Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Lisa's POV

I remained on the floor all night trying to tell myself I was dreaming, Daniel could never cheat on me right? I need to wake up from this bad dream and face reality….What hurts the most is the fact that all these are real.. Does this mean men are born to cheat? I am not his girlfriend but his wife…his wife.. How could he do this to me? I did everything right from the day I became his wife. I didn’t love him to this level but he was such a dotty husband that led me on and made me fall deeply. I don’t deserve any of this ….. I cried non-stop and just like that I dozed off right on the spot. What’s weird was the face I had a dream about seeing Amanda telling me, “Men are scorn, I told you before, no matter how good a wife you are to them, it’s never enough, learn to live with it..” Turning to the other direction I saw Daniel engaging his new mistress and I got kicked out.

I cried from the dream to reality, the tears still in my eyes… What am I going to do now? Should I wait for him to return home so he tells me himself why he cheated on me? I deserve to know the reason … Throughout that day, I couldn’t even bring myself to eat or engage in anything. I sat down looking at a particular spot with the voice of the girl playing all over in my head like I just answered the call again and again.

Night came and there was no sign of Daniel, not a call and he didn’t even bother to come home. I guess he must be crazily in love with her. That's why he has forgotten so soon that he has a wife at home that will be hurting.

I tried to reach Rosa on the phone to speak to her about everything going on but her number was out of reach, I hope nothing happened to her. After my birthday, I haven’t heard from her. I don’t know if it will be right to go to her apartment just like that. Maybe she is really busy and she will call me as usual once she is less busy . She has tried a lot for me in handling things with her best friend Daniel so it’s best I don’t trouble her with this.

A few days later, I looked in the mirror at the female restroom at work. I have become so lean and pale.. I could barely recognize myself… This can’t be me… What hurts the most is the fact that Daniel never returned to me or called me to at least come up with a reason why he did it. Even if he had to lie to me, I just want him to return and give the excuse. Almost in tears , someone tapped me on my shoulder unexpectedly. I felt this sudden shock because I thought I was alone but I wasn’t.

“Are you crying?” Cynthia, one of my colleagues here at work asked. She must have noticed.

“No, I am not, something entered my eyes so that’s why it looks like I am crying.” I gave a total lie as an explanation for my tears.

“I know you are lying Lisa, tell me, are you having a fight with your husband?” She turned me around to face her,since I knew I was lying, I avoided her eyes.

Jesus!! Is she a seer or what? There is no way I am telling her about it. I always talked about how perfect Daniel treats me, would she not mock me if I told her the perfect lovely Daniel is now cheating on me? I can’t let anyone add salt to my wound right now. I just need to pretend that everything is going well with my husband.

“Not at all, my husband is so lovely, I just feel sick.” I lied.

“Come on Lisa, how long are you going to deny it? Everyone knows he deceived you, sorry to say this but you were a fool to let your husband have a best friend. Like who does that in this generation of ours?”

“Excuse you? What are you trying to say Cynthia? My husband's best friend is like a sister to him, they have known each other for years and she has never treated me badly.”

“Because that’s what they want you to think, your husband is screwing his best friend under your nose, come on Lisa, grow up.” She rolled her eyes. My anger piqued at once. I know my husband is cheating on me but she's saying he is having sex with Rosa, never, I won’t let her talk about my marriage that way.

“I know why you are talking like this, you are jealous of me.” I would never have said that word if I knew a different news would be coming from Amanda.

Amanda rushed to meet us In the restroom, looking all worried, “Lisa, are you sure you are okay? You can move in with me to heal, this must hurt a lot.”

“What are you talking about Amanda? I am okay.”

“Stop pretending when I know you are not, we saw the news, the person your husband loves the most is Rosa, his best friend.” I laughed out loud. These people must be crazy.

“What is going on with you two today, my husband loves Rosa as a friend and no…..” I paused when Amanda showed her phone to me, my eyes landed on the headline, I grabbed her phone from her hands “Mr. Daniel Etim's real lover is his best friend Rosa Bankole, what will happen to his wife now Lisa?” I got paralyzed in all parts of my body as I scanned the details, then my eyes landed on the pictures of Rosa and my husband in a weird position with his hands wrapped around her waist.. Does this mean I was just a big fool?

“I have been there before Lisa, I'd rather put my trust in God than give my heart to men, is best you just use them and dump them..”

My entire movement became slow like I was some AI robot.. I gave Amanda her phone and she gave me a look of are you okay?

“I want to be alone.” I said to them with a teary voice as I exited the restroom. I laughed like a psycho with tears leaving my eyes, “Lisa, you worry too much, Daniel loves you that’s why he married you, he tells me how lucky he is to have found a woman like you.” Rosa will say but I never knew it was a lie, Everything was just an act. I screamed close to my car, hitting it as tears flooded my eyes.

I need to confront her myself, I need to know why she had to deceive me all these years.. I drove out of the school premises with speed heading to Rosa apartment. As soon as I arrived, my BP went high, seeing Daniel’s car in her home. This explains why I couldn’t reach Rosa on the phone and why he refuses to come home. I barged in and saw Rosa caressing my husband's face.. “How could you do this to me?” I asked in tears with my entire body still trying to process the whole shock.

Daniel walked to me with coldness and anger in his eyes, “What are you doing here Lisa? Go home right now, I will join you.”

“You want me to go home so you can finish what I just interrupted… What happened to you Daniel? Why marry me if…” He didn’t let me finish when he shouted, “Not a word from you Lisa, you think you are a saint? You are lucky I didn’t look for him and kill him. For the last time, go home, Rosa and I have unfinished business.”

I still can’t believe what is going on here. He should be pleading and explaining to me to make us work instead, he wants to be with her?

“Rosa, you bitch.” I rushed to attack her but she pushed me, the shock and everything, I couldn’t breath, my vision slowly faded away.

I woke up and found myself in the hospital, trying to sit. I heard Daniel's conversation with the doctor,“Mr Daniel, if we abort the baby, her womb might be damaged, the pregnancy is already a month.”

“I do not care, doctor, I know what I have invested in your hospital, are you going to defy my orders? That bastard in her womb needs to be removed and I don’t f**king care if the option is taking out her womb, go on with the process..”

What? He is going to kill our baby because of Rosa.

“Please, don’t harm our baby, our child is innocent.” I begged in a faint voice, he turned to look at me, hoping he would have mercy instead, his Eyes were dead cold, giving me the chills all over my body, “What are you waiting for doctor, get rid of that thing now.” The doctor signaled his nurses, I struggled but they gripped me as the doctor prepared the injection to kill my baby.

“Please don’t kill my baby, please.” I cried out nonstop with everything left of me. I lost my voice as the doctor pierced the needle into my vein, my vitals became weak. I will never forgive Daniel and Rosa. I will make them pay….. The world went dark.

FIVE YEARS LATER.