while since they had a normal conversation but today, they hugged each other.

What a great progress!!