The Yoruba major Fulani bride

umarubaida444 Suspense/Thriller

I am Layla. A proud Fulani girl from Sokoto. My life was cattle, hijab, and Fulfulde.He is Major Tunde Balogun. A Yoruba military officer from Ibadan. Tall, disciplined, dangerous, and already MARRIED.We should never have met.I was serving as a nurse in the military hospital in Kaduna during the communal crisis. He was brought in with a gunshot wound, bleeding but still shouting orders."Don't touch me, I'm fine!" he growled in Yoruba.I answered him in Hausa, "If you are fine, why are you bleeding like a slaughtered ram?"For the first time, the feared Major smiled.He was forced into an arranged marriage at 25 by his family to his cousin Bimpe - a marriage with no love, only duty. His family tradition: marry the first wife chosen by family, then you are free to marry the woman your heart truly wants as second wife.But his heart had chosen no one. Until me.He calls me "Ayaba mi" - My Queen. I call him "Gidado am" - My Heart in Fulfulde.But love is not that simple.He is Yoruba, Christian family. I am Fulani, Muslim family. He is a soldier who speaks Yoruba and English. I am a village girl who speaks Fulfulde and Hausa. When he says "Mo nife re" (I love you in Yoruba), I answer "Mi yidi ma" (I love you in Fulfulde). Two languages, one heart.His first wife says I will never be accepted. My father says a Fulani princess will never marry a Yoruba man, talk less a man who is already married. His mother says she wants a Yoruba daughter-in-law, not a Fulani. My mother says soldiers die young.Now I am pregnant.And Major Tunde has been deployed to the war front in Borno for 6 months with no communication.Will our families ever agree to this impossible love? Will his first wife allow me as second wife or destroy me? Will he return alive to claim me and our child?This is not just a love story. This is a war between tribe, tradition, religion, and a love that refuses to die.Can a Yoruba soldier and a Fulani girl rewrite the rules of love in Nigeria?---What you will love in this book: Military Romance, Second Chance, Polygamy Love Triangle, Yoruba x Fulani Culture, Strong Fulani Female Lead, Possessive Soldier Hero, Language Twist (Yoruba/Fulfulde/Hausa), Pregnancy, Family Drama.

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