Once in Love
Episode Twenty- Final Episode
When Kemi exited the bathroom, she turned to face William, who was lying facing downwards inside the room.
He was drūnk but could still comprehend his surroundings, the drunk had not gotten deep into him at that time. Opening his eyes, he asked, “What are you doing, Kemi?”
Kemi gave a dėvilish smile and said, “I’m on a mission to make you mine,” while trying to pull his shirt.
William was too weak to respond and simply closed his eyes, dozing off again. Seizing the opportunity, Kemi pūlled off his shirt and trousers, taking pictures of herself and William and sending them to Anna.
That was the only opportunity she had.
Anna had already received a message from her husband stating that he had gotten drūnk while out with Kemi.
Upon receiving the chat at exactly 12:00 am, Anna, who was still awake, hoped her husband would return. Her parents had retired for the night after staying up to hear from William.
Her father had already condemned William, doubting his trustworthiness. Anna, torn between the possibility of William lying and the concern for Isabel’s disappearance, couldn’t bring herself to wake her father to such bad news.
“Kemi, you will not succeed in breaking my marriage,” Anna hissed as she picked up the phone from the bed and deleted the message with her husband’s picture.
This act, at least, showed that she trusted him.
Despite her restless night filled with thoughts of revėnge against Kemi for the pāin she had caused, Anna couldn’t bring herself to sleep.
But she had a second thought about the whole situation, “If I do that, I won’t see my daughter again because I don’t even know where she is to start with.”
Anna got up earlier than everyone else but refused to leave her room.
She knew the only person who could help her was her father, but how would she explain to him that he was in bed with Kemi? He would be very disappointed in him.
She did not want her father to keep seeing William as a bad person, but she still had to tell him.
She left the room and called her father, who was in the sitting room reading the newspaper as usual.
Before she could say anything, tears had already dropped from her eyes, forcing her father to ask, “What is it?
Have you heard from your husband, or has he also been kidnāpped by Kemi?”
She shook her head, what she had seen was worse than William being kidnāpped. “Daddy, I guess it’s a bad idea for William to have anything to do with Kemi,” she said.
Her father just shook his head.
“It’s fine, let’s just hope nothing happened to him on the way. I know he will be fine; maybe he just needs time away to think,” he said, trying to convince her, although she already knew what she saw.
She still couldn’t bring herself to tell him what was going on, she knew why she was crying.
Meanwhile, William woke up in Kemi’s house. He opened his eyes and felt a slight hāadache, still unaware of his surroundings.
Then he closed his eyes, and when he opened them, he saw Kemi standing in front of him.
Just then, he jumped up from the bed. “What am I doing here?” he asked her as he glanced around the room, he was supposed to be home already.
Kemi wore him the clothes when she was done with her picture so he didn’t notice anything odd.
“Kemi acted as if he wasn’t talking to her at first. Then she said, “You got drūnk yesterday, and I took you home.”
He then realized that his wife had been waiting for him along with his father-in-law, and he couldn’t accomplish a simple task.
Standing up and rushing to take a bath, he was told, “Not so fast, you should not be in a haste to go.
Don’t forget we are making plans for our wedding,” she said with a smile.
“I already sent a picture of us together to Anna so that she will no longer bother you.
I need her to understand that we are together now” she held his hands, making William shake it off.
“Why would you do that? I never asked you to do that to anyone,” he raised his voice, already vibrāting with the height of everything going on.
“Why are you bōthered? I thought you were no longer interested in her,” she asked, confused about why William was upset with the fact that she was sending a common picture to Anna.
This made William extremely upsėt, and he landed a slāp on her face.
“I understand that you are a betrāyer, but you should use a little conscience. I know you don’t have it. If a man doesn’t love you, there’s no need to force yourself on him.
I will never love you.” It was when he had already said those words that he regretted saying them in the first place.
He then picked up his clothes, wore them, entered his car, and zoomed off.
He was having a serious headāche and still smelling of liquōr, but he had to go home and explain everything to Anna and his father-in-law.
When he drove to the house, he took a deep breath and opened the door.
The first person he saw was his father-in-law. He thought about what he was going to say to him when he asked, “Where are you coming back from?
What happened to you?” A question he was avoiding.
It was when he was still searching for the words to say that Anna came in.
“Daddy, I forgot that my husband sent me a text that he will go and sleep at a friend’s place when he was back from meeting Kemi,” her father just nodded
and did not ask any more questions.
William was relieved because he did not know what to say to him. He followed his wife straight to the room.
As they just stepped in and before she could say anything, he said, “I’m sorry about what Kemi sent to you. She made me drink too much, and I was still drūnk when she took those pictures.”
Anna felt there was no need to explain things to her. She was not in the mood to listen to anything at that point.
She knew Kemi was on the verge of dėstroying her home, but she was not going to let it happen.
“Let’s get her ārrested, and she will be forcėd to release Isabel,” she suggested.
William, who did not have any other choice, just accepted. He nodded to whatever she said. He was already tired of everything and needed to put an end to everything.
Meanwhile, Kemi went to the place where she kept Isabel after she heard that Isabel had still refused to eat.
When she arrived at the place, she pūlled Isabel’s ears. “You should know that your parents are not here, and you are wasting my money.
If you don’t eat, I will make sure I kīłł you and feed your body to dōgs,” she threatened, and Isabel just cried as usual.
When she was done, Kemi went to her house, unaware of what was to happen. There was no time to waste, the William’s family needed to act quickly.
After informing Anna’s father, he suggested they get her arrested immediately, saying, “What are we waiting for?
Time has been wasted already. Let’s get it over and done with,” he said. He called his friend at the pōlice stātion and explained everything, including details of Kemi’s house.
That evening, Kemi was arrėsted upon her return from where she had kept Isabel.
The tormėnt she received made her confėss to everything she had done, including revealing where she kept Isabel.
Although the William family only found out about it when Isabel was rescued, Anna could not recognize her daughter anymore as Isabel had lost a significant amount of wėight, leading Anna to cry even more.
Kemi begged for forgiveness, saying, “I was just jealous of the happy family you have. You kept telling me about how William treated you, and I just wanted to experience that trėatment.”
Isabel was rescued but remained trāumātized by the whole situation.
Anna felt there was no need to keep Kemi in prison, so she decided to drop the case, resulting in Kemi’s release.
Kemi was released in a weakened state after enduring much tōrture. However, before that, her company had sacked her. As soon as she was released, she left her office in tears.
She had to beg Anna for forgiveness again as she got frustrāted.
Anna also had to forgive her husband completely. Then she packed and went back to her husband’s house, but not without the advice from her mother.
“Don’t hide anything from your husband.
You should fīght it together. Remember the vow “for better and for worse,” her mother said.
Thessycute Ekene
Some trusted friends are dangerous