Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 16

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Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 16

She looked down, trying to avoid any eye contact with me and nodded. ‘look at me!’ I screamed at her. ‘look me in the eyes and tell me that your own blood sister, my wife, the mother of Isabella your favorite niece is trying to poison me her husband!’ that rush of anger I was looking for has finally arrived. I guess it must have been the prospect of hearing the final confirmation that my beloved wife is my worst enemy that caused the rush. She was bringing the truth to me and I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready to lose my wife, my kids (that is if they are even mine), the home I once had, everything was about to go up in flames.

She was obviously angry at my outburst. She stormed into the house, I even thought she has abandoned me to my fate only to see her emerge with her car key. ‘you want to know the truth, come along, I’ll show you instead’ she said as she led me to her car.

We got into her car and she drove us away, after about 20minutes on the road, I finally realize she was taking us to my house. She blew her horn and Taju the gate man came to open the gate for us. I suddenly started feeling like I was indeed in an enemy’s territory. The place I once called home was no longer home to me.

As we approach the front door, I held Abigail’s hand back this time I was speaking to her in a much lower tone ‘wait wait, why are we here? Let’s just go back ok? I don’t want any troubles’ ‘you want to know the truth don’t you?’ she asked as I nodded in reply ‘then follow me, there is nothing to be afraid of’. She yanked the front door open! Lo and behold, my beloved wife Andral was placing her head on the lap of another man! The man was sitting on the edge of our long sofa in the living room while Andral was lying down on the same sofa using the man’s lap as pillow. Ironically, I wasn’t angry or surprised. I guess after everything I have seen and heard, I was pretty sure anybody is capable of doing anything, especially Andral.
Immediately she saw us, Andral sprang to her feet ‘what are you doing here? What is your business here? She was directing her question at me but I was busy looking at Abigail who seemed to be a bit shocked to see Andral in that position. It took Abigail a while to recover from her shock and soon as she did, she made for the kitchen and Andral dashed after her. ‘Where do you think you are going you idiot, you husband snatcher?’ ‘Baby ignore her’ the man with Andral shouted as he followed the two women to the kitchen. ‘Nnamdi hold on, lemme show this abomination of a girl who is boss’ I was taken aback a little bit, the thought that came to my mind was ‘wow! So this is the Nnamdi, the one I almost got killed for, so this woman cannot wait for me to sign the divorce papers before bringing another man into our house’. While all this was going through my mind, I knew Andral might really hurt Abigail if nothing is done so I followed them through to the kitchen.

I saw Abigail scrambling through the cabinets in the kitchen, Andral and Nnamdi were standing at the door watching as she was frantically searching through the cabinets. They could not tell what she was looking for and neither do I.
After searching for a few minutes, she came up with nothing, she dashed out of the kitchen again but not without pushing both Andral and Nnamdi who were still standing by the door aside. We all followed her as she finally made a stop at our bedroom. She went straight to my wife’s wardrobe, brought out a bag I could literarily swear that I have never seen in my entire life from the last row, unzipped it, and poured out its contents on the bed while staring at all of us who were still standing by the door of the bedroom.
What came out of the bag was what caught my attention. A couple of white drug plastics with the name Cal-G boldly written on the label on them fell to the bed, about 8 of them. I wanted to move closer to the scene of the action but something held me back. Andral moved closer to her sister and said ‘yes? What is this all about?’ she asked ‘what are all these drugs for’ Abigail fired back ‘they are mine’ Andral replied. ‘ I know they are yours but what are they for’ as Abigail gave me a look as if telling me to pay attention ‘Andral looked back at me then turned back to face Abigail ‘they are for my body weight loss’ this time the self confidence, composure and fury she once had had somehow disappeared. What was left was the picture of a woman who knew trouble was imminent.
I eventually decided to move close only for me to see a hand holding me back – the hand belonged to Nnamdi – without thinking twice I gave him a punch that brushed his mouth up to his nose! He hit the floor so hard you will think something pulled him from the ground. Andral screamed ‘devil!’ and rushed down to the side of Nnamdi on the floor while sobbing. I went straight to the bed, picked up one of those plastics and read through it in front of Abigail who was standing at Akimbo. I finally saw what I was looking for ‘calcium Glucate’ was written boldly under the Cal – G on the label. I turned around and moved towards Andral (she was still on the floor trying to comfort Nnamdi who was bleeding from both mouth and nose). ‘so you mean these drugs belongs to you? Andral! Answer me! You own these drugs? What is my offence? I thought you loved me?’ I tried not to be emotional but I failed. Tears were gathering around my eyes by now. ‘I’ll rather die in the gutters instead of loving you!’ Andral said as she was standing up from the floor, ‘I’ll rather spend the rest of my life in jail instead of spending it with you’. She was moving so close to me, so close I could smell the lotion on her hair and the alcohol in her breath. ‘all my life I have loved only one man and one man alone’ pointing to Nnamdi on the floor ‘you may be judgmental and say all the crap in this word about him but he is twice the man you will ever be and believe me if I have to kill the entire world populace to be with him I’ll do it without blinking’. ‘Wow, so I have been in love with another man’s wife all along’ I thought to myself. I somehow admired their love in a bizarre and strange twist. I felt a profound appreciation for what they have. The fact that someone could love anybody like that made me want to believe in love again, to me, standing there, and watching Andral profess her love in such an unapologetic way made me feel like the outsider in this circle of love for the first time and it made me want to admit that maybe, just maybe I have been standing in the way of true love all along, maybe I deserve to die.