MY HOT TEMPERED HUSBAND
EPISODE 4&5
For the first time Alpha told fatou in a calm and still voice “am sorry Fatou, it was the devil that took over me that day. I know I’ve got a hot temper but I love you and that’s what matters now. Give me a chance to make it up to your family for the wrong I did to your late father and your family.”
I just need a chance to proof my love to you. Sorry for the death of your brother, of course if I knew the boy was in critical condition that day, I may not have reacted the way I did. I am truly sorry. He was truly remorseful in his words and actions but mama won’t accept that for the soul of her only son.
This anger in me was inherited from my late grandfather. From history, he was said to be cruel whenever he was angry. He could do anything to anyone if he is angry. I remember my dad too was hot tempered but he could control himself many times because he was a respected elder in church. I have seen him breaking glasses and gadgets whenever he was angry. His anger will only subside after he must have destroyed something or seen blood.
My grandmother told us many stories about our late grandfather when he was alive. He had a slave girl he bought from slave trade who became pregnant under his roof. We learnt he was so angry that he used hot knife to puncture the girls stomach in an attempt to abort the pregnancy. Her intestine gushed out and she bled until she died.
In another occasion, he caught a man sleeping with his daughter on his farm. He arrested the man and tired him on a mango tree for 5 days without food and water. On the fifth day his anger was not pacified so he set the man ablaze while he was hanging on the mango tree. He died screaming and wallowing in pain.
The third incident happened between him and his last wife.
She was pregnant with twins when they had a misunderstanding with grandpa, the misunderstanding led to a serious fight between them, he beat her until she went into comma for three days. By the time she regained. consciousness, she had lost her twins of seven months and two weeks.
That thing really pained that woman so she became isolated and depressed. She never recovered again from this pain. On the day she was to die, she placed curses on my grandfather and his descendants.
MY HOT TEMPERED HUSBAND
EPISODE 5
If you leave me because of my temper, we will go our separate ways and both get married to people we don’t love. No man is totally perfect, not you nor me. We are all work in progress in the hand of our maker.
Posterity will not forgive you if you don’t give me a chance to make it up to your family and correct my wrong. Alpha’s words were touching but they failed to heal my wound. The wound of knowing who contributed to sending my only brother to his early grave. The battle between love and hatred within me became more tensed. Alpha is now a pious and a new creature. Even if he killed my brother directly, he still deserved to be forgiven considering how much God had forgiven us all.
But how am I going to convince mama that Alpha is a changed person? What will Alpha do to erase the pain of her late son in her heart? Will this relationship ever lead to marriage? Should I just walk away or stick to the man I love and d–n the consequences? If I die I die, I will marry Alpha, I made up my mind. I know I will surely get this really hard with mama but I had made up my mind and I will marry Alpha.
I remember how mama used to tell us how poor my dad was when they met and how many of her friends discouraged her from marrying such a wretched man like my dad. But she believed in him, married him and things changed for the better after some years. I will remind mama of this story if she insist I should not marry Alpha.
Mama, Alpha did not deny all you said about him but he’s now a changed man. He is born again and filled with the pious. He is no more the man who broke your windscreen. We have sinned and done more terrible things against God but he forgave us even when we never deserved forgiveness. I preached to mama. The only thing that will make me happy is to marry Alpha. I love him and I will marry him.
Mama sighed deeply after my speech. ‘ Fatou, she spoke a proverb in Severe meaning “what is after six is more than seven”. Since you have made up your mind to marry him, I will not object because I want you to be happy but I will advice you take your time to think about your decision. I may be here today with you but I will surely not be with you forever.
Love is a strong force but sometimes to draw a clear line between love and infatuation is a bit difficult. She gave her permissive consent. Her countenance was not good even when she seemed to have given me the go ahead.
Can Alpha come and see you by the weekend? I asked mama. He is welcome. I was very happy with the development. I called Alpha to break the news to him. ” Mama is happy with you and will be expecting you by the weekend. He was glad to hear that. What did you do that changed your mother’s mind towards me? Alpha asked me. You are a super woman. I can’t wait till weekend, I wish tomorrow is weekend, he said in excitement.
TBC…..
