My Husband Turned Me To His Maid

I cleaned my eyes and raised up my head to meet her gaze.

"My sister this is how it happened oh! I've been feeling bad, very bad, sick dizzy and nauseous. See me see steady sleeping and tiredness ever since the last time Oga made love to me." I consciously omitted ****.

"But you know how my period comes with all these signs na. I just thought that maybe it was my period and it's wahala again. In fact I concluded that it was my period causing it. So I ignored it and went to by ibuprofen so that when it comes your sister will not die. Only for Cletus to hit me so bad I fainted. I was bleeding seriously.___I didn't know I was pregnant.__,"

"Oh my God this is good news!" She exclaimed shutting me up.

"It would have been ohhhhh my sister," I sobbed blowing my nose. I was shaking profusely. The more I talked about it the more I felt the pain.

I knew telling someone else about it would make me feel better and who better to tell than Gozie. I was so tired of bottling it all up, so so tired.

"It would have been ohhhh! had Cletus not hit me so bad that Sunday. All for Nothing! Nothing." I repeated stressing it. Now I've lost my children and my love for him, has died with them__"

"What do you mean you have lost your children? " she asked looking confused and angry.

"I heard a miscarriage. I was pregnant of twins____"

"And as if that's not enough, as if loosing my children, twins, wasn't enough bad news. The doctor said that it would be difficult for me to comceive again." I consciously omitted that in other to know the true state of things I had to pretend to be unconscious.

I started to cry again. "Look at me na at the age of twenty nine I've already been made barren. I've been turned to an old woman because of love, God why? Is this how my life has been ruined!" I shouted in pain.

My body could not stop shaking from the pain, my eyes hurt, my nose was clogged with catarrh, my heart constricted but I did not stop crying.

"Jesus Christ! Cletus God will punish you, you will not know good!" She cursed, then she faced me. "I warned you, I warned you but you will not listen. I told you that there was Nothing like a fairytale prince but you did not listen, now see what has happened to you eh, see it. If you had married Jacob all this would not have happened. You would have been happy in a big mansion, traveling around the world and you would still have your family and friends and be respected as the daughter of a senator. But see now." She said shaking her head.

I was in no mood to argue with her and besides she was right. I ruined my own life, I stubbornly ruined my life and now I'm paying for it.

"Shey now that you've been made barren you will leave him alone abi. I told you right from time that Cletus was a no good pretender. A callous and a lazy man but did you listen to me? Mba!"

I knew she was angry but she was making me feel even worse than I was feeling already. "I can't leave him my faith Doesn't permit divorce___

"It does on account of a.d.u.l.tery and you and I know that Cletus has been cheating on you over and over again. You can still get your life back. You can still get it back. A miracle can happen but first you have to leave him. God only helps those who help themselves, Miracle help yourself. Use your head. If not for your sake then at least do it for that little girl who is depending on you." She begged holding my hands.

I sobbed in her hands, there were no words to explain how much I loved her and how Much she has helped me. Talking to her made me feel better It was like a huge burden was lifted of my shoulders.

"Do you still love him.?" She asked looking intently at me, pity and anger was evident in her face, but hope in her eyes.

I knew what she wanted to hear and I said it.

"No I don't. My love for him is dead. It died with my kids."