“She asked you to get married!” Winnie exclaimed, her eyes nearly popping out in shock. “I hope you didn't agree with her,” she asked after she had managed to compose herself.
What other choice do I have? If I had not met with the lawyer, I wouldn't have agreed, but I went to the lawyer immediately after and he said the same thing. He brought out the will and showed it to me.
“That's the only option I have got left,” I answered, my voice laced with the exhaustion that had threatened to consume me whole.
“That can't be,” Winnie disagreed. “You don't have to do what she asks you to do this time,” she added.
“The will said it, not my aunt,” I said to her. “My mother's will ask me to get married before I can get the money she left in my name,” I explained to Winnie.
To be honest, I f
