chapter 46

Three days had passed since the drama that caused Fikayo his money and legs as he was on crutches.

Mama was seated on the couch opposite her son while her son bowed his head. Mama could hear his son sobbing from where she sat.

"But mama, why is this happening to me? Why has two women in my life gotten pregnant for another man? Is something wrong with me spiritually?" Fikayo lamented as tears ran down his cheeks.

"Ifeoma gave birth yesterday." Mama said instead like she didn't hear what her son had just said.

"And so? Are you trying to remind me of my ill lucks again?"

"No, I'm trying to tell you about your real child." Mama said.

Fikayo stared at his mother wondering if the incident had rendered her insane. "What are you talking about? Weren't you here when Adam claimed the pregnancy as his and she agreed?"

"It's not his, Fikayo. The baby is yours..." mama looked at her son's face that was contorted with confusion before she decided to let the cat out of the bag, at this juncture in which everything had backfired, she knew it was necessary.

"Sewa and I connived with Adam to just have you send her out of this house. We were also shocked to see her agree that the baby was his. I thought she'd be a bad luck on Sewa's pregnancy and might kill the baby with her witch eyes if left alone and I thought her own pregnancy was bound to go down after four months as usual. I really didn't foresee all of this."

"What the fvck are you even talking about right now, mama?!" Fikayo stood up instantly supporting himself with the crutches, as he tried to understand what he was hearing.

"I'm sorry. You know how much I do not like that girl, you know it! Yet you went against me and married her all the same. That was when the hatred I had for her started. I can't even begin to mention all the atrocities I've committed against her, adding too much salt or even detergent in her food, and so on. Everything, I did everything. In all honesty, that girl is such a good girl, she tried to please me nonetheless and only spoke when I pushed her too far. I overdid it."

"Wait, Wait. I can't process this, Ifeoma didn't cheat on me? You cooked all of that up?" Fikayo almost snapped at his mother, he was enraged.

"I'm sorry." Mama murmured.

"Oh my God! Mama! Look at what you made my life into! All because you couldn't learn to tolerate her, all because you feel I should only do what you want every time! Mama, look at how I've been ridiculed. Everyone now points at me and says that's the man who sent his wife packing because of the one whose child isn't even his at the end of it all. I'm now a joke! I even made it to blogs! Mama, and you're just sorry? How am I supposed to approach Ifeoma after everything you've made her go through, after everything I've done too, after everything! Gosh, I've been such a fool!" Fikayo lamented as he realized it all.

"I'm such a fool!" He repeated.

"Don't worry, she'll take you back. It's not like she has a choice. No one wants to give birth in an incomplete family. The child is yours and there's nothing she can do to it." Mama said with utmost confidence that almost rubbed off on Fikayo.

"Even when that happens, mama! Get ready to be out of my family's business! You've done enough harm!" Fikayo said feeling a bit at ease.

He was also sure that Ifeoma would take him back after all.

TO BE CONTINUED...