Unfulfilled Promise 2 episode 4 – 5

Unfulfilled Promises
Season2
Episode 4

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Oleng got to Eric’s family house and wondered for the umpteenth time if she was doing the right thing When she remembered Dave’s weak countenance when he left for the office in the morning, she knew she was doing the right thing After putting her work up to date, she took permission from her boss to leave the office She wanted to catch Eric before he left for the states since it was already two days after the wedding With a firm resolve, she knocked on the gate The gateman opened it and she asked of Eric She was led in,side the impressive living room and stood there waiting for him even though she was offered a seat Her breath came up sharply when she saw him walking slowly down the stairs on a white singlet and blue jean as if he didn’t have a care in the world She was disappointed in herself for reacting to his gorgeous figure She had told herself before she left the office that she would be immune to his charms He smiled when he approached her and she had to look away He was just too handsome for his own good.
“To what do I owe the honor of this visit? Did you hear that I was all alone at home and decided to come keep me company?” he inquired, flashing white teeth.
“On the contrary, I came to warn you to stay away from my husband.” her anger reflected on her face.

Eric wasn’t smiling anymore “I’m very much disappointed in Dave So he couldn’t come here himself to warn me, he had to send a woman…his wife.” he said the word, ‘wife’ like an insult.
Oleng saw red. “My husband is sick. That’s why I personally came here to warn you to leave him alone.”
“I don’t have time for this. I’ve got an appointment in a few minutes You know where the door is.” with that, he left her standing mouth agape and he jogged up the stairs.
Oleng was amazed at his audacity When he didn’t return in the ten minutes she stood there waiting impatiently for him, she threw caution to the wind and went up the stairs to look for him She heard him whistling and followed the sound She banged the door open and was surprised to see him laying out some clothes on the bed and whistling in the process She was hit by another shocker when she saw that her enlarged portrait still graced his wall She turned to look at Eric who was surprised to see her in his room.
“My, my, the dutiful wife is serious For her to come up to my room which she refused doing when we were still friends is really…what do I call it now?…emm…endearing.” he teased, disdainfully.
Oleng blew her top then. “Don’t you dare dredge up the past because that’s where it is- the past. Listen to me and listen very carefully I’ll not have you come back from the states to give my husband and I trouble I married Dave, one of your closest friend, so what? I’ve put you in the past where you belong, so tell your goons, Zinny and Eddy to live Dave alone. Comprehend?”
When he didn’t reply but looked at her with pain in those beautiful eyes of his, she walked away She was at the door when he quietly said, “What happened to my baby?”
She was so stunned she turned back to stare at him.
“What did you do to my baby?” he enquired looking at her fully for the first time since she came to his house.

She walked back to him in disbelief. “You dare to ask me such a question? You?”

“Who else?” he threw at her. “How could you have kept such a thing from me? If Eddy hadn’t made a slip yesterday, I would never have known Or maybe the baby wasn’t mine Was that why you broke up with me? Was that why you sent me those d–n messages? So you didn’t trust me enough to know that I would have stood by you through thick and thin? The way I loved you then, I would have damned all consequences and married you whether the baby was mine or not but you decided to hide it from me We promised each other we would always be together and not hide anything from each other or even lose contact no matter what! Those were definitely unfulfilled promises made by you! You aborted the baby, didn’t you?” he accused.
Oleng was so numb she just stared at him as if he had gone bonkers. “Wait a minute.” she finally said raising up her hands to stop him from continuing, “I broke up with you?” she asked amazed.

“Oh! You want to deny it? I still have those d–n messages you sent to me! You thought I wouldn’t find out about the baby? When Eddy made the slip yesterday, I pressurized him to tell me everything but he refused. He said Zinny had sworn him into secrecy all these years. Even Zinny was tight lipped about the matter. They both told me to go and ask you I planned doing that later on in the evening because of my appointment but as luck would have it, you came here. When I heard you were married, I thought you married the guy you told me you had fallen in love with; I still have that horrifying message in my mailbox I refused to delete it because it was a constant reminder to me Only for me to find out that day in your house that you had married Dave Dave of all people! One of my closest friends. How could you?”
It was all too much for Oleng to handle She didn’t know when she raised her hand and slapped him hærd across the face.
“You liar! You filthy liar! How dare you stand before me and lie to my face like this?” she raged.
Eric held his sore cheek which was beginning to turn red. He felt like killing her. No woman had ever slapped him before. He wanted to hurt her but all he could see was her beauty. Despite her anger, she still looked heavenly beautiful and s€×y Desire licked through his veins and since he had been celibate for over two years now, he gripped her by the arm, pulled her to him and fastened his l-ips on hers.

Oleng struggled to get free but Eric held her tightly and continued k-ssing her, forcing her l-ips open Passion and desire they had shared yesteryears came rushing back to her veins She didn’t know when she mo-ned It had been so long she had been k-ssed like this; thoroughly. Dave hadn’t made love to her in a long time The last time they had made love was after they had reconciled when they had quarreled and that was about four months agoDave always came home looking tired and she never had the heart to initiate it because of his illness When Eric k-ssed her passionately, she drowned in it. She put her arms around his neck and stood on tip toes to deepen the k-ss.

When he started opening the buttons on her blouse, she knew he had to stop but she didn’t have the strength to tell him. She kept telling herself, ‘One more k-ss, just one more k-ss.’ She continued reciting it in her mind even when he removed her blouse. The tingling s-nsations moving around her body made her want to go mad. She had never felt such with Dave before, not even after five years of marriage. The s-nsations made her feel wild, so wild that she tore Eric’s singlet off his body. He in turn unclasped her b-ra and put his l-ips on her n—-e. She mo-ned again. Then he started s—–g and car-ssing her br-asts as if his life depended on it. She came with a loud voice. He lifted her from her feet, carried her to his work table and laid her on it after pushing all the doc-ments and his laptop to the ground. He pushed her skirt up her wa-ist and tore her p-nties while she unbuckled and unzipped him When he finally penetrated her, filling her completely, tears actually dropped from her eyes With them still joined, he carried her gently to the bed and held her in his arms murmuring sweet nothings to her Basking in the euphoria of been properly made love to, she slept in his arms with her last thought being that Dave wasn’t really good in bed…..

Unfulfilled Promises
Season 2
Episode 5

Sunshine , Sunshine. Are you awake?” Eric pressed tiny k-sses around her face and she giggled.
He smiled and k-ssed her l-ips then and she became fully awake. “Sunshine, I want us to talk.”
Oleng looked at him then albeit sleepily then everything came crashing down, The real world struck her with a heavy blow She sprang up on the bed.
“Jesus! What have I done? My God! What have I done?” she lamented and quickly got up from the bed to pick up her clothes She dashed into the bathroom to hurriedly dress up,She tried to finger comb her weave which was in a disheveled state She kept asking herself what she had done.
“Sunshine.” Eric called when she came out of the bathroom. He had had the decency to put on his jean
“Don’t call me that, you bastard! I’m not your sunshine. You are my nightmare. Please stay away from me from now on I regret what we just did What was I thinking?” Tears rolled down her lovely face.
“I think you were in your right senses for the first time since I went abroad.” he quietly told her.
“You’re sick, you hear me? You’re sick. Maybe all the dope you’ve been taking over there has finally caught up with you.” she threw at him.
He had to laugh at that inspite of himself “Okay, I’m on dope. What about you? It is either you’re a nymphomaniac or Dave is lousy in bed, considering your performance just now.”
She glared at him in horror but he continued, “Before you run out of here playing your role of the aggrieved adulteress,” he ignored her gasp at his harsh words. “Just tell me one thing. What happened to my baby?”
“You’re really a bastard. You want to pretend you didn’t send me a message informing me to abort the baby if it was yours because you had a bright future ahead of you and didn’t want to be saddled with an unwanted baby and also forget about you when I sent you a text and e-mail telling you about the pregnancy?”
“Me?” he was stunned.

Oleng didn’t bother replying him,She ran out of the room and ran out of the house, leaving the gateman to wonder if she was being chased by the devil She was glad she had brought her car She sped the car all the way home Immediately she got home, she ran to her room, took off her clothes and ran into the bathroom She scrubbed and scrubbed as if she could scrub away the memory of making passionate love with her ex-boyfriend She wept as she scrubbed,She had betrayed Dave She had been unfaithful to her ever faithful husband How would she face him? How would she pretend as if nothing happened? She kept chastising herself for going up to his room in the first place but she had wanted to make sure he got the message She hadn’t bargained for what she got in return She squelched the little voice in her head that kept reminding her that she had enjoyed Eric’s love making and it couldn’t be compared to Dave’s’.
“Stop it!” she scre-med to herself and placed her hands over her ears as if she could stop the voice from talking by doing that. “I love Dave. I don’t care if he is lousy in bed I’ve managed for five years and I’m not about to stop now I made a mistake with Eric but I don’t love him.l I don’t love him.” she continued to tell herself and weep.
“Angel, what’s the problem?” Dave asked his wife. They were in the living room watching television.
“Hmm?” she replied.

“Something’s wrong with you. I’ve asked you countless times but you refuse to tell me the problem.”
“But nothing’s wrong with me.” she countered.
“Angel, I’m your husband and I know something’s wrong with you For the past two weeks, you haven’t been yourself. Have you looked at the mirror lately, you’re a shadow of your former self You’ve lost weight, you’re always staring into space and you think I don’t know but at night I hear you cry when you think I’m asleep. And you tell me nothing’s wrong? Come on, I’m not a fool.”
Oleng burst into tears for an answer Her guilt was eating away in,side her.
Dave cuddled her. “Angel, don’t cry. You can tell me what’s wrong.”
“I’ve failed you.” she sobbed. “I’m no longer worthy to be called your wife.”
“Just because we don’t have a child?” he deduced wrongly. “O Angel, I’ve told you so many times to stop worrying. You’ll give yourself a heart attack over this issue. Do you want to die and leave me all alone in this cruel world?”
Oleng simply stared at him as more tears dripped from her eyes She couldn’t correct him She couldn’t tell him she had committed adultery with Eric of all people Dave continued to soothe his wife not knowing that her trauma wasn’t what he thought it was.

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“You’re pregnant Possibly three months.” The doctor informed Oleng holding out the test result for her to see.
Pregnant! Oleng put a hand on her forehead She was finished! She knew she ought to be happy considering the fact that this was what she had wanted to hear for the past five years but she couldn’tnShe knew without doubt that it was Eric’s baby She was pregnant for Eric Dave made love to her only a month ago, two months after she made love with Eric and she was three months pregnant If she had known there was the remotest chance of her getting pregnant, she would have sed-ced Dave to make love to her that period but she had been feeling so guilty that she was glad Dave didn’t come near her until a month before Even at that, she had been so scared She kept thinking he would find out some changes in her and make her confess which she would have done because the guilt had and was still killing her And now to worsen matters, she was pregnant but not for her husband but her ex-boyfriend. She felt like a w—e. Dave being intelligent would immediately discover the discrepancy when she put to bed three months early a healthy baby and not a premature because he would calculate from when they had last made love Or was she making a mountain out of a molehill? Was she getting paranoid? Would he even remember such? Could she even pass another man’s child as her husband’s? Guilt was already eating her up. Could she add more to it?
“Mrs. Sokari, I must say I’m surprised at your reaction to this wonderful news Didn’t you tell me you’ve been hoping for a child for five years now?” The doctor was amazed at the conflicting emotions on her patient’s face.
Oleng smiled uneasily. “Doctor, I’m so numb with shock. I was thinking about the past.”
“No need to think anymore, my dear. You’re pregnant so you should be happy and avoid thinking for health purpose.”
“I know, doctor…emm…Doctor, are you sure about how far gone I am?…I mean am I really three months pregnant or just one month?” She felt stupid asking when she already knew how far gone she was but she was hoping for a miracle
The doctor stared at her as if she’d lost her senses. “You told me of the date of your last menstruation, didn’t you? And from your symptoms and my examination, yes, you’re at least twelve weeks pregnant.” she explained carefully.
Oleng forced a smile on her face and got up, taking the test result along with her. “Thank you very much doctor. My husband will be pleased to hear this.”
“You’re welcome. Make sure you come and register for your antenatal very soon.”
“I will, doctor. Thank you very much. Bye.”
“Goodbye.” she said to the queer woman She had thought she would grasp her hand in great joy but had been surprised at the look of horror on her face She shrugged Humans, no one could really understand them She pressed the buzzer for her next patient.

To be continued