Part 3 & 4
Author: Gregory Wanyonyi
Am sorry Fidelis. But love is the best thing that can ever happen to you. The only problem is that if you are in love with the wrong person, then you will never know peace. Your heart will be troubled. Sorrow will follow you like madimoni. Love is like water my dear, just as water gives life so does love give happiness, the same way water can take away life, love can also take away the little happiness that we once enjoyed." I explained to her as she listened keenly. "Greg, your wife must be lucky to have you as a husband." She said after sipping her orange juice. What she didn't know was the fact that my wife changed. She is the one giving me trouble. She has taught me things the hard way. I wished my wife could understand that am a man too and I have a human heart that needs love just as other men do. When I married my wife eight years ago, she was the most obedient and loving woman I had ever met. Trouble started after she got employed with this NGO. In the beginning,we used to do everything together. I could cook for the family as she bathed our son. She could join me in the kitchen afterwards to keep me company as I cooked. When I was tired from job, she could bathe me and I could do the same when she was tired too. This ceased the second month of her employment. It hurt me but there was little I could do. I tried to make her happy but it seemed like her happiness was somewhere else but not in the house. She started quarreling over nothing not forgetting shouting at our eight months old daughter. This made me worried since this has never happened before. I remember she once slapped me on my way to work just because I had not prepared our son for school. Anyway, in short my wife changed making me the most miserable man in a marriage. At first I thought it was job stress but I started doubting her fidelity when passwords started changing on her phone like her underpants. The only thing that I didn't want to do was to confront her only to find out that my suspicion was not true, I needed evidence; concrete evidence.
" Your husband must be lucky to have you too. You are an amazing woman." I replied. I was being honest. Fidelis was beautiful and am sure most men desired to share a table with her just as I am doing today. I wondered why her husband should cheat on her with my wife. Why?
"Thank you Greg, at least you have made me happy even for a moment." Fidelis said as she reached for her purse and paid the bills. On leaving the hotel, I spotted my wife boarding a taxi. She was not in the clothes that she left home without. I wanted to shout at her but I realized it was a waste of time since the taxi was already off and I was with Fidelis. I tried calling her but she could not be reached on phone. It was off. As if she was reading my mind. Fidelis reached for my hand and pulled me. "Handsome man, let's go home" she said leading the way to the bus stage. We boarded a matatu and within forty minutes we were back home. Our son ran towards me and I gave him packed lunch. I had bought it specifically for him because I was sure he had not eaten anything. He was not the type to leave the house not unless in my company or that of his mother. I thought my wife was already at home but I didn't need to ask not after the boy came to me running for food. I went straight to our bedroom and laid on the bed. "Thank you for your time Greg. I wish we could have the whole day together. Am bored here in the house. Henry is not yet back. Enjoy your evening." That was the text from Fidelis.
That evening my wife came late than usual. She was now dressed in the same clothes she was in when she left in the morning. I didn't know where she changed the clothes from but I was sure she was the one I had seen board a taxi next to the hotel where I was with Fidelis. My wife went straight into the bathroom. "I feel tired, let me fresh up first." She said as she closed the door to the bathroom. That was when I received a text from Fidel. "Hubby has just arrived, he is in the bathroom. Let me set the table for him." This text hurt me the most. How can that be? My wife just pops in and goes to the bathroom and on the other side Henry goes to the bathroom too just after coming back? Was this a mere coincidence? After taking a shower, my wife went straight to bed. Our children were fast asleep. The boy rarely stays up untill eight. It was now fifteen minutes past nine. On the other hand our daughter sleeps early. She was still a toddler.
After watching the news. I went to the bedroom and found my wife chatting all at smiles. Those texts must be exciting to her. The one texting them but have been a good one. I stood at the door for over ten minutes without her knowledge. She occasionally kissed the phone after reading the texts. When I stepped in the bedroom. She pressed the power button and the screen went blank. From the look in her eyes, I read guilt. Unlike the previous days when she could face me, today she faced away. This made me more worried. She tried to touch me but I was not in the mood for the touches. Not after I had witnessed her kiss the phone and the change of clothes I had witnessed during the day. "My dear, are you having an affair?" I asked without a second thought. This question got her flair, her madness activated. "Greg, are you accusing me of cheating? Have you ever seen me with a man? How dare you say this to me?" She said as she rose from the bed. I just sat there watching her. U had never seen her this mad. I remembered the words of my counselor. "When you see your spouse behaving mad after asking them a question on infidelity, chances are high that your worries are true. "You have changed much my dear, you are not the wife I married and I just wanted to know if you are having a man outside this wedlock. That's all" I said calmy. "I have never thought you see me as an adulterous woman, I thought I was married to a husband who loves me but you have proven me wrong." She said as she started packing her clothes. "Am going home, I can't stay with a man who doesn't trust me."
This was the least expected. I thought she could suggest we have a talk. We have always had issues in this marriage but she had never threatened to pack. "What of our children?" I asked her. " I don't care, they are your children, take care of them." She shouted waking up the little girl who started crying. I went to her bedroom and picked her up. When she saw her mother, she struggled to get to her but the mother seemed not interested. I went to the kitchen, warned her food and feed her. While in the kitchen, I received a chilling text from Fidelis. "Imagine Greg, Henry has not taken food in the house. After the shower she went straight to the bed and seems to be chatting with someone smiling all through."
"Am sorry for you girl." I texted back. I wanted to tell her the behavior of my wife had day but I thought it was not prudent of me. After feeding the girl, she fell asleep again. My wife's furry seemed to have subsided for I saw her smile on her phone again but the moment she saw me, she became sullen and picked up her suitcase. "Am leaving." She declared.
To be continued...
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