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PART 32 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde. I knew I was hooked, now that Promise was pregnant, there was no escaping the marriage. "Congratulations to us Baby, at least now we can get married, so we don't have our child outside wedlock" her words echoed in my ears “Yes…” I managed to say  “I am calling mum right away” Promise said   In less than a month, we were married. I rented family members as I did with Leni because of Promise’s family…   It was a small wedding; we had the court wedding and the traditional wedding where I paid her dowry.   On getting home that evening after our wedding, I noticed Promise was all puppy eyed…   “What’s up with the puppy eye” I knew her tricks, she used her flirting in different ways if she wanted to get something from you. It was so bad, she could flirt with a common pepper seller just for him to put a few extra tomatoes. I remember when she flirted with a police officer  in front of me, and the police officer mockingly ...

PART 31 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde.   Leni refused to move in with us, she insisted on staying at the house… “Why would I want to make your first year as a couple less fun. Two is perfect, 3+3 children is a large crowd. Let the kids and I stay back at the house. We will come occasionally to visit” Leni had said to Promise and me.   Promise had noticed Greg’s resemblance... “Greg looks like you” “Everyone says so, the truth is... it was his father’s resemblance with F.D that got us talking. I met him at a mall, and I almost hit him on the shoulder, before realizing it was not F.D “Where is he now?” Promise asked “Dead died in a car crash” “Aww… so sorry to hear that,” Promise said… “I have moved on, and in my moving on, I met the father of my unborn baby” “Who is he?” “An old love, who became my succour after I lost Greg’s father…” " So when he was giving you a shoulder to cry on, something happened” Promise supplied laughing… “You got it right” “Wow! Leni, you nee...

PART 30 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde. I pushed F.D into sending her a text immediately … “I heard you are at the hotel looking for me, I changed my shift… Can you find your way to our place tonight? My sister can’t wait to meet you…” F.D was shaking as he typed…He forwarded our house address to her. " It's for the best F.D" I assured him but he kept looking into my eyes searching for sense in the nonsense he felt I was asking him to do... " I am not sure" he said locking his gaze with mine   At this point in this story, I know a lot of “Leni lovers” would see my actions as taking a wrong step. What would you have done in my shoes?    The truth is my brother doesn’t love me as a wife, letting him choose me over the woman he loves will be punishing him and I will constantly be living in the pain of him not loving me enough.   I have always lived off F.D. Back at the orphanage, it was whatever Mrs Abrahamson brought for him, that I got things. Theref...

PART 29 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde Talk about the violent taking it by force, I decided to visit him at his place of work that night. He had told me he was on the night shift… We had to talk...   ****   I got to the hotel and I was told he was on the morning shift for the next day. "He lied to me!" I felt pained in my heart.   I thanked the receptionist who didn’t look pleased seeing me. “You are welcome ma… ma, your face seems very familiar” She had said “Really?” “Like you have been here before?” She Pressed on “Well, I was here for my honeymoon, three years ago” “Oh! Yeah, I remember you… How are your husband and the kids?” “My husband is dead and we didn’t have kids” I replied curtly. It was obvious she was prying. It was better I set the records straight, In case they start seeing F.D. and I.   “F.D is with his family, you should come around in the morning if you want to see him”   I froze, “Family”. “Was he married? He had told me he wasn’t and that...

PART 28 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde I made Him Kill himself... How?   One thing I knew about Shola was his love for his Money. I knew the best way to hurt him was to rip him of his money. By the end of the second year of our marriage, I was done. I started researching ways of defrauding a person. I found out a lot, but knowing how smart my husband was, I decided to go for something very subtle. I disguised as a rich black woman from Canada who was interested in investing in Nigeria and helping the less privileged. I gathered all my life savings of nine million Naira and sent them to him. I bought his trust that way. Since he had my money with him, he didn't double-check the facts... I saw how excited he was in the house. I asked him physically at home, but as usual, he gave me a terrible reply... "Your spells and curses over me are broken. God is opening doors for me" He said proudly.  If only he knew it was not an open door but a door about to shut him ou...

PART 27 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde Shola made life a living hell, We had only made love the night of our wedding, after that it never occured again as he had seen me with F.D. I begged, I apologized, I knelt, I seduced. There was nothing I didn't do. The only thing I didn't do was tell my mum or anyone about it. It was a shameful thing to say to  anyone. How was I going to explain me flirting with another man during our honeymoon? Shola was not a person who forgave. Instead of sleeping with me, he would bring different girls home... I decided to beg him to at least get me pregnant, but his reply was unbearable... "Me? Deep my manh*od into your gutter? Sleeping with a prostitute is more dignifing than sleeping with you. A loose dog that's what you are" "Shola, I have apologized repeatedly for over a year, even God forgives" "Well I am not God, I am human and I intend treating you like a dog because that's who you are, or what do ...

PART 26 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde   "Sandra, how do you do it?" I asked with high expectations for the solution to my problem. "Do what?" She replied as she was clueless about my admiration of her. "Get boys to like you, date you?" I asked bluntly  "I don't understand" She Opened her eyes widely "Sandra, boys don't ask me out," I said soberly "OK?,"  She said raising her brow in a question form "I don't have a boyfriend, I mean no boy has ever asked me out," I said in plain words. Sandra went mute for a few seconds… "Are you serious?" She asked in a whisper after she found her voice "Yes" "Well, that could be because of your holier than thou attitude... You know you don't smile" She said like she was a Master in the relationship world. "I smile" I argued "You smile amongst your female friends" Sandra countered "Girl, if you like ...

PART 25 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde I was Mad! Extremely mad... How could F.D dump me after all I did for us to be together? I had to read his text over and over to be sure I got the meaning.  Already, I had sent my angry reply, but I couldn't help but read the text again a few times. My name is Promise, and I believe at this point in this story you would have called me names you think I deserve. Do I deserve to be labelled a bad person? Well,  It depends on who is judging. Let me take you back a few years before meeting F.D... If I can remember clearly, I was fifteen when I noticed I was not getting the attention every other girl my age was getting. At fifteen, not even one boy had told me I was beautiful and wanted to go on a date with me. I was in my last year in secondary school when I realized it.  My friends had dated a minimum of three boys in our six years in school but I had not gotten one boy who showed me the slightest interest.  I remember crying at...

PART 24 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde    Travelling back to the house that night was the lengthiest thirty minutes travel I have ever embarked on. I am sure you are surprised I am calling a thirty minutes drive travelling. That's was how it felt like when I left Segun.   He had cut short my expectations. I had no hope anymore. As always it had been proven to me once more that I was a mistake. I began to wonder if this was what my birth mother went through before deciding to give me up. For the first time, the flimsy thought of giving up my two sons for adoption crossed my mind, so I could end my sorrowful life.   Walking into the house I had called home for nine years, and marital home for over three years was another nightmare. F.D had removed all our court wedding pictures. Apparently, after we had discussed taking off with our true love and I left eagerly around 2pm, F.D had cleared the house of anything that indicated we were a couple.  "Since she will b...

PART 23 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde  "Promise is back!" F.D said. His eyes had a mix of joy and guilt. I could read his expression anyday , anytime. " Promise, Which Promise?" I was blank. I didn't remember any Promise. " My Promise, the lady..." He said expecting me to know who he was talking about. " Which Lady?"  I asked again " The Married Lady from two years back" " Oh!" Remembrance hit me. " Leni, I am not over her yet. I am just coming from her place. Her husband is dead and she has a lot of money" He said obviously confused. He didn't know how to gather and place his points before me. I watched in anticipation at where his talk was headed. ... " So, I thought of something that would benefit us." He said finally as he stared into my eyes. A part of me knew his talk about his plans benefiting the both of us was just surface talk. Whatever, he had in his mind must first benefit ...

PART 22 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde  At this point in this story of ours, you dear reader would have thought I should have learnt my lesson but No! I made another big mistake! My name is Leni, and for the next few chapters I will be engaging your mind with my angle of the story... When Baby Greg turned one, I knew I had gotten into the wrong marriage and somewhere out there was my soulmate. As a way of escaping my reality, whenever I had the opportunity I fed my mind with a lot of movies and unfortunately most of the ones I saw  focused on marrying one's soulmate. That pushed me into thinking a lot about Segun.  I knew Segun loved me and the way I cut off from him was quite unfair. Not forgetting that at this point, I no longer had Shalewa and Aunty Yemi, I was sinking deep into depression as the only person close to me saw me as trash. During the early days of my household chores work I did, in other to bring food to the table in our marriage, I was fortunate to wo...

PART 21 " FLIRTATIOUS " ©️Opeyemi Akintunde  It is very unlikely that everyone reading this would trust me to be disciplined enough to ignore that message but I did... I ignored the message... I did for good thirty minutes.  Thirty minutes that felt like eternity. I paced around in my room as the surge of the familiar excitement I had for Promise ran through my veins.  I thought I was over her but a simple text from her knocked me out... I suddenly started perceiving her smell though she was not anywhere close. It seemed like my memory suddenly brought up every feeling, every thought, every emotion associated with Promise With shaky fingers, I dialled her number. I swallowed hard and I could hardly breathe. My heart was beating very fast... " Hello!" Her voice still sounded delectable though sad.. I ended the call. Why? I knew what I was doing was wrong. Leni was first my sister before becoming my wife. I couldn't hurt her this way. Though things were not at its...

PART 20 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde  The only thing that made sense for us to do was to get married. We went to the Federal  Registry and we got married. We paid people at the Registry to stand in as our parents. On getting home, things were not as friendly and intimate as before.  We were very official towards each other. Being Married felt like work to us. Sex time for me was once in a while, whenever I wanted to ease myself of sexual emotions, I would get home and just say to her… “ Can we have sex, please?” It was a courteous and cautious relationship at first. “ Ok!” Leni would answer “My Room or yours?’ Was her usual emotionless reponse Depending on my mood, we had it anywhere , although I saw it in Leni’s eyes she wasn’t enjoying it. Eventually, she gave birth to the baby who turned out to be a boy. There was no arguing the paternity,  he looked a lot like me. We named him ourselves; We named him Greg.  Shame made us cut off from Aunty Yemi and Shal...

PART 19 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde  Shalewa and Leni had left the house the next day; I didn’t know what they said all night in Leni’s room, but their conclusion was for her to relocate to the orphanage under the guise that she wanted to be with Shalewa while she was in the country. I didn’t have an opinon in the matter. A week after they left, I came home to find Leni and Shalewa back at the house. The moment I saw them, I knew something was wrong... “Don’t tell me you are pregnant after just one time with you?’ I said madly “ You also testified that it was just once with Marcus, Let's say Leni is very Fertile” Shalewa replied sarcastically  “ No.. I am not responsible for that Pregnancy, it should be the Segun guy” I said  “I never slept with Segun” Leni refuted I knew she was saying the truth, leni never lied to me. “ Leni, Why? Why did you get pregnant for me?" I asked  The question sounded stupid but  I knew what I was trying to say… I was trying to ...

PART 18 "FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde  “ Why did you move your things into my room?” I asked trying so hard to control my irritation. “ I thought we should let Roland have my room so he will stop disturbing us” Leni said Laughing, with her eyes glowing in the night. “ No, Leni, don’t let us lose our individuality because we want to get married, you have to stay in your room..” I said  “ From the movies we watch, Couples stay in one room” Leni said  “ This is not the movies, this is real life!” I said firmly Leni got the drift. She could tell I was pissed. “ I will pack up” She said curtly Leni got into the room and started picking up her stuff, I saw her tears dropping from her eyes. “ Leave it!” I said I could not watch her cry and stay normal. Leni didn’t obey my 'leave it" call. She kept packing her stuff and returning it to her room. She had gone to her room twice  before I gathered enough strength to stand up and stand in her way.. “ I said leave it” I said ...

PART 17 " FLIRTATIOUS" ©️Opeyemi Akintunde  The next three weeks that followed was probably the most awkward and yet interesting time of our lives. We put in the efforts to seeing each other as a potential  couple, we tried kissing a few times and we would laugh at each other. It was really awkwardly fun. However, we crossed the line one sunday night.  We got so engrossed in our affection showing that we made love. Something kept telling me to stop , but I resisted.  After we were done, it was clear whatever we thought was going to work between us was a farce. Leni’s love died in my heart. I think for a minute, she became unappealing to me, but I Knocked out the thought. It had happened late at night in her room, while Roland was sleeping in my room. I had crept into her room caressing her hair and telling her how much I was happy with our decisions. One kiss turned into two, two turned into long thrusting kisses and before we knew we were down to our Pants alone. " ...