Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 15

5 years ago

Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 15

As my father in-law was narrating the story to me, I was beginning to suspect even the said Abigail. How convenient was it for her to stumble on Jide’s documents and at the same time stumbling on my wife again, I shook my head in disagreement with my father in-law ‘no, no, no! how come Abigail is in the heart of everything? She was responsible for finding out about Jide’s plot, now you want me to believe that it just so happen that she knows all this about my family as well?’

My father in-law giggled a bit and was probably going to give me answers but I flood him with another question ‘for how long has she known all these things that you are now revealing to me now and why now, why wait until now to reveal them all?’ ‘Well maybe it’s time you hear from the horse’s mouth yourself, at least it will help you understand better’ he retorted.

We were already at the gate of my father in-law’s house by this time and I could spot Isabella and Abigail playing around on the front porch of the house. As soon as Abigail noticed that it was me and her father, she whispered something into Isabella’s ear and Isabella skipped back into the house while waiving at us.

As we were approaching her, she was also moving towards our direction, she briefly gave her father a hug and shifted her attention towards me, she leaned back a bit while clutching one hand into the other and waiving from side to side. The way Abigail looked at me was more sober and passionate than the last time we saw in my father in-law’s office the day Jide and Mr. Patrick was arrested. She looked at me as if to say ‘I’m sorry’ then out of nowhere, she hugged me suddenly.

As the hug continue to linger on, so was I coming to the realization of the fact that I really needed a hug – a long passionate one. I held on tight to her and so did she.

We broke the hug only to see my father in-law’s back as he was walking away from us while waiving his hand without looking back.

She held my hands and led me to the set of two chairs place on either side of a rectangular table under an umbrella. We sat down on opposite sides of the table and were quiet for a while before she finally broke the silence ‘Ben……I’m sorry for everything you have been going through I’m really sorry’. Apparently someone must have told her that I have been updated about everything. I wanted to be angry with her but I just couldn’t do it. I could not muster up enough hatred to get angry but I was full of questions though. ‘We were close, close enough for people to easily believe that I was capable of impregnating you, but why couldn’t you tell me or at least give me a heads-up that my life was about to get torn apart, why?’ I asked her ‘I couldn’t tell you……Ben God knows I wanted to, but I couldn’t! when I found out about Jide, I wasn’t sure that you were not involved, the whole thing was tied around your neck as well, so I had to take my time, keep you in the company and find a way to exonerate you if at all you were innocent, as for Andral…..’ ‘is it true?’ I cut in ‘is it true that Andral has been poisoning me?’