love and betrayal episode 44

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??Episode 44??
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Effe has never seen anything like it.
The car that is in the parking lot of the
Eden Hospital is a cross between a sedan and a limousine.
It is black and hu-ge, with an exquisite
sleek-edged design. It is the most
beautiful car she has ever seen.
As she goes closer she sees the br@nd
name of the car: BAWA CRUIZER, and it is in gold plates.
The crown, she sees, is a miniature head
bust of Chris on a white background.
She stops and gazes at it with frank and
undisguised admiration.
The front door opens and one of the hu-ge men in black she had seen in the
hospital the other day gets out.
He walks to the back and opens the door,
and Mr. Ntim Albert gets out.
He walks towards Effe with a sad smile
and reaches out to hold her hand.

ALBERT NTIM
Effe. How’re you now?

EFFE
(smiling)
I’m fine, Mr. Ntim-

ALBERT NTIM
(wagging a finger)
No-no! Call me Albert now, or Uncle, or
something fancy. No Mister stuff!

EFFE
(forcing a smile)
I hear you, Uncle Albert.
Thank you so much for letting me see him.
He holds her shoulders and smiles
reas-suringly at her.

ALBERT NTIM
He’s waiting in there, Effe. I’ll be in the
hospital.
There are some things I nee-d to discuss with Doctor Anaman.

Effe nods and takes a de-ep breath as Mr.
Ntim walks away.
She approaches the car. The big man
holds the door open for her, and she
enters. She almost gasps at what she sees. It is
not the interior she had expected to see.
It is like a mini living-room. There is a
cylindrical leather-bound settee, little
glas-s-topped tables, television sets, a
little bar and a lot of customized perks that simply take her breath away.
Chris is sitting silently at one end of the
interior. He is dressed simply in black
jeans, white sneakers and a white T-
shirt, but he is perfectly groomed, and
looks so handsome that her heart pounds, and all she wants is to go into
his arms and ki-ss him forever.
He looks at her unsmiling, and his eyes
are both hurt and angry.
They look at each other for a while, and
then he speaks, his voice cold and unfriendly.

CHRIS
Albert tells me you want to see me. I
must tell you, I’m here only because I
respect him a lot.

EFFE
(nodding slowly)
I can imagine. He tells me you’re
travelling tonight.

CHRIS
Yeah. To Switzerland.

EFFE
To stay.

CHRIS
Yeah. I hold Swiss citizenship. I have
business entities there. And I own some
houses there. Nice country. I love it there.

Effe’s heart beats with pain,
and for a moment she looks away quickly so that
he cannot see the abject misery his
words are causing her.

EFFE
I see. Then I won’t keep you for too long.
I just nee-d a little information from you.
I hope you would provide that information,
for my own peace of mind.
His face goes grim now.

CHRIS
I’m listening.

EFFE
It is true then, that you have a lot of
money. You even have your own
customized car. So why the pretense?
Why the fights? Were you just fooling
around with me?

CHRIS
(his jaw ti-ghtening perceptively)
I never fooled around where you were
concerned, Effe. When you entered the
taxi that night, you got into my blood. I’m
convinced now, that I fell in love with you
that night. The fights? I was fighting way before I met you.
I was doing it for fun,
not money. I grew up in the orphanage,
and I was suddenly a millionaire, but I
was lonely. I had no friends, and the
women I knew were only interested in
money. You were the only one who treated me differently,
and accepted me completely even though you believed I
was a poor taxi driver. You were different,
and I loved you like no heart can ever
love a woman!

EFFE
(fighting the tears)
Okay, I’ll be gone in a moment. Chris, did
my mother tell you that I spent the night
with Steve that morning you saw him
ki-ssing me?

CHRIS
(sighing)
Yes. Your mother told me that. She
added that you and Steve had decided to
come back together.

EFFE
(softly)
And Steve also told you that I wanted
him to kill you, that night he injected
you?

Pain crosses his handsome face, and for
a moment he cannot speak.
Sweat glisten on his face despite the air- conditioned interior,
and it is evident that he is recollecting the horrific experience
all over again.

CHRIS
Yes. He also said you were pregnant for
him, and that you were together,
and that he called before injecting me, and you
gave him the go ahead to kill me, and
that was why he did it.

Effe bites her lower li-p ti-ghtly. She is in
very de-ep pain, and it sears her to the
core.

EFFE
So, you believed my mother, and you also
believed Steve. You believed that I used
you for fun and jumped into Steve’s bed
at the least chance. And you also
believed that I was capable of killing you just to stay with Steve, didn’t you?

He looks searchingly into her eyes, his
eyes looking troubled, his expression that
of a man in pain.

CHRIS
(in a taut voice)
Stop playing games with me, Effe! You’re
here, you tell me if indeed you did all
that!! I told you once that whatever you
tell me, I’ll believe it. You tell me!

EFFE
(sadly)
That’s not why I wanted to see you,
Chris.

CHRIS
(exploding)
So, tell me why you wanted to see me!

EFFE
I found your mother.

CHRIS
(shocked, thun-derstruck)
What?

EFFE
I found your Mom, Chris.

CHRIS
The woman who dumped me on a
ru-bbish heap? The woman who made me
suffer all these years? The damn wicked
woman I have been looking for all my
life?

Effe shakes her head, and once again his
agony touches her de-eply, because she
loves him so much that she feels his pain
almost physically.

EFFE
She didn’t dump you on a ru-bbish heap, Chris.

CHRIS
(explosively)
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING
ABOUT? SHE DID, DAMN HER TO
ASHES, WHOEVER THE HELL SHE IS!!!

EFFE
(gently)
She got pregnant, Chris, with a young
man she loved! The man was diagnosed
with a bad heart condition. Your mother
had got admission to enter a nursing school.
She was in the village, and her
father didn’t like the young man she was
seeing, but they were so much in love,
and he was dying. She got pregnant, and
her father wanted her to ab-ort it, but she
didn’t, and she was thrown out of his house.
Your father died in her ninth
month, in her arms, and she went into
labour. She was in the village, and she
was attended to by the village maternity
nurse, a corrupt woman who obviously
was bribed by your mother’s father.
Evidently the nurse hid you, and informed
your mother that you died, because your
mother pas-sed out after giving birth to
you. Your Mom, crushed that she lost the
man she loved and her baby on the same
day, was inconsolable.
Later your mom’s father took you from the maternity nurse,
travelled to the next village, and dumped
you on a ru-bbish heap. Years later, when
your Mom was pas-sing out of nursing
school, her ailing father called her, and
confessed the terrible story to her and begged for forgiveness.
Your mom forgave him, but that was two years after
your grandfather dumped you on the
ru-bbish heap, and although she went to
the village to ask around, no one could
confirm hearing of any case like that.
Heartbroken, she convinced herself that
her baby died, and she has been living in
that nightmare ever since. She works at
the Eden Asylum now, and we found her
when I went to visit Elaine.

Chris Eden Bawa is trembling.
He raises unsteady hands to his face, and his
tortured eyes shift restlessly, and a
moment later great tears form in his eyes
and roll down his cheeks, and although
he clamps his li-ps shut ti-ghtly, he cannot
stop the M0-ns, and he cries bitterly.

CHRIS
Oh my God! I’ve spent my life cursing and
damning my parents! Where’s she?
Where’s this woman?

Effe is trembling too, unable to contain
her feelings, and she cannot speak because her tears choke her.
Without a word, she gets out of the car
and walks forward a little and signals.
Madam EWURA AKUA OHENEWAA
emerges from behind a royal palm and
stands looking at Effe uncertainly.
The door of the Bawa Cruiser opens and
Chris steps out.
He looks after Effe and steps forward
unsteadily, his tears stemmed now but
the agony still on his face.
His mother sees him, and she looks incredulous.
She takes quick steps towards him, and suddenly pauses in
front of him.
Mother and son look at each other, and
time seems to stop still.
The woman takes a faltering step backwards, her hand flying to her
trembling li-ps, and she M0-ns de-ep in
her throat as the realization hits her that
yes, this is indeed her son that was
cruelly ripped from her life at birth.

CHRIS
(in an incredulous voice)
Dear lord! Mama? My Mama??

The woman raises a trembling hand to
his face and trace a hand down his
cheeks.

OHENEWAA
(her voice shaking)
When my papa said he threw my son
away… I asked him … I said, “Papa, if my
son is not dead, Papa, and if I ever I see
him again, how can I recognise see him?”
And my papa, he told me,
“Ohenewaa, he looks just like you, and he is not dead,
because when I took of his wrapper and
dropped him, I saw he is a lion, and a
conquering survivor… I saw the mark of a
birthmark on his right hip, and it looked
like a lion!” Chris takes a shuddering step forward.
He unbuckles his belt, opens the bu-tton
of his jeans, pulls down the zi-p, turns and
pulls down the boxers across his rip hip,
and there, lying black and proud, is the
black birthmark that looks like a roaring lion!
Effe gasps. She has made love to him,
but she has not noticed that.

CHRIS
Mama!

OHENEWAA
(going into sudden wailing and mourning)
My son! My lion! Oh, Attah Yaw
Nyamekye! Come and see your son!
Attah, my love, come and see your
handsome son!! I’m calling you, Attah, my
love!! Answer me! Your son is here,
your son nee-ds you, my dearest!!

Chris catches his mother, and he hu-gs
her fiercely!
The woman holds him, and her sobbing is
de-ep and from her soul.
Effe sighs and shudders, and she uses her hands to wipe teardrops from her
eyes, and then she turns and begins to
walk away.

CHRIS
Effe! Wait! Please wait!

She turns. With his arm across his mother’s shoulders, Chris approaches
her.

EFFE
Whatdo you want, Chris?

CHRIS
Stop it, Effe. We have to talk, you know that!
There are things I nee-d to know too!

EFFE
(shaking her head sadly)
It’s over, Chris. Let’s leave it that way.
Chris looks shattered and shocked.

CHRIS
What’re you talking about? There’s a lot
we have to talk about! Why, are you
telling me what your mom and Steve said
are true?

EFFE
(looking sadly into his eyes)
That’s the reason why it’s over, Chris. I
love you. Of course, I’ll always love you,
but if you believed I jumped from your
bed straight into Steve’s, and that I’m
also capable of trying to kill you, then
you’re not the man I thought you were,
Mr. Chris Eden Bawa, or whatever your
name is. You can go to Switzerland and
stay, with your Mom, but for me, it’s over.

CHRIS
Come on, Effe, please! I’m sorry. Of
course, I was confused,
but that does not mean you have to throw this away!
You’re carrying my son!

Tears flow down Effe’s eyes, and she
takes rapid steps backwards.

EFFE
I’m sorry, Chris. But it hurt me! It hurt me really bad! Goodbye, my love!

She turns and runs away from him, and
even though he calls her name and she
hears the agony in his voice, she does
not stop running!

OHENEWAA
(sadly)
My dearest son, it is true I’ve found you,
but that lady found me. She’s an angel,
my loving son. You have to go to her. I
don’t know what it is, but I can see just
how much she loves you.
You have to go for her.

Chris smiles down at her, and he gently
ki-sses her on both cheeks, and on her
forehead.

CHRIS
She’s an angel, Mama.
I love her with my very soul, and I’m not sure I can live
without her. But come, my dearest Mama,
let me show you love! I’ll go for her soon
enough!

He gently guides his mother into his
customized Bawa Cruiser,
and then he stands back and looks at the empty
space where Effe had been.
There is great pain on his face, and tears
glisten on his eyelashes as his heart
beats with love and craving. He speaks to
himself softly: Oh Effe, Effe, Effe! My love! My dearest love!
You don’t know how wrong you are!
I’m not letting you go because I believe bad things about you.
I’m letting you go because of what happened between your mother and me.
she lied to me, dear! She pretended to be someone else,
and I made love to her unknowingly! It is a taboo, my love,
and I know if you hear about it you will hate me,
and I can’t stand you hating me!
Goodbye, my love!!

To be continued…