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His Perfect Wife 15
*9 months later*I slid my eyes open, feeling the most pain I could have ever imagined. Breathing felt hard and I could only take short breaths at a time, I felt the sting of the pieces of glass that were pierced into my skin. I could not move my neck, I realized that with a failed attempt to look around. I was wearing a brace, that I could tell. “Ramiel”, I managed to say, I could barely hear myself, I could barely hear anything but sirens and more sirens with muffled voices from people that were not even a bit familiar. “Mrs Kingsley you are in good hands you are going to be fine”, I managed to hear an unfamiliar voice say.“Ramiel”, I called out again, a bit louder than the last time but I could still barely hear myself. “Where is my husband”, I asked. “Relax, you have to save your strength Mrs Kingsley. I felt us moving. I was strapped down, being rolled into an ambulance. Where was he? Was he okay? “Where is my husband?”, I asked this time louder than ever, sobs breaking
His Perfect Wife 16
The trip from my room felt too long, despite his room only being 4 rooms over, I felt like I was being wheeled for hours.But when Iris pushed me through the doors of his room, time stopped. Immediately I saw his body on the bed, so stiff. His breathing wasn’t like normal it seemed shorter, quicker and not as deep at all, that probably had to do with the tube that currently went down his trachea, aiding him to breathe. He looked so pale even from a distance, I never knew he could look that pale. Not even after we stayed in the bath for over an hour did he look that pale. How could he look so much smaller in a matter of two days? Or was my mind playing tricks on me? Tears blurred my vision as I finally reached his side, I reached out to touch him, hold his hand that always found it’s way to mine no matter where we were. As my hands touched his cold ones, my tears spilled, and I couldn’t help but gasp. Stiffened Whimpers and my inaudible giberrish filled the room as I cried while
His Perfect Wife 17
*8 months ago*“Let’s go to dinner today”, he said after placing his usual morning kiss on my cheek. He was knotting his tie and looking at me like he always did, like I were the only person he saw, like I meant too much to him but he did not mind it one bit, like he never wants to look away. “Dinner?”, I asked, we hadn’t gone out much together, only the other time I asked to see his office and his occasional night drives with me to the outskirts of the city. The frenzy of people that struggled to see him was almost too much to handle. Many people struggled to take pictures with him, asking questions and trying to make their way past his very heavy security. When it was only me, it would be just a couple of photos, but my husband? It was safe to say I married a celebrity, I had now come to understand the use of the plentiful security we had to have while going outside, especially for him. “Yes. I think it’s time we introduced you formally to the world, If you’re ready of course
His Perfect Wife 1
I dropped all the firewood I had picked at once. My back felt stiff but that was a too normal feeling after walking the usual distance with that amount of firewood on your head. I sighed as I tried my best to stretch my back, trying my best to get enough mobility to my back. I would need it for the rest of my chores. Finally feeling satisfied I bent down to gather the firewood and take them to where they should be. It wasn’t like my aunty cooked with firewood. There were two kerosene stoves inside, the firewood was for cooking her cassava and the preparation for fufu that I mostly took care of. “Cheta”, I heard my name being called, i hurried out of the outside kitchen to the front of the house. There the older woman stood with her usual grim face, she almost never smiled. I was used to it. She also barely had any reasons to. “Are you done with gathering firewood?”, she asked me. “Yes, they are in the kitchen now”. She nodded in satisfaction. “You need to get the bag of cas
His Perfect Wife 2
Yesterday aunty asked about the man in black. I told her he dropped me off at the house after the accident. She asked for his name to know if she might have heard of his family but conveniently I didn’t know his name. She said he wasn’t at all familiar, so maybe he was from here but hadn’t been around for a long time. He spoke out dialect so he had to be from here. Everything about him still lingered in my mind, from his smell that surrounded the car to his perfect Igbo yet perfect English without a hint of his mother’s tongue intruding as he spoke. I wondered what he was, what he did and where he was from and most of all why he was here. Was it a burial? Or a wedding? Or the building of a new house? Why did he help me? Was he that kind? I let my mind search for endless possibilities as to why a man like that was in the village market dressed even more expensively than the village’s monarch and looking like he could buy the market without even stretching. He seemed very imp
His Perfect Wife 3
Time flew. From the moment I agreed to the marriage and Aunty took me to the market to at least get something presentable for it. To when the elders and his people shared kola and drank wine as a sign of agreement of peace. I barely had any time to rethink my decision. Even though I would have still arrived at the same decision, yet I wished I had more time, more time to myself. To meditate on what this meant for me, to think of how I would manage. I didn’t have enough time. Before I knew it I was married under the laws of customs. In the eyes of my people, I was already a married woman. At the age of 21 married a man I did not know. A Mrs was placed before my name within only 2 days, I didn’t have enough time to keep my title of Ms. I was now Mrs Kingsley, a name I was only aware of a few hours ago. I didn’t know how to feel, what to feel. “Mma”, I heard my new husband call, making me turn around to face him. His voice was just as it usually was, smooth and deep. Smooth enou
His Perfect Wife 4
Her eyes were lit the moment we walked into the hotel, but the moment the door to the room swung open, her eyes were as bright as fire flies. Her eyes wandered all around the room, from the ceilings to the walls and then the furniture. The room had a common area which we currently stood in, and two rooms. It wasn’t the best hotel I had ever been in but the look on her face made me glad I chose this one.“You should get some rest”, I proposed. I could tell my voice pulled her out of her thoughts. Like she remembered I stood next to her and she still had a grip on my arm. I led her to her room and she followed obediently. I wondered how obedient she could be. Cheta’s POVHe didn’t give me any time to react or thank him after dropping off at my room. The room was covered with shopping bags, with clothes and there were trays of food. Different food of all kinds. Swallow, with 4 different soups, fried rice, jollof, rice and stew, rice and vegetable, yam and egg sauce and some pastri
His Perfect Wife 5
Her moaning made me fight myself not to kiss her. When her eyes shut closed and she chewed on a piece of food, a beautiful sound escaped her that I wished I could cause and hear at will. When my hands touched her smooth skin, her skin betrayed her and it tinted itself with red. I was glad she had skin that could tell me how she felt. I didn’t know how I got so mesmerized by a woman so quickly, but I didn’t care to fight it. As she sat on my lap and was tasting new food, I just watched her. I felt bliss. For most of my life, I worked day and night. On one thing or another, either taking steps to my goals or when my goals were accomplished I fought to stay on top. Yet with I felt the most relaxed I had been for years, her smile was all I wanted to fight for. The thought of her brought me so much relief and peace that I couldn’t think of her away. Despite the fact she didn’t know me, besides the fact she was practically sold by her aunt she wasn’t hostile or rude. She was anythin
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