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EPISODE 15
My inlaws and parents stayed with me for sometime. Mummy was happy with my decision, finally they prayed with me and left. After they left I couldn’t hold back my tears, I let the tears flow. I picked my Bible and re-ad from psalms.
”I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help, my help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth, He said he will not suffer my foot to be moved. The Lord that keeps me will not slumber nor sleep”
As I re-ad the pas-sage I cried like never before.
Me: oh Lord am so tired, I am so weak, I am so exhausted. Father help me. You are the little hope I have left, without you I will give up. Father help me. I am weak and weary, I have no strength left in me, I can hold on no longer. I give up in you oh Lord. I give up for you, Jesus hold me strong. It is time for you to arise and do something. Lord do something else I will faint. plea-se do not let me drown for I am drowning, oh Lord I am downing. Help me , Jesus help me I am drowning”
As I held onto my Bible crying unto my maker my door flunged open. I thought it was mom or dad or any of my in-laws who forgot something , I raised my head up and he walks in. My husband dragging behind him her box.
Isaiah: oh thank God you are there, come and take this box inside.
I tried to stand up and then I saw her, she walked in, Sophia. She was smiling. I was in shock. I didnt un-derstand what was happening.
Isaiah: Are you still standing there, I said come and take this box inside.
I dragged my feet because I was totally confused. I didnt un-derstand anything. I held the box but could not even pu-ll it.
Isaiah: Make sure to take it to the be-droom, and if any of your things is still in the room plea-se move them away as that room now belongs to me and my new wife.
Me: Wife?
Isaiah: Yes wife! (,turns to Sophia) come here baby!
I watched as Sophia walked up to my husband and gave him a k!ssright in front of me.
Isaiah: you know Sophia alre-ady, well she is my wife now. I married her today at her hometown. If you have any problem with that you can quietly pack your things and leave my house but if you know you can cope then stay.
I was just looking at him. This is just seven months of our marriage and my husband has changed so much.
Isaiah: I hope we are clear Daniella? Anyways I believe your silence means we are. Now take the box inside.
Without saying a word, I picked the box and filled it into my be-droom, then I began to pack my bags and clothes to the guest room. When I was done picking everything, I dropped my Bible at a corner in the room and I said a short prayer.
Me: Jesus, this is my matrimonial home and this is my be-droom. I leave you here in my be-droom, I cannot fight because am weak and exhausted, fight for me.
I turned and walked away.
I made up my mind not to cone out from the room until they leave the parlour, I didnt want to see Sophia. But I was so thirsty, I have tried to wait it out but it seems like they will never leave the parlour. And so I had no choice, I had to go and get water from the kitchen.
When pas-sing throu-gh the dining I saw Sophia eating apple. I didnt want to say something but I just had to let it out.
Me: Sophia, why? why did you decide to ruin my life and my marriage? What did I ever do to you.
Sophia: I did not ruin anyb©dy’s life o, I’m only living mine.
Me: Sophia you were my friend, my only friend, my church member, my choir member, my friend, my…….
Sophia: plea-se, plea-se, abeg, enough of this my friend , my friend talk. Who nor like better thing? How old are you? You and I who is older?
Me: But Isaiah chose me, is it my fault that he didnt choose you?
Sophia: He would have chos£n me, he would have if you didnt come from your useless youth service.
Me: But he wasn’t even close to you. He was closer to Marvis than you?
Sophia: Marvis, hahaha, that one does not even stand a chance.
Me: And you made it look like it was Marvis that was the bad person, you were using her phone and you were acting like it was her. You even c@m£ to me pretending to be a friend just to gather information from me.
Sophia: you alre-ady started suspecting Marvis so it was easy framing her up. After all there was nothing to gain from drawing unecessary suspicion to myself. The opportunity to have isaiah c@m£ to me when Marvis had that accident, I had to call him to come. He c@m£ and I quic-kly saved my number on his phone as Marvis. Am smart right?
Me: Sophia you are wicked!
Sophia: I know I am, but you are foolish, very foolish.
Me: Isaiah is my husband,
Sophia: And he is mine also.
Me: No he is not, he married me.
Sophia: And he married me too. I thought you heard him telling you that few minutes ago.
Me: Sophia, my husband married me in church, before God and before men. Heaven recognises me as his wife, earth recognises me as his wife even hell recognises me as his wife, who recognises you? Your parents, few of your friends? Who else? Even his parents dont know you. So my dear you are not his wife, you can never be his wife. Know that now.
Sophia: (angrily stands up and gives me a dirty sl@p) you are stupid. I am his wife and I am carrying his child and I will give birth to this child, his first born child, his heir and the one who will inherit everything he has and will ever have and at the right time we will throw you out of this house and then we will know who is his wife or not…
Me: Sophia you sl@pped me? Did you just sl@p me? (I raised my hand to sl@p her but something st©pped me and I dropped my hand and walked away into the kitchen, I was there drinking water when I heard my husband screaming my name. He walked into the kitchen with Sophia who was crying de-eply)
Isaiah: you witch, you want to kill my baby, you want to kill my wife?
Before I could have the chance to say anything a big sl@p landed on my face that s£nt me to the ground.
Isaiah: Now let me warn you, you must respect my wife in this house and you must do everything she asks you to do if you dont want war. Do you un-derstand?
I kept quiet.
Isaiah: do you un-derstand? Answer me before I hit you again.
Me: yes, yes I do.
Sophia: Honey she has to apologise to me. After insulting and pushing me down she has to apologise.
Isaiah: yes! Apologise to her. Tell her sorry.
Me: Sophia , sorry!
Sophia held him as if they were new lovers and together they walked away. I quietly went back to my room and cried on my pillows.
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All this in the name of good wife and perfect woman!!!
Can you still tolerate this?
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EPISODE 16
My husband called me that evening to come sit with them in the parlour that he has something to say.
Isaiah: Daniella, as you alre-ady know Sophia is my wife and there is nothing you can do about that. I do not want any form of quarreling and fighting in my house. I want my peace. And as you know she is pregnant for me, she is carrying my child, and I do not want her to be stressed. This is my first child, I do not want anything to happen to my child. She wants to give me something you’ve not been able to give me so dont stress her.
As i listened to him, tears flowed from my eyes, I wanted to lash out to him that he caused my miscarriage and now he is talking as if I’ve never been pregnant. But I kept calm again, after all he didn’t even know I was pregnant at all.
Isaiah: I want the two of you to live in peace, make sure you take care of her, as the first wife and because she is pregnant. Whatever she asks for, give it to her, whatever she wants to eat, cook for her. Are you hearing me?
Me: Yes (I replied)
Isaiah: yes, just yes as if you are talking to a child. From now on when I talk to you, you answer me yes sir, you dont have single respect for your husband.
Me: am sorry
He looked at me angrily and I quic-kly remembered.
Me: I’m sorry sir.
Isaiah: Good. (Sophia bent him over and whispered to his ears), do you think am maltreating you Daniela? Am asking you, am I maltreating you?
I kept quiet.
Isaiah:my wife just told me that you are thinking am maltreating you. So if you feel that way plea-se pack your bags and leave. I dont want to maltreat anyb©dy o. If you feel you can’t do the simple work I said you should do, I can always hire a maid o.
Me:(wiping my eyes) its okay sir, you are not maltreating me, I’ve heard all you said and I will do them.
Isaiah: Good, now you can go…..
I turned and walked away.
That night I prayed like I’ve never done in my entire life. I went completely n-ked and I cried unto God.
Me: Jesus! oh God! Dear God. Am fed up, am fed up o, I can’t take this anymore. What have I done to deserve this. Lord hear my cry plea-se, have mercy on me and hear me plea-se.
My phone began to ring, it was mummy, I picked it up still crying. Mummy.
Me: Mummy am tired, I can’t take it anymore, its either God hears me tonight or just kill me, am tired.
Mummy: My child as I speak to you am talking to God, I am n-ked before him. My God must change your story tonight. He has to do something tonight.
Mummy started crying, I could hear her at the other end weeping terribly, speaking in ton-gues and praying and crying.
Meanwhile somewhere in my in-laws house, my mother inlaw, was also on her knees, praying in tears and n-ked before God.
Mother inlaw: Father let the scales fall. Whatever is holding my son captive set him free. Resto-re his home oh God, I will not let you go tonight until you do a miracle.
And so unknowingly to each of them, three women went n-ked before God and prayed for the same thing. The restoration of my husband Isaiah!
At about 3am that morning, I heard a loud scream from my be-droom. I jumped up immediately and rushed over to see what was going on. When I got there, I saw my husband running up and down confused. Sophia was sitting on t©p of her box that I had earlier carried to the room, with a big knife on her hand pointed to my husband.
Me: Blood of Jesus, what is going on here?
Isaiah: Honey, I dont know o, she suddenly got up and started screaming o, she wanted to kill me o. What is she even doing here? Where were you? Why is she even in our be-droom?
I was shocked, I turned and looked at him again to be sure if I was talking to the same Isaiah. My husband. And did he just call me honey? I concluded I was not hearing well. I turned to Sophia.
Me: Sophia plea-se drop the knife, and tell me what is going on here?
Sophia: (bur-st into laughing) shut up and begin to say your last prayers o. Because I will kill this fool today. (He points to Isaiah, who quic-kly ran to hide behind me)
Isaiah: honey plea-se dont let him kill me plea-se. Honey call papa and mama to come o, plea-se.
I made an attempt to leave the room to pick my phones but Sophia blocked my way.
Sophia: If you move an inch I will slice off your throat.
Just then I heard a loud knock on our door. I wondered who could be knocking at 3am in the night and then I heard mummy shouting my name. I again wondered what my mom was doing at 3am in the night. There was no way I could go and open the door for her because Sophia was blocking the way. But I quic-kly remembered I had told her where I Kept the spare keys to the house in cases of emergencies. I secretly prayed that the God who brou-ght her at this time should remind her.
Sophia: That your mother c@m£ eh, she should come and join the two of you. But tonight Isaiah will die.
Thank God who never fails, mummy remembered and in the next minute she was inside with daddy, my in-laws,Papa and mama.
Isaiah: oh thank God you are here, papa she wants to kill me, I dont know what I did to her. She says she wants to kill me.
Mummy and mom inlaw had began speaking in ton-gues again. Papa raised his Bible up towards Sophia.
Papa: you demon inside of her, I command you to set her free in the name of Jesus.
Sophia: he brou-ght me to this house to kill me right? He and his wife poured fire and pepper on the be-d and asked me to come and sleep on it abi? I will kill him today.
His wife? I still didnt hear what Sophia said, did she just refer to me as his wife? I thought she said she was the wife.
Papa: sister Sophia, how did you get to this point? You were good, what happened to you?
Sophia: when I was good what did that good do for me? Did the good give me a husband?
Mama: so you did all of this because of a husband?
Sophia: how old am I? Am I getting younger or older? The day Isaiah c@m£ to the church he saw me sing and then he told me I had a good voice and that I would make a good wife. (To Isaiah) do you remember honey? He told me that and he said, one day he would love to get married to someone like me. But after that day he changed and the next thing he proposed to her. After building up my hope.
Isaiah: Jesus, but that was just a simple complement na!
Sophia: to you it was, to me it wasn’t, to me it was a proposal and I said yes. I said yes in my heart. And then he went ahead and proposed to this girl here, I did my best to st©p the marriage, I visited a man who gave me a powder to ru-b on, and also sprinkle on Dani and the moment he saw my face he started having hatred for Dani, she started smelling to him and he avoided her and c@m£ to me. We spent days together and when I thought I had him alre-ady he suddenly woke up the night to his wedding and he left and before I knew what was happening he married her, he married her! He just married her. (Starts crying) I lost hope but God who works in mysterious ways changed things for me. Marvis had an accident, and I was just at the right place at the right time, and I knew even though they were not best of friends if I called him he would come, it was God papa, it was God giving me a chance to be with my man. And he c@m£, but didn’t want to stay. He kept saying his wife was waiting, his wife was waiting, I still had the powder with me so I used it again. And he ended up spending eight days with me after which he left. He left me and never c@m£ back. He was with this b—h here. I knew my powder was losing its strength and so I had to go for a stronger power, but this one requires that he eats or drinks. There was no way I could do that and so I went throu-gh his wife. She couldn’t resist tom tom tom. Common tom tom, my plans were perfect, she gave him some of the tom tom and that was when she delivered his soul to me……
WATCH OUT FOR EPISODE 17 (FINALE)