Violet's Velvet Adventures: A Novella (The Aso-Ebi Chronicles, Book 4)
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Violet Edem leads a relatively boring life as a Finance teacher at a community college in Houston, Texas. Her love life is just as boring as her job, until the unexpected happens. Two men waltz into her life and Violet must decide which one of them has a future with her.
Then as she prepares for a wedding, something terrible happens to the groom. Violet is unwittingly swept up in solving a mystery where she discovers that the past may very well hold the key to the future.
Set in Houston, Texas and Lagos, Nigeria, Violet’s Velvet Adventures is the 4th Novella in the Aso-Ebi Chronicles, a series of novellas featuring amateur female sleuths solving mysteries and finding love in the ever-busy Lagos metropolis.
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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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I think it ended too quickly. It could have been better, the beginning was so beautiful, I expected that Kome will fight for her or that Goriola will make a move on her. That would have added more drama.
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Violet's Velvet Adventures - Sharon Abimbola Salu
Violet's Velvet Adventures: A Novella
(The Aso-Ebi Chronicles, Book 4)
By
Sharon Abimbola Salu
SMASHWORDS EDITION
Cover Illustration by Qaaim Goodwin
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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.
Discover other titles by Sharon Abimbola Salu:
The Day I Will Never Forget
On the Road to Makurdi
Toasting Her
Shine Your Eye
With Love from Asaba
The Life and Times of Two Flared Nostrils
1, 2, 3 Disappear
Stay in Berlin
The Aso-Ebi Chronicles
Bewaji's Ankara Adventures
Wura's Woodin Adventures
Lara's Lace Adventures
August Fiction Series
Unfriending Mama
Hotel Surprise
An Understanding Woman
At the End of a Long, Loose Braid
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
About the Author
One
In more ways than one, Goriola Adams blew my mind. Gori was the most popular boy in my class at St. Joseph's Academy. That was back in 1998. Tall, with dimples in his cheeks and indisputably handsome, Gori was my first official crush. Although he was adept at forming social connections, his academic performance left much to be desired. To put it in plain English, Gori failed most of his exams in flying colors, dignity intact. That blew my mind. How could someone who excelled in one area, fail so woefully in another area? I did not understand it. But that was not all. I could not understand how a person as level-headed as I was could fall for this incredibly selfish, self-absorbed boy. But can you blame me? I was only 15 after all, and I was the new girl in class.
Before St. Joseph's, I attended Federal Government Girls' College Bauchi for three years. But after writing my JSCE exams, my life changed significantly. I had looked forward to donning my senior girl uniform, a sign that I had made the transition from junior girl to senior girl. I had even spent a significant amount of time practicing the tone of voice I would use to authoritatively command junior girls to do my bidding; at least girls in JSS1 and JSS2. The JSS3 girls would give me trouble, being that I was just one class above them. The others would be easier to manipulate. I had it all figured out.
But in an ironic twist of fate, while I was still waiting for my JSCE exam results, my father resigned from his eight-year position as a lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Productions Engineering, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in Bauchi to take up a highly coveted and more lucrative position as a lecturer at the University of Lagos. That automatically meant that I and my entire family had to relocate with him. And so it was, that I never got to Lord it
over the junior girls in Bauchi. Instead, I became the transplant student at a private secondary school in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State. It was called St. Joseph's Academy.
Being an only child, I did not have any siblings to bounce ideas off of, to assess how the move had affected them as well as me. So I kept everything to myself.
I had visited Lagos several times before '98, but they were all short visits to family friends and relatives. I had never actually lived in Lagos. But within two weeks of relocating to Eko, as Lagos was fondly called, I started classes at St. Joseph's.
Goriola Adams was one of the first people I saw on my first day, and he was perfect. You have to understand that I was coming from an all-girls secondary school, and our contact with the opposite sex was limited to friendly sports games, the occasional debates, and similar harmless activities. We were hardly left unsupervised.
Boys are bad!
we were told. Boys will make you pregnant!
These warnings were issued with such severity and aggression that we came to believe that merely inhaling oxygen in the same room with a boy would make a girl pregnant. In fact, I was surprised that boys were not blamed for more serious problems like Nigeria's military rule. I half-expected one teacher to say, Boys robbed Mr. Bello's house yesterday,
or Boys have taken over the planet.
Since they were blamed for every evil thing under the sun, particularly if it had anything to do with the so-called weaker sex, the ridiculous extent to which anyone could take these arguments was only limited by that person's imagination.
But, it backfired. All the talk about boys, instead of deterring me, had actually aroused my curiosity. They were mysterious creatures, who sounded, looked and smelt different from us girls.
I saw things differently.
As far as I was concerned, girls were the evil that needed to be shunned. I spent all my time at a girls' school, with limited male contact, and I was not spared. Girls with their sneaky, catty, vindictive ways had picked on me, made fun of me and bullied me.
See your arms like a boy's own,
they would tease, when I went for PE, wearing that light cotton shirt and shorts. If it wasn’t my arms they were picking on, it was my legs.
Yam-orous!
I heard that word so often, I began to believe it. That I had yams for legs. That my well-toned, muscular arms and legs were not feminine. That I lacked the delicacy of a woman. That physically, especially since I was still flat-chested at 15, I had more in common with a boy than a girl.
So, when I arrived at St. Joseph's in September for the first term of SS1, I had had enough of girls, and was ready for boys.