“Do you know I couldn’t move on?” Edem said suddenly.
She kept quiet. What could she say to that? She also didn’t want to encourage him. She had thought she had moved on at one time too.
“I spent a long time trying to put you out of my mind. I did, I really tried. My mother, my uncle; they both advised and warned me to stay away from you. I tried to date around but it never seemed right, never seemed to work out. So I thought; the main reason your father had gone in on me was really that he felt I was beneath you and would never deserve you. How could I? I was a live-in help. But you never saw that. You were never that kind of girl. And I loved you for that. So if I was ever going to have a real chance with you where he was concerned, then I was going to be somebody, make something of my
