I LOVE YOU, BUT... BY Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde

 

  PART 1

 

“ 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 apartment 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 under her breath but Freeman didnt pick up the words as he was already on a call. He picked up his car keys and sauntered out of the room blowing Beauty a goodnight kiss.

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 boyfriend. 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 romantic, but Beauty was a die hard romantic.

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 brains. Beauty did not like thinking too hard, but whenever he needed 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 rub 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 occupying 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 chosen 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 celebrating 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 under 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

 

To follow up on this series, Follow the author on Instagram @Opeyemi Akintunde and other series on Facebook@ OPEYEMI OJERINDE AKINTUNDE-OFFICIAL Feel free to share this series, but please do not edit out the credit of the author and details. Let's be mindful of others.

DEEP THOTS NOVELS

INSPIRED BY THE HOLY ONE

Written by Opeyemi O.Akintunde

+234-8151103646