jilted episode 83

JILTED
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Sequence 83
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Ambrose POV
Straight to doctor Kendrake's office, I really need to know what those pills are for.
"Uhmmm, this slowly reduces the reasoning ability of a person, where did you get it? It's not some kind of drug that flys around"
Bead of sweat formed on my forehead, did Hannah really plan this against my wife? She went extra miles to get this pills?
"Reasoning ability as in?"
"In simple English, over time, I mean after a long use of this pills, maybe a year or two, the person begins to act crazy, they see strange things and talk gibberish. But it's not a permanent damage as long as they stop using, changes would take place but it's a very dangerous drug, the person becomes totally useless and it takes a longer time to recover, maybe fifteen or twenty years depending on how long they have been using and how much medical attention they get"
I whuffled hitting my knuckles against the table constantly.
"Is there any problem? Where did you get this?" Kendrake asked.
I kept mute, glancing at my wrist watch, it was past 9pm in the evening.
I need to meet that witch tonight, she needs to explain this trash to me. She tried to make Haira useless? Out of all things, a mad woman?
"Thank you Ken, you can keep the pills, Good night"
I rushed out of his office, sitting at the wheel, I called Anthony. He confirmed his absence at the house.
Without thinking twice, I hit the road, my heart was set on fire. Hanna is taking this whole thing too far, what exactly would she gain by ruining my home?
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"If you have to talk at all, all I want to hear is why you gave Apollos those tablets" I roared immediately she open the door.
Hanna POV
What? He knows?
Is that girl that naive? I thought she would be carried away by the I phone I promise to get her.
"I don't understand, what do you mean?" I frowned trying to block him from entering the room.
He took the door from me and stepped in, I took few steps back. I can obviously see the fire burning in his eyes.
"Start talking" He roared. My child kicked, I can feel hotness inside of me.
"I don't know................." I was going to deny it again but I got something else, a loud red heated slap.
It sent me into the couch and he raised me up with my arms.
"I vowed never to hit a lady in my life, the first time I hit a lady, it was all your fault, you made me hit my wife, you frustrated me, you turned her back against me and now? You want to drive her crazy? Hanna, start talking, why are you doing this? You are married, happily married, what else do you want from me? Let I and my wife be!" He yelled throwing me back into the couch.
I held my tummy, I felt serious pains around my abdomen.
"You haven't say anything" He dropped into the couch sitting next to me.
"I said I know nothing about the pills" I further deny.
"You are mad!" He sent another slap across my face.
This time I couldn't hold it, I began to cry. My phone was not close and Anthony is out to get fresh fish.
I ran for my life, he's boiling, he might kill me If I sit there battering words with him. The Ambrose I know doesn't hit women, right now, he seems to be capable of killing.
"Bitch, where the hell do you think you are going?" He yelled running after me.
I held my tummy as I climb up the stairs weakly. I was able to get up the first six stairs before he caught up with me.
"What do you want from me?" He held my left hand, I tried struggling with him but I slipped, it was uncontrollably, Ambrose tried holding on to me but I rolled down the stairs and that was all I could remember.
Ambrose POV
I felt her pulse, she was still breathing but very slow. I panicked, I can't do anything now, I can't even take her to the clinic, what do I say I was doing at her house so late at night?
"Hanna, I never wanted to do this, If you can hear me, I am sorry but please let my family be or the end might be disastrous"
I left the house in a flash, my body soaked in my own sweat. I didn't tell Haira where I was going, I just left the house with the pills immediately Apollos was done talking.
I am caught up in the web of two sisters, I have babies with both of them, one wouldn't let me breath, she's bent on shattering everything her sister has been building with me. I don't understand any more, I need to relocate with my family as soon as possible. If Hanna survives this night fall, she would get back at me, this time bigger and hotter so I better flee with my family.
"Saint open this gate, idiot!" I yelled honking harder.
It took him five seconds before he finally attended to the gate, I angrily drove into the compound, the AC had no effect on me, sweat poured like shower.
I prayed silently for her survival, I would never wish her dead.
My wife was breast feeding our daughter in the sitting room, I didn't say a thing to her, I just went straight to the room. I ran a cold shower for myself but that didn't ease my stress, I still felt terrible, terrible for hurting a woman that much.
"Treasure, are you okay?" She stood behind the door, I stood motionlessly under the shower and allowed the splash of water cool me down.
I ignored her question, I switched off the shower and got myself wrapped in my bathroom rope.
"Don't treat me like that, I said what's the problem?" She yelled following me out of the bathroom.
"We are relocating" I announced not looking at her for sure frowned face.
I faced the wardrobe and got a pair of pyjamans.
"Where's my daughter?" I asked searching the bed with my eyes. Angelina isn't in the room, I have to protect everything that breaths in my family especially my wife and daughter.
"She's with your mom, that's not even the issue right now, where are we relocating to? Why? I mean, we have lived here for only 22 months now, I thought we plan on dedicating our child to God on our wedding anniversary, where are we going all of a sudden?" She shouted. She must have forgotten that we are no longer the only ones staying in the house.
"Keep your voice down, we would dedicate our child here and after that, we would leave. We have two months to prepare our belongings, I would apply for residence permit too, we are leaving this country" I insisted.
She stood there dumbfounded, Her hands went under her breast, I don't know how to explain this to her, the best for us right now is relocation.
"Ambrose, I deserve a clear explanation, what in God's name is this? Today you are cool, tomorrow hot and next........."
"I was wondering too, today you pray for our safety, tomorrow you want us to sleep in the lion's den" I hissed.
I have got no time for this, all I want now is sleep. I wish I can really sleep.
"Ambrose, I............"
"Good night Haira, make sure Angelina sleeps in this room tonight" I ended my conversation.
No more questions, I am just done.
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Hanna POV
When I woke up, Anthony said I have been unconscious for two days, I have been on oxygen and I almost lost my baby. The child narrowly survived with me.
I hate Ambrose more now, he had the guts to push me that hard after hitting me? And he think I would stop hurting his family? I have just began to deal with them, I would torture the Fords that they would shiver at the mention of Hanna or even Rose.
Laura came to see me at the clinic, she was really upset and sworn go break Apollos neck.
"Red eyed, I have been the one crying, can the Fords too cry?" I yelled. It was only me and Laura in the ward. I sat up in bed shaking my legs under the covers.
"If you want them to cry, they can, but you keep saying I don't want anyone dead, don't they want you dead? You were at the psychiatrist home and she was busy planning wedding with him? Stupid set of people" She hissed. The fire of hatred burned in me. I held my tummy and spoke "Your father is a bloody bastard that needs to be taught a bloody lesson"
Looking at Laura, I asked "Any plans?"
She nodded and stood up to me, whispering her latest plot to me.
"No o, I don't want anyone dead o" I shook my head in the negative.
She hissed "There we go again, you are too merciful"
"I can't kill, no. Haira is still my sister no matter what"
"But you can watch her go crazy?"
"At least she's still alive and it can be corrected, I just want her to feel what it's like to be in a psychiatric home for a whole year"
She inhaled.
"Fine, we wouldn't kill her, let her just spend few days in the hospital like yourself" She gave a big grin.
"Now you are talking, are they professionals? I would prefer a clean job" I said knowing how smart Ambrose can be and what he can do. If he traces a thing to me this time, he might just break my neck.
"Don't worry, leave me to handle it"
3days later.
Ambrose POV
I got news from Anthony that she's fine now, he believe she fell and slipped on her own, he's such a good man and doesn't deserve an nutrients woman like Hanna.
I and Haira have served our selves hot, we haven't resumed having sex since delivery and I understand she needs time to hell. Since about five days now, she's been ignoring me because I shunned her the other night. She doesn't want to relocate and she don't want to talk to me about it either.
Eugene and Sammy left already, the morning she was leaving, we discussed, she don't want to get married again. She's earning well in the company she works and was able to get herself a two bedroom rented apartment in a posh area in such a short time. She think love doesn't really exist, she said I am the only true man on earth and others are just wreck.
"Mis molded idiots!" That was her description of men.
Haira came to the sitting room, she held Angelina in a baby's carrier in front of her chest. As usual, Angelina is sleeping.
"Hey, are we still fighting?" I asked trying to get her attention. She changed the channel to zee world and ignored me totally.
"Babes, we can talk about it" I pleaded.
"You never wanted to talk about do you? Leave me o" She warned raiding her index finger at me.
I stood up and went to sit next to her, she stood up and took my former seat. I chuckled.
"I want to hold my girl"
"She's sleeping" She snapped.
I kept to myself staring at her roaming eyes, she would never understand that I am doing all this for her.
The main door clank, I raised my head and twisted my neck in the direction, the last person we would ever dream of seeing stood in the space patting her sweaty face with a white handkerchief. Her husband stood behind her beaming a smile at us.
"Look at them, staring like a saucer" She hissed, rudely walking into the room. Her heels made heavy noise and Angelina woke up yelling the house down.
"Good afternoon ma" I greeted bending a little, I tried as much as I can to swallow my shock.
"Ehn, who's that? Don't greet me o, I am not here for you, I came to see my grand child" She warmed sternly.
I went ahead to prostrate in front of my father in law. I can't believe my mother in law paid us a visit. She held Angelina and she stop crying.
"Oh, look at my first grand child, she's so beautiful" she kissed her cheeks, I and Haira exchanged glance.
Right there, I concluded that she's not really what we all think she's. She's just being herself, if we ask her, she would have a very heartbreaking story to tell. People don't just wake up and become aggressive, they must have been through hell.
"I heard you did one ogbanje naming, we would re do that naming, naming that I was absent, is that one naming or rubbish?" She opened her left palm holding Angelina with her right hand.
"But ma............" I tried protesting but she gave me hot.
"Would you shut up? Remember I didn't give you my daughter and you didn't even pay her bride price, wife thief, you said you did court marriage abi? Anyways, I am coming for Omwugo, how many rooms is in this your big for nothing house?" She asked finally sitting down.
"My mom is around for that, you don't have to stress yourself" I said. This woman for omugwo? God forbid.
"So? Are we going to share the same bed? Come, do you think I am here for jokes? Where's that your mother sef? Mama Ambrose, Waka commot o" She yelled.
Haira sat next to her, she gave Haira a terrible scorn.
"So, I am sitting you are sitting, don't you have respect? Haira, see your husband standing, he still have some sense in there" She remarked.
I breathed out, my wife can no longer seat in her own house, nawa o. Haira came to stand next to me, I held her by the waist and kissed her shoulder, grudges sorted.
"In law, Good afternoon" My mom came downstairs greeting her and my father in law.
"Oh, Assistant in law, I heard you came here to take my place? You would have to leave!" She told my mom with all seriousness.
"Ha!" I and my wife exclaimed.
"Who was that?"
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TBC