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 SEVERAL DAYS LATER... Read  Part Two Everything had been going well between Dorothy and Duncan since their first fight. Dorothy was warming up to her place in Duncan’s life and she was loving it. First, he consulted her on whether they should rent a bigger three-bedroom apartment or remain in their small one-bedroom apartment and save towards their own. Then, he would return early from work and do some of the domestic chores. The other day, Duncan gave their bathroom a good scrub because Dorothy had been swamped with work. She was grateful to him and she felt she couldn’t love him any less than she did now.           Duncan, on the other hand, was not a very happy man. He loved his wife very much and he did not want to cheat on her. But he wasn’t happy with the downturn of their lovemaking. He was grateful to her for ensuring that they had a meal every evening and keeping their cozy apartment clean most of the time (Duncan didn’t mind contributing to that at all) despite her busy sche

  FIRST DAY Start at  the beginning. AI Image Dorothy Duncan-Mills. Dorothy liked how the name rolled off her tongue. It sounded exotic. Even if she didn’t include ‘Duncan’, Dorothy Mills sounded exotic.  She still lay in bed at 6 am the next morning, a rare treat for her because she was usually out of bed and on her way to work in Kasoa by 6 in the morning. She didn’t have a car so she had to struggle every morning from Pantang to get a vehicle early enough to go to work.           Her partner at work had been gracious to grant her the first week of her marriage off to “get to know your partner well and enjoy some”, as she had put it. So, here she was, in bed, reminiscing the events of last night. She wondered if they could do it all the time. She turned around to her lover with a smile, only to find his side empty. Dorothy frowned. Where could he be? She checked the bathroom; it was wet but Duncan was nowhere in sight. She went to the kitchen to find warm chocolate beverage with frie

FIRST NIGHT AI Image      Why do all fairy tales end with the wedding between the prince and the princess and they lived happily ever after? What did the ‘happily ever after’ constitute? Dorothy had been curious since her teen years. Unfortunately, even as a twenty-five-year-old woman she didn’t have the answer.           Now it was her turn to marry. She was at the end of the fairy tale: she was getting married to Duncan Mills. All her family members and her friends were present and happy for her, just like in the fairy tales. In her case, there were no fairies; just two families rich enough to pull off a fairy-tale wedding. However, her fairy-tale wedding was a beginning, not a happy ending, with many twists and turns.           Reality check began on their wedding night. After the hectic wedding party, Dorothy expected them both to be too tired for anything else. After they ate, showered, and got into bed, she felt a hardness behind her. Duncan had spooned her and was dropping light

  “Will you call me?” I asked Anthony quietly. “Of course, I will, Yvie. Come on, this is not the end.” His response was enthusiastic, and it came with his signature cocky smile. We were standing face-to-face in my one-bedroom apartment in Danko, where I had come to offer voluntary service as part of my church’s outreach program to Northern Ghana. The team had been in Danko for a year. We had successfully won many souls for Christ, had started a small church, and had recently begun running a school solely funded by benevolent Christians and our mother church in Accra. Our time had ended, and I was detailed to leave three days ago but I had delayed for obvious reasons. One reason, actually: Anthony. And he had come to help me finish packing up. If I had one wish, it would be that he would tell me once and for all what would happen between us after I leave. I had many reasons to worry. In the first place, we had known each other for only ten months, but it felt we were only reconne