Unknown enemy Episode 13

***UNKNOWN ENEMY***
Episode 13
Written by Amah
 
 
Betty sat with Rebecca, listening to Richa-rd as he spoke,
 
“I love and cherish my wife, I was re-ady to do anything for her, we use to live in a cool area, faraway from here, I was doing fine and the rent was not a problem for me, we were fine, then on the second year after our son was born Viva started pressurizing me of getting another bigger place, the house we live in was big enough, three rooms, with one master be-droom, then I have alre-ady acquired a land and started building my own house on it, Viva didn’t like the area were I bought the land, she said she wanted a bigger and a very popular place and I tried to as-sure her that with time that place will be over populated, but she said I should count her off, she said she will never live there, maybe I should rent it out but nothing will make her to live in such a place.
 
 
 
 
She started ma-king trouble with me that she wanted to move away from the house we were living, she wanted a finer and a bigger place.
 
I asked her what is wrong with the place we were living and she said she doesn’t like it, she said there was no much wealthy people around there, and no activity, I told her we don’t nee-d anyb©dy all that matters is that we are happy and as for activities and fun I always hang out with her most weekend when I’m home and less busy but nothing I do ever satisfies my wife…she just wanted more, and the pressure from her to move was driving me crazy and I asked her where she wanted us to move to and she brou-ght out a magazine of this estate, and she has being researching on one of the most talked about estate to live in, she also opened it on her phone to showed me different fine houses and how beautiful and glamorous the estate was, when I checked the amount for rents, it was just not what I can afford, I tried to convince my wife but she wouldn’t listen, she even threatened me with leaving if I didn’t agree to her request, hmmm and just for peace to reign and for her to be happy I took a loan from the office which she doesn’t know of and never cared to know how I was able to afford this place, all that she cares about is that her wish should always be granted. I added the money I had and that was how we moved in here, and sincerely it has not being easy at all, I have to suspend my building project and put extra effort just to meet up, you see me traveling is just to hustle ha-rd so that I will be able to pay bills, when my son was born he wasn’t up to a year when she started complaining that she nee-ded help with him, she said taking care of a child was a big work and she nee-ded help I decided to get her a nanny, Mabel, she was just twenty years then, I brou-ght four different nannies before my wife settled with Mabel, the other nannies were either too beautiful according to her and she doesn’t nee-d anyb©dy to compete with her in her house, or too outspoken, she don’t want anyone that will talk back at her when she talks, or too old, she nee-ded an active person, a young girl, my wife said she wanted a humble, plain and a royal servant , and that was why she picked Mabel, Mabel was not really attrac-tive, and was very quiet and so obe-dient, since Mabel entered our home she has being in charge of everything, she is more of a mother to josh than Viva is, the only thing Viva did was to give birth to Josh, the rest of the work has being left with Mabel to do, she has stayed with us for years and have never been disobe-dient to Viva or me, my wife treats her like a trash and no matter how I beg her to st©p maltreating the girl she will never listen, she doesn’t just listen to anyone, Mabel wanted to leave many times but I begged her to stay, because she does virtually everything in the house, cooking, the laundry, upkeep of the house and still takes care of Josh my son, if she live how will Viva cope when she doesn’t know how to do many things, I know I wasn’t suppose to say somethings about my wife but I’m sick and tired of her attitude, I nee-d help, I nee-d someb©dy to talk s-en-se into her….and she claims you to be her friend and that is why I wanted to see you, since we moved in here my wife has being over demanding not minding if I have or not, I even got her a place to work, which was not too far from my work place, I volunteered to be dropping her off every morning and picking her in the evening but she said she doesn’t want to work, she wanted to be a boss of her own, well I was still looking at how I’m going to get money to set up a business of her choice for her, I almost stole because of Viva, just to make her happy, she keeps comparing me with anyb©dy that is doing far better and sometime compares me to Tony your husband, I have talked and talked but it is just not helping…this is the main reason why I wanted to see you Betty, plea-se help me to talk to her, plea-se anyhow or anyway you can advice her plea-se do, I want a happy home, I hate this everyday trouble, why I mustered the courage to call you on this issue was because of the recent happening, since I returned from travel…my last journey, my wife has being misbehaving, I began to see different changes in her, everyday comes with a new drama, she is not working and solely depends on me, but I see her this days spending extravagantly, I wonder where she gets the money to do all she is doing, she even goes shopping in one of the most expensive boutique here, hmmm…Betty after I returned from my journey she started refusing me to t©uçh her in be-d…and before she can agree I have to plead and plead or even promise gift or give her money, I have to plead every time for me to t©uçh her, which if she doesn’t agree I can’t f0rç£ her, my own wife…the woman I married started acting like I was not man enough again, if not I’m a disciplined man I would have done something crazy, with her attitude I would have being pushed to do something demeaning, she is ha-rd ly at home this days, she comes and goes anytime to she likes….Betty I don’t know where I went wrong…but this is really painful…I don’t know what to do anymore…she talks to me anyhow, and even insults me, calls me names… and yet I still love her, Mabel, my son’s nanny takes care of the house and serve me food, Viva does nothing just going off to God knows where….I…I don’t know who to talk to again or what to do..
 
 
“I’m truly sorry for all this trouble Richa-rd … pain is written all over you… so sorry, I will talk to her and very soon… peace will be resto-red in your home, I will make sure of that…I just don’t know why Viva will be acting like that, that was very wrong of her, I’m glad to hear you tell me, you are disciplined, even without being told I alre-ady know that, not every man can endure what you have endured, I have always told Viva that you are trying, paying rent in this expensive place, taking care of the house and buying her stuff, like the car you recently got for her, that car she is driving is one of the latest cars pres£ntly, the n£¢klace she always wear…I use to have something like that before it got lost…is a very expensive n£¢klace whose cost is almost the rent of this place, when Tony got mine then I checked the price online and I screamed my lungs out, it was beautiful and expensive too, so I do un-derstand…and know how much you spent on all those things, I totally un-derstand that it is not easy…sh….
 
“plea-se hold on…the car you see her drive…I’m yet to know how she got it, the n£¢klace on her n£¢k…I never know it worth that much, I actually admired it when I saw it on her but I don’t know how she got those stuffs…I just don’t know….but I’m not the one that bought any of that, I don’t even have the money…can’t afford that in this my pres£nt predic@m£nt… and is since she got that car, that her ill attitude doubled up, she has no respect for me anymore…sometime I have this bad thought about her that I quic-kly waved off…and the thought is what if Viva is having affair…what if she is seeing another man… I so much hate cheating, I can do anything if I find out my trusted wife is being unfaithful to me, I will be so broken, it will be as if she put a gun to my head and shoot me, It will be crazy but I don’t pray or wish for such…but such though do cross my mind, how did she get such an expensive car, that car is twice the price of my car…Viva’s car is higher than mine and even yours too… Betty you c@m£ from a rich home and your husband is also rich and yet you are so humble… unlike my wife, I don’t know what to think, I wanted to even ask you if she happen to tell you where she got the car and probably that expensive n£¢klace from…she told me her friend from abroad s£nt it to her, and I asked her to show me the friend on her phone or call the person let me also thank him or her but she refused, and even put a pas-sword on her phone, because I have tried to check her phone to see who was the good Samaritan s£nding her gifts and buying her car but my wife locked her phone and wouldn’t say what the pas-s word is, I don’t know if she happened to tell you where the car and the gold n£¢klace she always wear c@m£ from…did she tell you anything…I know she always talks to you…she calls you her best friend… Viva doesn’t really keep poor friend, you are only her friend because you are well to do… let me call you a friend with benefits, that is how she sees you, my wife doesn’t make friends with those still struggling… she is just getting worse everyday… she said she doesn’t want another child because of her b©dy, she can’t allow another pregnancy to sag her well formed b©dy, well I still have to let her be on having another child, despite I wanted like two more kids but I can’t go against her law and with my current expenses I just have to agree with her. Betty plea-se I want a good and humble wife, Viva’s attitude is affecting me psychologically, I can’t concentrate anymore, when I first met her I was taken aback by her beauty, her attitude was not a problem for me, because I have always found a way to manage her and plea-se her, she was beautiful and nothing else matters to me and we later got married, she wasn’t as troublesome as this, she is just getting worse these days and it is driving me crazy…hmmm…I’m just tired..
 
Betty was shocked when Richa-rd started revea-ling somethings to her, the one that got her thinking seriously was the car and the n£¢klace, Betty began to think within her, if is not Richa-rd like she claims that got the n£¢klace and also the car for her then who else did…how was Viva able to afford such car and the n£¢klace…the n£¢klace could it be the same n£¢klace that Tony got for her, and even when Tony checked it sometime back, he said it wasn’t mine it belong to Viva… is it possible for Viva to be having affair, a married woman, no…no is not possible, she can’t do that.
 
Betty was not hearing the rest of the things Richa-rd was saying, her mind was occu-pied…she started shaking as different thought went throu-gh her mind… she remembered Rebecca telling her that Viva may be having an affair, Betty wondered how Rebecca got to know that, or have such thought.
 
Rebecca knew there was trouble but she was happy because the hidden secret will soon be revealed and once Betty is able to add up the logic then she will know the truth…Betty will come to know that the person she calls friend and allowed freely into her home was actually a dangerous enemy, who not only stole from her but also had affair with her husband which resulted to the car she now own, she nee-ded to still give Betty a close clue that will trigger her. Rebecca bent over Betty’s ear and whispered to her in a very low voice that Richa-rd couldn’t un-derstand.
 
To be continued…