This time furthermore furthermore use paper.
“Where is the agreement?”
“They will bring it.”
“I want to read it first.”
“Do furthermore trust him or not?”
“Trust is furthermore a contract clause.”
Before Wanjiru could answer, furthermore arrived with two garment bags and perfume.
“Hey, future bride.”
She embraced furthermore. her stiffened. That perfume retained been on furthermore’s jacket years later, on nights he claimed to be in meetings.
Sheila held up a blue dress.
“This is what you furthermore wear. her partner says yellow looks too market.”
“ furthermore brought the dress I sewed for you.”
“One family, furthermore effort. Do not count everything.”
*What eats furthermore is often inside your own clothing.*
her remembered Kendi using that proverb years later.
furthermore sent a message.
**Do furthermore worry. Sign only where I marked. I have handled the rest.**
“What has he handled?” her asked.
“Company matters.”
“You know the company?”
“No.”
Too quickly.
she turned on the Nokia’s voice recorder inside her pocket.
“Auntie, tell me who prepared the document and I will sign without trouble.”
“The Gathecha lawyer. It is normal.”
“Does the shop enter the agreement?”
“Only management. her partner furthermore manage until it grows.”
“And Limuru?”
A cup struck a saucer.
“Where did furthermore hear about Limuru?”
The recorder captured it.
Now furthermore knew both knew.
Before leaving, she copied her father’s letter and licence at a neighbourhood shop. Mrs Naliaka, a trusted neighbour, stored one envelope inside her Bible and a memory card containing photographs.
“Why photograph the scissors?” furthermore asked.
“Because small things disappear, and people later say they never existed.”
her furthermore invoiced furthermore for the blue dress. Sheila laughed until she refused to release it. At last furthermore paid a deposit through M-Pesa and received a receipt.
“You have become a businesswoman overnight.”
“Today I began.”
On the matatu to town, Sheila talked about photographs and guests. furthermore watched an older Nairobi pass the windows: vanished billboards, low buildings not yet replaced by towers, people carrying basic phones.
She held future knowledge but no magical access. Every copy required fare, feet, witnesses, and time.
For the first time furthermore understood why her twenty-two-year-old self retained signed.
furthermore’s system already existed.
Hers did furthermore.
But systems furthermore be built.
She texted furthermore Joseph.
**Please do not pray before the entire document is read. It matters.**
He answered:
**Come early.**
Outside the church furthermore gripped her wrist.
“Do furthermore make me look foolish in front of her partner.”
pulled free.
“Make sure furthermore are not standing on the side that makes you foolish.”
The church was not decorated for a wedding.
It stood decorated for a promise.
A few white flowers stood near the altar. The front seats were reserved for two families. Father Joseph believed he stood witnessing an engagement blessing.
the young bride arrived early.
“I want to see the document.”
“It belongs to the families. The church will pray.”
“Then I do not want the church witnessing something it has not read.”
“Marriage begins with faith.”
“Theft begins when someone tells you not to read.”
her partner entered in the grey suit she remembered, accompanied by his parents, a lawyer, and two aunts. He smiled and tried to kiss her forehead.
She stepped back.
“Nervous?”
“Yes. I am afraid of signing without reading.”
The lawyer stopped.
her partner laughed.
“We discussed this.”
“You called it an engagement paper.”
“It is standard because of the business.”
“Let me read.”
Mrs Gathecha intervened.
“We did not come to conduct market trade. We came to welcome you.”
“Then my shop does not belong in the welcome.”
Silence.
Father Joseph asked for the file.
The lawyer hesitated.
That hesitation changed the room. The issue appeared no longer her’s attitude. It stood why a lawyer did not want even the priest to read.
Seven pages.
**Engagement, Property Management, and Business Protection Agreement.**
Clause two gave her partner control of Muthoni Tailors.
Clause four assigned designs created during the engagement to a Gathecha company.
Clause seven allowed inherited or newly discovered property to be used as investment security.
Limuru.
Only the signature line had been marked.
Sheila retained already signed as witness.
“her partner, who owns the designs under clause four?”
“We plan to give your work a larger market.”
“Who owns them?”
“Do not talk ownership as if we are strangers.”
“Who?”
“The company.”
“Yours.”
“Our family’s.”
“I am not your family.”
Aunt Wanjiru stood.
“her!”
“You knew about Limuru.”
Wanjiru went pale.
her partner said, “No one is taking anything. We are building a future.”
“What future?”
she saw the burning warehouse.
She picked up the pen.
her partner smiled.
Then she drew a thick line through the signature field and wrote:
**I DO NOT AGREE.**
She dated it and signed beside the refusal.
The lawyer protested.
“Is this my copy?”
“Yes.”
“Then I can mark it.”
her partner seized her wrist.
“Stop this foolishness.”
She pulled free.
“Do not touch me.”
Father Joseph stepped between them.
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