The Night Shifts Episode Seventeen
Binta was overjoyed because in her mind she thinks she has successfully put a wedge in the relationship between Dr Nath and Chi Chi. She left their house with her head high in the air, overjoyed that Chi Chi had gotten angry over what happened between her and Dr Nath in the bush. She was happy she brought that up.
“The strategy worked. Now, let me see how he will convince her to marry him again. They will end up breaking up. I don’t want them d*ëad. By the time they break up, my husband will have no option but to come back to me. This is all I want. I want their relationship to crash. I don’t want that marriage to solidify. It will break my heart knowing that I treated my husband badly and another woman picked him.” Binta said to herself on her way home. She had fl*gged a taxi and she was sitting in the back seat.
“Now that Chi Chi is angry with Dr Nath, I hope she will end up leaving him. I hope she truly meant it when she said she would call off the wedding. I hope the wedding never holds. I hope they never end up together. This is my heart desire. I want to crash their happiness. I don’t want Dr Nath to ever be happy.” Binta continued to talking to herself while in the taxi.
“But I did not do well. It was all my fault. God gave me a good man as a husband, but I used my bad character to drive him into the hands of another woman. I used bad attitude to make him unhappy throughout the marriage. My husband was never happy. He was a sad man. I treated him badly and another woman picked him and cleaned him up. No man wants to be unhappy forever. Every man is looking for peace of mind.” She said in her heart. She wanted to start crying in the taxi, but she quickly remembered she was in public.
“Every man wants to be treated with respect by his woman. No man wants to be disrespected by his wife. Men like to be treated like kings. Men want peace of mind. They want to come back from work and sleep peacefully without being disturbed by a nagging woman. I have realized that men don’t like being challenged by their wives. They just want someone who is peaceful and who understand their feelings. Once you do that for a man, you will get whatever you want from him.” Binta said. She was kind of regretting her bad actions towards Dr Nath.
“But in my case, I was a thorn on my husband’s flesh. He was never happy and he never had peace. I wonder how he was able to tolerate me for a long time. I even made our children to hàte him. That was a terrible thing. I wonder how I will be able to get the children back to love him.” Binta said in her heart tearfully. At that time, the taxi had dropped her off in front of her house. The night was wearing on. She stepped into the compound with tears in her eyes.
“I’m so sad right now. I have to accept the blame. I have to accept the fact that I have made terrible mistakes. I ruined my home with my own hands. Dr Nath is a very good man. I’m sure he loved me when we got married. He loved me with all his heart. I’m so sure our marriage would have been so sweet for the two of us if not for the bad character I used to destroy everything. I don’t even know how I’m going to face my children. I don’t know how I’m going to tell them that I’m responsible for the destruction of our home.” Binta wept in her heart.
“What I will do is that I will stop fighting Chi Chi and Dr Nath. I will accept the fact that it is over between me and Dr Nath. I’m not sure he is ever going to come back to me. No man will ever accept a woman with my bad character. He will never agree to leave Chi Chi who is now giving him peace of mind. I will just make efforts to amend broken fences. I will try to reunite him and our children. I have messed up my life and I have to accept the consequences.” Binta lamented. She was sitting on the floor in the living room. She was very sorrowful. It was as if she all of sudden started realizing and accepting the fact that everything was her fault.
“But my father brought me up this way. This was what he told me to do because he wanted to make money from Dr Nath. He taught me how to be a bad woman. I have to confront him. He has to pay for ruining my life. If he did not teach me bad things, I would have been a good woman to my husband and a good mother to my children. I was foolishly following the instructions given to me by my father. But he has to pay for what he has done to my life. He can never go scot-free. He has been a bad father to me.” Binta said. She went into her room, changed her dress and moved out.
“I’m going to make my father pay for his sins. He was the one who ruined my life. Instead of continuing to fight Dr Nath and Chi Chi, I’m going to concentrate and fight my real enemy. My real enemy is my father and I’m going to make him pay for his sins. He was the one who ruined my life and those of my sisters. None of them are in their husband’s houses today because our father turned us into pones on the chess board. I’m going to show him pepper.” Binta said. She had a g*n in her handbag as she was going to pay her father a surprise visit that same night.
To be continued………..
