All Chapters of Melanin Diaries: Perfectly Imperfect: Chapter 231 - Chapter 240

You are not their mother, You are not my mother, You're not a mother, You can never be a mother… Weeks after the altercation with both Mike and my nephew, those words they'd left in wake of their cruelty still haunted me in both my sleep, my subconscious and even my wide-eyed consciousness. I had been severely shocked at Stephen's outburst, in fact, I still was astonished, and it all led me to wondering how long he had held all those poisonous thoughts in his head. Was it because I was too strict?—not that I didn't give him his space or anything—or was it that I was not doing the raising thing well? 

Mokunfayo Badmus:"Let's go kids," Chioma piped up as Madam Peju,the officiating ministers and the rest of our well wishers filed out of the cathedral and began to drag Stephen by the ear and Amaka by her arm towards the nearest exit in the room. "If you even dare to move another inch without a permission from the children's guardian to leave with her ward, trust me when I say the consequences will be dire." And Mike was quick to respond with his infamous threats, only that this time, he looked as hell, like he wasn't going to hesitate to carry out his threat. His caveman approach to preventing the sudden exit of my latest enemy seemed to have worked perfectly, as the woman halted with shock and slight fear evident in her features. All that was until Stephen pulled out a gun

Mokunfayo Badmus:Chioma must have thought it was a ploy of mine to change her mind, for she piped up almost immediately. "Amaka is going to leave this pace with her mother–" "I believe Aunt Rain has earned the right to say a proper goodbye mom. You owe her that much." I was proud of Amaka when she interrupted her mother in a polite manner. It was quite a relief that at least one of my wards had turned out fine. Chioma had no other option but to nod her approval with a watery smile plastered on her face. I blatantly refused when Mike offered to drive me and settled for hailing the next available cab I found after wobbling my way out of the cathedral with my niece in tow. The ride back to the apartment complex we staye

Almighty Mike:Although I was enraged about the reckless stunt Angel just performed with her equally reckless nephew. I felt the pain of her losing the few members of her family that had been what kept her going for the past months. I could see through the calm and collected facade she was able to successfully display in the presence of all and sundry, earlier.I could tell, from the way she icily brushed off my offer to drive her home, that she would appreciate her alone-time, but I wasn't able to bear the idea of her bearing her pain on her own, so against her better judgment, I found my way into the privacy of her room.The room was without light, but I could see the outline of her form crouched by her bedside and it broke my heart to witness her shaking uncontrollably due to the fact that she was sobbing. Against my better judgement,

Almighty Mike:A lot of time had passed since Angel officially became mine and I wasn't going to deny the fact that I've been the happiest all those months; she'd healed almost completely, she didn't look at me with disdain and judgment in her eyes anymore or scoff when I talked to her about the operations of the Archangels, she was the most beautiful, sweetest, most independent, funniest, smartest, most responsible woman I'd ever loved. Our relationship, in itself, has been one exhilarating hell of a roller coaster ride, but I wouldn't have it any other way. However, I felt like there was about to be a big bump in that ride of ours, I could tell from the way she icily brushed off my offer to drive her home, from the look of betrayal she stoned at me when word came out that I'd been training her nephew how to use a gun without her consent, I could tell from the way she stormed