How could a woman who claimed to be a university graduate behave in the manner that she did that day? My heart dropped into my tummy that evening when I walked into my bedroom and found the hundred thousand naira I had given her torn into flakes of confetti! A hundred thousand naira!
Madly, I rushed into her room to unleash my anger on her but she was lucky that my boys were at home. Honestly, I would have committed murder if not because they held me.
I left the house moments later because the anger in me could make water from a refrigerator boil. That day, for the first time in many years, I went to a beer parlour and drank myself to stupor.
The next day was Sunday. When I woke up and looked through the window, I saw that her car was not there. I felt in that instant that she had probably gone to church. I discovered that she left without preparing breakfast as usual.
When at midday she still had not returned, I told Emma, my younger brother who was with me at that time to put water on the fire and make eba for us. I tried her number but it was switched off.
Emma went into the kitchen and put some water on the fire. I was in my room watching TV when I saw her car pull into the compound. When I peeped through the window and saw that she was not wearing her church clothes, I began to wonder where she’d gone to.
She looked horrible.
In no time, her loud voice was all over the house and flying like kites over the rooftops. She was screaming and demanding to know why my younger brother had the effrontery to enter her kitchen.
“You fool!” she screamed. “Who gave you the audacity to come into my kitchen?”
By the time I came out of my room, it was already too late. She grabbed the pot of water on the stove and in a split of seconds, emptied it on my brother. I turned white into a statue immediately.
That was the height of it all. Now I knew why men married all her younger sisters and left her in the cold in spite of her beauty. There are women who aren’t made for marriage and Antonia is one of them. Emma is still in the hospital recuperating. As for me, the marriage is over. Nothing anybody says or does that will make me take her back into my house. She is now presently facing the law; domestic violence!
Whatever the outcome is, I will never take her back into my house. So guys I've come to the end of my story, i hope you enjoyed and learnt something from this..
My cleaning activity for today.
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