SEE FINISH BY TREASURE EZURUIKE EPISODE 31

SEE FINISH BY TREASURE EZURUIKE EPISODE 31

KIRA’S POV

He called Charles and went out to speak to him on the phone. They spoke for a very long time. 

I didn’t listen because I was so tired and I just needed to lie down. He came back fully charged. 

The following day I was so miserable and lying on the bed when dad called me and said Kenny is live on television with Charles. 

What! Dad told me about the TV channel. I was so tired but I got down from the bed and switched on the TV and flipped to the Channel and there Charles was live with Kenny. 

Kenny was recounting his experience in prison. He talked about being wrongfully arrested with his friends two days after the marriage. 

He went out to run an errand and get back to his wife but stopped by to see his friends because they had agreed to meet. 

While they stood by the street a police vehicle pulled over and dragged them in without telling them anything. 

They were blindfolded and taken to a secret location and tortured. I wept as he narrated his ordeal. 

 

Where are you going? He asked. I’m leaving. You are leaving to where? He asked. I’m leaving this house and leaving you. I’m leaving the marriage. I’m tired of the marriage. I no longer want to continue to live like this when you have no regard for me. I want to leave and cool my head. 

 

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He said that they wanted them to accept and admit to being responsible for crimes that have engulfed the City. 

They wanted them to admit to being a gang of criminals but he told his friends not to accept it no matter how they were tortured. 

Because if they accept it it will be difficult to overturn once a testimony has been obtained from them. , Because of that, they were severely tortured. 

He took off his shirt and National Television and showed the world his scars. 

It was so emotional looking at the scars. I had seen them, but showing them to the world was a different kind of emotional hurt to me. 

Kenny put his shirt back on and said if this was all I went through I would have probably healed.

When we are taken to prison without a trial, one of the deputy controllers of the Nigerian correctional service began to sexually abuse me. 

Kenny broke down in tears and said a fellow man like me sexually abused me because I ended up in prison for a crime I did not commit. 

What was the name of this deputy controller Charles asked? His name is Daniel Marcus. Excuse me Charles exclaimed! Yes, that is his name.

Was it just you who was abused? Charles asked. There were others but I was the only one among my friends.

How did it start? Charles asked? After we were taken to prison, my friends and I strategized on how to survive until our families found us.

You were confident your families would find you? Yes, we all were. We come from close knitted families.

Our ways are straight, we don’t lead shady lives. Our families are close too. 

We knew that if all of us went missing without a trace it’d be suspicious.

My parents told me that they suspected immediately after we all went missing that we had been taken to prison.

The prison officials played them around denying not knowing about us for a whole year until they couldn’t deny it anymore.

One day a prison Warden told me one of the Deputy Controllers of the Nigerian Correctional Service wanted to see me.

Then I didn’t know who it was. I thought it meant something good, possibly Dad had pulled a string to hear us out.

I had nothing in mind while I followed the Warden.

I was shocked to see Daniel Marcus alone in his office without Dad. He had some other warders with him.

He told me how if I cooperated he would make my stay in prison comfortable.

Had your family found you by then? No, we had not been found.

I wondered what he meant by making my stay in prison comfortable.

The next thing he began to touch me inappropriately as the wardens watched.

I was so shocked while he smiled at me like I was a woman.

Next, he asked me to undress him and touch his genitals, I was so shocked.

When I refused to cooperate he asked the wardens to torture me until I agreed to do what he asked.

He tortured me each time I refused to do as he pleased.

Did he abuse you physically or perform any physical abuse on you?

Kenny sniffed and said he did. He stuck objects and his genitals in me.

The facial expression of Charles was enough to describe mine.

NICOLE’S POV

When Bernard ended his call with his Dad he saw me packing my belongings. 

Where are you going? He asked. I’m leaving. You are leaving to where? He asked.

I’m leaving this house and leaving you. I’m leaving the marriage. I’m tired of the marriage. 

I no longer want to continue to live like this when you have no regard for me. I want to leave and cool my head. 

And what would happen to the children? I will leave them for you. They’re your children right.

You always tell me how I came to this house without them and if I’m leaving I’m leaving without them. 

, I’m leaving them for you. Luckily for you, I’m not breastfeeding any of them so I’m sure you can handle them by yourself. 

I never asked you to leave so why are you leaving? he asked. 

You told your mother to take me along with her because you cannot stand having someone stand toe-to-toe with you in your own house you built. 

To avoid any misunderstanding I’m packing my things to leave and go somewhere where I can have peace of mind.

Where I can sleep peacefully without being disturbed. 

You know this is all your fault, he said? It’s all my fault how? I wanted you and you turned me down.

Really? I did not turn it down. I said I was tired and had a headache.

I asked for a few hours to rest, but it offended you because you must have what you want when you want it.

You must have what you want to have whenever you want it even if the other person is disadvantaged.

Once it is altered you get upset like a child that wants candy and didn’t get it. 

I rested for an hour and reached out to you but you were already offended and pushed me away. 

You went to work the next day and very aggressively came back home and accused me of not doing anything because you were angry.

realize knew you wanted to rub it in my face so I decided to help you so you can realize it’ll get you nowhere.

What is the point of getting upset over nothing? Talking about sex have I ever turned you down?

I have never done that to you. Have you ever sat down to ask me whether I’m happy with the things you do to me in bed? 

You’ve never asked me If I enjoy them, you don’t care.

Each time I bring it up you never want to listen or contribute to it. All you want is just to have your way with me and enjoy it the way you want. 

You don’t care if I like the things you do to me. Have you ever wondered whether I’m up for it or not?

You have a huge sexual appetite well I don’t. You refused to adjust from the beginning of this marriage.

You want to be intimate very early in the morning when you wake up. You sometimes want to have it immediately when you go to bed. You want to have it sometime before morning and then in the morning again at least three times a day.

You have never stopped to ask yourself if I can cope with it. You wouldn’t say before marriage we were intimate and I was used to it.  

I thought after all these years your appetite was going to come down but it has remained at the same level and you don’t care how I feel.

Even if I’m tired you want it. If I’m crying you want it. If I’m sick you want it. If I’ve just had a baby you want it.

If I’ve ever said no to you and it was because I was discharged from the hospital. 

I was stitched and I was in pain. I will not be intimate with you under such a condition.

Understand that I’ve never said no. You don’t care how I feel. At the end of the day, you are so selfish.

I’m not saying I’m perfect or without fault but you don’t care about my feelings.

You just feel I’m here to serve you. To meet your needs. You are not here to meet my own needs. 

You hurt my feelings by telling me how I do nothing. I’ve been nothing in this house but yet in the last two weeks I’ve been doing everything. 

You’ve done nothing but you know you earn more money than me but yet you have not provided any money to run this home and you’re happy with it.

You were trying to teach me a lesson. Now I realize you don’t love me at all. You’re only concerned with your selfish desires.

Once they are met, you do not care what any other person thinks. You just want what you want irrespective of the condition under which you get it. 

I need a break from you. I need a place where I can stay quiet and think. I don’t think I’ll do that in this house. 

Even if it’s for the weekend I need to leave and go somewhere else where I don’t get to see your face or hear your voice because you disgust me. 

“I have hurt you and I’m very sorry. I don’t know what came over me and I’m not trying to make excuses. I just felt deprived by you that night.

I don’t know why I went crazy. Probably I was upset about something else and all these emotions collided and resulted in a tsunami.

I got home instead and used those horrible words on you. I’m sorry for whatever I have done to hurt you.

Please don’t leave. I told my friends and they all tongue-lashed me. Even my father called to warn me not to go down the same road he went. 

Whatever, I don’t care about your fake apology.

KEISHA’S POV

It’s still on your mind? No, it wasn’t but a friend brought it up and now I’m concerned about it.

Why? He asked. The truth is if I get married to you I’ll be making a U-turn on what I always dreamt of as regards the kind of man I’d love to marry.

The last thing I’ll want is to get married and start having problems in that department.

So now you want to know if it still works? If you put it that way, yes.

How would you like to go about it? The truth is I don’t know. I’ve never done something like this before so I’ve no idea.

Sleeping with me is completely out of the question, so our next option is a doctor. 

If you’re so worried about it we could make an appointment with a gynecologist and go see one.

I believe I’ll take that option. Thank you so much for not misunderstanding me. It’s perfectly fine.

I understand that it’s not easy for you so I’m willing to remain patient while responding to all your concerns until you have no doubts left.

Thank you so much, I said. The pleasure is all mine. It’s so nice talking to you by video.

I can see all your facial expressions. It makes it so real. I doubt I’ll call you using a voice call again.

You are not serious, I said. I’m serious, he responded. Thank you for trying to put my family in order.

Usually, you’d be happy about how disorganized it is and capitalize on it, but you’ve not done that so thank you.

The truth is that it’s not good for a family to lose either a father or a mother but the loss of a father in a family leads to the loss of money.

Most times the mother has no job but she springs into action to put food on the table and provide for her children.

The loss of a mother does something worse. Most times the money is there but the home falls apart.

The organization of the family goes to ruins. 

day-to-day most fathers are not involved in the day-to-day running of the home so they won’t know what to do.

They wouldn’t know what to do about anything. 

They may not know what illnesses the children suffer from and how to administer medication at home without the aid of a doctor.

They wouldn’t know how to dress up the children for school if they are still that young.

Everything would just be a mess and the next option would be to remarry.

Most men don’t do it because they never loved their wives or they were dating those women.

Most of them can’t cope so they marry another woman to help them reorganize the home and with that, the children suffer if the woman has an evil heart.

In my case, I just couldn’t do it. My daughters swung into action and helped cushion the effect but it just wasn’t the same.

I feel guilty about it each time I think about it. My daughters are not married because they don’t want to leave me alone.

, Honestly, I survived all these years because of them, especially Maya. I hope she can meet someone soon.

I hope so too. I don’t think you should beat yourself up because you’ve done nobly. Since I met you I’ve not seen you with any woman.

In the beginning, I thought you were just a private person until I found out the truth. 

It’s not easy but you pulled it off. I believe your family would be okay. You all need to bury the hatchet.

Our call ended and I called Maya, Angela, and Michael on a video conference call.

I just allowed them to talk to each other and throw tantrums without interfering.

Everyone was so bitter but I was glad they could get it all out. 

Maya and Angela were mad at Micheal for being so irresponsible and selfish. Micheal was mad at them for shutting him out.

After everyone had calmed down. I asked them how they felt. They all felt lighter.

To be continued

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