Episode Five

Rex calls Laura..

*On phone*

Rex: Hi Laura, how are you? How do you feel now? Hope you are getting on?

Laura: Rex, I'm deeply hurt, I've been crying all this while. I don't know what to do. I'm so confused, I've been having heart burns anytime I remember the scene at the hotel. Seriously I need someone to talk to.

Rex: Take it easy dear, I know how u feel but don't hurt yourself after he has hurt you. What has he said so far?

Laura: I've not paid attention to him Rex, what else does he have to say. He has been apologizing all this while with stories that he was having a deal with your wife to get something done for him so they met at the hotel for that business. But you and I know it's a bunch of lies Rex.

Rex: Well, at least he has been trying to convince you, perhaps he has regretted his actions, that's good. At least he is showing remorse. Not my own!

Laura: What do u mean? What's happening in your home? Has she said anything yet?

Rex: sighs.... Laura, for the past six days now, Nina has not uttered a word to me in this house neither has she shown any remorse for her actions. She refused me dinner last night when I complained she rather blamed me for not checking up on her and telling her parents about what happened.

Laura: Rex, you don't mean it!!

Rex: I'm telling you the truth. She is still in bed as we speak. That has been her normal routine. She wakes up after 10am after what happened. She is not remorseful at all. How can a woman cheat on her husband, and she still feels as if nothing happened. Like I'm the one that did the deed! Can you imagine that Laura!

Laura: Are u sure everything was alright between you both before this happened? Like was there any issue between you both? How can she be acting like that!

Rex: Of course yes, I did nothing wrong to her. I'm very very sure!

Laura: Hmmm, I think you should take heart and pls don't stretch your hands on her no matter how irritating her actions become okay. Just take heart. Everything will be fine!

Rex: Don't worry dear, we will get over this. That I believe. Just wanted to check up on you. We will talk some other time okay. Take care.

*Later that day*

Nina's dad(Mr. Alfred) called Rex.

*On phone*

Mr. Alfred: How are you my son?

Rex: I'm fine dad. Hope you are fine with the family as well?

Mr. Alfred: Yes my son, by God's special grace we are doing well. Eeerm, my son, first of all I'd like to apologize on my daughter's behalf for what she has done. It's a disgrace to the family and I've not been myself all this while. What hurts me more is she has refused to hear from any of us. I don't know if she thinks we informed you of her whereabouts. But frankly speaking my son we didn't know she was up to something like that. Nobody was aware of her whereabouts. All we knew was she was on her way to her matrimonial home. So we were just expecting her call to inform us that she has arrived safely due to the fear of the lock down. I and her mother never knew there was something fishy about her movement. So my son, just take heart and exercise some patience okay. Its well!

Rex: Dad, I understand how you feel, but I just couldn't hold it anymore that's why I wanted you and mum to know what I've been going through. It hurts to know that, this is what my wife does in my absence, and as we speak she has shown absolutely no regrets to what she has done. She behaves as if I'm the one that cheated! Don't know what has come over her! But all the same I'll keep calm and handle it as a family issue, but when it exceeds me I'd have no option than involve you people.

Mr. Alfred: Thank you very much my son, just exercise patience, we will find time and come after the lockdown to meet you both.

Anyway can you give me details of the man she was doing that with?

Rex: Sure dad.

Mr. Alfred : OK, then send it to me on WhatsApp I'll tell one of the children to open it for me on the phone.

Rex: Okay dad.

Rex sends info of Louis to Mr. Alfred shortly after the call.

Moments later, Nina goes to the washroom to vomit.

Rex: U have been showing signs of pregnancy for past week, I've been expecting you to tell me something but you have remained silent. Can you deny you are not pregnant?? Can you??? Hmmmm! I just hope its not what I'm thinking! I just hope so!

Nina: Bill, I am not ready for your trouble this morning at all. If you care about me, you should know the appropriate manner to ask your wife what's wrong with her. Since I told you I'm sick, what have you done about it?

Rex: Nina, has it got to this? Have you gone nuts ? Don't you know the implications of what you are doing? I caught my own wife cheating on me, and all she does is to give me those crabs as if nothing happened and she has no atom of remorse about what she did! What's wrong with you Nina? Are you taking my calmness on this matter as stupidity?

Nina: Pls pls, let me be. Since you don't care about me I'll sort myself out.

She walks out on Rex.

Nina you dare not walk out on me! I'm still talking to you! What has possessed you Nina? Nina ignored him and walked out.

Nina's phone rings on the bed, Rex checked and it was Louis. He calls Nina to come for her phone.

*On phone*

Nina: Hi, how are u doing? How is your wife's condition now, and the home?

Louis: It's been tough Nina, really tough. I don't know, but she seems to have monitored me for long. Because from the way she talks she seems to have known about us for a while before the incident. I don't just know what I have done to myself honestly!

Nina: Hmmm, Seriously, I really don't know how she got to know Rex and how they managed to track us to that extent. It really baffles my imagination. It got me thinking all this while. And I'm not cool with him so I can't ask him either, I've not picked my dad's call for the past week likewise my mom.

Louis: You need to pick up, they might say something vital.

Nina: I can't bear the shame I've brought the family dear. How do I explain myself to this retired soldier I call a father. So I've just ignored their calls for a while to figure something out. So that I can face them!

Louis: That reminds me, the other time I called you when I was home, you remember I mentioned your full name?

Nina: Yeah, the afternoon.

Louis : Sure, my mum asked who bares that surname but I told her she doesn't know you.

Nina: Really, anyway that's not the problem now. So are you seeing any improvement in her actions now? Is she calming down?

Louis: Not really, she has been rejecting me all this while. The only thing she does is cook for me and tidy up the house. I had to use the laundry myself yesterday, I couldn't find the pecks to hold my clothes on the line but I couldn't ask her either. The wind blew them idled and I had to wash them again. Dear, it hasn't been easy at all.

Nina: Hmmm, it shall be well. She will not find it really easy! Let's talk some other time. Keep trying. Okay!

Louis: what about your husband? How has he taken the matter so far?

Nina: He has been trying to raise it but I find ways to ignore cos I'm in a serious mess right now. Let's talk later bye.