Work of the devil - Season 1 - Episode 2

5 years ago

Work of the devil - Season 1 - Episode 2

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I am Linus Daki. I am here in this prison, sorrowing alone without any friend or relative visiting me because I hurt the people that really matter. And I did something that was so wrong.
I had developed a poor value system. I had misplaced my priorities. And I had made the major things the minor ones, and the minor ones the major ones.

I had placed my need for money above my need for humans. My value for the naira above human life. And I have acted on this misplaced value system and the arm of nemesis had caught up with me.

My cousin, Regina was one of those beautiful women with inadequate domestic training and skills. I would not really blame her. I would blame her parents- my uncle John; who was my father’s immediate elder brother and his wife Joanna. It was their fault. They made Regina who she turned out to be.

Regina was the only daughter of the Johns. They had had six boys and was so longing for a girl child. After some years, after they had thought they would just have their last child and stop child bearing and enjoy the genders the Creator had given them, Regina was born. Celebrations filled the whole place. There was joy and much happiness.

As she grew, her siblings noticed the special treatment her parents were giving to her and it made them feel bad. She was not allowed to do anything at home. She was treated like a princess until she became a spoilt princess.

She could not cook, wash, clean or keep the home. Her brothers did all these and when they began to complain bitterly, a maid was hired to do the work.

After much selections and useless ‘iyanga’, she finally picked one man to marry and she made sure, she had her way. He was a handsome young man who was trying to stand properly on his feet, but it never mattered. They exploited him because of the love he had for her. They took advantage of him and made him pay so much to have her as his wife.

After their wedding, his attitude changed somehow as soon as he saw his wife for who she was. Stubborn. Hard. Over pampered. Greedy. Lazy. Untrained. Proud. Never apologizing for anything even if she was wrong. And always comparing him with other men.

He couldn’t take it anymore. He couldn’t put up with her attitudes after they had their first child- Princess. He got tired of always apologizing whenever they had issues. They had a fight and she angrily left her matrimonial home with their daughter when her husband had left for work. She just took few of her things and the baby and left.