Married Single Episode 17 – 18

MARRIED SINGLE – Episode 17

Mike….

I had not been lucky finding her when I returned to Lusaka from Luanshya. I knew she had moved but I couldn’t find her. Trying to call her, I failed to go through and I knew she had blocked my line. I was even thinking of getting another number to use but then I recalled the court session that her father told me about.

So I went there and watched from Afar. I heard the court proceedings from outside not wanting her to see me.

When the judgement was past I really was glad that Chris was out of her life. Now all I needed was to follow her and see where she stayed. Unfortunately again, she had gone to her friends house before going to her new place and I got tired of waiting so I had left.

Over the period I tried to stalk her friend? I knew she would one day go to her and just then I would know where she was. Unfortunately I only had weekends and after work hours to do that so it took time to yield results. .

Weeks later, I saw her leave her friends house and got a cab. I followed her and to my shock she had been dropped in front of the man I had confronted before who I came to learn was a loaded business man and company owner. I tried to wait up outside in the hope that I would follow her to her place but night came and she was no where to be seen.

I got so angry with the thoughts of her being in the hands of another man.

” how could you betray me babe when you and I love each other.?” I whispered to myself as I drove home furious. I made a mental note to see her early the following morning.

My wife coming on to me didn’t make any sense as I completely ignored her, this time I didn’t even bother to give an excuse. I just completely shut her off and I felt her sigh sadly as she slept besides me.

My mind was busy fighting the images of my Stella with another man. I couldn’t understand why she would run into another man’s arms when she knew I was waiting for her and that I would never stop loving her.

The following morning I woke up and took a quick bath before driving to the man’ s house. My intention was to see then walk or drive out expecting Stella to go for work it being a Friday. I waited for almost 30 minutes then I saw him, he came trotting back.

” oh so you f*ck my woman and you go out jogging like you so much of a man!” I whispered to myself getting out of the car.

” where is She?” I asked angrily as I watched his sweaty face.

He responded telling me off but this time I didn’t let his calmness get to me so I lost it punching him in his face.

He staggered a bit and then he stood his ground ready to fight me. Well I didn’t see it coming, the guy was good with his punch. I would actually admit that his punches were stronger than he looked.

The guy had some karate moves and he did well pounding on my face as I tried to keep up the fight.

After a few minutes Stella came out shouting and came in the way of my punch. I felt bad I hit her and before I could get to her the guards held me firmly i couldnt get off their grip. I watched and shouted as the man I figured was called Lucas as Stella had called him, holding her in his arms I felt so pissed.

The guards now had me pinned as one of them called the police.

” you damn idiot!” I heard Stella shouting and when I turned to look at her she looked so upset.

” you know what Mike you have really crossed the line this time. If you think you are man enough then am sorry, the truth is you are just a scared dog, who goes about intimidating people hiding his true fears. How dare you follow me around shamelessly.” She scoffed looking at me like I disgusted her.

” am sorry babe I didn’t mean to hit you” I tried to say still strained.

” you hit Me? Do you think that’s the only wrong you have done you lunatic. Leave my life already you shameless man. Haven’t caused me enough pain already!” She shouted crying as Lucas tried to hold her close.

” no Lucas, this man is way too much. He has contributed a great deal to my failed marriage and as if that’s not enough he keeps following me around. What did I ever do to you for you to hurt me so much? I hate you Mike. With the same passion that I had loved you when we were young now I loath you and you disgust me. The mare sight of you makes me so pissed I wish I never met You!” She scre-med in my face and I felt her words prick deep in my heart.

I thought she was just upset but when she shook her head her eyes on me, I knew she was being serious. She had this look that scared me and my efforts to try talk her out of her anger failed as she landed two hot slaps on my face.

I got so angry I managed to escape the guards and without thinking, my arms grabbed her neck.

I was about to lift her up she had made me so mad. Making me feel so less of myself, but Lucas pushed me off her and pushed her behind him as he stood facing me.

Before I could react and start another fight with him, a police car hooted and stopped right before us.

Two officers came straight to me and the guards pointed at me saying I was the one who was an intruder and came to cause problems at the house.

Instantly I felt the hand cuffs on my hands. “I will make sure you have a good number of days in,side the police custody you jerk so that you learn to find your place in life” Lucas spoke angrily this time.

The police asked them to follow to the police and give their statements and Stella asked for an injunction to prevent me from going anywhere near her. Which was granted successfully after she had laid her case.

I felt so disappointed. The fact that hurt me the most was seeing her choosing another man over me once again and it hurt so bad I felt like crying even as they led me to the cells.

In the afternoon, I was called that someone was out to visit me and I had hopped Stella had changed her mind and was now willing to forgive me and bail me out. Much to my disapointment, I saw my wife carrying our 2 years old son.

” what are you doing here?” I asked surprised she was there. I had not called her and I wondered how she knew I was there.

Instead of answering me, she moved closer to me and I felt a slap land on me.

The next one and another one followed after that and she scre-med in my face.” You ungrateful man, you have the audacity to ask me that nonsense when all you have done is cause me pain. To add to the insults I hear you are in police cells because you went to disturbe someone over a woman”

” am i not woman enough for you?” My wife shouted tears falling her eyes.

I tried to make her understand but she seemed so upset I had never seen her that way.

” you know what? This is Over, you never even had the guts to marry me in church or Sign any doc-ments so just consider this marriage over and am taking everything together with my children back to my parent’ s house. Let’s see how you will manage your life with a chain of loans on your paysl¡ps” she went on making everyone around look at me with disgusting looks.

She walked away telling the officers to lock me for ever If they so wished and i knew things were now bad.

Now I was at the mercy of Stella and Lucas who had me locked up and with no hope of being bailed out. ” the price am paying for loving you Stella” I thought to myself as I was squized between some lot other guys in the cell.

Two days in custody made me develop so much hatred towards Stella. I had hoped she would come back to bail me out but nothing.

My mind wild back to the first time we both made each other promises.

I just completed school and she was still going doing her grade 11. I planned on an outing with her after doing some work for my father who paid me some money which I had used to buy some food for our picnic.

She wore a short blue dress with a small lace on the front and some slippers. I smiled seeing her as she came out of her house. Her smile was breath taking.

” ready?” I asked her holding her hand. We booked a taxi which dropped us in the middle of some small bushes. She kept on looking around and I made her a promise to protect her.

” it’s a picnic babe and this is a perfect place for you and me to have our own moment ” I smiled as I made her sit on the Chitenge material that I asked her to come with.

We sat and eat the food that I had bought and later on talked about so many things.

We both were still V-rgins and right after we agreed to make love.

The experience was not so much exciting for both of us but I assured her we were going to get better.

” promise you will always love me no matter what” I had whispered as we stood holding each other by the tree trank.

” I love you Mike and I don’t think I will ever feel like this for any other person. I promise to be here always and to love you forever” she smiled and I k-ssed her.

The connection between us grew stronger and the other times we met it got better. I always used protection with her not wanting to ruin our plans by making her pregnant before she completed her secondary school. The idea was for both of use to complete our school and found some good jobs for our better future.

I wiped my eyes at the memories I just had realising I was still confined to a cell.

” I loved you with everything I had and you broke our promise. Now you will not live to enjoy being with another man as long as I am still alive.” I whispered to myself.

” enjoy it while it lasts Lucas, Cause when am out of here. You will have a better use of the word Lunatic like you have called me several times” I scoffed.

Like to answer my prayer, I heard the officer call out my name and told me someone had bailed me out.

I wondered who the saviour was and I was amazed to find Chris, standing outside waiting for me to sign the bail.

” what the hell? ” I asked looking at him.

” you are supposed to say thank you” I saw him smile as he signed the papers.

Okey that came as a surprise and I couldn’t wait to hear to what I owed that favour from the man who had been my greatest enemy.

Episode 18

Stella…

” you can’t keep like this Stella, I told you already all this is going to be over soon.” Lucas comforted me as we both sat on my bed.

He had become a regular visitor to my house after the incidence with Mike.

Now that I was sure Chris and Mike had teamed up to make my life mesirable by threatening Lucas and sending me some text messages using some enormous numbers.

I started working a week after Mike was placed in police custody and immediately he came out he sent videos of me and him together the time we were at the lodge to threaten to publish them on social media if i didn’t stop seeing Lucas.

He told me through the messages that he was going to tell people the reason my marriage ended was because I was sleeping around.

At first I thought Mike was bragging. I was so sure he never got any video of us but when he sent me a clip I was powerless. My face was so clear in the video every single person I knew would recognise me if it went on social media. Not to talk of my reputation and that of my family.

The worse of it all was that he sent some photos of the recordings to my current employer telling them how i was a cheap women who was there to degrade the org-nisation with my pr-stitution.

I was fired from the Job that Lucas recommended me to barely a week after starting.

Now I was stuck back home if not for Lucas standing by my side I could have had nothing to eat or use in my home.

I looked at him still looking calm and composed I wondered how he managed that. He smiled at me and held my face to look at him.

” am going to find Mike and I swear I will take all the recordings he has of you. It all will be over soon” he assured me.

” I don’t really know Lucas. How do i stay calm knowing Mike is out there planing God knows what against me. ? He threatened to kill you and make it look like I did it if I don’t stop seeing you. Honestly Lucas we need to consider stopping our relationsh¡p. For starters am not ready to loose you and you don’t derseve all this. You are a good man Lucas and I won’t forgive myself if anything happens to you. Please listen to me and leave me already ” I begged him squizing his hands.

He instead k-ssed me on my l-ips and whispered,

“What kind of man will I be if I can abandon the woman I love just because some jealousy lunatic is threatening me.?” He shrugged.

Mike had been on my tail for weeks. Asking me to leave Lucas or he will never let me get a job. He warned every time i did get one he would send the videos and pictures of my nudeness and tell them I was just a pr-stitute who would ruin their business.

I spent most of my days locked up. If not for Lucas and Linda I wouldn’t have survived the torture. I couldn’t tell my family just yet. I had no way of explaining myself to my parents.

I recall how I had met Chris one day. He was with his Mwenya and the baby three of them walked margestically with Chris carrying the baby.

I had pretended not to have seen them but Chris came over to me and held my hand.

” hello ex wife, I hear you found yourself a new sponsor. I should have known you were just a slut who uses men for money. It has not even been a year since we divorced and you are already sleeping around?” He scoffed and laughed.

” leave me alone Chris, I don’t care what you think about me. If you don’t know am so free and happy right now” I told him off and he let a louder laugh.

” yeah happy indeed. You cant even keep jobs and i hear you have been having some ex boyfriend drama.” He clapped his hands teasingly as Mwenya joined the laughter.

I felt so embarrassed and humiliated as he went on saying how I was a disgrace and that he left me because I was barren. For fear of crying in front of them I had walked away my head down as those who were near by the area and heard the talk looked at me.

Running home I cried myself to sleep. Wondering if God had let me out to the punishment for my sins.

” I swear am trying to do the right things Linda. I trully am and every time I try h-rder it’s like I get more hurt. What did I ever do to Them to treat me like this?” I cried to my friend who held me in an embrace to comfort me.

” I don’t understand my friend. Lucas made it clear he never wanted you by acting the way he did and he’s with another woman. That Mike is also is a married man. What do they want with You?” She asked worried.

” I really wish I knew my friend. If I didn’t know that Chris and Mike hated each other i could have thought they have ganged up to destroy me” I told Linda shaking my head.

” hey did you get a word of what I said?” Lucas asked bringing me back to the moment.

” am sorry. I zoomed out again right?” I sighed.

” i don’t want to see you like this Stella. Your happiness is what matters to me right now and am going to make sure I get to the bottom of all this. No more public humiliation or threats about anything. This is what we are going to do. ” Lucas made me lay in his chest as he spoke.

” neither of them knows my mother. So let’s pretend we are no longer together and see how we can solve all this especially retrieving the recordings. ”

” what do you mean they don’t know your mother? what’s the plan Lucas?” I asked sitting up.

” calm down. All am saying is we have to take you to the place were Mike will not see you an stalk you. Its dangerious for you to stay alone here and Since you told me he sent someone here with a message it’s clear he wants you to know he knows where you live and he can even walk in himself despite having a straining order to stay away from you”

I looked at Lucas as he explained the scenario. He was practically asking me to go and hide at his mother’s place and him and me will be meeting there until he figured a way to get the recordings.

I didn’t like the idea of hiding especially at his mother’s as that would require telling her everything.

Going home wasn’t an option as my parents were struggling as it was already. I needed to stay in Lusaka and find a job to help them out. It wa was hærd to get a job in Luanshya.

After a long discussion I told Lucas I would think about it.

” be safe” Lucas k-ssed me as he left the house.

I stood by the door my eyes crossed trying to cool off my head from everything.

” Lucas, did you forget something?” I asked when i heard the knock on the door and went on opening it.

Standing before me was Mike dressed in black and standing his hands in his pockets, wearing a smile on his face.

I felt my heart race as he slowly move in making me stagger and move backwards. He looked like a different person. One that I didn’t know, the look on his dark face smelled so much danger I felt my knees shiver.

” are you scared of me now babe?” He grinned closing the door behind him as he kept advancing on me.

” stay away from me you jerk you were given a straining order. I swear I will call the police on you you bas***d!” I shouted angrily and he quickly came forward holding my mouth.

” you shout out like that again and I swear you will regret it” he warned holding my mouth tightly as I nodded in fear.

” good” he smiled letting my mouth free. He walked around my small house taking in everything around as I watched him in silence. I wondered how on earth I didn’t see that in him before. Clearly Mike’s obsession with me had turned him into this person I was so scared of I felt my in,sides moving.

He came and sat next to me and I moved away swiftly. He let a laugh and pulled me back.

” sit down here dammit!” He shouted. ” you used to love me and felt good being close to me. What the hell happened to you Stella?” He glared at me.

” please Mike just leave my house and go to your wife” I pleaded tears in my eyes.

He leaned forward and licked my tears with his tongue. ” mmmmmmm sweet as always babe” he smiled.

” but I don’t have a wife to go to. You know, I heard you went and told her I was in custody because of you and now she and my kids left me.”

I turned my head to look at him. I had told his wife so that maybe he would change but now I was sure I added to his anger as he looked pissed talking about his family.

” yeah actually !” He laughed ” I have no one else to go to now because you chased my family away. I know that woman is so stupid and naive, but believe me I know why I kept her close. She made things easier for me by providing for me and the family. So yes, I never loved her but I needed her.” He winced his eye.

” now that you chased her and you are trying to ran away from me, I bet you can imagine my anger right now” He whispered getting close to me his warm mouth in my neck making me want to throw up.

One wouldn’t know a day would come when I would look at Mike that way. He disgusted me so much I couldn’t stand him.

I was shaking with fear and I felt him laugh in my neck.

I stood up and before i could move further he stood up slapping me hærd in the face.

” I said stay close to me dammit!” He shouted angrily.

I let a scre-m as i felt my side go hot from his slap. He held my mouth and pushed me to the bed with full force I felt my back ache.

Pleading and crying for him to let me go didnt work.

Instead Mike teared my clothes apart telling me he was going to have me one way or the other. I tried to push him away but his hold on my mouth and body didnt help me at all.

He pulled down his p-nts and with so much force started panatrating me. He shoved himself in me with so much power I felt like my in,side would be smashed.

I tried to shake him off as I cried miserably but he could t stop. For what seemed like forever, Mike satisfied himself and stood up leaving me curled as I cried my wh0le body paining.

” you are mine Stella. Am gonna have you one way or the other. You promised me forever and Forever I will give you. Dare report to the police and I will do the worst. You know am not bragging” he whispered into my ears as I cried.

I heard the door open and close as he left my house. ” oh my God, what is all this now?” I cried pulling myself to get my phone and probably call Lucas to help me but I found Mike had taken my phone.

” oh my God!” I cried standing and looking outside but there was no one. The main house was quite and I couldn’t get myself to go and disturb them. It was already past 22 hours.

I locked the door my fingers trembling and curled myself to sleep hoping I would wake up from the night mare I just went through..

Story continues…

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