Hurt

Chapter One

I left my office early, as I usually did, to get dinner for my husband and myself as he does not have any means of income, and to pick up my child from school.

When I arrived at the grocery store, there was a long queue, so I patiently waited for my turn. As soon as I was at the front of the line, I quickly grabbed the ingredients for dinner and headed to my son's school to pick him up.

As soon as I picked him up from school, we headed home.

We were both walking towards my room, when I heard some voices.I heard my husband voice, so I stopped walking straining to listen to the conversation

“Go to the living room” I said to my son, and he complied.

I continued walking towards my room, and I kept on hearing voices.

“Harder harder” a feminine voice moaned.

“You are so sweet, I am relief now, it been a long time I had a sweet s*x like this”

“Why not let me stay over here, and be giving you different styles you want”

Stunned and enraged, I tightened my grip on the groceries, my knuckles turning white. The sound of my husband’s infidelity cut through me like a knife, rekindling all the pain of his betrayal.

“Stop it” I shouted at the top of my voice.

“Hey Wiffy, I thought you had gone to your sister's place when I didn't see you, welcome back home” he said

“Who is she?” The lady who was naked asked.

“Just go, we'll talk later, okay?”

“Alright” she said, taking up her dress from the matrimonial bed.

I watched her with anger, as she put on her clothes, she left quietly.

“Where's my son?” he asked lamely

“Are you not feeling remorse or? I have heard it quite well but I decided not to believe, I had heard people talk about how you bring in different women to out matrimonial house”

“Where is my son?"

“Is that all you could ask for? Am I a fool to you? I go around everyday, I go to work to hustle, just to make sure you are fine, but then, you never act like you care. Now you removed my frame, my son frame and the family pictures just to bring in a wh$re, is that how you do every time I am not around? See who I go around borrowing money to please?”

“I was expecting a day like this though, a day where you would talk about how you have been feeding me, since I stopped having means of income, I know for sure you would talk about it to everyone and you are not disappointing me, do you know what I expect next? For you to go to social media so everyone would know”

“Is that what you have to say after I caught you with a woman? You are heartless Alex”

“What do you get for me today?” He tried changing the conversation and taking up the things I bought, but I stopped him

“I go to work everyday, but you are here bringing different ladies to our house, are you not tired? I am tired of this already, I pay for the child school fees and upkeep. I tried looking for work for you, but you kept rejecting it with the excuse that you can only work for six hours? Are you even a man?”

“Can you just keep shut? Samson will hear you” he paused, and continued, “You need to cope having me around women, that's how we can stay married”

“Is that a condition or? I had better divorce”

“Divorce.. divorce?” he smiled and replied, “I have been waiting for that since, I don't want to be the first person to talk about it, I don't want something like after I helped him, after I fed him, he divorced me. So far you talked about it first, then I am glad”

“I am sorry, I was only angry, I am sorry, for the sake of Samson please l, do not let us divorce” I don't even know, but I knelt down pleading. I didn't know when I said the word ‘divorce’. The fact that I caught him with a lady, I still do not want to be separated from him. He was my first boyfriend, and the guy who deflowered me.

“You talked about it, Samson would move on so well, I want to be unmarried!” He left the room.

I welled down in tears, my plan was to marry once, and to marry right but Alex has been the other way round. I do everything to please him and to make things right, but that was not the same to him, he kept on provoking me.

“Daddy, what did you tell mum?”

“Nothing, mum wants to be alone, she wants to live differently from me”

“Why would she decide that? I know mum would never say that, mum can't live differently from you, she loves you so much but who is the lady who left? Is she your mistress”

“She's a friend of mine, nothing more, a friend to your father!” He shunned.

“Let me go and meet mum” he said, coming to where I was.

I was hearing his light footsteps, so I cleaned up my face.

“Samson, I will get you what to eat now, I am sure you are hungry”

“No mum, I am not hungry, why are you crying?”

“I am not crying Samson, I am just trying to get somethings done, probably it's because of the dust, mum is fine”

“No mum, the room is clean”

“Ooh! Mum is fine”

“Promise me that we are not going to leave dad, dad said you are leaving him, and we would no longer live with him” I was shocked to hear that from him, I was only teasing, I do not know that he mean it

I was heartbroken, I began to cry in the presence of my son.

“Mum!! Don't cry, dad is cheating on you right? I know that since” He said, as we both started streaming in tears.