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The Secret 4.
After taking my bath, I joined my wife in the bedroom, but my heart wasn’t at rest. I was drying my body with the towel, when my wife walked towards me and said.
“Honey, is everything alright? I noticed your sudden change of mood immediately you entered the house. What is it? You know that, you can always tell me anything”
“Eerrrm, it is nothing serious. It’s just about my job, but I will sort everything out. Don’t bother yourself”, I stuttered.
We gisted and talked about the training before we slept off that night.
I decided that I will do everything humanly possible to solve the problem myself without involving my wife.
Moreover, telling Clara, my wife, would raise suspicions. I know my wife very well. She would investigate it; till she finds out why I told her to sack Lina, the maid.
Two weeks after Lina became our maid, I discovered that she has suddenly become too close to my wife.
My wife doesn’t stay a day without mentioning Lina in our conversation.
It was becoming increasingly tiring and frustrating to watch Lina take my place in my wife’s life. When it was becoming unbearable for me, I decided to speak to my wife.
“Honey, I don’t understand what’s happening in this house”
“What is the problem?”
“Why is it that you’re always with our maid, talking with her while neglecting me? I don’t understand you anymore”
” Honey, I see her like my sister. She’s first a human being before being our maid. Have you forgotten?”, she quizzed.
“I know but,…..”
She moved closer to me and assured me that nobody would ever take my place in her life and I don’t have any reason to suspect anything.
Since she had never given me any reason to doubt her, I believed her although the presence of Lina in our home was giving me a big concern.
The next day while at the office, I called Lina on phone.
“Hello Lina, meet me by 5pm at Moli restaurant. I want to discuss something with you”.
“Alright. I will be there”, she responded before ending the call abruptly.
Immediately I closed from work that day, I hurriedly drove to the restaurant to wait for Lina, my ex-girlfriend.
Barely 15 minutes after I got to the restaurant, she walked into the restaurant, looking dazzling in her pink gown. She was looking so beautiful as she walked briskly towards the my table.
“Good evening Emmy”
“Welcome. You look good”
“Thanks so much”, she blushed before she settled on her seat.
“Lina, why are you doing this? Why are you deceiving my wife? Why are you hellbent on destroying my marriage?”
“Emmy, don’t you understand? I still love you. Have you forgotten what we shared? Our beautiful moments?”
“Lina, I remember all these things but you need to know that I can never be yøurs again. I’m now a married man. Don’t you get it? When we were dating years ago, did I ever huurt you?”
“Emmy, I know you didn’t huurt me and that’s why I still want you. I don’t want to marry you. No, I just want to be with you”, she said as she held my hands.
“It can never be possible. I’m going home right now to tell my wife about you. I can’t let you deßtroy my beautiful home”
As I was about to open the door and leave the restaurant, she stood up and said.
“If you dare tell your wife, I will show her our son”
“Our son? How?”
“I found out that I was pregnant for you some months after we left the university. I tried reaching you but I couldn’t. So I ran away from home to a friend’s place, till I gave birth to our son”.
I froze.
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©️ Emeka Edozie.
