The Third Party

It began as a harmless banter
He was divorced
She was single
He was the Acting Head of Public 
Relations in his company
He had assumed he was going to 
be given the role based on his 
performance
Suddenly he received a memo that 
the company had employed a Head 
of Public Relations and 
He had to answer to her
He told himself the organization didn’t 
want to give the youth a chance
He assumed they recruited someone 
older and more he experienced
He was doing a fantastic job and 
he knew it
A few days later, his boss resumed 
and he was shocked
His boss was a lady 
A lady who was five years younger 
than him
He didn’t know what to think
Was it a “We need more female in this 
organization” thing or a measure of how 
the management saw him?
He had no problem answering to the 
lady but he had a problem with nepotism
He was not sure she was brought 
In because she was more competent 
than he was
He felt she must be related to someone 
or sleeping with someone
He wanted to resign but a friend counsel 
led him not to
“Wait a while...
See how things pan out....”
His friend admonished him
He listened and started working 
with her 
She was a mathematics prodigy
She was also a computer programming 
prodigy
She was not a Public Relations material
The more he got to know her the more 
he felt something was fishy
One day he asked her if she was in a 
relationship, she shook her head
He smiled
He told her he was 
Married but things didn’t work out
He and his wife were divorced
They had a daughter
She told him she had never been in 
a relationship
He said “No wonder”
She felt his words had a deeper meaning 
and asked him what he meant
He said she was uptight, socially awkward 
and impulsive 
She said it was a price she had to pay 
for the gift of her mind
He shrugged and left the matter alone
The following day, around noon, she 
walked into his office and said “Please 
don’t take this the wrong way but can 
you kiss me?”
He looked at her as if she had gone 
crazy
She said 
“I am sorry. It came out the wrong 
'way” and left his office
He watched her leave and smiled
An hour later she was back
This time he kissed her
He had also been thinking about it since 
she made the request
“It was just a kiss anyway”
The kiss lasted for a few seconds, as 
expected 
It was awkward
But neither of them pulled away
They kissed again
This time deeper and more confidently
It was a better kiss, by the time they 
came up for air, they both wanted more
She locked the door of his office and 
they had another kiss, this time, with all 
hands on deck
When they were done 
She looked at him and said “I like this 
and I want to do more than kiss but 
I think I am losing my mind right now. 
I am definitely not thinking straight but 
can we have sex?
If we don’t do it today, it is probably 
never going to happen
He nodded
He told her to dress up
He drove 
to a hotel and did the booking
He gave her a call
She joined him and they did it all-day
That was how they started having 
casual sex
Nobody in the office knew
They met at some odd places and 
sometimes pulled some stunts in 
their respective offices
There was no “ownership” issue 
He was free to live his life as he wanted 
and she was free to live her life as she 
wanted
Neither of them told anybody what 
they were doing with each other
Nobody suspected a thing
Then his ex-wife decided she wanted 
to give the marriage a chance
That was what he also wanted all 
along
He wanted to be with his family
The divorce was orchestrated by his 
wife’s parents because of an event 
that happened between them and 
his own parents
He and his wife were not even at the 
occasion but he was told that his 
mother said something unflattering 
about his wife’s 
Mother and his wife’s mother heard it
The next he knew his wife had been 
ordered back home and they were 
separated
When he was told what happened, he 
begged his mother to apologize
His mother refused and the separation 
led to divorce
He and his wife were victims and he 
had prayed fervently that his wife would 
break free of her parent’s control and 
come back to him but that was before 
the casual sex thing
He suddenly realized the marriage was 
too emotionally draining and stressful
His wife noticed his lack of enthusiasm 
with alarm
She knew there was a third party in 
the picture
She tried as much as possible to find 
out who the third party was to no avail
On the surface it seemed as if she was 
wrong but her instincts kept telling her 
his lack of interest was because his 
head was being turned by someone else
After three months of back and forth
She went on her knees in prayer
She had learned her lessons and had 
resolved to do better in her marriage
What she needed was a chance and her 
husband seemed determined not to 
give her one
She asked the Holy Spirit to intervene
On the 20th of December, 2020 she 
was told that the National Identity Number
 staff members were at a location 
close to her husband’s office
She went there
Her husband’s boss (She didn’t 
know this) was also there
The day was a Sunday, the crowd was 
not so much but they were still about fifty
They got talking 
Her husband’s boss took a liking to her 
daughter and that got them talking
She told her husband’s boss that 
she was divorced
She said she wanted to reconcile 
with her husband after dealing with her 
baggage but her husband had been 
unenthusiastic about it
She usually minded her 
business
She couldn’t explain what happened 
that day
They talked for about three hours
The following day, her husband’s boss 
called off the casual sex thing they had
Five days later, her husband agreed to 
take his wife and daughter back

PS: His boss had been given the job
on a temporary basis
She was gainfully employed in the USA
before she had a crisis (depresseion) 
and had to be rushed down to Nigeria
Her company in the USA waited for her 
to resume for several weeks but it took
longer than the family thought to
get her back on her feet
By the time she was ready, her contract
had been terminated
Her lawyer advised her it would do her
a world of good to secure a job with
a big title in Nigeria so that her prospect
of being headhunted would be 
believable
On the very last day of 2020, she got
a job with a software development
company in California
She will be leaving for the USA on
January 2, 2021

GSW's notes: GSWMI will be starting
her Global online service on January 
2, 2021 from 5AM -6AM
The service will hold on Mixlr and 
Zoom mobile app
The year 2021 is instructive and
intentional
The Holy Spirit is already positioning
His church for divine upliftment on
every side.
Hallelujah