Annette remained flabbergasted as J held her hand firmly and walked with there up the hill to a destination he knew best. She kept wondering if she was under some sort of a spell because she did not resist his grasp. She looked up at J and their eyes met. He stopped to let her catch her breath as she was a little chubby. How he knew she needed a break, she didn't understand. He smiled at her and touched a bead of sweat that was on her forehead. "J what do you think you are doing?" She said in a small voice. And J just smiled and kept walking tightening the grasp on her hand. He pointed to some bar beyond the pine trees and led her there. He asked for a soda and she asked for Konyagi and Dragon. She felt that she really needed it and J looked at her with an amused smile on his face. He downed her drink and started talking.
"I want you in my life Annette. You belong to me. Your husband does not know your worth and am going to make you feel what a real woman is supposed to feel". Annette wanted to slap him for talking negatively about her husband but J grabbed her hand and held to it " I forgive you for being in denial. But give me a chance, you will not regret". He gave her a kiss across her lips and she just sat there glued to her chair unable to resist. Her arms seemed chained to her chair by an invisible force. She could not talk she just sat there. He put her glass to her lips and she finished the contents and he ordered for more from the bar. Annette broke down and cried a pool of tears. She cried so hard, and J just let her and sat there holding her tight. When she was done, she said to J " I wanna go home". He took her home. And she did not turn back at the gate to look at her. Her chickens rushed to meet her as if waiting for hot juicy gossip and off she shushed them into their pens for the night. "Dada, please buy me some Konyagi from Mangi's and Tonic", Annette requested her household and soon she was lost in a world of her own, drowning in a flood of thoughts.