All Chapters of At Arm's length : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Epilogue 2"Sewa, are you awake? " Kene whispered shifting closer to me on our bed, I could hear his breathing, cause he was breathing heavily. I pretended I was asleep hoping he would go back to sleep. I smiled when I felt him retreating back to his side of the bed, I sometimes wonder how Kene gets his energy. He comes back late from work and still wants to go down with me.  "Sewa," he whispered into the darkness. "I know you are awake." he added. I covered my mouth trying to stiffle the laughter that threatened to expose me fully. I felt the urge to turn when I felt his warm hands on my waist and his breath fanning my nape."Sewa," he called out, his voice breaking at the end. I went alert immediately, I could feel something wet on my neck. Then I heard the sniffles he was making. Different thoughts kept running through my head. Kene never cries, what could make Kene cry? I got

The sun is shining, the day is brightening up. I went about my usual routines on a Saturday. Doing the laundries and cleaning up the house. Kene was in the bedroom still sleeping. I went about my duties quietly, feeling relieved the kids were still at their grandparents house, It would be hard to get any cleaning job done if they were here. The stress of putting them to order and all was another thing entirely.  My flip flops made a thwacking sound as it made collision with the hard gleaming tiles, I was heading over to the Kitchen to prepare a breakfast of the popular Nigerian Jollof rice topped with plaintain, boiled eggs, meats and a spicy bowl chicken soup. I walked into the large spacious Kitchen that housed most Kitchen assets, just name them.  I reached up, stretching my hands to the overhead cupboards to get a knife and a cutting board. Picking up my onions, I began to chop them, not minding my eyes were beginning to get te

I became entirely numb, I couldn't think, couldn't say anything. I have never felt like dying before, but I can see myself dying. I felt helpless, I was damn scared of the known and unknown. I just wished I could just close my eyes and then open them back to see everything is back to normal. But who am I kidding. Everything that happened right from the beginning, the drunken night, waking up naked in the hands of Niyi, my screams, the tears when I realized what happened, every bit of it kept flashing and replaying.   I grabbed onto my head, holding it tightly as if that will rid off the horrible things it stored. I made an effort to move, but I couldn't. Everything became blurry and I began to sway from left and right, staggering like a drunkard. Acting insane. Suddenly I let out a frightful scream. The tears began spilling uncontrollably, the hiccups kept coming through. I collapsed on the hard tile floor not minding the pain that came from th

I could see Uchechi staring at me from my side view, She cocked her eyebrows in a subtle way of asking me what was wrong. After the encounter with Tatiana, I left the hospital immediately without checking up on my husband, I was scared of the unknown and known. I ran out the hospital got a taxify and here am I in Uchechi's house.  But how do I tell my best friend I'm dead meat.  How do I tell my best friend my husband was in the hospital, and he will probably not remember he has a wife or kids. How do I explain to her I was the cause of it all, how do I open my mouth to tell her I was drugged and raped by one of my husband's friends ? To cap it all how do I even tell her my husband might not even be the father of my children or that he has baby mama who just insulted and threatened me not to long ago. How? My life was just in chaos, I'm exasperated.   I rolled my eyes in a way I hoped made me appear nonchalant. I

Two months later  Kene was finally back home and of course he was getting better, the injuries he sustained from the accident were already healing up, but he was yet to recover his memory. He didn't even remember he had kids and I didn't bother mentioning it to him, I've been keeping him at arm's length since he came home with Tatiana, yeah that psycho. Talking about the kids, I'm just glad they have been found. Every morning I woke up with relief knowing my kids were safe with my father. Thanks to Ada, yeah the crazy one. We were able to trace the kidnappers Tatiana probably hired with the help of an insider. I'm still shocked Ada still has a good blood in her, well people change, but what made Ada actually change ?  I smiled in relief, we did the DNA test of the triplets and it marched correctly with Kene's. He was the father of those kids, an amazing thing. But the most amazing thing was that Niyi absolutely confessed, he narrat