IF I HAD WAITED
©️Ojo Rhoda Ayanfeoluwa.
Part 7
I couldn’t believe my eyes that Bidemi laid his hands on me.
I went to the room to cry my eyes out.
I heard Mama bursting out in laughter. My heart sank.
I couldn’t take it any more. I locked myself inside the room. Mama was the one that prepared food for his son. They didn’t even bother to prepare food for me. Food was far from me. The appetite to eat anything was lost, but the strength to cry over and over was there.
“Where did I miss it?” I asked no one in particular. I didn’t abort pregnancies for any one. In fact, Bidemi was the first man to know me .
I went to see the doctor some months ago and he told me nothing was wrong with me. He said I was fertile.
“If nothing is truly wrong with me, why haven’t I given birth to just a child” I asked.
“Or, do I really belong to an evil kingdom? Have I truly donated my womb there?” I asked myself. It can’t be true because I know and I am very sure that I am not a witch. I don’t fly in my dream. I don’t eat in my dream.
I was expecting Bidemi to come to our room. Immediately he got to know that I was there, he turned back. He didn’t ask about my welfare.
I became a thrash in his sight.
The following day, I came out of the room. I greated my husband but, he did not respond. I greeted his mother, there was no response.
As I was going to the kitchen, my husband stopped me and warned me seriously not to enter that kitchen again to make his meals. I was destabilized. His mother shouted at me. She said she doesn’t want me to kill her only son for her.
I went back to the room. After some minutes, I went to the rest room. The rest room was beside their room. I began to listen to their conversations.
“Mum, what am I going to do to this woman called my wife that cannot give me a child?” Bidemi asked.
“My son, I will clear her. I have a lady in the village that is beautiful and very fertile. I want you to marry her.” His mother said.
“Mum, my religion doesn’t permit polygamy.” He said.
“I know, and that is why I want to clear her. I’m going to put poison in her food that will make her die slowly. Once she is dead, you can marry this woman I’m talking about without thinking of religion.” His mother said.
I couldn’t believe what I heard. So, they were plotting my death. I tiptoed back to my room and cried my eyes out.
“God, why me???” I shouted.
I heard a knock on my door after two hours. When I opened it, I saw mama standing. I greeted her. She responded. She asked me to eat something as she tried handing over the tray containing food and water to me. She said she noticed I didn’t eat the previous night and that was why she took it upon herself to prepare it for me.
I thanked her and told her I wasn’t interested in her food. I told her to eat it or give someone else. She compelled me to take the tray from her but, I didn’t answer her. After some time she became furious. She manovre herself into the room and dropped the food on the bed.
“If you don’t eat this food today, I will make your life more miserable because, I can’t allow a witch to waste my efforts in preparing this food.” She said.
I made up my mind not to eat the food. I later poured the food into the dust bin. She saw it . She was furious. I didn’t bother to say anything, since she was after my life.
After 5 days, they brought another woman in. The day she came, my husband called me and introduced her to me as his new wife.
“What about me?” I asked him.
“You are not my wife again since you didn’t give me a child.” He said.
“What if I give you a child tomorrow?” I asked.
“Then you will be my wife. If you are the first person to give me a child, I will send this lady back to the village. If it is the two of you that give me children at the same time, then I will accept the two of you as my wives. If you don’t get pregnant within 60 days, I promise to send you away from this house ” He said pointing to me.
I left the sitting room and went to the room.
” God, please, just open my womb. I don’t want to leave this house.” I cried.
I remembered God’s promises. I spoke to Him about it. I begged him to remember me just as He remembered Sarah and Hannah in the Bible.
He assured me that I wasn’t going to be put in shame.
When it seemed as if God wasn’t answering my prayers and the deadline my husband gave me was fast approaching, I decided to help myself.
What did I do?
Watch out in the next part.
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