PART 5 “ I LOVE YOU, BUT...” BY OPEYEMI O. AKINTUDE

 

Beauty felt the familiar butterflies 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 kiss him, hug him or jump on him?.

“ Beauty! I know you are in there! Please open up! You know I love you and this is not easy for me. Please open up and let’s discuss this!” Freeman said

“ He still loves me!” Beauty said to herself as she fell to the ground crying.

“ Please ... Bee Open up... I promise you, we will sort this out... I love you bae, everything that happened was sudden... Please 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 tightly...

“ I am not letting you go, she can’t take you from me, please... 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... Please...”

“ Freeman, you love me and that is what I will tell her!”

“ Beauty, I love you but I love my wife in a deeper 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 bed 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, please have this...” Freeman brought 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 prostitute 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 Sex 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 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 kiss you goodbye” Freeman said

“ You are Mad!” were the words Beauty wanted to say to Freeman but she stopped 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 her lips on his. At first, the usual surge of excitement shot through her veins but she remembered her mission. With all the determination in the world, she bit his lip so hard the pain went straight to Freeman’s brain.

Freeman tried pushing Beauty off him, but Beauty held on to the lips with her teeth like her life depended on it.

“ Pleaseeeee!” Freeman groaned as he tried to push Beauty off.

After few seconds of struggle, Beauty released his lips...

“ 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 touched his sore lips. He knew without a doubt he couldn’t go to work again. Soon, he would have a swollen lip.

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 needed to talk or else she felt she was going to run mad. She wanted to burst out. She thought of calling her wealthy guardians who raised her, but her calculating brain told her it was not a good move. Her guardians were the ones connecting Freeman to their wealthy friends and associates. 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 became 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 came only a few times.

After marriage, she became 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 Yoruba 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 already over...” Ajoke said in Yoruba adding some proverbial statements Pamilerin did not understand.

To be continued

 

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