Self Bondage ( last episode)
I came back to the house with tears, I ran into my room and cried the whole night.
I cried out every pain in my heart and as I cried i kept saying, “Lord help me to forgive, lord teach me to forgive.”
I knew I couldn’t do it on my own, I need his help to be able to forgive.
When I woke up the next morning, I felt light like I dropped a heavy load.
I felt a kind of happiness I have never felt before.
I picked up my phone and sent a text message to a number I got from my diary.
“I have forgiven you,” I typed and sent the message.
A week later, I was with my mom in the kitchen preparing some food and making some jokes when a knocked came on the door.
“I will get it,” said my mom going to the door.
She returned back with her face look dull.
“What is wrong,” I asked.
“Someone is here to see you,” she said getting my paranoid.
I quickly clean my hands and followed her to the sitting room to met a lady sitting on one of the chair.
I walked to the front and took a closer look at the woman and it was Brenda.
Immediately she saw me she went down on her knees.
“Gbemi, please forgive me, there is no day I don’t regret my actions, I have been scared to come to you till I saw your text message, am sorry, please forgive me,” she said in tears.
“I have forgiven you, it wasn’t easy but I have forgiven you,” I said with a smile.
I was surprised I wasn’t in tears, that was when I really realized I have made peace with myself.
I picked her up from the floor and hugged her as she cried on my shoulder.
We served food and we all ate together.
“How is kunle?” I asked when we were all settled down.
“It’s a long story, Kunle wasn’t what I expected, he showed his true self after we got married, he is a drunk, womanizer and he abuses me with any little opportunity he gets, to top it up, I haven’t been able to conceive, not even for once,” she said.
“Oh, so sorry, how have you been coping?” I asked concerned.
“It hasn’t been easy, the shame of what I did made me endure the marriage but not any more, now I have made peace with you, I will be going for a divorce,” she said.
“May God see you through.”
I woke up the next morning to a phone call, I got up and picked the call without looking at the caller.
“Hello, Gbemi on the line,” I said.
“This is Mary calling from keystone global,” the lady said.
It too me a while to remember who it was but I did.
“There was a miss up during and after the interview you came for the last time and someone else was given you position but we have rectified the situation and would like you to resume work by Monday,” she said.
“I will be there surely,” I said ending the call.
I jumped up in happiness, I went on my knees and began to thank God for his mercies.
Two years down the line I got married to my soulmate.
THE END.
Story by Samlex LOP
May God bless your marriage Gbemi