Hearts In Tune (Book One Of The In love Series)

Chapter 24

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Hearts In Tune 24

Sameerah knew she didn’t have to say a word, the very existence of her presence at the rally would be enough to keep the naysayers away, so she stood with the other women on the newly built podium and watched the pulsing crowd that had come to hear her husband speak. 

It was no longer alien to call him ‘husband’, he embodied the word like a never taken off necklace —reliable, intimate and easily. He embodied the word, made it his own and all of a sudden it made sense why all those people wanted to have him for themselves.  The ones who met her at events and had the audacity to say, ‘Your Excellency, I had asked my dad to match make me to His Excellency, he turned me down.’ 

The man was born to be a husband, to be her friend, protector and maybe someday, her lover. Just less than an hour before, he had shown her why she’d chosen him in spite of everything her father said. Sameerah knew very well, that very few men would protect her in the face of such an extraordinary event. 

“So, when are you going to give us state kids?” Sameerah gave the women’s leader of Aminu’s party a blank look, lowered her head and let her ask the foolish question again. The woman repeated herself and with an expression of glee at Sameerah’s obviously empty stomach, she added, “Or, is it there already?” 

Sameerah could not help but send her a look but she remembered that this woman was the leader of women party members across the state, so she smiled warmly even though she wanted to strangle her with her with the expensive chantilly lace veil around her shoulders. 

“You’ll be the first to know when there’s a baby on the way, don’t worry.” The other woman laughed and turned to face her friend whom she’d been chit chatting with before asking Sameerah that damning question. Sameerah then wondered as she pushed her sunglasses up the bridge of her nose, if Aminu knew these women were watching her belly. 

The crowd pulsed again as Aminu promised to get even more children back in school and those older than the school system, adult education. The crowd clapped, blew their plastic horns and chanted his name before letting him speak again. 

The event ended about twenty minutes later and Aminu moved to her side with precision, held her hand and pulled her towards a new exit made by the police and security officers. They were in their helicopter in no time and soon they were in the sky. 

“You see why I didn’t want you to come?” Sameerah didn’t say a word, he was baiting her and she would not fall for it. She planned to be at two or three more of these types of events before the election. 

“I’ve told Ladi to pencil me in for your round table panel talk tomorrow afternoon.” She said instead, then looked at him, taking his gaze head on until he looked away to the scenery outside. She knew he would argue, just not in front of the pilot and air force officer in front of them. 

As soon as they touched down the government house in Tarauni, he almost frog-marched her to his office and asked Ladi who tried to walk in with them to get out immediately in such a hard tone that Sameerah feared for herself. She shrugged as she found a seat in front of his desk and crossed her legs waiting for him to stop pacing. 

“What I say doesn’t matter any longer?” He said, when he stopped pacing, he moved to stand in front of her as he held the chair next to hers for strength or for restraint she could not tell. She just knew that his anger did not scare her.