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    Stay in Berlin
    Stay in Berlin
    Stay in Berlin
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    Stay in Berlin

    By Sharon Abimbola Salu

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    Remi Bajulaiye is engaged to Kayode Coker. She abandons a successful career in Lagos to start a new life with her fiance who lives in Berlin. But the man she meets is remarkably different from the man she thinks she knows. Will she decide to stay or leave without him?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharon Abimbola Salu
    Release dateSep 23, 2013
    ISBN9781301101153
    Stay in Berlin
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    Sharon Abimbola Salu

    Sharon Abimbola Salu grew up in Lagos, Nigeria where she lived until she relocated to the United States of America where she currently resides. Her stories are mostly set in Nigeria, and she writes stories she would like to read. A professed lover of spicy foods, she loves experimenting with new recipes, to the dismay of non-spicy food lovers. Apart from writing, photography is her other hobby. Visit her blog at http://www.sharonsalu.com

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    Stay in Berlin - Sharon Abimbola Salu

    STAY IN BERLIN

    By

    Sharon Abimbola Salu

    SMASHWORDS EDITION

    Copyright © 2013 by Sharon Abimbola Salu

    www.sharonsalu.com

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the author at the following address:

    sharonwritesfiction@gmail.com

    Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

    This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

    Cover Illustration: Gayane Egiazarayan

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    Stay in Berlin

    Remi looked at the clock on the wall for the umpteenth time that day. It was 4:41 p.m., and Kayode had still not arrived. She would have gone to a pay phone to call him for the tenth time, but there was a problem: she had no money. After arriving at Berlin-Tegel Airport two hours earlier, she had expected that Kayode would be waiting for her, but he was not there. The loneliness she felt all the way from Lagos to Berlin had now intensified, and she began to struggle with an amazing array of negative thoughts.

    Berlin was exactly what Remi had feared: a city full of strangers, people who did not speak English; or if they did, it certainly did not sound like English to her ears. They all seemed to know where they were coming from and where they were going. As Remi stood close to the baggage claim area, she wondered if perhaps, she had made a mistake. Why did she feel like she was embarking on this journey alone?

    Kayode, where are you? she whispered under her breath, as she looked at the picture of the man she had flown halfway across the world to meet. Even in his pictures, Kayode Coker looked like a man who could conquer any challenge.

    That determined chin. Remi had seen it resolute whenever Kay made up his mind to do something. She would never forget the day he asked her to marry him. It was barely two months ago, while they were Skype-ing, having one of those odd chats. The conversation itself was not odd. It was just the fact that although the time difference was just one hour, they were in two different cities, each situated in different continents: Remi was in Lagos, Nigeria, and Kayode was in Berlin, Germany.

    He was just telling her that he planned to get a dog soon, to keep him from feeling too lonely. All of a sudden, he got down on one knee and proposed. Remi had jumped up and down to convey a sense of excitement, because she felt like that was what she was supposed to do. When a man proposes, a woman is supposed to accept his proposal, no questions asked. But, even as she said Yes, she had noticed that subconsciously, her emotions refused to participate in this act her body was performing. She felt no butterflies, no thrill of excitement, no desire to jump into Kayode's arms and have him smother her with kisses. Nothing. Just a nonchalant nothingness. So, why had she felt this compulsion to put up a show, to pretend to reciprocate whatever Kayode felt for her? That question kept popping up in her head and she aggressively suppressed the answer with all her mental strength. She did not feel like she loved this man, but yet, she had agreed to be his wife. Did he know this? That question was not as scary as this other one: Was Kayode himself, also putting up a front? Was he playing along too?

    Well, it's too late now, she said bitterly, as she stroked the diamond engagement ring on her finger. And she was right. They were already married. Technically. The technicality arose from the fact that only the traditional marriage had been conducted. The groom himself was absent at the ceremony. His absence was expected,

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