MY SECRET 5

MY SECRET 5

I was still in the hospital from the look of things. The first thing I did was to sit up when I noticed that I was lying on a hospital bed. But I noticed that a headache landed me back on head. Then I heard a stiff cough followed by ruffling of feet. I was trying hard to turn so I could see who it was but he came just in time to be seen.

"See where you landed us?" It was Achebe.

He had dark circles beneath his eyes and his beard was unshaven. "What? Where is..." I coughed. My throat was dry but he cared less. "I am thirsty."

He simply stared at me with I think there was hatred in his eyes but I couldn't tell because my tears blinded me.

"You should have died. At least this whole scandal would have died down." He spat.

My lips trembled. I wanted to know if my husband got to know what happened between me and his brother.

"I curse the day I set my eyes on you. I even curse the day my brother set your eyes on your sister. Maybe my brother and I won't be involved in this messy family of yours." He said bitterly.

I stopped crying. I wanted to ask him what he meant by my husband and sister.

"Now my wife has dumped me. My eleven months old marriage has crashed all because you told your women leader our secret. You couldn't keep your mouth shut and she couldn't either!" He laughed hysterically like a mad man.

"Where are my husband and kids?" I asked.

"Your kids are all abroad it turns out that your husband has been working on their visa for years now. Do you also know that your husband is now happily married to your sister?"

His last statement got me struggling to sit up in bed despite the throbbing headache. "She is not my blood sister! My mother adopted her when we were little. Charles can never do that to me."

Ache be laughed and showed me some pictures from his phone. He was right. Charles was smiling in the picture with my adopted sister and my kids holding flowers for her....they seemed happy. But something else caught my attention in the picture. It was a little child smiling. The child I saw with a skinny girl that my husband's mother brought. And then it occurred to me, that my husband and my adopted sister have been sleeping with each other for years now.

A tear rolled down my face. Karma was indeed a bitch. What you sow is what you reap. The way you lay your bed, so you lie on it.

"But how did they get married so fast? How did they get to a white man's country that fast? After all, I only just fainted some minutes ago."

Achebe's eyes turned soft. He swiped across his phone and tapped on the calendar app.

"Read what you are seeing."

"July 2021." I looked up at him and shook my head. "No, we are supposed to be in January 28th tomorrow is my birthday now have you forgotten?"

"You had a heart attack. So you have been in a coma for 7 months."

My jaw dropped in shock. I had a heart attack. Now I have loosed everything I ever worked for. I was even on the verge of losing my heart.

"I should have just died." I half-whispered.

"Maybe. It just would have been better."

It would have been better because I never remained the same again. I was abnormal for a long time until I found someone who could love me again and forgive me of my past.

I finally saw the Light...I saw Jesus Christ. The End!