š„SLEEP WITH MY HUSBANDš„
By Rejoice J.
Chapter Nine
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“Oh My God… Oh God… so you knew.. all along,” I gasped weakly, after hearing the shocking truth about him being aware of everything, including who I am.
“Yes I did. Everything I just told you is the truth, especially the one about you and Lora being in dangĀ£r. Whether you succeed or not, Tana has paid someone to silence you both and you know what I mean by that,” he said.
I slumped onto the sofa, shocked and perplexed.
‘Oh God.. I’m going crĆ¢zy.. I’m going crĆ£zy. He knew all along and here I was, making a big f00l of myself for a money that I’ll never get to enjoy because I’ll be dĀ£ad once I step my foot in lagos’
“Hahhh!” I tried to breathe but breathing was becoming difficult.
Goosebumps covered my skin. I couldn’t even think of anything because my mind went blank and I could feel myself going nĆ¹ts.
“Here,” he stretched a glass of water to me.
At first, I wanted to reject it but realizing that I needed the help of some water, I took it and gulped down.
“I am the only person that can save you and Lora from this dangĀ£r,” he said.
That was when my mind went to the name he just mentioned.
“Lora? How did you know her name, did you run checks on her too?” I asked.
“There was no need to. We’ve known each other before now,” he said.
What? Lora never told me that.
“You knew her?”
“Well, she tried to sĀ£duce me some time ago.. but f00lish me was being a faithful husband. I should have had her to my satisfaction,” he said.
I gasped.
‘What? Lora tried to sĀ£duce him?’
‘She wanted to sleep with her friend’s husband?’
‘Did Tana sent her to do it too?’
‘Why didn’t Lora tell me this?’
“I know what you’re thinking, that Tana sent her to sĀ£duce me. No she didn’t. She just wanted to offer her body to me for my money which I didn’t grant her,” he said.
‘Oh God..’ I breathed and buried my face in my palms.
“If… if you knew your wife’s plan, why then did you do nothing?” I asked him.
I guess I needed to keep the Lora’s sĀ£duction issue aside and know why this man never did nothing after finding out his wife’s plan.
“Because I didn’t want to ruin it. I actually wanted to grant her wish and I wanted to see how you succeed in making me sleep with you but it seems you changed your mind,” he said.
I narrowed my eyes at him, “And what would you have done if I succeeded?”
He smiled, “Tell you the truth the next morning. There’s no way I would have let a beautiful lady like you get k!lled for what I’m already aware of.”
“I have to tell Lora. She has to know that she’s in dangĀ£r,” I said, got up immediately and made for the door.
“And then what? You think she can escape it?” he asked.
“Well your wife would not be k!lling people if she’s behind bars,” I said.
He chuckled, “Behind bars? You think people like Tana get behind bars just like that?”
“You have the evidence which proves that she paid an assasin to k!ll us. It’s enough to put her there,” I said.
He shook his head, “It’s not so easy Miss Desire Nnadi, and besides, I loved my wife so much and the last thing I’ll do is give out something that will put her behind bars.”
I raised my brows, “What?”
“But still, I can stop her,” he said.
“How?”
“It’s simple. Sleep with me just like you wanted to.”
“What?” I scoffed.
“She want divorce papers and I’m ready to give them to her, but before I can do that, I want to feel a particular feeling and satisfaction..” he said.
“What feeling and satisfaction?” I asked curiously.
“The feeling and satisfaction of cheating on my Tana before divorcing her,” he said.
What?
“Nine months of dating and six years of marriage, I never had the nerves to cheat on her. I didn’t even let a lady touch me, infact I was afraid to look at a woman’s clĀ£avage because I believed I wasn’t appreciating my wife’s body if I do so and so I marked it as cheating on her too. I loved Tana so much that I would have bought the whole world for her if I could. Even without a child, I never doubted my love for her for one day. I have been the best husband in the whole world for her.. but just few months ago, I realized that I’ve been a f00l and have been faithful to and loving a woman who only married me to enrich herself and her lover who she’s truly inlove with and had been dating even before I met her…”
I felt my stomach sank immediately.
‘What? What did I just hear? What the hĀ£ck!’
“…I’m so angry, but I know I can’t hurt the woman I was so inlove with for close to seven years. All that I need is that satisfaction and after that, i’ll tell her all that I know about and, I would give you the five million naira that she wanted to pay you. Once she sees that I know everything, she’ll have no reason to silence you and Lora anymore,” he said.
“You want.. me to sleep with you?” I asked him.
“I want you to be the one to break my fidelity,” he said.
I shook my head, “No I can’t. I can’t sleep with a married man. Accepting to come here was a mistake. I was blinded by the money I was going to be paid because financially, it’ll change my life forever but I’ve realized that living with the little that I earn is far more better than living big from my sĀ£x tape with a married man. It’ll be shameful of me and even more shameful to think of it being watched by someone. Money isn’t everything…”
I took a breath and continued, “…So you better tell your wife everything you know and put a stop to whatever she had planned to do to I and Lora or i’ll tell her myself and call the police on her as well.”
I raised my phone screen to his face, showing him the Voice Record that I turned on twenty minutes ago.
“It has all our conversation inside, from when you talked about why your wife paid someone to k!ll I and Lora,” I said.
He glanced at it and then moved his eyes away, back to my face.
“Why can’t you sleep with me?” he asked.
“Because I can’t. It’s simple enough for you to understand,” I said and brought down my hand.
“I’m willing to pay you double for it. Ten million and you don’t need to worry about a sĀ£x tape, there will be nothing like that,” he said.
I scoffed, “I told you I don’t need the money. There are girls out there who would sleep with you over and, over and over again for the money so go for them.”
“No other girls Desire, it’s you that I want. I’m attracted to you and I’m ready to do whatever it takes to have that sĀ£x with you,” he said.
I inhaled.
“You know what.. I’m out of here,” I said, walked to the door and was about to open it when he halted me once again with his question.
“Is it because of Frank?”
But I didn’t release my grip on the doorknob.
‘Frank? Who’s that?’
“I don’t know who Frank is and I don’t care to know!” I half yelled and opened the door.
“Or maybe he told you a fake name coated with some sweet words,” he said.
I got curious, so I turned to him.
“Who are you talking about?” I asked.
He smiled, “Oh.. I see he didn’t tell you his real name and I’m wondering if you also told him you’re Jennifer.”
I exhaled, “Are you going to say something or watch me get out of here?”
“Your new friend but it seems you both are starting to become more than just friends so fast,” he said.
Immediately my mind went to no one else but Remi.
Remi?
“Who is Frank?” I asked.
“Oh I remember him now. He was sitting with you at the lobby the night I arrived,” he said.
‘I don’t need to think anymore. It was clear that he is talking about Remi but why is he calling him Frank?
Wait… I need to use my senses here.’
“And how do you know him?” I asked.
“If he didn’t introduce his name to you as Frank, then he doesn’t want you to know his real identity and that for sure, isn’t a good motive.”
‘Remi name is Frank?
But well Remi is his native name so he probably wanted me to call him Remi instead of Frank.’
“When Lora was trying to sĀ£duce. Oh Gawddd, I almost fell for it.. because she was good at it, very good. You are nothing close to her in that aspect. She kinda got in my head so I started making researches about her and that is how I saw the photo she took three years ago with him and she made a caption which she tagged his name as Frank, her paternal cousin. I still remember his face. Lora’s father had only one brother who married from his tribe, Igbo, so there is no way he would have named his son, Remi, a yoruba name. I told you I made researches about her so I knew everything about her, her family, background, working place, friends, current lover, exes. Alot..”
I shook my head, “No.. You must be mistaken.. no, there is no way.. Lora will send her cousin to…. spy on me?”
What??
No!
TBC
