Before the Leap: Based on a true story

By Oluwabukunmi Bukunmi Osofisan

Are you about to make that decision forever but you feel the need to end it or rethink? Have you ever doubted the love your partner has for you? Have you ever experienced the perfect love of God?

If your answer is Yes, Yes and No, this book is for you. The writer of this piece wrote this story for you. This is based on a true-l

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oluwabukunmi Ladeji
• Release date: Aug 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9780914385424

Oluwabukunmi Bukunmi Osofisan

Oluwabukunmi Bukunmi Osofisan was born in Kaduna, Nigeria. She studied French at the Ahmadu Bello University and later became a French teacher in Lagos, before relocating to Canada. She is now a mother, with two kids, a serial entrepreneur and she has a passion for young women who are going through abuse and young women who are looking to get married.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the women out there who lost at first then decided to be strong when given the second chance. I want to say God sees you and loves you.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Table of Contents

THIS IS ME

SAVIOUR

AFTER THEY LEFT

TIME TO PICK

THE MAN I MARRIED

TORTURE

RELOCATION

TORN VEIL

LOST JEWEL

DAMAGED GOODS

Letter from the Author

THIS IS ME

It is a beautiful morning today and everywhere is so peaceful. My kids are out of town, it is the first time in a while I am taking a vacation, so I am free. Oh sorry; hey reader! Apologies; I was thinking out loud. I was just planning my day because I am usually not this free. My name is Tokesi; Oluwatokesi, a Yoruba name, which means God is worthy to call, to speak to, He is enough. In the Yoruba culture, a child is named after a circumstance that happened in the family or in the home. My parents waited for ten years before they had me and I am a testimony that God is worthy to be called upon. I am thirty-nine years old; I have two beautiful kids (Anuoluwapo – the mercy of God is surplus, he is fourteen years old and Moyosoreoluwa – I rejoice with the gift of God, and she is ten years old) they are my joy and the reason I wake every morning. I am a serial entrepreneur and a goal getter. I own two hotels in Nigeria and a clothing line in Canada; I reside in Canada, and I am a single mother.

You are reading this because I had a reflection of my life for the past thirty-nine years, and I decided to help someone with my story and my life. I have fought a lot of battles, and I had victories by the grace of God. While meditating today, I asked God to send me a person to help as my 40th birthday gift, anyone but a young woman would be preferable. I am a Christian with a beautiful relationship with Jesus so everything thing I do revolves around Him. He is everything to me, my being, my life, and my restorer. He rescued me from a dark place years ago. I rededicated my life and submitted to His will years ago and my life has been a beautiful one since then; He turned my ashes to beauty and wore me a garment of praise.

Enough about me for now, I want to make the best of my holiday, then check up on my businesses and see what plan God has for me. God bless you.

SAVIOUR

I drove straight to my office to delegate and check on few important things, it was my first time leaving the office and taking a break, so I needed to put things in place. A part of me was scared, another part of me kept reminding me that I had just one week to myself so the best I could do was to ignore and make the best use of it.

While I was speaking to the executive assistant in my office, I noticed a beautifully decorated coffee shop through the glass wall; I said to her, have you noticed that place, that shop down the road, it’s new right? She looked at me and smiled, no Toke, the coffee shop isn’t new, this is their third year in business, I am guessing you haven’t noticed them because you have been paying more attention on work and nothing else. I was in awe; you mean someone built something this beautiful beside our organisation and I had no idea? I must have been so busy this made me felt so bad, it occurred to me that I had shut myself out of the world and buried myself in my job. I looked up at my assistant, Pearl, please get them done and follow up with the rest, you are in charge now smiling at her, I patted her on the shoulder you gat this, she smiled at me and we gave each other a hug. I picked up my bag and said out loud I am going to check this coffee shop and have the best time of my life *walking out of my office*.

I was dressed like a young lady; I mean I am still young, but I decided to dress myself younger than my age that morning. On a normal day, my usual would have been my six inches heels with a body con dress and my twenty-four inches Peruvian hair but on this very day, I decided to put on my Michael Kors sandals which actually cost a fortune, got my well-kept natural afro released and styled to suit my desired look for the morning. What could be the perfect dress or outfit to feel like that baby girl I painted in my head? Immediately, I opened my closet to scan through for the best, then I realised I had been buying lovely outfits all along but never saw reasons to wear any, I mean these are sweet, beautiful dresses I ordered for online but I never try them on whenever they arrive. Now, the struggle to get the baby girl, chic outfit began in full force.

Wait a minute! Tokesi, where is this energy and drive coming from? Why are you doing this all of a sudden? These were some of the questions I asked myself but trust me, I gave myself the best answer which was, OLUWATOKESI! You have got one life to live so live it well. Luckily for me after the questions and answer section in my head, a beautiful, short, flare red dress caught my fancy, on checking it I realised it was hand made by Bloombyfbd, a Nigeria based fashion designer. I was extremely satisfied with the choice made, the next thing that came playing in my head was Sinner by Adekunle Gold; immediately I asked my google assistant to play the song. I whined my waist slowly to the song while moving to the bathroom to get a shower. This fulfillment I haven’t experienced in a long while. The way I applied by Ara Mii Essential body wash on my body, it was so evident that a new me was