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    Cinderella By Any Other Name
    Cinderella By Any Other Name
    Cinderella By Any Other Name
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    Cinderella By Any Other Name

    By Annemarie Musawale

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    Nadia is the oldest child, an orphan and a refugee. Even though her stepfather is a loving man and her stepmother is tolerant, she feels solely responsible for her brother and sister. 

    So it's no surprise to anyone that when her stepfather falls ill and contracts a marriage for Nadia, she agrees at once. 

    What else is she to do?

    Making the decision is easy. Living with it is another story altogether. 

    Follow Nadia in the journey to find herself and find out if she can please everyone and still live her best life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCreativity Defined
    Release dateFeb 14, 2019
    ISBN9781386648543
    Cinderella By Any Other Name
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    Annemarie Musawale

    Annemarie is a prolific writer of multi-genre fiction. She began her career as a writer with a memoir focusing on the challenges of Single Motherhood. Her first finished novel, Child of Destiny, finished in the top 100 stories of the Kwani Manuscript Project. She went on to publish a prequel to that story, currently named In The Shadow of the Styx. After differing with the publisher, she took her power back and now self-publishes under Creativity Defined as both ebook and paperback. Annemarie is a self-actualized woman who chooses to be happy. She lives and writes in Nairobi, Kenya. 

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      Cinderella By Any Other Name - Annemarie Musawale

      Chapter One: Disco Dancing

      The beat of the music was like a hammer to her brain, pounding and pounding until her nerves felt like ash. She wanted to get out of this place but Amina was still flirting with the dude in the pretentious green fedora and yep - Nadia peeked downward - he had white shoes.

      I mean...everyone knew that any guy worth their salt never wore white shoes. Amina was giggling at whatever the guy was saying. Nadia caught sight of his friend sidling toward her out of the corner of her eye.

      Nope.

      She was not going to play this game. She wasn’t the spare, or the co-pilot, flight attendant; whatever people called the sidekick one rolled with when they wanted to pull someone.

      She was here strictly to make sure Amina behaved herself. It was the only way to guarantee that they weren’t both married off to the nearest willing chump forthwith. Nadia had every intention of completing her degree before she agreed to be anyone’s wife. And sure her father was willing to entertain her fancies for now; but if he ever caught wind of any misbehavior, both of their lives were over.

      She hadn’t even wanted to come to this club.

      Amina had just really been wailing at her about how it was her friend’s birthday and they never got to go anywhere and yadda yadda yadda...

      It got so that Nadia’s choices had narrowed down to strangling her right there and then; or giving in to her begging and pleading. Still, she’d had to really think about it before reluctantly coming to the conclusion that killing Amina at this time was not practical.

      She hadn’t violated any sharia laws after all...not yet. Nothing requiring murder at least. Their mother might frown on her committing sororicide for any reason less than that.

      The guy’s friend was sitting right next to her now. Nadia studiously ignored him.

      Hi, the guy said.

      Nadia stared into the distance, willing the music to drown his voice out for the rest of the night.

      I like your hijab. Very stylish, the guy said leaning in to talk directly into her ear.

      Nadia turned to look at him. If looks could kill he would surely be but a distant ‘in loving memory’ by now. Clearly, non-verbal communication was not his strong suit. What did he even want?

      Leave me be, she growled tossing her head the other way as she picked up her soda and sipped determinedly, eyes on the revelers on the dance floor.

      The guy leaned further into her personal space, Do you want to dance? he asked as if oblivious to her disdain.

      Nadia contemplated pouring her drink over his head. Amina was throwing glances her way which Nadia interpreted as reproachful. Her sister was always throwing herself at men, and she fully expected Nadia to do the same when they were together. It drove her mad. She didn’t deign to answer the guy.

      Look, Nadia, the guy said making her stiffen and turn toward him. How had he known her name? I don’t want us to start off on the wrong foot but I have to say that you’re being really rude right now.

      Nadia could only stare at him in shock.

      Nobody asked you to talk to me, she said in her surprise.

      The guy frowned and glanced back at Amina, Your sister did, he said, looking sincerely puzzled that Nadia wasn’t up to date with the news. Nadia laughed out loud.

      Well you can just go tell Amina thanks but no thanks, she told him. He stuck his hand out.

      My name is Gregory Kariuki, As-Salaam-Alaikum, he said.

      Nadia looked at his hand like it might be a hunk of bacon accidentally put on her plate.

      Excuse me? she said.

      Gregory or whatever his name was shrugged, I’m just introducing myself, he explained like she wasn’t a college student on the way to earning a first class degree in computer science.

      I got that yeah, she replied, Why are you doing that when I just told you to leave? Are you deaf?

      Gregory smiled at her, Not deaf. Just stubborn as all get out, he said.

      Well you’ll find that stubborn doesn’t work on me, she declared.

      Gregory’s smile became a veritable smirk, You’re speaking to me aren’t you? he said triumphantly.

      Nadia opened her mouth to protest but then found that there was nothing she could say; he was actually correct. She was speaking to him.

      Huh, was

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