p@rt 2
” ~I ~LOVE YOU, BUT..~ ❤️.”
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“Dad is back.” Juanita screamed from the living room.
Juanita was the loud one amongst the trio and she was her father’s gisting p@rtner. She ensured she and her sisters stayed up late till their father returned everyday. Pamilerin had to move their be-dtime to 10pm because Juanita was always flouting the 9:15pm be-d time…
Pamilerin dropped the knife in her hand. She and Remi were slicing the vegetables for the spaghetti the girls would have for the next day.
” Remi continue” Pamilerin said as she dried her we-t hand with the kitchen towel.
” So Henry poked Funsho with a sharp pencil, because Funsho called him a fat ugly elephant” Juanita was obviously recounting what must have happened in her clas-s. Pamilerin shook her head in admiration at her daughter. The two other girls were her replica especially her first daughter. They spoke less. Juanita was a copy of her father. They loved conversations.
” You don’t mean it!” Freeman replied
” I am serious Daddy!”
” So what punishment did the teacher give him?”
” He was told to go to the n@ûghty corner!”
” Oh nice! That means he would have time to reflect on his bad behaviour”
” Reflect?” Theresa said. Theresa was only 5 years Old, but she was walking Dictionary in the ma-king. Pamilerin saw herself in Theresa. Theresa never allowed new words pas-s by.
” Yes Theresa! Reflect means to think de-eply!” Freeman answered knowing what Theresa wanted
” Ok!” Theresa said satisfactorily but as Juanita was about to continue with her story, Theresa cut in…
” Is it only at the n@ûghty corner people can reflect?” Theresa asked
” Well, not necessarily, but in some cases, some people nee-d to be pushed into a quiet space without friends before they can de-eply reflect!” Freeman replied
” But, it’s not a good thing to be pushed before one can reflect. One should develop the personal responsibility to reflect on one’s actions constantly” The teacher in Pamilerin spoke up.
” Yes… mummy is absolutely right!”
Pamilerin deliberately said those words, She wanted Freeman to reflect on his wrong ways. She knew he had been cheating on her recently, but she didn’t want to bring it up. Pamilerin felt everyone should be responsible for their actions and inactions.
” Even adults sometimes nee-ds to reflect on their lives, that way they see where they are going wrong and this will lead them to correcting their wrongs!” Pamilerin said to the girls but her gaze was on Freeman.
Venita was very smart and a complete replica of Pamilerin. Though she was 10 years old, she acted 30. She could tell from her mother’s words, it was time they excused their parents.
” Juanita!Theresa! it’s time to go to be-d. Tomorrow is here alre-ady” Venita pushed her sisters up the stairs.
” Its not yet 10…” Juanita rebelled
” Juanita, Venita is right!” Freeman said. He had also s-en-sed the hidden words laced in Pamilerin’s words.
” Babe… What is wrong?” Freeman asked after ensuring the girls were no more in sight
” Remi is in the kitchen!” Pamilerin replied
” Remi!” Freeman called
” Yes sir! Welcome sir!” Remi rushed out of the kitchen
” To your room!” Freeman said
” Em …sir… I…” Remi said wanting to explain that she had something frying…
” To your room!” Freeman repeated
Remi ran towards her room. Remi had been living with the couple for 11 years, she c@m£ when Pamilerin was pregnant of Venita and though she c@m£ in as a maid, she had become more of a younger sister to Pamilerin.
As she walked towards her room, she wondered what was wrong. Instead of entering her room, she stood by the pas-sage to her room hoping to eavesdrop.
” Babe… I ask again, What do I nee-d to reflect on? I know when you are speaking to me indirectly!” Freeman asked. His heart was beating fast, he didn’t know what to expect.
” Who is she?” Pamilerin asked firmly without perambulating.
” Who?” Freeman was caught off guard
” The girl you are cheating on me with?”
” Beauty!” Freeman replied. He knew there was no point lying. Pamilerin was highly calculating and she wasn’t someone who as-sumed things. Her life quote was “as-sumption is the lowest level of un-derstanding”. Therefore, Freeman knew that before his wife could accuse him directly, she most definitely had her facts.
” I am sorry!”
” Are you?”
” Yes… Babe… I am !”
” How long?”
” Two years!”
Pamilerin was shocked and pained. The pain was not because he was cheating but because of how long he had been double faced with her…
” Ok…thank you!” Pamilerin said as she walked away.
” Babe, I am sorry!”
” For what? Exactly what are you sorry for? For cheating on me? Or for being caught?”
” Both! I am sorry…You don’t deserve this. I guess I just got carried away by her beauty!” Freeman explained “Babe I am sorry I promise to end it now!”
Freeman brou-ght out his phone. He dailed Beauty’s number. He didn’t save her contact. He alre-ady knew it by heart. Pamilerin noticed and that to-re her heart more. Pamilerin could deduce the girl in question must have found a place in her husband’s heart for him to have her phone number at the ti-p of his f!ngers…
” Hello Beauty!”
” Hey Babe… Strange! You are calling me from home. Something wrong with wifey?” Beauty said
” She knows about us and that means this has to end! Babe… I mean Beauty. It’s over!” Freeman struggled to say
Beauty went silent for a long time, Freeman waited to hear from her. He wanted to hear even it was a word…
” You are joking…You know that right!” Beauty said laughing before ending the call…
” What did she say?” Pamilerin asked
” She said it’s okay!” Freeman lied…
To be continued
p@rt 1
“I ~LOVE YOU, BUT…”~ ❤️?
“ I love you but my wife has to be dead before I can marry you!” Freeman said to Beauty.
Beauty locked her eyes with his. She could see that was the first time he was saying the truth to her.
It’s been two years she had been asking him the same question.
“ Why can’t we be together? I don’t mind becoming your second wife! Get me an ap@rtment not too far away from your home and I promise to stay away from your first family!” This were her usual words whenever Freeman was in a good mood and his usual answer was always….
“ Beauty, we can’t be together. What we have is more than enough!”
Hearing him at that moment saying if his wife died, he would marry her was the best words she had heard that year.
“ Then let’s get her out of the way!” Beauty said un-der her breath but Freeman didnt pick up the words as he was alre-ady on a call. He picked up his car keys and sauntered out of the room b!owing Beauty a goodnight k!ss.
Their routine for the last two years had been the same. He would leave his office by 4pm sharp, get to her place by 4:20pm and stay till 9pm. After which, he leaves for home…
Freeman walked towards his car. He was going home!
“Home! Home sweet Home!” Freeman thought happily. He had two beautiful worlds.
Life was good! He had everything good. He was his own boss, he was just 39years old and he was a king in the ICT sector in the country.
He was also fortunate to have two women in his life. He gets to enjoy the two roles; Husband and b©yfri£nd. He was the husband to Pamilerin and they had three beautiful daughters; Venita, Juanita, and Theresa. He wouldn’t trade his family for anything in the world. He loved them to death.
But…
Beauty was a worthy distraction. Areas where his wife fell short, Beauty made up. Pamilerin was not ro-mantic, but Beauty was a die ha-rd ro-mantic.
Pamilerin was not much of a cook as she was raised up by very rich guardians, but Beauty was a professor in the kitchen.
Pamilerin was cool headed and didn’t like adventure , but Beauty knew how to bring out the baby in him….
However, Pamilerin had her good sides… Pamilerin was calculating and smart, while Beauty was Beauty without br@ins. Beauty did not like thinking too ha-rd , but whenever he nee-ded good advise about his investment, Pamilerin was his girl…
Pamilerin was his Lucky Charm. Pamilerin knew when a business would fail. Whenever Pamilerin was happy with him, his business was always skyrocketing.
“Am I not the luckiest man on earth, I have all I want!” Freeman said to himself as he got into his “expensive machine of a car” as his friend Rele calls it.
******
“ I told you, didn’t I?” Winter said to Beauty over the phone
“ I know! Don’t ru-b it in my face!” Beauty replied
“ I have told you side chicks like us don’t get the main seat unless we eliminate the one occu-pying it”
“ Winter, I don’t want to unseat Freeman’s wife, I just want him to make create another seat for me. I don’t mind sharing him” Beauty said
” So why are we having this conversation?” Winter asked angrily
” Because, I want your advise!”
” Well I have given it, but you have chos£n not to take it!” Winter replied angrily
” Are you suggesting we kill her!”
” I am suggesting YOU kill her… I am not the one interested in marrying Freeman, You are… if i was in your shoes, we would have been celebr@ting her second year memorial by now! Babe I am in my third marriage, how do you think I do it!”
” You target a happily married man, kill his wife, marry him, kill him and inherit his money!” Beauty said. Her friend Winter had been married 3 times and the first 2 men had died Mysteriously. Her first husband was in Jamaica, second in Canada, the recent one who was unfortunately un-der her radar was in Nigeria. She recently eliminated the wife and was waiting for him to die.
” Winter, teach me what to do? I want to be like you, but not all the way. I don’t want Freeman dead, I just want him and his daughters to be mine!” Beauty said…
To be continued
p@rt 5
“ I LOVE YOU, BUT.
Beauty felt the familiar bu-tterflies in her stomach. She didn’t want to open the door for him, she didn’t trust herself. She was going to fail at what Winter asked her to do. How was she going to see Freeman and not k!sshim, hvg him or jump on him?.
“ Beauty! I know you are in there! plea-se open up! You know I love you and this is not easy for me. plea-se open up and let’s discuss this!” Freeman said
“ He still loves me!” Beauty said to herself as she fell to the ground crying.
“ plea-se … Bee Open up… I promise you, we will sort this out… I love you bae, everything that happened was sudden… plea-se just give me five minutes..”
Beauty couldn’t control herself anymore. She flung the door open and rushed into Freeman’s arms. She held onto him ti-ghtly…
“ I am not letting you go, she can’t take you from me, plea-se… I am sorry for asking you to Marry me, don’t bother, I am fine with being the mistress. She won’t have to know about me…” Beauty said in rush
“ No… Beauty, you deserve better… You are worth more than being a Mistress or a second wife. You will find a better man!”
“ I don’t want a better man. I want you. You make my life worth living. Do you want me to talk to her? I can tell her I won’t be a bother”
“ You will do no such thing… plea-se…”
“ Freeman, you love me and that is what I will tell her!”
“ Beauty, I love you but I love my wife in a dee-per and complex way. Bee, I love you but you can not replace my wife. I mean…I love you but I can’t leave my wife for you. I have kids you know. Bee, I love you and though you are a whole lot better on be-d than my wife could ever be but I can not hurt My wife ! I can’t! There are so many things attached to this, first she is the mother of my kids, secondly she is my lawfully wedded wife, thirdly, She MADE me and fourthly it’s not about us alone, I have in-laws and extended in-laws. I can’t disappoint them all because of what we have!” Freeman said
Beauty felt like a piece of discarded tissue. She moved back from Freeman in utter shock. Freeman just told her in plain language that she was nothing to him.
“ Ok… “
“ I hope what I just said did not come out the wrong way… The truth is I love you, but…”
“ But, your wife is more important.” Beauty said
“ For your troubles, plea-se have this…” Freeman brou-ght out a Cheque of Two million Naira.
Beauty didn’t know which was worse; Freeman breaking up with her or he paying her off like a pr©st!tût£or cheap blackmailer.
“ What?” Beauty asked in what sounded more like whisper.
Freeman moved closer to her, he tucked the Cheque into her palm. Beauty opened her palm and watched the Cheque fall off. The Cheque felt like a burning substance…
“ Freeman! Out! I get it! I am your second fiddle! I am just the girl you while away your time with, I am the girl you enjoy S-x with but can never take the place of your wife, I am the girl who makes you smile, your tool of amusement, I am the one that has to be hidden, while your wife follows you to public functions. I should have known being the side chic was not honorable. You flaunt your wife and kids on social media page but no one gets to know about me… You are right, I deserve better… I accept everything you have said but for trying to pay me off… I hate you! Out of my house now!” Beauty said
“ I am sorry! I didn’t mean it that way!”
“ Out!”
“ Can I at least k!ssyou goodbye” Freeman said
“ You are Mad!” were the words Beauty wanted to say to Freeman but she st©pped herself.
“Action they say is better than words, I will let my actions speak” Beauty reasoned
Beauty walked closer to him, and gently she placed herl-ips on his. At first, the usual surge of excitement sh0t throu-gh her veins but she remembered her mission. With all the determination in the world, she bit his l-ips o ha-rd the pain went straight to Freeman’s br@in.
Freeman tried pushing Beauty off him, but Beauty held on to thel-ips with her teeth like her life depended on it.
“ plea-seeeee!” Freeman gro-an ed as he tried to push Beauty off.
After few seconds of struggle, Beauty re-leased hisl-ips…
“ I decided to give you a souvenir of pain that you will nurse for a while, it should remind you of the pain you have inflicted on me… I hate you and I mean it!”
Freeman t©uçhed his so-rel-ips. He knew without a doubt he couldn’t go to work again. Soon, he would have a swollenl-ip.
Freeman walked out of Beauty’s house. He knew that was the end. He would lose anything to keep Pamilerin.
*******
After the kids left for school, Pamilerin felt the urge to talk to someone, she nee-ded to talk or else she felt she was going to run mad. She wanted to bur-st out. She thought of calling her wealthy guardians who raised her, but her calculating br@in told her it was not a good move. Her guardians were the ones connecting Freeman to their wealthy friends and as-sociates. Telling them of his infidelity was going to hinder things.
She dropped the thought of contacting her guardians.
Her Birth Mother! Ajoke!
Pamilerin left her birth mother at the age of 10 to work as a house maid for her guardians but on getting there, her guardians noticed her smartness and they decided to help her academically.
She lived with them for 16 years before getting married to Freeman. It was at the point of marriage that she bec@m£ close to her birth mother. Over the years while living with her guardians, her birth mother was permitted to come see her as she willed but her birth mother c@m£ only a few times.
After marriage, she bec@m£ closer to her, though there were things they still had not agreed on. Her birth Mother still believed in fetish ways of resolving issues.
“ Hello Maami, how are you?”
“ Pamilerin, Bawo ni? ( How are you?)” Ajoke replied
“ Mo wa, sugbon Wahala die wa!” ( I am fine, but there is a little problem.”
“ Which is?” Ajoke asked in Yoru-ba language
“ There is another woman between my husband and I” Pamilerin said sobbing
“ Nibo? Nibo Lo ti n bo?” ( Where is she coming from?)
“ I don’t know… but they have been together for two years.” Pamilerin said as she raised her voice…
“ Pamilerin, laughter is your portion, not crying. Leave that useless thing to me. You will hear the report of her situation soon!”
“ Maami, what are you planning to do? I didn’t call you to do anything. I just called you to encourage me.”
“ This is me encouraging you! Don’t worry, your worries are alre-ady over…” Ajoke said in Yoru-ba adding some proverbial statements Pamilerin did not un-derstand.
To be continued
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p@rt 4
“I LOVE YOU, BUT ”
Pamilerin was fully awake on the be-d while Freeman dressed up for work, however She pretended to be asleep as she couldn’t stand looking him in the eye that morning. Her heart was still hurt by his betrayal…
“ See you later!” Freeman said as he moved closer to give Pamilerin the usual k!sson the forehead. Pamilerin didn’t move an inch. She la-id down like a log of wood. Freeman withdrew from her. He watched how she was pretending to be asleep. This was the first time in a long while he wasn’t going to get the usual “God’s Pres£nce goes with you!”.
Pamilerin made it a duty to always say that to him everyday before going to work.
Freeman knew it was going to take a while before Pamilerin returned to her usual self. He couldn’t blame her. He had messed up real big and he was going to fix it.
*******
Beauty was a mess, she called in sick at the office. She wasn’t in the right frame of mind to be at work. All night she had been eating anything and everything. That was her way of coping with depression. She could smell depression and suicide coming close. She had been very unfortunate with relationsh!ps. She couldn’t count the heartbreaks she had suffered in her 29 years. First, her parents deserted her at the age of three and relocated to the United States leaving her paternal grandmother to care for her. According to her parents, they thought they would s£nd for her later but unfortunately on getting there, things did not go as planned. They could not file for her to join them. Hence, she remained in Nigeria while they s£nt her money from time to time for her academics and welfare. However, her welfare money was managed by her grandmother who used it for everyone at home. Beauty faced a lot of emotional abuse growing up, she was also R@p£d on several occasions. All the emotional scars made relationsh!pa war zone for her. She was always very defensive, bitter and angry in her relationsh!ps.
Freeman was different; Freeman was the only one she felt safe with. She had met Freeman at a pharmaceutical sto-re. She had gone to buy some anti depressant drugs which the pharmacist refused selling to her, if she did not provide a doctor’s prescription. Beauty had gone bunkers screaming at the pharmacist.
*****
Freeman drove towards Beauty’s house to end things with her. He knew Beauty so well to know that she wasn’t going to go to Work that morning. As he drove, he took the time to cast his mind back to how they had met…
TWO YEARS EARLIER…
Freeman was at the pharmacy to buy some pain relief pills. Freeman saw how Beauty was hell bent on buying some anti depressant drugs which unfortunately for her, the pharmacist nee-ded a prescription before selling to her. He saw how jittery she was, he could un-derstand what Beauty was going throu-gh. He had been a victim of depression in the past. After graduating from school at the young age of 21, he couldn’t secure a Job for five years. He knew he was very smart but yet he was wasting away.
Good luck c@m£ his way when he met Pamilerin at her guardians’ company. She was the HR who was hiring. After his interview, Pamilerin had said with a smile….
“ Mr. Freeman, you are smart but you have a loser’s demeanor. I could re-ad fear, defeat, uncertainty in your eyes … in your hand movements and in your voice. Put in mind that whenever you go into the interview room, go with the mind that you are going in for a conversation, not an interview. Be bold, be relaxed and be friendly. That way you would get the job.
Judging from your interview today, I ought not to consider you for the Job, but the Lord said I should employ you! You got the job!” Pamilerin had said
Freeman sat for another few seconds before what Pamilerin said made s-en-se to him…
Freeman remembered Pamilerin helping him out of depression and on seeing Beauty that evening, he felt he could pas-s on the good to her.
He had approached Beauty and asked her to come with him…
“ Hello ma’am… Can you come with me. I can be of help!” Freeman had told her.
Beauty didn’t pay him any attention. After his failed persuasion, Freeman left her and went into the car after paying for his medicine.
Freeman waited for another 15 minutes in the car, observing Beauty. Eventually, he watched Beauty leaving the pharmacy with nothing in her hands. As she walked towards where his car was parked,Freeman jumped out of his car and approached her…
“ What do you want ? I am not a S-x worker if that is what you are thinking of.” Beauty said
“ I am happily married.” Freeman said showing off his ring.
“ So what do you want?”
“ I want to help you, I have faced depression before and I know where that leads to, it doesn’t lead to a good place, but a friend who is now my wife was the one who helped me overcome my depression. Today, I have the best life I never thought I could have. I am grateful I didn’t throw this beautiful future away out of depression.”
Beauty looked at him intently….
“ How did she help you? What did you have to do? I want out of depression.”
“ Friendsh!p. She bec@m£ my friend. Can I be your friend?” Freeman had asked innocently
******
Beauty remembered how their friendsh!phad started innocently, but as months went by it bec@m£ de-ep friendsh!pand one day when she was a bit un-der the weather, he c@m£ over to her house. They both lost control and threw caution in the air.
“ I can’t lose him! I can’t! I was fine with being the second wife, I was not selfish, so why do I get to lose him? No way…” Beauty said to herself before hearing the familiar knock.
“ He is here!” Beauty g@sped
To be continued
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p@rt 3
“I ~LOVE YOU, BUT..~ ❤️
” You don’t say!” Winter said very bewildered
“I can’t believe Freeman would say that to me.” Beauty said in tears
“Sorry”
” I can’t believe Freeman would break up with me that easily and sharply because his wife found out about us. He could have denied it!” Beauty continued her tears
” This is not good for you.” Winter said at last after about three minutes of silence
” What?”
” Her knowing about you. When a wife gets to know there is a side chick involved in her marriage, the wife usually goes on the defensive. Depending on who the wife is, some side chicks never live to tell the story.”
” You mean she may want to kill me!”
” Tell me about her, Who is she? Because if she is one of these born again Christians, just know that the relationsh!pis over. She will use prayers and good character to win her husband back. If she is a diabolical person, she will probably turn her husband to a love sick baby. He will totally forget about you and return back to her like a baby or is she a physical person? Is she capable of defending herself by s£nding as-sas-sins against you?” Winter said
” I don’t know much about her.” Beauty replied
” You are d@t!nga woman’s husband and you never bothered to keep tabs on her?” Winter said rolling her eyes.
” We nee-d to know what we are up against so that we can use the right weapon against her.” Winter said
” Ok!” Beauty said
” Ok? Is that all that you are going to say? You should be worried now. Being a side chick is not for babies. Lesson 101 of being a successful Side Chick- ” Never ever let the wife get a wind of you, be a green snake un-der the green gras-s. You l@ylow and unseen so that when you strike, you strike and kill.”
” But now that she knows, what do we do?” Beauty asked
” We take it a day at a time. First, Let’s find out the kind of wife she is. In the meantime, don’t pick his call anymore! Give them false hope that it is over.”
” Ok!” Beauty said. Everything going on was too much for her. She had hoped to be Freeman’s second wife. She didn’t want any shade of complexity, but everything was beginning to look complicated.
******
Sleep was faraway from Freeman. He sat at the dining table with his eyes wi-de opened at 1:40am. The previous day that began as a seemingly nice day had ended badly. He could still smell the harsh smell of the burnt vegetables. They had been so engrossed in their conversation, neither of them perceieved the burnt vegetables. It was Remi who ran out of the room towards the kitchen that snapped them out of their thoughts.
” I am sorry sir, I was trying to tell you I was frying the vegetables…” Remi said in her defense as she ran towards the kitchen.
With that, Pamilerin walked towards her room. Her head was spinning.
” Pamilerin ! Pamilerin!” Freeman called
” Yes!”
” I am sorry!”
” It’s ok, I just have a headache and nee-d to get to be-d early.” Pamilerin said
Freeman wasn’t expecting less. He and Pamilerin usually stayed late into the night to discuss about the day and how business went but here was Pamilerin going to be-d early.
” Ok!” Freeman replied. He could tell his world was going to crash any moment.
Freeman paced around thinking about Beauty as well. He feared what she might do to herself. When he met Beauty two years earlier, she was struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts. He was the one who brou-ght her out of that phase. He feared this abrupt breakup could break her completely…
But…
” Who is more important? She or your family?” Freeman asked himself
” Obviously my family, though I love Beauty, I would never place her welfare above that of my family. She would always be secondary.” Freeman told himself the blunt truth.
*******
Pamilerin had sle-pt off after hours of crying. She expected him to come in and keep apologising but instead he sat in the living room. She believed he was apologising to the other woman…
” How am I going to solve this? How will I get back my paradise?” Pamilerin had asked herself amidst her sobs.
” God, who is this girl, lady or woman? I don’t even know who she is.”
” Keep Calm and know that I am God!” Pamilerin heard those words loud and clear.
Those words comforted her…
*******
” Pay me 2 million and I will eliminate her in three months and guess what you won’t have to move a muscle… I will do all the background checks and I will eliminate her in the best untraceable way.” Winter said
” 1 million” Beauty negotiated
” 1.8 million” Winter replied
” 1.2″ Beauty said
” 1.5 … Babe that’s the lowest I can go, you know what you stand to gain when the woman exits, all that your guy has will automatically become yours. You told me the guy is a cash bag…” Winter was saying but Beauty cut in
” Fine, which account should I transfer the cash to?”
” I will s£nd it to you in a minute.”
” Hold on, so what do I do after s£nding you the money?” Beauty asked
” Nothing…just avoid him so no one would trace her death to you and go shopping for a beautiful black dress you will be rocking to her funeral soon!”
” Thanks babe…”
” Anything for you darling!”
To be continued…
p@rt 6
“ I LOVE YOU, BUT”❤️
Freeman walked into his home. Hisl-ips were swollen real bad.
Pamilerin was seated in the living room with no thoughts in her head. She was still trying to live in the denial that everything that was happening was all a figment of her imagination.
The creaking sound of the door made her conscious of her environment once again. Freeman’s bigl-ips caught her immediate attention. On impulse, she ran towards him in fear.
” What happened?” Concerned Pamilerin asked
Freeman saw the genuine look of concern on Pamilerin’s face. Common s-en-se told him that was the time to weaken Pamilerin’s anger towards him.
” She didn’t take my breakup easily. She punched me on the l!pbecause I told her I couldn’t leave my wife for her. I was trying to tell her we were a big mistake which I had been trying to st©p for a long time but I had been failing countless times.” Freeman said with a pitiful looking face.
Pamilerin stared ha-rd at Freeman.
” Are you saying it is over?” Pamilerin asked while standing akimbo.
” Yes..I will never set my eyes on her again!”
” I hope so…When Single girls fall in love with married men, they find it ha-rd to cut off and most times they end up ruthless if they are f0rç£d to quit the relationsh!p. Are you sure she won’t be coming back?”
” No, I have paid her off!”
Pamilerin raised her eyebrow in a questioning manner.
” I gave her 2 million!”
” Ok…if she is not a gold digger or a cheap blackmailer, that should be more than enough.” Pamilerin said.
” Am I forgiven?” Freeman asked
” Still thinking!” Pamilerin said as she sat back on the chair in the living room…Freeman could s-en-se forgiveness in the air. This was exactly why he loved his wife. Pamilerin was not the complicated kind of person. He walked close to her and planted a k!sson her cheek…
” Thank you for being the best wife ever.”
*******
” He did that?” Winter asked Beauty over the phone
” Yes, that was the biggest insult ever!”
” Insult? He insulted you?”Winter asked
” Yes, he trying to pay me off is a big insult.”
” My dear, plea-se let me get this, a man pays you 2million for the 2 years you spent together as compensation? That guy is definitely a good guy… Babe, if all men could pay ladies compensation fee after breaking up with them, We would have a lot of rich single babes.”
” I don’t nee-d his money, I nee-d him… I love him. ”
” Babe, if it is about getting him back, I will get him back but my advise, cash out immediately and forget the guy. There are a lot of guys out there and If d@t!ngmarried men is your preferred spec, there are a lot of them out there… This one … Let him go… If a man pays a girl off, it means he genuinely doesn’t want to have anything to do with her again. Men don’t p@rt with their money easily. ” Winter said
Beauty felt like Something just sli-pped off her hand. She felt it and she knew it;Freeman was off her grip.
Simultaneously, she felt something fly into her eyes. She tried to get it out but the more she di-pped her f!nger into her eyes, whatever it was, kept plunging in.
” Are you there?” Winter asked
” Yeah, something flew into my eyes. I will call you later! Let me get it out”
*********
Winter dropped her phone in utter shock. She sat back in her chair.
” N2 million!” Winter kept saying over and over
” The guy must be loaded for him to want to throw away N2million just like that! Hmm…. Winter, are you thinking what I am thinking?” Winter said to herself
*********
” Done!” Ajoke’s herbalist boasted to her.
” Those eyes she used in seeing my daughter’s husband will never see anything good again. Thank you Aremu. You have never failed me… except once, but I have forgiven you.”
******
2 hours later
Beauty’s eyes had produced enough water to fill a glas-s cu-p…
” Hello Winter, my eyes are getting worse. Are you sure I shouldn’t go the hospital.?”
” Yes, I am at the airport alre-ady, I am taking the next flight to Lagos. Just stay where you are. What is happening to your eyes is not what the hospital can solve, I can tell you the wife has gone diabolical for your case ooo… but don’t worry, where someone’s juju ends, that’s where another person’s own starts from… I will show her you have a killer friend.”
” Thank you Winter… I am waiting… I can’t see clearly again.”
” Don’t worry your head over nothing. That eye, it will clear.”
” Thank you!”
” About to board…see you soon!” Winter said from the Abuja Airport. She had told her new husband that she had to see a close friend who was dying. Unknown to him, Winter was alre-ady plotting his death.
*******
” This is very terrible!” Winter said on seeing Beauty. ” Your eyes are like they are going to pop out soon. With this , I think we really nee-d to get to the hospital.” Winter said.
Winter noticed a rumpled sheet of paper on the floor, she instantly guessed it was the cheque. She picked it up in haste…
” We might nee-d this!” Winter said in her defence when she noticed Beauty saw her… ” We don’t know what this eye thing might graduate into, let us have this for medical bills”.
Beauty nodded…
” I swear if Freeman and his wife have a hand in this, they will pay.” Beauty said out loud…
To be continued
p@rt 7
“I LOVE YOU, BUT.
It was two weeks since the breakup and it was two weeks away from Beauty.
Freeman looked out the window as he watched Pamilerin pla-ying with their daughters. His second daughter who was very outspoken smiled and he saw her beautiful dimple just like him. Freeman couldn’t help but smile. The smile was a smile of gratitude. He was grateful for what he had. He felt free indeed. He didn’t have to hide his phone every now and then. He didn’t have to stay in the car receiving Beauty’s call. He had blocked Beauty’s number from calling him. He couldn’t deny the fact, he enjoyed every bit of the time he spent with Beauty, but the time to move on was now. It was worth it while it lasted. His family was what mattered most. Thinking about Beauty, he was happy she had cashed out a week after he gave her the cheque. He guessed it took her the first week to come to terms with the reality of the break up. She must have come out of the shock and good reasoning made her go cash out.
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Beauty’s eyesight had gone from bad to worse. The doctors had used all kinds antibiotics and even got an optician involved, but Beauty was beginning to see things in a very blurry state.
” Winter, is this the way I will lose my sight?” Beauty cried on Winter’s shoulder at the hospital..
” I thought the Doctors would be able to prevent you from getting blind, but despite spending over a million on your treatment, things are only getting worse… I feel like a total failure. I couldn’t help my best friend in the world.” Winter said
” Help me Winter, Help me, I can’t lose my sight… I never knew she was this wicked.”
” You should be grateful she didn’t kill you!” Winter said
” Why is this life so unfair? Everyone keeps deserting me. I can tell you will be leaving me soon. I see how your husband has been calling without end. You won’t want your husband going into the arms of another woman because of me!”
” I can’t desert you Beauty… and besides my husband can not go into the arms of another woman, I have him tied where I want him to be”
” Tied as in Tied?”
” Yes… Tied as in Tied! You should have let us tie Freeman..”
“plea-se, can you not mention his name again. I don’t want to have anything to do with him and his wife again!”
” I don’t get…Are you afraid of them? Are you going to let them off the hook so easily… The witch wife is responsible for your eye problem.”
” What do you want me to do? If I try contacting them again, the woman may kill me totally. Just help me find a solution to my eye problem.”
” Babe, we can’t let them go like that… That woman, she will pay with her life and that husband she doesn’t want you to have, Babe you are getting him and this eye problem, he will take you abroad and fix it for you. Even if means him buying you a new set of eyes..” Winter said
” Winter, they don’t buy eyes!” Beauty said laughing. Winter succeeded in ma-king her smile..
” They do… I watch it in movies…” Winter said laughing
” This is real life !” Beauty replied ” Thank you , Winter…Thank you for being the only family I have!”
” And you have been an amazing “friesister” to me” Winter said
” Friesister? What’s that? That’s a new one” Beauty asked. Winter was always coming up with something new.
” Just coined it! Since there is a word ” Frenemy” I thought of what describes Us best.
” I am grateful you are not a frenemy to me, thank you for being a fresister to me.. ” Beauty said hvgging Winter ti-ght…
” Yes I am your fresister and I will do anything to pay that woman back in her own coin and even give her more.”
To be continued
p@rt 8
“ I LOVE YOU, BUT!
Winter and Beauty alighted in front of Baba Shagba’s place far away in Ogun State. Winter had convinced Beauty into going diabolical about her eyes and fighting Freeman’s wife.
“ Are we there?” Beauty asked. The smell of wherever they were was very offensive. It also had this aura of darkness around. Though she couldn’t see clearly, her b©dy was repelling the place.
“ Yes we are!” Winter replied heartily
“ I don’t think I want to go on with this! “ Beauty said refraining from moving further
“ That’s fear and intimidation speaking my dear… and as your friend, I am here to help you overcome whatever it is that wants to st©p you from your victory. I don’t give up you know.” Winter said pu-lling Beauty into the unknown world.
Baba Shagba saw Winter approaching with the girl she had spoken to him about.
Winter was one of his best client, she was a grateful client. She spared nothing when it c@m£ to money. She paid for charms sometimes in Millions. He was happy she had brou-ght another big case before him. It was another time to be seriously rewarded financially.
“Welcome ooo, Welcome ooo , My daughter!” Baba Shagba hailed
“ Baba, Good morning…” Winter hailed back “ Take off your shoes!” Winter said to Beauty.
Beauty Obeyed as they stepped into a room. Beauty began to feel claustrophobic. Though she couldn’t see clearly, she could tell the room was a small room loaded with so many things…
“ Welcome our friend!” Baba Shagba said to Beauty
“ Is he talking to me?” Beauty asked
“ Yes!” Winter replied
“ Ok… thank you Sir!”
“ Why would she do this to you?” Baba Shagba asked
“ Who ?” Beauty asked
“ Freeman’s wife” Winter quic-kly said wi-nking at Baba Shagba.
The wi-nk was a de-ep conversation between Baba Shagba and Winter. Winter was reminding him to stick to their plan.
When Winter called Baba Shagba the night before, the conversation they had was;
****
“ Winter, I have made the enquiries… it is not the wife that made your friend blind. It was the wife’s mother!”
“ Oh!”
“ Yes.. and she made use of a very powerful herbalist. My advise is you tell your friend to go beg the wife and after that ask the wife to speak to her mother on her behalf.”
“ Ha! Baba … Never! That’s not the plan I have ooo, I want my friend to believe the wife is the enemy, so that she can kill the wife. Afterwards, I will snatch the man from her. But if her herbalist is too powerful for you , I will call someone else.”
“No… that’s not what I meant, I was just trying to warn you ahead of time. The herbalist would not back down without a fight. You and I may escape the fight but your friend will be targeted fiercely. She may eventually lose her life.”
“ If that happens, No problem.”
*******
It was this conversation Winter was reminding the herbalist of.
“ Yes, the wife’s mother!” The herbalist agreed with Winter
“ So can you help me regain my sight!” Beauty said
“ And kill the wife” Winter added.
“ Yes… as long as the Ingredients are available.”
“ Baba Shagba, you know how you do it for me, tell me the equivalent in cash so you can buy everything for me. “
“N 1.2 million, because we will be buying a female cow who will repres£nt the wife. It is the cow we will be burying alive after we have invoked her Spirit into the cow. Hi nazareth on +233546444111 to re-ad more stories from unlimited story platform, fresh stories kingdom, house of story room, sweet and nice story room. and other things will be used for the ritual.” The herbalist said
“ And you are so sure I will recover my sight back?” Beauty said “ Sir, that is what matters to me the most!”
“ Yes, and the woman will die!” The herbalist confirmed
“ Sir! I am not doing this to kill the woman. I am doing this majorly to regain my sight!” Beauty screamed
The herbalist looked at Winter, wi-nking at her.. He stood up and walked into his inner chambers.
Winter followed him…
“ Winter, where are you going?”
“ To beg him!” Winter said with irritation in her voice.
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“ Winter, we cannot do anything unless the determination to kill the wife is coming from her. She is the one that was hurt, not you. Convince her to be in aggrement with us.”
Winter thought for some time before deciding on what to do….
She walked out back to where Beauty was…
“ Stand up, we are leaving!” Winter said
“ We are leaving?”
“ Yes… since you are not keen on protecting yourself, it’s better I leave you the way you are.”
“ Protecting myself? How does killing someone protect me.”
“ Babe, the best approach to defense is attack. Kill her before she kills you. Once you gain your sight back and somehow she stumbles on you, do you think she will want you blinded again or dead?”
“ Dead!” Beauty answered
“ So… are you re-ady to kill her before she kills you?” Winter asked
Beauty swallowed ha-rd ….
To be continued….
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p@rt 9
” I LOVE YOU, BUT..”
“Teach me how to use it sir.” Beauty said
Winter had called back the herbalist into the room after she had convinced Beauty into agreeing to kill Freeman’s wife.
After getting her cons£nt, the herbalist handed over a bar soap to Beauty telling her that was what she nee-ded to get her sight back.
” Tell me how to use it sir. I will use it religiously.” Beauty repeated
” You will use it on your eyes, three times daily. You must also use it to take your bath daily.”
” Ok, thank you sir. How long will I use it before my sight will be recovered?”
” 21 days”
” 21 days? That long?”
” Long? That is not long ooo, compared to the damage that has been done.” The herbalist said
” Yes, Beauty, 21 days is just around the corner. Soon your eyes will back to normal…”
” Also you must stay indoors for the 21 days, no going out or letting the sun t©uçh your skin. It is an abomination.”
” Ha! Even the early morning Vitamin D I receive from my be-dside window?”
” Yes. No sun, whether Vitamin K or Vitamin R” The herbalist said wi-nking at Winter, who shared a knowing smile with him.
” Ok, Baba , Thank you, we will check back in 21 days.” Winter said
” What about the money for the ritual to terminate the woman? Should I be expecting it in my account as usual?” The herbalist asked in a rush
” Yes, we will transfer the N1.2 million to you as soon as we get home, or Beauty should we do it right away?”
” Anyone is fine!” Beauty replied
” It’s better we do it now, who knows what the woman might have on her sleeves few minutes from now.” Winter said as she reached out for Beauty’s phone.
Winter reached out for Beauty’s thumb as Beauty had locked her phone and bank apps with her f!ngerprint..
Winter transferred the sum of N2.2 million into her account instead.
” I have transferred the N1.2 million to you sir, have you received the alert.” Winter said
” My phone is inside the room, I will check it later. I trust you.” The herbalist said smiling.
” Let’s be on our way” Winter said to Beauty as she helped her from the floor where they were seated.
” Thank you Sir!”
” Thank the gods who are about to answer your prayers.” Baba Shagba replied with a mischievous smile he shared with Winter.
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Pamilerin heard the ringtone of her phone ringing loudly in her subconscious. She was taking her Afternoon nap before the kids returned from school. She roused herself from sleep and reached for her phone. On looking at the phone screen, sleep disappeared from her face. It was ” Dearest Mum”. That was Pamilerin’s guardian calling her.
” Good Afternoon Mummy!”
” Pamilerin, my daughter. How are you?”
” I am fine mummy, how are you too?”
” Fine…Very fine!, but how is your husband?”
Pamilerin’s heart sank! How did she find out about her husband’s infidelity? Or was she just asking about him plainly?
” He is fine ma!” Pamilerin said with the intention of denying the knowledge of her husband cheating if she brou-ght it up…
” Pamilerin!” Dearest Mum called Pamilerin intentionally…
” Yes mum…” Pamilerin answered gathering all the self control she had.
” I don’t know what is wrong, but for some days my heart has been with you, so this morning as I was about to give money to my church for the altar beautification project that is ongoing, my heart went straight to you. The church nee-ds about 5 million Naira. I only have 3.8 million Naira at my disposal, I wanted to call your sister to pay up the balance, but my mind kept going to you. Pamilerin, I want you to join me in sowing towards the beautification of the church altar. Can you raise 1.2 million Naira for God?” Dearest Mum said to Pamilerin.
Pamilerin heaved a de-ep sigh of relief…
” Oh! Erm…Erm…” Pamilerin said as she tried to gather her thoughts.
” N1.2 million Naira! is a large amount !” Pamilerin thought.
To be continued…
p@rt 10
” I LOVE YOU, BUT…”
” Knock! Knock!” Remi knocked on Pamilerin’s door.
” Mummy, Daddy is back!” Remi said
Pamilerin was mildly surprised to hear Freeman was back home by 2pm. She was getting re-ady to go pick up the girls from school.
Earlier, she had concluded with Dearest Mum, that she was going to support with the 1.2 million for the Altar beautification.
Her plan was to get the money from her husband. She wanted to milk him, she knew Freeman was still in the sober period and could give her anything she asked out of guilty conscience.She was planning to silently and Stylishly blackmail him into paying for the altar beautification.
” Didn’t he pay the girl off with 2 million Naira, yet he has never given me that much as a gift. He will be the one to pay for the beautification. Maybe that might even make God forgive him” Pamilerin had said to herself after she ended the call with Dearest mum…
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” I don’t have that kind of money to throw around!” Freeman said during dinner
” You call giving the house of God money to throw around, but yet you could give your mistress 2 million Naira as a farewell gift. Shows the kind of heart you have.” Pamilerin said. After which, she stands up abruptly from Dinner.
Freeman holds her hand sharply…
” I am sorry, I don’t have up to 1.2 million, I will give you Six hundred thousand Naira.( 600k)”
” I will tell mum that’s what you can afford.” Pamilerin replied
” Babe, you want to paint me bad before Mummy.. I am really low on cash, like you just said, I gave Beauty 2 million and that was for our peace…. I have some money tied down in some investments. I can’t afford to throw 1.2 million away.”
” Throw 1.2 million away? You are saying it again.. … No problem…if that is how you see it.”
Pamilerin walked away. He had pissed her off further. He could give his mistress 2 million Naira but he wanted to give her Six Hundred thousand Naira.
She was going to get back at Freeman.
She picked up her phone to make the call, but a voice restrained her…
” Pamilerin, you know you have the 1.2 million Naira, Why are you ma-king a big deal out of this issue?
Your Dearest Mum could have asked any of her rich daughters for the money but she asked you to give the money. Don’t you think there is more to this? Why don’t you take Freeman’s six hundred thousand and balance it up from your personal money.” The inner police in her chastised her.
” No, I want him to look bad before Dearest mum.” Pamilerin thought madly.
” Hello Pamilerin …” Dearest Mum said the moment she picked up.
” Yes mum… I have spoken to Freeman about the altar beautification and he says we can only afford half of the money.”
” Really? Ok … No problem guess I have to call one of your sisters. You know I won’t have bothered you, if not that your name was strongly impressed on my heart… but if it is a bother, you don’t have to give the six hundred. I will just ask one of the girls to join me.” Pamilerin could hear a bit of disappointment and anger in her Dearest Mum’s voice, so she knew she had to exonerate herself…
” Mum, actually I would have love to give all, but Freeman has been having issues with his finance, I just hope he is not seeing another woman who is squandering his money” Pamilerin said before she realized her blun-der.
” You are having problems with your marriage?” Dearest Mum asked. Her voice shifted from anger to Concern.
” Not really, just overthinking things” Pamilerin said trying to immediately save this situation.
“The more reason you should p@rtner with God by beautifying His Altar. When you beautify God’s home, He will beautify your home. Earlier I was angry and I was not going to collect the six hundred thousand, but I am no longer angry. I will s£nd you the church account, pay in the money in there and see how God will sort out your marriage.”
” Thank you for your un-derstanding Mama Bear!” Pamilerin said laughing…
” You are most welcomed!” Dearest Mum said ” My love to your husband and my grandchildren. I hope you hear from your mother from time to time?.”
” Yes I do?”
” My love to her always. I hope you have not given up on her as regards her faith ”
” No ma, I am still very much on her case.”
” Good ! Very Good! Alright talk to you some other time!”
” Thank you ma, my love to Daddy.”
******
Five minutes later, Dearest Mum forwarded the church account details to Pamilerin who in turn forwarded to Freeman.
Freeman immediately transferred six hundred thousand Naira to the church account. He forwarded the receipt to Pamilerin.
Pamilerin received the receipt and that got her more infuriated. She was going to show Freeman hell. She thought he would actually s£nd the N1.2 million but he had made up his mind. His Dirty Mind!
*****
Beauty had used the soap on her eyes as instructed and she was going throu-gh hell. Whatever the soap was made from must be something from pepper…
” Oh my God! Winter, I think I am going to run mad!”
”
Tbc