Chapter Seven

I woke up with an aching head , slowly opened my eyes and realized I was in a hospital, immediately my sister screamed “ She is Awake !!” I turned and saw her, she moved towards me and hugged me so tight that I started feeling so much pain from the soreness of my body .

“ It hurts “ I said with my voice muffled while I still tried to figure out what was going on I looked around the hospital room and immediately knew it was Elijah’s hospital, .Then slowly it dawned on me that I wasn’t back in time - on my wedding night , I was at the present day , the day I had fought and stabbed my husband.seeing how there were food items , clothes and extra mattress I knew I had been there for more than two days .

My sister told me how she called me severally after I got off from the phone but he couldn’t reach me , she rushed over to my house and then found a lady in the house who had just called an ambulance, thankfully my husband and I were still breathing , she decided to take us to Elijah’s hospital but immediately I heard her mention my husband I felt an ick in my stomach because sincerely his name was the last name I wanted to hear .I listened to my sister as she narrated the story including how Amelia had helped her , how she called for aid and how she had followed her to the hospital and also how she visited while I was unconscious . As I listened to her I felt sick to my stomach because Amelia was the reason everything had happened.

As my sister was narrating the story , Elija worked in and rushed towards me , “you are awake “ he said with a bright smile on his face , the excitement in his voice and the expression on his face made me think he had been more worried that my sister had been , he took a deep breath and exhaled slowed .

“ oh Elija was here most of the time and was determined to take care of you “ my sister uttered and we all laughed. I have known Elija for a long time and for all the bad scenarios that had happened since I met him , he had been with me through it all and right at this moment he knew a secret that I haven’t mentioned to anyone, he knew about my test result and how deeply hurt it may have made me feel .

Around 2pm , when I stepped out of my ward, Elija had just left my hospital room after we talked , Elija had shown enough concern and care which was also why I had to let my sister get back to work and also told my mum

To continue her business because I was finally Okay though I still have bruises and wounds but they weren’t as painful anymore ,I thought about my husband and wondered how he was , I heard his family had transferred him to another hospital and since after the incident I haven’t been able to see him or heard from him because I was yet to buy a new phone .in my head i didnt think of him as my husband anymore because with everything that had happened, my eyes seemed to have opened to the pain it was once blinded by , I wasn’t going to continue in my Marriage , although during the altercation and fights I had wanted everything to end but now I have a chance to put an end to it in a lawful and moral way , I was going to move on with my life , erase all the pain of my Marriage while I create a new chapter where peace , love , good health and freedom would be written all over .

Watching the hospital Environment, cars drove in while some drove drove out , people moved around , nurses , cleaners , patients , families and even friends visited their loved ones , it was my first time being outside since the incident , I had been confined to the hospital for days that I had forgotten what fresh breath felt like , the day light was brighter than everything, I didn’t realize how long I have been inside until the view of reality and outside world felt therapeutic , the last time I was in this hospital was the day I had collected my test result and the day the greatest conflict of my life had surfaced , at this point in my life only Elija had known and I wasn’t ready to discuss it with anyone , I will take my drugs and live my life in the best way possible .

Suddenly I saw a familiar car drive into the hospital and I watched it closely , my mother in - law stepped out of the car and my heartbeat skipped two beats , I wasn’t ready for her but then I wasn’t going to let her talk me down or blame things on me because I was the victim in the story , I counted her footsteps and imagined how long it would take her to notice me there , in a moment I wanted to run and avoid but then another thought wanted me to live for myself. So I walked towards her bravely without fear or guilt , I was ready to say everything that should be said .

“ I’m sure you came to see me “ i said without trying to rehearse what to say to her but before I could say any other thing a heavy slap landed on my cheek and without notice a tear rolled down my face , to this very point nobody understood me , how could she not understand the pain and the bitterness I felt , she knew me and also knew about the ups and downs in my marriage,some days I cried to her on the phone , the other days she consoled me to bed , so how could she not see that even if I couldn’t kill a fly before but later ended up attempting a murder then something or someone may have pushed me too hard , after all i was a victim and everything I had done was just in my defense .

“ I see you feel so much better, “ she said .

She went on and on about how injured her son was , how she wondered what had happened and how she couldn’t believe I had stabbed him . I was tempted to tell her everything including my health condition but there was no need to tell her because I absolutely had no plan of continuing in our marriage. I listened to her carefully as she talked. I have always known her to be very expressive and opinionated so I didn’t bother trying to explain things to her anymore . I just waited for her to finish before saying the only and last thing I felt was best to tell her .

“I want a Divorce “ i said and then turned my back on her without ever looking back, because right at that moment I didn’t need to think more about it and I didn’t want to be a victim anymore , I was going to build my career , improve my Health and a woman who would never be messed with.