When Okike finally made it back to work after the divorce, he still felt like a fish out of water... He’d decided to live with his mother but he’d never really known the battle axe that the woman was. She didn’t need him either and he wasn’t sure he’d lived with his parents all the time he was growing up. He didn’t understand them or their marriage and came to realise that the man who’d spent a month with him in Lagos was his father. A totally different person, a caring, warm lad like himself, the brother he’d looked for all his life. Then he realised that the strength with which they’d withstood all the storms that had battered their family had come from his mother. She hadn’t let the poison penetrate and they had lived, doting on and trusting each other without even realising it.
