Episode 10
Doctor Gideon’s Wife 💔
I sat on the bed, sweating like a Christmas goat, not knowing the next action to take.
What is wrong with this girl?.
Just then, the door opened and Sandra entered.
“Mother is calling you”. She announced and turned to leave.
“Wait! why…why is shhhe calling me?”. I stammered.
“I don’t know”. She replied.
I stood up and walked slowly behind her.
When I got to the living room I stood a distance away from her. it’s funny that at 35, I still tremble at the presence of this old woman.
“Maa, you’re calling me”. I said
“Yes, I called you, I don’t know, I’m having pains on my neck”
I took a deep breath, then moved forward to take a look.
“I will get you some drugs for that tomorrow, but this night, you have to take a pain relief”
After I instructed Sandra on the right drug to administer to her, I returned to the room.
Thanks goodness, Sandra. I muttered, once I closed the door behind me.
That night, I didn’t sleep a wink. I kept thinking of how I was going to defend my actions before Mrs Williamson and also the best way to deal with Tricia.
That girl is just feeling like a hard nut to crack.
At last, I made up my mind that I was not going to see Mrs Williamson that Saturday.
“I will try and avoid her for now”. I had said to myself.
I was able to reach David the next day and he complained that Tricia has not been taking his calls.
I called and she picked immediately. We arranged another meeting with her.
David and I had been in the bar for more than 30 minutes before she arrived. As she approaches us, we weighed her from a distance.
“I don’t think this lady is pregnant. I believe she is only doing that to punish you for getting married to someone else… she doesn’t even know that she wasn’t the only woman you dumped”. David was saying.
“I have always known that she is just putting on that act, but I don’t want her to bring it into my office, that’s why I have been playing along”. I replied.
She got closer and sat down opposite us.
“Welcome, dear. How is the baby doing?”. I teased.
“Which baby?. She replied, abruptly, then stopped.
….. the baby that I’m begging you to take responsibility for?”
By now I was quite convinced that I haven’t been wrong all along. Tricia is not pregnant.
David begged her to follow him to a lab so she could take the pregnancy test again but she bluntly refused.
He begged her to accept money offer from me, she also turned that down too.
“What I want is a ring on my finger”
She finalized.
At the end of the meeting, she was asked to go home and think of how two million naira would change her life. She left the bar without looking back.
Mrs Williamson called again on Sunday morning while I was having breakfast with my family.
“Hello, Gideon, how many days will it take you to get here ?”. She asked .
“I’m sorry, ma, I have a lot of patients to attend to, I will try and come over on Tuesday” .I promised.
But she didn’t wait for that Tuesday before she stormed the hospital in the company of a whole band of police officers, on Monday morning.
“What’s going on here?”. I asked as soon as I was called out from my office by a nurse.
“You’re under arrest for defiling a minor”
Minor?, Gogoo is not a minor, someone that is even older than my wife.
“Which minor?”. I asked but they wouldn’t give me any answer.
“You will know once we get to the station”.
It was later that I learnt that she was actually at the hospital the time she called me on Sunday morning and through the other doctors she got to know my marital status.
So, she must had thought of the possible way to punish me and has decided to press such charges against me
I was whisked away like a common criminal, in the presence of all the people that respected me so much. This is just the height of disgrace…
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