jilted episode 96

JILTED
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©™Hapita
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Sequence 96
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Ambrose POV
I sounded harsh, I know.
My wife is as stubborn as a goat.
She stubbornly impose feminism on our marriage when it's not just working.
She want to pay me back in my own coins for every mistake I make.
She have been misbehaving, doing things wrongly simply because she knows she's my world.
I truly can't do things without her but I have learnt to keep to myself since she conceived Alice.
Before she conceived, we had numerous issues, I was always the one begging and feeling sorry. My wife would never ever plead, whether right or wrong.
She's got a means of justifying her actions, it drives me crazy but I let it slide.
Then, she got pregnant.
After I pleaded that she go for child spacing even if she want more babies in the future. That was the beginning of our issues.
I vowed to give her the best life and that was why I sent Lina to the states so that we could have all the time in the world to journey and make love. She's not in the same boat with me, she wanted babies, more babies.
If she finds me chatting late at night, she would accuse me of cheating. Then, she would bring her ugly Dubai friends to the house, they would party until dawn disturbing the peace of the neighborhood with loud musics.
Maybe it's money, she has suddenly grown wings. She's now rich, in the space of three years, music have taken her places, she made friends with rich business women.
Women who demostrate feminism wrongly, women who think marriage is bondage, they think all that matters is having the money and birthing two to three kids for different fathers.
I dare not talk, she shuns me.
Her words were usually "Who the hell do you think you are? This is my life Manny"
So, yes, I left her to her life. I didn't complain about her new life style, she was the opposite side of the woman I married. She ate without caution forgetting that she wasn't to eat some food so that her fibroid wouldn't grow bigger. She ate and ate and boom, bulgy tummy, heavy menstruation, big fibroid.
Going for a surgery, tested positive to pregnancy. Oh good, she still went ahead to get pregnant after all my pleads.
I took extra care of her during pregnancy, we had sex upon sex and we travelled around too. Oh, she's so interested in tourism so I let her.
Then she had Alice, Who the hell doesn't know STRAW in this part of the world? Straw, that's the stage name she gave to herself.
I don't know where my old wife went to, back then in Nigeria, she wouldn't drink unless I get her drunk myself, she still said sorry sometimes even though not always, we had our ways of settling dispute, she never had friends and she gave me listening ears.
Relocating changed her, she met people, she joined the crazy dressers gang, I dare not talk, she would make the house a living hell for me.
I travelled for business reasons two years ago, I returned to meet the house empty, she left for Cairo without informing me. When I called she had said "I thought we've got equal rights? I am somewhere sipping wine"
That was just the few things she did to me, she was shattering me emotionally. I trust her, even with her recent changes, I am sure she doesn't cheat and I had to use that weapon against her just to bring her back, I have given her the best of sex that I doubt it if there's any man anywhere that can make her scream like I make her do.
I was angered when she had Alice, I told her to get family planning done or no sex. I knew she wouldn't take me serious because most of the time, it was always me begging for my marital rights like a child.
And just like I thought, she didn't get it done, I shut my heart against her and started leaving like a single father. I cut down the rate at which we talk, I began to snub her, sometimes publicly.
At first, she wasn't bothered, she thought I would coming begging, she kept bringing her friends over to the house, I made it a must to join them in drinking with little Alice in my arms. Alice was four months old then.
Maybe she saw the attention I was giving her two devilish friends, she stopped them from coming to the house and she started asking for sex. It was then I showed her that she couldn't boss me around.
Seven months now, I have abstained, I saw my kids as priority, I sometimes bath Alice since Haira aka Straw was too busy to look after her family. She was lavishly spending her money although she said she's into estate business, I didn't ask futhure questions, more questions might land me into trouble. Seriously, Hanna seems to be better now.
"You can leave if you want to, Who do you think you are? I am good without you, I know I was wrong for loving you, I would take it back, fuck you girl!" I shook her speaking the words into her ears.
"I can't be ordered around by you, if it felt good why are you upset that I am bossing you now?" She hissed pushing me off her body.
I gave her one last look before storming out of the room.
I thought Hanna was crazy, money and fame brought the real Haira out.
Hanna POV
"Hanna!"
Laura screamed my name loud, running in my direction.
"Enh ehn, she's pregnant, don't jump into her like that" Anthony quickly got in between us before she could jump into me.
I exhaled, I thought she was going to jump into me too with the speed she was coming with.
"Haaaa, I didn't not notice, commot make I see road" She pulled Anthony out of the space and her jaw dropped.
Pulling me behind her, she took me far from Anthony "How did this happen? For another man?"
I chuckled.
"Anthony's"
'How? I thought he had issues'
"I can't explain too, the doctor said I am expecting three" I broke.
She went backward, her eyes almost fell out of their sockets, she covered her mouth in shock.
After all she did to me, I don't want to hold anything against her, Anthony have preaching repentance to me and I am making use of it.
"Look, I don't really care how it happened but I am really happy for you, congratulations" She pulled me into arms.
"I wish you the best too, please try marriage, you are 33 already" I pleaded smooching her forehand.
"Yes, marriage? Working on it already but no one wants to marry an ex convict" She said sobbing.
"Haba, do you have to tell them? You tell every man that comes your way that you an ex convict?" I frowned.
She shook her head.
"I haven't met anyone serious, the one I met left when I told him my past, I am fed up seriously" She was going to cry, I held on to her hands.
"He's not meant for you, relax, the best is yet to come" I assured.
She nodded.
We walked back to Anthony who sat on the pavement outside the building waiting for us to round up our gossip.
"I would be leaving in five days, you can always call" I assured, she smiled.
"I would come down when you have your baby, let me come and press this your big tummy down, ehhh three? Anthony sabi play" She cracked, Anthony giggled standing up to hold my waist.
"Laura, hope you discussed well? All the best in life dear, we are starting all afresh, somewhere in Europe"
Laura rolled her eyes.
"So, you are stylishly telling me that not to visit again abi?" She hissed.
"You are always welcome, madam, oya turn, we have visited everywhere today, time to rest" He said kissing my neck.
I waved Laura and we left at once.
"You need to meet the Fords, you won't have our babies carrying people in your mind" He insisted flagging down a cab.
How do I face Haira and Ambrose after everything I did to them, how?
Ambrose POV
Stepping into the room, I met her standing, back turned on me, she wore a clingy strapless gown, the one that made my heart skipped.
I ignored her holding whatever it's in my body that carves for her.
"Ambrose, I am sorry now" She said immediately she noticed my presence.
"I am not upset, I am just disappointed, I thought I know my wife, what has fame done to you?" I hissed sitting up in bed and rolling the duvet above my chest.
"I am sorry, I have said that before" She came to kneel next to me.
"What happened? Why the sudden change? Where did you learn to yell at me and make your own rules? This isn't you, did I do something wrong? Relocating us to Dubai is my offence right? You have suddenly become the opposite of what I saw, liked and married, I would just put a stop to your music career if you won't give me peace" I threatened.
"That's it" She yelled "The same thing we are talking about, you want to be in charge? You can go anywhere at your wish while I remain at home cooking and being submissive, how long?" She held the edge of the bed firmly.
I whuffled throwing my neck backward.
"Remind me again, what should you be doing? Partying or gallivanting around town? you are a married woman and your family is your first priority, I and Lina was suppose to be first before you stubbornly added Alice"
"And you should be grateful, I gave you two daughters, I risked my life" She roared, spatting venom.
"Would you ever change? You risked your life and you escaped narrowly yet you want to go another round, you don't want to get family planning done, are you okay?"
I sat up dropping my head in my palms.
"I did that already, you are too bossy, you want to be in charge of everything, Haira you won't leave this house, Haira don't wear this, Haira get family planning done, Haira don't eat this, don't do that, bla bla bla" She hissed, coming to sit next to me in bed.
"You never complained, I was only protecting my wife and my home, if I ask you not to leave the house, I have my reasons, If I insist on family planning, it's to keep you alive moreover this madness started before Alice conception, so what happened?"
"Nothing, I made friends, women no longer allow that shit, a woman have rights too, I can say no to your orders if they don't match what I want" She hissed.
"Can we put things in order please? I am tired already, those crazy women would mislead you, we are Africans and the man is the head of the house, that feminism shit isn't working for us, I promise to be considerate as from now on but you need to learn to say sorry, I don't seems to understand how you suddenly find pleasure in drinking, fame is doing something to you too, let's pick this all afresh, I am tired of keeping malice and depriving myself of all the happiness that comes with marriage" I said trying not to yell.
My kids are sleeping in their room, not too far from ours.
"I am sorry anyways, you also need to stop ordering me around, do this, do that, I have got rights too" She said winking her long artificial lashes.
I nodded.
I am tired of fighting and arguing, all I want is having her again, it been ages.
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TBC