CHAPTER 5By some stroke of luck, Lara was able to convince her mother to shift their mandatory lace shopping till the following day. She knew that automatically meant she would not get to see Kingsley again till after their Balogun shopping trip. Buying clothes at Balogun was guaranteed to take the entire day not just because of the layout of the market, but because of the person who she was accompanying: her mother.
Lara’s mother, Mrs. Bukola Adefuye, was one of those women who believed that shopping was one of their God-given rights, and she was happy to exercise it, unlike her shopping-averse daughter. Mrs. Adefuye relished every opportunity to shout down a trader from what she perceived as an outrageously inflated price to one that was closer to her budget. Or mood. It was not that sh
