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EP 09
From then on, Jide made sure that nobody talked to him about his
‘unfortunate’ wedding or even mentioned something as close to it, if they didn’t want problem with him. Everyone in his office respected his
‘orders’ and acted as it they hadn’t trooped to Queen’s Hotel on a
pleasant Saturday to celebrate a wedding, things just went back to
normal as if their second in command hadn’t experienced any change. But
the grapevine didn’t cease their wagging.
Daisy was all dressed and sitting in the parlour watching a movie in
Africa Magic, Okon was scrubbing away at the dining table, he was also
whistling a tune as he worked, then out of nowhere he asked:
‘Madam, do i also clean the room’
‘what?’ Daisy asked, she had been engrossed in the movie, she was also a sU-Cker for Nollywood movies, they intrigued her.
‘I asked if i could clean the room too, you know with you around and…’he was saying
‘No no don’t bother with that’ she said and was returning her attention
to the movie again but stopped and added ‘you don’t also need to
clean…you know what, just continue’ she completed and turned back to
the movie. she had wanted to include the kitchen.
Not long later, they heard a noise outside, it was rather loud and
sounded like a big truck just rammed into the compound.
‘what could that be?’ Daisy stood now and was walking towards the door.
‘it should be the fur…’ Okon was saying when he zoomed past her, but she didn’t get the last part of his statement, she didn’t need to
because as she got to the door, what she saw in front of the compound
was a large truck with the name ‘Johnson’s furniture’ written boldly on
it, it was also accompanied with pictures of different house furnishing
accessories.
Immediately her heart sunk. But she wasn’t sure why.
Okon was talking to one of the men now, later two men climbed into the
truck and came out with wooden parts of a bed, they were followed by two
other men
carrying a blue king size mattress. They were marching towards the
house.
She clearly knew why her heart missed a bit then, this husband of hers
had show the greatest derision and disrespect she could ever imagine or
handle, so this was what he had been cooking all along without even a
breath of word to her? And to add to the insult, he had intimated his
housekeepers with the info while she was left in the dark. She felt so
invincible, She didn’t know which was more painful, the fact that he had
totally disregarded her in front of the world or the fact that he had
openly shown that he couldn’t be bothered by their marriage. She felt so
hurt down to the bone marrow, her hope was slipping away gradually and
the fear that the future was laced with cold and loveless days loomed in
her heart.
She quietly left the door to go sit on the chair so that the men could
pass.
‘Madam they want to…’ Okon was saying but stopped when he noticed the
expression on Daisy’s face, it was gloomy.
‘Just do whatever, its okay by me’ she managed to say, she wasn’t sure
of herself or her emotions anymore, she could feel that ancient gland
that held her tears starting to rise. Okon left her.
This emotions would not be the death of me. She thought angrily and
forced herself to concentrate on the movie.
In the movie, Jim Iyke was then kneeling down in proposal to an actress,
Daisy wasn’t sure she had seen her before, but right then, that was the
least of her problem. Infact it was like compounding the problem, she
felt like slapping the two Id.iots who didn’t know that marriage wasn’t
that rosy as the st.upid smile on the girls face.
Infact, she simply lost interest and switched off the irritating movie,
then started for her room.
‘Her room’ she thought painfully, she wasn’t gonna be sharing it with
Jide or anyone else for that matter so she had better start getting used to it. Her initial question about his place of rest was now more than answered.
In the hallway, she met the men bearing the mattress trying to fit it through the narrow hallway to Jide’s study now turned his room. Maybe that was what Okon had been telling her earlier in the morning she remembered.
Well, It didn’t matter anymore for now she knew. She quietly shut her door and locked it without a second glance at the struggling men.
Later on her bed, she mechanically went to her phone’s playlist and selected Beyonce’s ‘Broken hearted girl’. Even though she knew it wasn’t the best of song for her nerves right now, she still didn’t care, instead she set the song to replay then slowly drew the blanket over her. Minutes later, she felt those hateful stream of tears roll down uncontrollable.
She spent the whole day locked in, she didn’t know when Okon left or when Jide returned. The only time she left her room was around 2am when she practically sleep-walked to the kitchen to go take her nightly dose of juice.
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