"Baby it's okay." Sa'eed says and Aleesha sniffs before taking another scoop of her chocolate chip ice-cream.

"Why can't your mom just accept me and love me like she does Halima? Am I a bad person?" Aleesha sniffs looks up with hopeful eyes at Sa'eed.

"No you're not. She's just trapped in that girl's spell. Don't worry okay?" Aleesha nods and she decides to voice out a plan of hers which will completely get rid of Halima.

"Why can't I worry? I have to. What do I do when you want to get married to me and she refuses to consent. Even if we get married I can't live with a hateful mother in law!" Aleesha cries.

"So what do you suggest we do?" Sa'eed asks.

"Let's get rid of Halima. Once she sees that Halima isn't available she'll have to let you marry me."

"Let me quickly write a divorce letter. That's the easiest way." Sa'eed opens his side drawer and withdraws a jotter and a pen. Aleesha stops him by placing her hand on top of his.

"If your mother says you must take her back then you have to. We have to make it such that she'll request for the divorce herself. Let's make it such that she wouldn't want anything to do with you." Aleesha smirks and explains the plan to Sa'eed.

They both smile victoriously and the door bursts open revealing a very angry Abba and a scared Halima. Aleesha smiles, thank goodness she didn't delay in telling him the plan. Abba slaps Sa'eed and Sa'eed slaps Abba back. Halima gapes in astonishment and Aleesha smiles proudly.

"Sa'eed did you just slap me?!" Abba looks bewildered and Sa'eed smiles.

"And I'll do it again and again."

"This is isn't my son. Unless you are back to your senses, you're not my son." Abba declares and turns when Sa'eed says a statement that hooks his feet.

"Was there a time that I ever was? You've always loved Fatima more, so it doesn't really matter." Sa'eed climbs the stairs but stops when he reaches the last step.

"And Halima, if you step out of this house then may the angels curse you for every step you take. I'm your husband and I say you must stay in this house."

Halima looks defeatedly at Abba and he gives her a single sympathetic nod before walking out with his head hung low remembering all the times Sa'eed comes to him with his love problems and what not but he tells him off insulting him for being in love at a tender age of fourteen but always asks Fatima whether there's a new catch whenever she attends an occasion.

Halima walks into her first sanctuary in the house; the kitchen. The second is the room outside that Sa'eed prepared for her for makeup and the third, the garden at the back. She suddenly remembers that the makeup training Sa'eed registered her for is in a month's time and it only makes her sadder than she already is. She would've been enjoying her second month of marriage but all thanks to that zany idiot, Aleesha AbdulMajid, none of that is happening.

She locks herself in the kitchen and starts preparing random meals. She whips, bakes, cooks and fries. After two and a half hours, she has arranged a platter of food on the middle counter.

There's chocolate chip southern tea cakes, chocolate cherry sundae, chicken vegetable soup, cous cous with carrot sauce, cooked peas, pounded yam and assorted egusi soup. She washes the used dishes and cleans the kitchen then opens the back door to visit the garden and work on it only to be hit on the head with a rod.

Darkness engulfs her and she falls to the ground with a loud thud. She's dragged into a car and driven to a secluded part of Abuja that's close to games village.

She's tied up with a thick rope and dropped on the ground. A slap wakes her up and she jerks up. She blinks her eyes continuously until her eyes adjust to the darkness. A splitting headache hits her and she closes her eyes again and opens them again trying to make out the silhouettes towering above her.

She looks intently at the silhouettes and lo and behold it's Aleesha and Sa'eed. Where is she?

"You're in a warehouse behind a factory in a secluded part of games village." Aleesha smirks. She must've asked the question aloud.

"You've been kidnapped by your husband." Sa'eed says smiling.

Halima looks around baffled before realization dawns on her.

"And we're going to torture you till you request for a divorce." Aleesha says and Halima smiles. She doesn't even know why she's smiling.

"Let me shock you, I know your secret, here, you're going to be deprived of all the food on your timetable. You grab?" Aleesha smirks and Halima's smile falls, how? How did Aleesha find out, she thought she hid the documents well and the timetable? Sa'eed looks at them both baffled, it's like their speaking gibberish to him.

But when Halima remembers that the food doesn't really matter anymore, that she just needs to protect her ovaries from getting stressed and she's good to go, she smiles happily making Aleesha smile wider. Aleesha leans into her ear.

"Doctor Maryam was threatened and she told me everything. Don't worry, your Omri doesn't know but maybe he will, later. Just behave like a good little girl and you'll be fertile once again. Trust me, Sa'eed is looking for every way possible to ruin your life, badly." Aleesha straightens her spine and looks at Halima's horrified face. She chuckles and looks at Sa'eed then nods.

"So Halima, I've written seven things you're going to do for the first week you're going to spend here and trust me they're horrible. But don't worry, nothing the only daughter of Audu Kalshingi can't handle. Now without putting up a fit, you're going to pick one of the folded papers here and do as it says otherwise, well...whatever happens will be upto Aleesha." Halima's heart drops to her stomach and she hurriedly uses her tied hands to pick a random paper from the glass bowl in front of her. Aleesha collects and opens it then smiles victoriously.

"This is going to be so fun." Aleesha giggles like the psychopath she is and reads out what's written in the paper to Halima's hearing.

"You're to dance naked for two hours with anklets and waist beads. Immediately you stop before the time ends, you get whipped." Halima shakes her head frantically, tears cascading down her eyes as she mumbles incoherent nonsense to herself.

Sa'eed angrily cuts the rope and drags her light clay colored Abaya, tearing it. Her head tie was gotten rid of long ago so she's left in only her milk lacy bra and tights. She shakes her head, begging Aleesha and Sa'eed for mercy as she knows trying to fight won't make a difference.

Aleesha is blessed with the strength of a man and Halima is already emotionally and intellectually weak, this will just be the last straw that'd break the camel's back. Moreover Halima has always been a spoilt brat, something Nigerians refer to as ajebo.

She's never done any work that involves using physical strength and she's been physically abused in the last week which has ruined her in more ways than one. Fighting isn't even an option for her so she grovels by Aleesha's feet, promising to leave Sa'eed for her and never gaze back but Aleesha knows better. She has other plans which involves making Halima so scared of Sa'eed that she'll prefer death than an encounter with him.

Sa'eed pulls out the whip and lashes Halima on her back making her arch her back forward. Aleesha drags the slim straps of the lacy bra, forcefully unhooking it carelessly from behind. Halima uses her dusty palms to cover her busts as loud sobs rake her body. She shakes her head no frantically, sending jumbled prayers to almighty Allah that He saves her.

Sa'eed drags her hand and Aleesha pulls the tight leaving Halima stark naked. Confused as to what to cover Halima attempts dragging the torn Abaya from Sa'eed, she can't let her dignity be stripped away like this. As she drags the Abaya catching Sa'eed's attention, he wipes her thrice with the whip and she lets go holding her left mound that is now bleeding.

Aleesha comes over to fix the waist bead and anklets on Halima as she touches parts of her body that's meant to be hidden shamelessly while laughing as Sa'eed makes disguted faces then laughs with Aleesha.

Halima seeing that they're about to strip her off the last ounce of self respect she had, she lifts her purple ankle she hasn't noticed and kicks Aleesha square in vulva as her legs were open making her fall to the ground with a thud, tears pooling at the corners of her eyes.

Sa'eed's eyes darken and he lashes Halima mercilessly, leaving her bruised and bleeding in more places than one and doesn't stop till Aleesha raises her hand signaling him to stop. Slightly limping, Aleesha walks upto Aleesha and slaps her hard across the face.

"You just touched the holy ground and you shall be punished for your grave mistake." Aleesha whispers to Sa'eed and he makes a disgusted face then shouts Ew! Aleesha whispers some more and he nods with a defeated face.

Before Halima can make out what's happening, Aleesha removes the safety pin holding the strap of her gown and hands it over to Sa'eed. The earlier's hands are held above her head by Aleesha and the latter spreads her leg then uses the pin to pierce Halima's lower abdomen just where her womb is located, she shouts out loud and starts to feel light headed but a lash from Aleesha awakens her.

"Now dance for me, and make sure you shake that small waist and those scrumptious boobs!" Aleesha shouts and Sa'eed walks out mumbling something along the lines of feeling disgusted.

Halima seeing that she might as well be killed a slow a torturous death stands up and starts dancing while feeling dizzy. As she stops to take a breath, she's lashed on the back so she continues. The most absurd thing is that she is dancing without music.