Agony of marriage episode 12

THE AGONY OF MARRIAGE
EPISODE 12
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VICTORIA
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I got down from the motorcycle that had brou-ght me to my parents’ house and paid the rider. I was wearing the gate man’s shi-t which I had borrowed to cover my thin nightgo-wn and I was thankful that I had collected it because the night was cold. I walked the house which had no gate and knocked on the front door. I had knocked almost nine times before my younger brother opened the door, surprised to see me. He rubbe-d his eyes and moved out of the way so that I could go in.

“Sister, what are you doing here by now?” He asked, yawning into his fist.
“Don’t worry about it… Just go to be-d, I’ll talk to you tomorrow.” I said and locked the door while he returned to his
room. I walked to my sister’s room and sle-pt next to her. In the morning, I felt someone tapping me. I opened my eyes to find my mother staring down at me.
I slowly sat up, ru-bbing the sleep off my eyes. “Mama, good morning.” I greeted.

“What are you doing here?” She blurted without even responding to my greeting then placed the back of her hands on her w@!st. “Do you know that we have been looking for you for since yesterday? Your husband c@m£ to us and complained that you ran away from home with another man? Is that how we brou-ght you up? To be gallivanting all over the place opening your th!ghs for whoever is interested? Don’t you have any shame?!” Her loud voice woke my sister up, who sat up to look at us, surprised to see me. “Why are you so bent on bringing shame to this family? Why do you want to disgrace your father’s name? After everything Daniel has done for you, now you want to repay him by becoming a w—e? You should be happy that you married a good man? How many rich men would go throu-gh the pains of marrying someone who’s not even in their clas-s? Is he not satisfying you in be-d? Doesn’t he meet your S-xual nee-ds? Why do you want to defile your marriage? Where did this promiscuity come from? Definitely not from me because I know that besides my first b©yfri£nd, Ikenna, your father is the second and last man who has gone in between my th!ghs?! If I had known, I would have gone ahead with the cir¢v-mcision. I would have re-moved that
thing you call a c–t that’s now bringing the spirit of infidelity into you?!
I heaved a sigh. “Mama, will you at least hear me out?”

“There’s nothing to be heard!” She snapped. “We went around
looking for you. Your husband has explained it all. He told us
that you would try to defend yourself with lies and he’s right because that’s exactly what you are doing right now!”
“Mama, what did Daniel tell you people?” I asked.

“He told us that he took you out to a p@rty to have fun and
show you off. He just left you for just five minutes, common
five minutes to go urinate and you alre-ady jumped into
another man’s car and disappeared. He called you on the
phone several times but you busied his calls. When you even
finally picked his call, he begged and begged you to come
home, even to the point of crying but you hung up on him!”
I gaped up at my mother in shock. “Mama, Daniel said that?!” I
asked in disbelief.
“Oh! So you think he would not tell us! He c@m£ here
complaining bitterly. He threatened to even divorce you since
you are not being a good wife to him but I had to go on my
knees and beg him along with your father. He has told us how
you refuse to wash his clothes, cook his meals and even S-x!
S-x that is very important to him, his own God-given right, you refused him that and then he had mistakenly spilled a wine on
you while you were yet asleep and that was why you had dashed down here to lie against him that he had urinate on you! Ha! Adanna, to say that I’m very very disappointed in you is an un-derstatement! In fact, I regret giving birth to you! How can you take such a man for granted?! Don’t you have a heart! This man loves you to the core and yet you treat him so bad! See, if I had my way, I would have replaced you with you sister, Linda, at least she has more s-en-se than you do!”

“But Mama, I didn’t do any of such! Daniel is lying, just see
what he did to me…” I started to pu-ll the side of my shi-t and night go-wn up to reveal my bruised side when my father appeared and harshly interrupted me.

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“Will you shut your mouth!” He barked and I quic-kly dropped
my go-wn. “So this is what you are, a green snake un-der the
green gras-s. All these time that you have been running to us
and pretending to be in a very loveless marriage, it was
actually the other way around. You were the very evil in your
own marriage. I felt so sorry for that young man and I
regretted that it had to be my daughter treating such an
upright man in such a manner. Anyway, I have just called
him…” He lifted a hand holding his cellphone. “…to tell him that
you are home and he will be here in the next thirty minutes to
pick you up. We should be thankful to God that he’s willing to
take you back. If he had gone ahead and divorced you, I would have disowned you an seed wouldn’t have let you back into
my house. When he arrives, you are going to follow him back
home and beg him seriously. I don’t care how you do it but you must settle differences with him! Be a good wife the way we raised you. Love and respect him. This family must not
lose such a potential in-law. We are nothing without him! Do not ruin this for me, Victoria, or I’ll never forgive you!” He
stated firmly and I helplessly kept mute since there was no nee-d trying to defend myself.

Daniel was cynical but my parents had failed to see that p@rt
of him and once again, I was stuck in my dilemma. Men were
all the same! They are cheats and untrustworthy. I had trusted
Chris to do much and yet he had ended up slee-ping with Uju
after I refused him S-x. I decided that it was better to stay with
the devil I knew than the angel I knew nothing about. If my fate was to remain in this marriage, then Daniel it is.

Forty minutes later, I was in the car sitting next to Daniel as he
drove us home. He kept glancing at me as something sinister
went throu-gh his mind but I ignored him and kept a straight
face with my eyes fixed on the road. He kept glancing at me and thoughtfully running his chin with his index f!nger and I
saw his eyes moved down to my w@!st, to linger between my th!ghs. I adjusted and placed my hands right on the sp©t to conceal it from his view. He said nothing to me throu-ghout the drive back home. But when we reached home and got into the house, he threw his car keys on the coffee table and began
to un-bu-tton his shi-t. As I made for the stairs, his unexpected question made me pause.

“Did he f–k you?”

With my back still turned to him, I remained there for a moment without a word.

“Are you deaf?” He drew closer. “Musa told me that you were
picked by a man that night I kicked you out and I know that it’s definitely that guy from the club! I’m sure that he has been
the one you have been with all this time, so answer my question, did you let him f–k you?

I slowly turned to look at him and muttered. “No.”

“And why should I believe you?” He shrugged off his shi-t and
tossed behind him on the couch then began to unbuckle his
belt. “You have been with him for more than a day, I know how h0t you are… No man would spend an hour around you
and not want to t©uçh you. I feel that you are looking me right in the face and lying to me.”

“What do you want me to say? Tell you that I had a very good time with him or that he plea-sured me in ways that you have never done before.” I spat and a sl@p c@m£ out of nowhere and heavily struck the side of my cheek, ma-king my head fall to my shoulder. I slowly lifted my head with my hand on my cheek.
“You will shut that tra-p you called a mouth, you c–t! You think any other man would want you or can plea-sure your rigid b©dy the way only I can?” He chuckled wickedly, unZi-pped
his p@n-ts with one hand then re-moved it till he was standing in just his bo-xers and I noticed that he didn’t discard
the belt like he had done his other clothing, instead he folded
it in two and held it firmly in a hand.

“Is that why you told my parents all those lies? To paint me black? First, you left me stranded on the road, next, you hit and kicked me out of your house in the middle of the night and yet you went with your deceitful self to fill my parents ears
with lies about me running off with another man and denying
you S-x?”
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To Be Continued

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