MY AUNT’S HUSBAND
EPISODE 7
I was happy to some extent not because someone was sent to wreck my aunt’s family but because I would have a bit of peace. I knew if he had continued I wouldn’t know the outcome. I went to kitchen and started preparing dinner but the girl came in and said I should leave the cooking for the night to her that she wanted to prepare food for her husband. Hmm husband kwa?, when did that one start. I didn’t want mom Beatrice problem neither did I want any other insult so I let her do the cooking as I watched from a distance.
During dinner everyone was eating peacefully and she really is a good cook. Aunt was just enjoying her meal with her husband by her side. Aunt Belinda then started a conversation she could have sensed how the dinning was very quiet with just cutlery chattering “Chinwe you have upped your cooking skills o, nekwa ga enri na to(see how this food is delicious)”. Aunt I wasn’t the one that cooked o, she looked at me and I pointed at the girl mom Beatrice brought. Omo come and see uncle Josh complementing her and her bright her smile was, I just kept watching Aunt Belinda’s movement. She stopped eating and swiftly left the table, I was expecting uncle Josh to follow her but he was just drowning in the food.
I couldn’t leave my food because someone else cooked it or because uncle Josh was complementing her,I received alot of those compliments so there wasn’t even a bit of jealously in my heart as I ate to my satisfaction. I can’t come and kill myself. After dinner uncle Josh went to confront aunt Belinda.” Babe why did you just leave the table and the food mom is very angry and you made the girl she brought feel sad, see it’s just food she cooked so just manage okay?, she’s now family and I want you to treat her the same way you treat Olivia please.
My aunt looked angry but didn’t say much,she just told him she was sorry for leaving the table that she didn’t expect her to cook and that she doesn’t want her to enter the kitchen again as she will he the one cooking from then. I didn’t linger more I went to do the last chore for the day before I went to bed. I decided it was time I had that chit chat with the new wife sorry new girl I didn’t still know her name.
I went into her room and she was just coming out of the bathroom. And if I were a male I would have fallen in love with her. I excused myself to go out while she changed but she smiled and said I was her fellow woman so I can stay. I just kept looking at another direction till she was fully dressed. We hit it off immediately,hi am chinwe I told her and she asked why I liked my native name more than Olivia. Well I just told her I loved it more and that’s all and how she knew my name was Olivia she then said mom Beatrice told her.
I complimented her cooking skills and told her I would love to learn from her. Of course I could cook but her food was awesome and I was open to learning more. Aunt Belinda didn’t really teach me much in cooking I had backed the little she thought me with cooking videos and practicals from school. She said she would be delighted to give me lessons on cooking. She said she’s a chef and I was wowed. I thought she was my age mate but she is actually 4 years older than me, looks surely could deceive.
She is 20 and she told me she wasn’t here to wreck my aunt’s marriage but to help them have children. That mom Beatrice paid her and once she gives birth to a child for them she would be off. I didn’t know why I didn’t believe her but I’ll just be watching. I could vividly remember she said she wants to prepare food for her husband. I asked why she accepted mom Beatrice’s offer and she said it’s because her restaurant because bankrupt and she needed money. I asked if mom Beatrice married her and she was shocked but covered her shock with a smile and she changed the topic telling me her name is Hannah……..
