The Bastard

All it took for the marriage to turn sour was a motor accident
He had the accident on his way home from the office one afternoon
His brake failed!
It was a brand new car and 
the brake shouldn't have failed
He rammed into a dump truck 
parked beside the road
His left arm and left leg were broken 
instantly 
He was rushed to the hospital
He had a series of surgeries
His office took care of the hospital bills
He was placed on medical leave 
and supported in every way
She was supposed to be his best friend 
at that trying period
But somehow he didn't want to see her
He felt weakened by her presence
He felt vulnerable
He felt he would have to owe her
He felt she would one day claim she nursed 
him through his rehabilitation period and
 use the service to guilt trip him somehow
He refused to see her
Unfortunately for her, she was caught in 
between a hard place and an impossible place
If she walked away from the hospital, 
he would claim she didn't care about him
When she was with him in the hospital, 
he refused her access to his room
When she approached the doctors and 
nurses attending to him some questions 
about his well being, he flared up and 
became agitated
He didn't want her involved in 
his case in any way
He didn't expressly say "Go home"
But everything in his demeanour was 
showing her the door!
But what good wife would go home when 
her husband was fighting for his wellbeing 
on a hospital bed
The marriage was less than two years old
He was a good guy
A Christian
A wonderful husband of inestimable value
She respected him and everything he stood for
He was an engineer!
He was a big asset to his organization
She was supposed to be the missing piece of his life
She didn't know what to do!
Two weeks after his last surgery
She brought him food in the hospital
He told her immediately never to cook for him again
He had employed a chef!
The doctors had recommended that he 
should be discharged to recuperate at home
As part of his rehabilitation requirements
He was advised to eat certain types of 
food and also to employ a physiotherapist 
He told her the previous meals she had 
brought for him were thrown away, she 
should have gotten the message if she 
wasn't so blockheaded!
He wouldn't eat her poison
He wouldn't wait for her to finish him off!
The last statement kept ringing in her ears
She was grasping at straws and wanted to 
know exactly what she did
He had said nothing to give her a clue as 
regarding his sudden change towards 
her until that moment
...He wouldn't wait for her to finish him off!
She got home that evening and cried her eyes out
After crying for a while, she sat herself 
down and started putting clues together
What could have given him the idea 
that she meant him harm?
She studied abroad just as he did
Her parents lived abroad just as his 
parents lived abroad
Her father retired and relocated back home very 
recently after many years abroad
They are not the type of people to 
dabble into fetish things
She wouldn't be caught dead dealing 
with herbalists and the like
She was born again just as he was
She called her father.
Her father was her friend and confidant
Her father was also a man who had made 
his fair share of mistakes maritally and 
knew some things about how to make 
a marriage work
She asked him if there was anything 
she could have
 done or said to make her husband think
 she wanted him dead
Her Father didn't mince words
Her Father said "If I am your husband, 
I would be scared of you too"
Whoa!
She dropped the call and jumped into her car
She drove like a demon until she got to her Father's house
Her Father was waiting for her at the garden
She had cried all the way to her father's house
How could her father say that to him?
She was a good wife who wanted only the best for her husband
When she got to her father's garden, 
she saw him perched on a cane chair
 reading a book
She sat beside him
"Daddy, please, how could I possibly be a 
threat to my husband?"
Her father smiled
"Daughter, do you remember the day you 
came to this garden with your husband and
 we were all having a discussion! The subject 
of your step-sister, the one I had outside 
wedlock came up and you said and I quote
"Honey, if you try that nonsense with me, 
I will kill you! No man will cheat on me and survive it!"
We all laughed over it that evening
But I was watching your husband keenly 
that evening and I knew your threat was 
taken quite seriously
I also happen to know that your husband 
loved you so much and didn't want to lose 
you because if I was in his shoes, I would 
have walked away from the relationship!
That doesn't mean I want to encourage your
 husband to sleep around, but threatening him 
with bodily harm or death was not wise at all!
Two months ago, your husband came to see 
me in this house
Your husband looked me right in the eyes and 
told me he was scared for his life because he got
 an email the previous day from an old girlfriend 
in the United Kingdom
Apparently, the lady got pregnant for him
 and had a son!
The child was now seven years old!
The lady never told him of the child until 
he got that email!
The lady had been diagnosed with cancer 
and given a few more months to live
The lady wanted him to indicate if he would 
want to adopt the child or if she should make 
alternative preparations 
He came to me seeking my counsel on 
how to tell you
I told him to pray about it until he felt a release
 in his spirit and then he should tell you
I know it will be a little difficult for you to accept
I couldn't even imagine what your husband would 
have to suffer from your hand for daring to impregnate
 someone before he met you or how irresponsible 
you would think it was that he had a seven-year-old 
child without knowing about it!
Do you remember how your mother unleashed 
hell on me for daring to have a child in the 
village before I even came to the city? 
Do you remember your mother almost
 killed that child when I brought her home to
 live with us? 
Do you remember your role and the role your
 sisters played in making the life of that innocent
 girl miserable?
You used to taunt that girl by calling her a bastard!
She had her own plastic plate with 
which you fed her like a dog and she 
daren't eat on the dining table with 
the whole family!
She was labelled an outsider!
Because of her, your mother practically killed 
every affection between us!
We stayed together for only one reason! 
I refused to allow her to use her wickedness 
to drive me away from being a father to 
my own children
She, in turn, took other lovers in a bid to 
pay me back in my own coin! 
Do you remember how you always took her side, 
she so poisoned your mind against the reality 
that I was afraid she had damaged all of you!
I was not a promiscuous husband, I
 impregnated so and so's mother with the intention 
of marrying her but her parents said No! 
She had to abort it and return to school
They separated us and I moved on with my life
I met your mother two years later in America,
 I told her everything! The problem was, 
I didn't know they didn't abort the 
pregnancy as planned!
You were nine years old when the child was dumped
 with my parents in the village!
I had to bring her home! 
I had to take care of my daughter!
But your mother wouldn't allow and you and your 
sisters worked "hand in glove" with your mother 
until I took that child far away from here!
So I told your husband it will be very difficult!
A week later, he forwarded the mail he got from the 
United Kingdom to you and crossed his fingers
You pretended as if you didn't see the mail
Three days after he sent you the mail, he had that accident!
If I was in his shoes, daughter, I will be terrified of you!!!"
She didn't see the mail!
She didn't see any mail!
She started browsing through her phone right there, 
looking at the old mails
Finally, she located it, it was in the junk 
mail because her husband sent it from his 
office email address!
She read it.
She left her father's house in a daze!
Their marriage was seventeen months old!
She had never been pregnant for a day
And he had a seven-year-old child!
He thought she wanted to murder him?
Why wouldn't he think so?
Men are so dung!
She had to leave the marriage!
There was no way she would live in the same house 
with another woman's child
There was no way that can ever work!
She would end up killing the child!
The product of illegitimacy shouldn't be legitimised in any way
She would never ever live her life like that!
The next morning, she started packing her bags, 
she called an estate agent to see
 if she could get an apartment
It was what her husband wanted, it was why
 he had pushed her so far
He wanted her gone so that he can be a
 father to his bastard!
No man would take it from any woman!
No man would agree to father his wife's illegal child
But men always get to bend and break women to do it!
She would never be one of such women!
Suddenly she saw him!
He walked in!
She stood there, transfixed!
He didn't say a word!
He looked at all the mess she had made!
Clothes scattered everywhere, shoes, books, 
her jewellery, her make up kits, her wedding pictures
 and family album, he looked around and shook his head!
He looked at her. right at her!
She saw tears on his face!
She started shivering!
Her hand held the handlebar grip of her travel bag so tight
It felt as if her fingers would break into it
She fell on her knees
Dread and awe and splendour and glory
 fell upon the room
She crashed to her knees
JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She screamed
She closed her eyes and fell on her face
It felt as if her skin would burn off her body!
She didn't know when she slept off
She woke up at 1 AM
Everywhere was dark!
She had been asleep for eleven hours!
 Right there on the floor of the sitting room!
She couldn't stop the tears from 
streaming down her face
It was like crying without wanting to cry!
She picked her phone and called her travel agent
she booked a flight to the United Kingdom
She travelled three days later
She followed the address and the phone number
 on the email 
She saw the woman!
They talked extensively!
She booked a flight for the three of them to return home
They got to the hospital exactly a week after her 
husband told her not to come back
Her husband was shocked to see them
The transition process was completed that day
The child was handed over to her 
Her husband brightened up after that
She visited him with the child every day for two 
weeks until he was discharged
Surprisingly, she didn't feel threatened by the child
All she felt was peace
And her husband's love for her was fully restored
She got pregnant two years later
She delivered her babies, a set of twins nine months later!

PS: This event happened in Ajao Estate, Lagos (2017)
Many men adopted their wife's love child
 and cared for such as their own
Many men married their wives with another man's 
pregnancy in her womb and they 
treated the child like their own
Some strange ideologies are being 
adopted by the world
Don't get ensnared with such
In the kingdom of Jesus, only a child that the
 Father does not chastize can be called a bastard
True love is not bogged down or bothered 
by such petty selfish agendas!
What many of us call "love" is so selfish 
that "Love" itself doesn't recognize it
It is time you disengage yourself from 
ideologies that have nothing to do with the
 agenda and the mandate of heaven
As long as there is nothing good in the knowledge
 that came of the fruit of the knowledge 
of good and evil, nothing good can come from an ideology 
like Feminism and all its shades
You cannot be a born again Christian 
and be a Feminist 
It is time to walk away from the ideologies
of darkness presented as light!
Walk away now!