CHAPTER 8Several days passed, and Wura still refused to have any kind of communication with Kola. He called, texted, even sent handwritten notes to her all to no avail. He had also made four separate visits to her house and was denied access by the gateman on all those occasions on Wura’s instructions.
At that point, Kola was beyond frustrated. He was also very confused. What could possibly be wrong with Wura?
Chinyere, who would have been the peacemaker, was also rebuffed and ignored, much to her surprise. Unlike Kola, however, she took it very personally and decided that Wura had become some kind of snob. She had no reason to conclude otherwise.
Meanwhile, Wura dutifully kept up with her job at Alhaja’s shop.
On Friday of that same week, Wura got an unexpected invitation from an old
