Previously on THE BETRAYAL: Episode 48 The Proposal
.....On the 10th of Jan, Mum walked into the sitting room, with a heavily coloured and drawn face. My heart leapt as I noticed her condition. “Mum! are you alright?” I asked. “Don't mind me , I just received a very terrible news from a relative”, she replied and walked to her room. I ran after her.
“Just let me be dear your dad will be in a better position to break the news to you” she begged. Her words panicked and got me more curious, instead of calming me like she expected. “Mum, you are now getting me more worried”,
I held her hands, staring into her eyes.
My heart pounded furiously as I wondered what could make her look so sick and nervous. “Mum, I insist you tell me, please” I begged. “Alright fetch me a glass of water, I'm very thirsty” she ordered. I ran to the kitchen, filled a glass cup with water and ran back to her room.
She smiled reassuringly after drinking the water, breathed heavily. “I will tell you the news I just got, my dear. It really isn't terrible like I earlier said, but just a bit surprising. So promise me you will behave like a proper lady when I open up to you” she asked of me. “I promise I will behave mum” I managed to mutter anxiously.
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“Mike has a child, do you know?” she broke the news to me like a question. I couldn't believe my ears. “Which Mike ?” I asked, “Your Mike of course” she replied,
“we had to ask around, in order to get first hand information about the family we are giving out our daughter to and ended up getting this piece of information from a relative married in his Village” she explained, while I bit my lips as sadness, disbelief and pain instantly filled my heart.
Mum clearly understood my condition, drew my head to her chest and patted me like a baby. “You shouldn't feel very bad, you can still go ahead with the marriage if you love him well enough to overlook the little hindrance.
The child is a girl and I heard the parents never accepted both the little girl and her mother” she consoled me. “Mum please don't talk like that” I cried, “how did it even happen?” I heard myself asking.
“No wonder he was very anxious to marry me quickly and his mum even hid it from me” I cried bitterly.
I FELT PLAYED AND BETRAYED
Very uncertain of my future with him. The next evening.... Mike was in our house as if someone alerted him of what we discovered. I sat up and stared back at him with a ferocious look, breathing heavily as I tried so hard to control my emotions. “Dearie please calm down, the love I have for you is very sincere, listen to me darling, please listen to me” he pleaded nervously.
“You are just heartless. You thought you could hide such a big scandal from me, didn't you, or have you cooked up another lie?, C'mon spill it out” I said angrily. He shuddered as my words hit him hard, forcing him to look down remorsefully.
“I couldn't get myself to tell you about it because I was very scared of your reaction, I couldn't risk losing you over a silly mistake, the girl was a mistake and I have nothing to do with the mother anymore, please believe me. It was only a one night stand I regret ever doing, please don't judge me over it. Judge me for who I'm and not for who I was please” he begged.
“I want to see the little girl and her mother. I want to see them before I say anything else to you” I requested. His hands shook as he tried to hold my waist, he breathed deeply and stared at me.
“Don't tell me you are already changing your mind over us?” he asked with a coloured face. I looked away, “I'm not happy with you and I have nothing else to say till I see your little daughter and her mum” I concluded bitterly.
“This is so unfair Cyndii, why do you insist on seeing them? I can't let you see them, I just can't” he murmured sadly, while I forced out a dry smile. I demanded to see the girl and her mother because I wanted to get first hand information, concerning the level of relationship they enjoy with him. Moreover I really couldn't bear standing between anyone's happiness especially when a child is involved. I hate seeing a child grow up without a father. I know to some people it matters not, but to me it matters alot.
“What you are asking of me is very outrageous, I can't do it. Moreover they are not living with me and I can't take you to her house” he explained seriously.
“Then invite her to yours or somewhere conducive for us to meet” I insisted.
“Meet over what?”, “and what exactly do you expect me to tell her huh?, that my fiancee wants to see her? You are very insensitive to another person's plight, you only think about yourself which isn't good.” “I understood and was reasonable with you when you were virtually living with Ben, why can't you respect my feelings now? Infact, I can't stand you this evening, I'm leaving” he poured out angrily, stood up and left the room, while I silently reflected over his words.
“Oh my God, he just accused me of being insensitive and selfish. Is he right?” I gasped and wondered.
Whats next??
Story continues...
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Story Adaobi Iwuchukwu
Edited by Engr. Stanley Orji
Published on Eastanmusic Ent.
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