PART 15 “ I LOVE YOU BUT” ©️Opeyemi Akintunde
“Lara!”
“ Lara!”
Baba Shagba called out to his last wife. He knew he dare not call any of his senior wives. His senior wives had lost respect for him, because of the lack of money to care for them. The only thing keeping them with him is the oath all of them entered when he married them.
His last wife, Omolara who was just 18 years old entered his trap when she came looking for a charm to tie down her boyfriend 2 years earlier at 16 years old. Prior to that, she had come for exam charms which he did for her, but he was surprised when she came back wanting to tie down her boyfriend. Baba Shagba had been pissed at her, so he decided to punish her by charming her in to Marrying him. He had seen how full of virtue she was. He gave her a portion to drink. Stupidly, she drank it and started loving him instead.
“ Yes Baba..” Lara replied
“ We are having a visitor this night, she will be sleeping in your room for two weeks.”
“ Ok Baba” Lara said obediently
“ Never!” Chigozie shouted from her room. Chigozie was the fourth wife. She was the wife before Lara.. Chigozie married Baba Shagba willingly so she wasn’t charmed like the three other wives. She and the first wife were the ones free from Baba Shagba’s love charm.
“ You want to bring another woman in here.. Never... Tufiakwa ... I will be the one to kill her”
“ I am not bringing a new wife Chichi... She is a blind woman I want to treat”
“ You ? Treat a blind woman? Since when did you start treating blind women. Is it not only love portion you are good at?” Chigozie mocked him
“ Chichi... I don’t have time for this.. Winter is already bringing her...”
“ Winter..! Oh I see! That woman abi? So she has decided to bring you a wife?” Chichi said
“ Chichi, don’t be a joy spoiler, come ooo” He pulled her away from Lara and two of his wives that had joined the conversation
“ Chichi, 1.2 million Naira is at stake here... I promise I will give you 100 thousand Naira if you cooperate with me. I promise you I am not marrying her... it is a long story...”
“ I am not going anywhere, so I have all the time to listen to the long story.” Chigozie insisted
“ Ok... Winter....” Baba Shagba explained everything.
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Beauty couldn’t believe she had agreed to stay with a strange herbalist for a while, but as it was, Winter was the only person she had and she had no choice but to follow her advise.
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Pamilerin laid on the bed thinking about how the day went. She had gone for an X-ray and to her greatest surprise, there was nothing wrong with the Leg. The doctor advised her to stay indoors for some days and be off her feet. He told her the pain she was feeling could just be a traumatic pain.
She watched her husband sleeping calmly like a baby. She thought about her outburst earlier. That was not her person.
“ Pamilerin, you need to calm down. “ Pamilerin advised herself.
Her phone rang again. Her mother had been calling all afternoon but she was not in the mood for any drama.
On a second thought, Pamilerin knew if she didn’t pick up the call, her mother would call all night.
“ Hello, Maami”
“ Ha! Pamilerin... What is it? You want to kill me?”
“ Mummy, I am sorry... I was busy all day...”
“ Busy all day? Where are you?”
“ At home... Where else do you expect me to be at this time of the night?”
“ You mean you are fine? You are not sick? You don’t have headache?” Ajoke said
“ Why are....you asking me all that?”
“ Nothing ooo, I am just concerned!”
Pamilerin hung up...
“ What is Maami up to ? What has she done? Is she trying to attack me? Is she the cause of my leg pain?” Pamilerin reasoned
“ I need to stop picking her calls before she hurts me. “ Pamilerin quickly blocked her mother from calling her.
“ I have had enough trouble for a day” Pamilerin dropped her phone by her bedside table. Her leg was still hurting but the pain relief pills and injections the doctor had given her had subsided the pain.
“ God, I hope to be better by tomorrow “
*******
Winter alighted from the taxi that brought them to Baba Shagba. She held Beauty’s hand as they walked towards Baba Shagba’s compound. Beauty could smell that awful smell and cloud of darkness that was over the house they were entering... She could hear a voice from behind telling her...
“ This is not the solution... This is the solution”
“ Lift your leg... We are about entering the compound.” Winter said. She couldn’t wait to dump Beauty with Baba Shagba. She had only two weeks to execute her plan .
“ No...” Beauty froze all of a sudden. “ I am not going in there!” “ Take me back home... it’s better I die peacefully than die here. The darkness I feel around here is enough to kill me. Winter take me back home or take me to my grandmother’s place. “
Winter felt like slapping her...
“ Your grandmother? who you haven’t seen in how many years, who you deserted after you started making money”
“ Winter, she is still my grandmother, she would accept me and help me.”
Winter was trying so hard to control her anger. If only Beauty could see how her eyes shone with so hatred.
“ I am not taking you back there... I know what is right for you and HERE... is where you are going to be for now!”
“ Winter, Take me from here now!”
*******
Winter was haunting Freeman’s dream. It wasn’t in a sexual way but rather everything Winter had said to him at the lounge was replaying itself in his dream. It felt like Winter had recorded those dreams she said she had on his mind. The dreams were playing back.
Freeman saw himself and Winter having business meetings, he saw her taking him to meet other wealthy investors. He saw them travelling together to all the countries she had told him she had visited. He saw them entering different private jets...
Freeman woke up smiling.
“ I have hit my money bag, Thank you God for bringing Mrs Winter into my life” He said to himself.
To be continued
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