Chapter 3
"WELL, HOW DID YOUR date go?"
The hot teat stung her tongue, burning it as she lowered her cup from her lips. She had foolishly hoped that her mother would forget about it after she had successfully evaded her questions the night before. Her mother looked at her with curious eyes, waiting for her reply, while her father was multitasking: working on his tablet, forking eggs down his throat, and obviously listening to their conversation.
Tolu Adebanjo was an elegant woman, still strikingly attractive even as she was in her late fifties, and she was never too demure to show it off. Raised with a golden spoon in her mouth, she made sure she married right, and pushed her equally rich husband straight to the top, making sure that nothing would ever bring him down. Although she had a
