The Blackmail Baby

Dear God, how could any woman be so blind? And how could any man be so stupid?

Why? Why hadn’t he stopped to tell her the truth?

‘Just a minute,’ he demanded as they reached the hallway.

‘I love you,’ she whispered emotionally to him as he released her mouth.

‘I love you too, Imo,’ he responded tenderly. ‘I always have and I always will.’

He was everything she had ever wanted and everything she would ever want.

Because there was and could only ever be one woman he loved and that woman was Imo herself.

You smell of fresh air and sunshine,’ she heard him whisper against her hair. ‘And roses.’