jilted episode 70

JILTED
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©™Hapita
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Sequence 70
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?Hanna POV ?

"Excuse me?"

I roamed her body, my eyes bulged.

"Well, this is my home, my matrimonial home" I said proudly.

"You must be sick! Whose home? Mat what? Sorry, Anthony doesn't have a wife" She yelled, her forehead popping sweat.

I stood there for a while, I don't understand what's going on, Anthony has two sisters, I know them. So who's she?

"I wouldn't mind little introduction" I said blocking the way with my body.

"Emelda, legal girlfriend to Anthony" She said.

I held the frame of the door and laughed. I remember her now, the girl that got a better part of Anthony. The reason Anthony locked the library and refuse me from going in there. Legal girlfriend indeed.

"Hanna Stanley, legal wife and pregnant" I did my introduction, giving her enough shock to stagger.

"Pregnant? How? But........." She wiped her forehead swallowing her saliva hard.

Laura walked in through the pedestrial gate, she had her normal fight with the security man, she never likes him.

"Emelda?? What are you doing here?" Laura attacked with an harsh voice, she increased her walking motion.

"Ask her for me oo" I hissed looking at Emelda with a scorn.

"Laura, who's this thing?" She asked turning her head to face Laura who was few steps away.

She actually called me thing? I was irritated, I step out of the way and served her a slap that sent her neck bending.

Laura rushed at the scene, Emelda tried to fight back but Laura was on my side.

"Laura, you are a betrayal!" She yelled getting her feet out of her heels.

"I did nothing, you left that night and rained curses on him, didn't I plead in his behalf? So where are your aristos that gives you sexual pleasure as you claimed" Laura fired. I watch in amusement.

"Anthony doesn't have the courage to date someone else, he's not even bold enough to undress in front of a lady, what have you been teaching him Laura?" She cried.

Laura laughed hysterically, I joined. Ladies can take men that love them for granted and suddenly that man wakes up and become something they never though he could be.

"He found love, was he suppose to beg forever? That guy showers you with goodies every time, was this how skinny you were when he was in your life? If I don't know everything, what about the million naira golds he buy from me? Please get out and never return" Laura pointed her index finger towards the gate.

"Laura, you were my friend" She cried.

"No, Anthony is. I like everyone he loves, we have been friends before you came" Laura corrected with all seriousness.

"But, his manhood........" She tried saying and I cut in.

"Ehhh, don't talk about my husband's privacy, so what happened to his manhood? I love it like that, yes it impregnated me with it abnormalities so get out before I have you thrown out"

"I can't take this insult, Anthony can't leave me, I would be back for both of you" She promise as she match out of the compound.

I and Laura went inside discussing the whole incident.

"Where's Anthony sef?" She asked.

"He went to the market, he actually took me for a pregnancy confirmation test and I started carving for peppered snails so he went to get the spice" I said stretching my legs on the low stool in front of me.

"Hanna, I am not comfortable with you giving him another man's child oo, Anthony have had heart break in the past and he's so much interested in you" She said compounding my worries.

"I know, I wasn't going to give the child to him but he heard the conversation, I don't know what to do seriously" I said throwing my head backward.

"The father of the child have to take responsibility oo, anyways you know how to play your game"

"Look ehn, Ambrose's marriage is on fire! He has a lot on him already and I think I better lie low before he kills me as a result of anger" I chuckled.

She sat up and wink at me.

"Oh yes, she called oo, she was so bitter, she said Ambrose haven't touched her since a month now, she added that he suddenly became a beast and bla bla, I couldn't stop laughing, I even told her about my pregnancy, she ended the call fast fast" I laughed and Laura joined.

"Can you imagine, one year plus without getting pregnant even for once? And my sister here just did once oo, one miserable once and here we are expecting a new family in seven months" Laura laughed.

"I can imagine, if Ambrose can be that aggressive and rough, then she's going through fire in her house, Infact he refuse her from going out, my twin sister is under home arrest"

We heard Anthony's car horn, we quickly changed the discussion. When he step in, he ran into me spoiling me with kisses. We haven't had another sex since the first one, I am having a hard time with pregnancy and he's not asking for sex either.

"Laura, what up now? Let me get to the kitchen, we would talk later" He said pulling his jacket and dropping it on my face. I giggled, Laura whuffle.

I removed the jacket from my face, Anthony had disappeared into the kitchen, I turn to look at her "Why don't you have a boy friend?" I asked, I haven't heard her talk about any special man.

"My crush isn't seeing me" She answered possessing a sad look.

"Waiting for crush at 29? Lauraaaa, you need to get married and start making babies" I said feeling concerned.

"Not everyone is interested in that baby thing, I want a happy and loving husband, we don't really need to have babies and if need be, I want to be sure that my child's father is responsible" She said reaching for her ringing phone.

I look away and inhaled the scent from my fiance jacket.

"Honourable, haba, I have told you to get me a car and you would see me licking your feet" She said into the phone and I hissed. I coiled into the one sitter I was sitting covering myself with Anthony's jacket. That's all she does, call and call and call, all the Alhaji and Honourable, yet no stable boyfriend.

About 20 minutes later, Anthony served a plate of peppered snails on the low stool in front of me. He helped me sit up while he went for a shower.
I and Laura ate chatting, keeping our voices down when need be. In a flash, we emptied the plate.

She asked me to take the plate away and get it washed, I shook my head, I don't do anything in the kitchen aside cleaning the cabinet when he's not home. Her eyes gobbled, she disagreed saying it is my responsibility to do kitchen work.

I took the plate and was going to drop it in the kitchen when Anthony walk down the stairs, he took it and scolded me, he doesn't want me to do anything. Not minding a third party presence, he kissed me deeply walking his hand through my thigh.

"Go take a nap inside, I love you" He said licking my nose. I giggled as he led me towards the stairs. I waved at Laura without turning back.

?General POV ?

Anthony rushed to the kitchen with the plate, he returned with a huge brown envelope.

"Sorry, I have to discharge her so we can talk, here, last month and this month" He handled over the envelope to Laura.

She took it and emptied the sum on the chair, she saw ten bundles.

"How much is in a bundle?" She asked flipping through the notes.

"A hundred thousand naira" He said.

"Good then" She smiled.

He came to sit next to her while she filled her handbag with the money.

"Emelda was here" She broke the short silence, his heart raced.

"Did she say anything? Like.......you know?"

"She almost did, you need to meet her and settle her, let her stay away from you, Hanna is devilish, she might just injure her, she slapped Emelda this afternoon" Laura said zipping her bag.

"Hanna's is no devil please, she's just crazy"

"As if you don't know, she's cheating!"

"Take my secret far from her please, I would see Emelda soon, I have a lot on me for now, meanwhile thank you for being there always!" He smiled rubbing her kneel in a friendly gesture.

"You have to be careful, your pills"

"I keep it in the library, she doesn't go there, I take them as prescribed, the doctor said there are changes already" He said trying to hold the tears that formed cloud in his eyes.

"It fine, it no big deal"

"Emelda left because of that, Hanna is going to leave too" The tears flowed.

"To where? I thought you said you are getting better? Moreover she's pregnant" She rolled her eyes knowing fully well the child is Ambrose's.

?Haira POV ?

Night.

I pondered about what Hanna told me, is there really a Nikki? I am going to die of heart failure if there's one. So Nikki have been the one enjoying my marital rights? She must be so deep into Ambrose, he doesn't even care about me. Who dates Ambrose and want to lose him? None. He's super caring, I as his wife would die if he files for a divorce.

I haven't been to the studio for a while, social media have been asking what went wrong, they haven't seen I add my husband pictures or public outing for a while and they already concluded that we parted ways. I would accept Ambrose when he comes tomorrow, I am sick and tired of this ill treatment. I can't cope, I am carrying a human in me, a fully grown foetus!

I heard his car horn, I quickly ran to the bedroom window and shift it curtain, it was him. I didn't make dinner since he said he wouldn't be coming home, I knew immediately that am in trouble, he would insult the living hell out of me.

I sat on the edge of the bed and waited for him to come upstairs.

"No dinner?" He asked grinning, he is drunk again.

"I thought......."

"That's it, fine"

"It wasn't intentional, I thought you said you aren't coming home" I said standing up from the bed.

He ignored for a while as he took his clothe off.

"Now it's not only sex and attention, they now starve me of food in my own house, fine Nikki woukd do it excitedly" He said as he stormed into the bathroom.

I fell back into the bed, so Nikki is real? Ambrose has fallen into someone else's arms? Can I ever get him to look at me again?

He finished up with his bath and rushed into bed backing me.

"We need to talk" I started.

"What? Are you hungry?" He yelled still turning his back on me.

"Yes, I am hungry for you, touch me again Ambrose"

"Don't call my name, never!" He yelled.

I face the open space and wept.

"Treasure, can you look back? Those old days, I use to be your baby, we did everything together, we were best of friends and we could tell each other everything, please baby come back to me, I am sorry"

There was no response, it was then I realise that he has slept.

Next morning

I had back pain all through the night, I cried but he couldn't hear my cries, he slept like a child. I stayed up all through the night, when it was early in the morning, I weakly went to prepare breakfast.

When I return to the room, he was in the bathroom and I quickly grabbed one of his phones, it was locked. I checked the other three, same thing. I cracked my head to see if I know any password. Then I tried Beatrice and surprisingly, I got it right. Tears flowed down my cheeks when I saw his whatsapp chats with Nikki. She wants him to impregnate her, they have been using protection all along and she's not comfortable with it. She wants him to leave me for her but Ambrose stood his ground, he told her how much he loves me and wouldn't still leave me even if he's been charmed.

"Hey!" He shouted from behind me, I jerked, the phone crashed into bed. I stood there froze.

He walk up to me and took the phone, he saw exactly what I was reading, Nikki sent a new message asking why he didn't sleep over as promised yesterday, he caught me peeping at the message and shouted at me.

"How did you even unlock the phone?" He asked standing hands akimbo.

"My na-me" I stammered.

"Hope you love what you saw? Start minding your business, my phone isn't your business" He warned walking up to the wardrobe.

"May God punish her for taking my husband" was what I could yell out.

"It's you God would punish for starving me of attention and sex" He boiled.

He dress up and had few bites of breakfast before leaving for Nikki's place I guess.

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