My Wife (Short Story) – Emeka Edozie
Immediately I opened the door to my house, I saw my two children crying because they were hungry. My wife was trying to calm them down and assure them that Daddy would soon be back.
Immediately they saw me enter the house,they rushed towards me as they hugged me.
“Daddy, we’ve not eaten anything since morning… Mummy have been giving us water without food”
Tears dropped from my eyes.
I dipped my hand into my pocket and brought out the #1500 I got from Labouring Job I went to. I rushed outside and bought Akara balls and pure water for my children.
They pounced on the food and ate it as if there life depended on the food.
I watched my children devour the food hungrily without mercy.
My wife was just looking at me. She wanted to say something but nothing came out from her mouth.I noticed that she had been crying secretly.
I gave her the remaining #1200 to prepare anything for us to eat because I hadn’t tasted anything throughout that day.
I could see through her eyes and heart. The suffering was becoming unbearable for her but she was just being strong for me and for the children.
She went out to buy something to cook while I sat down to rest. I was alone with my thoughts…
“God, why are you punishing me like this?”
“Why is my own so different….where did i go wrong?”
“Who do I run to….who will help me out…
“Why has it been so difficult to get another job after I was sacked last three months?”
“Lord, I am about to give up…Help me before I loose it”
I was still talking to myself when my wife entered with the rice and tuber of yam she bought. I wiped my tears immediately so that she wouldn’t notice that I was crying.
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After 5 months….My wife’s attitude towards me changed. She started cursing and fighting me always.
“See…Papa Junior…I can’t continue like this oooo….if things don’t change anytime soon eeeeeeh!!
Me: But Honey…you know I have been trying to get another job. I have not been sleeping at all.
Just trust me…. everything will soon be okay.!!
She left my presence angrily 😡😠
I was loosing hope…. nothing was working out. No company even gave me a call after all the interviews I had gone to.
I was really dinning with poverty and it has refused to let me go.
One midnight…I wanted to touch my wife since it was up to 4 months we had S*x as husband and wife. Immediately I touched her, I received a heavy knock on my head…..
“Wait oooo….what are you trying to do??That’s the only thing you’re good at!!…Reserve your energy for the work you are going to do tomorrow…… Infact, no more s*x for you till you get a good job.. stupid man”
My Pimpim became flaccid at once.
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My Pimpim became flaccid immediately as hot tears dropped from my eyes.
“Honey,why are you doing this to me?? Have you forgotten how I gave and provided all your needs when I was working?
How did I ever wrong you and why are you hell bent on frustrating my life?”
She cuts in…
“That was in the past…Go and get another job because I am getting fed up already”
I couldn’t sleep that night because my heart was so heavy. My precarious situation has made my wife to deny me my right!!
My heart was failing me. It was as if my world has collapsed on me.
I was coming back from my Labouring Job the next day when I saw my wife in a bar with another man eating and drinking. I had to clean my eyes to be sure it was my wife….
“Jesus Christ !…Lucy…what are you doing here with another man”?
She looked at me and told the man not to listen to me. She acted as if I didn’t exist.
I was still standing thinking of what to do when she said…
“Oga…go home jhor…I am coming”, she growled.
I couldn’t bear it anymore. I left them there and went to the nearby Store where I bought Sn*per..
“God…Why have you been so wicked and mean to me?
What crime did I commit that you cannot forgive me and change my situation?,I muttered to myself as I walked home.
Immediately I got home, I brought out the sniper and drank from it. Before I knew it , everywhere went blank…
I woke up in the hospital and found my wife sitting beside me. She rushed me to the hospital immediately she came back and saw me vomiting.
I was half conscious but I heard the doctor say to my wife;
“Madam…The chemical your husband took has already damaged his system…He has barely two hours to live”
I could hear my wife shedding tears beside me…She was begging me to forgive her but it was rather too late.
Few minutes later, I heard my phone ring and my wife picked it….
“Hello…Are we speaking to Mr Okoro?
“This is to inform him that the contract of 10 billion naira has been approved. He is to report to our office to sign some necessary documents”
The phone fell off from my wife’s hand because she was shocked!!
I heard their conversation because it was on loud speaker but I couldn’t say anything. Hot tears of regret left my eyes.
God….Can you give me a second chance??….
Why is this good news coming now that i am about to die? God why! God why !! God why!!
Suddenly,I started gasping for air…it was as if life was gradually snuffed out of me.
I woke up and saw my two kids weeping bitterly and my wife begging me to wake up but it was too late.
I tried to talk to them but they couldn’t see me. I realized that I was dead.
I felt a strong force grip me as I was taken up above.
The End…
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