Betrayed

Charity heard Julius married a foreigner. She divorced her husband and went to South Sudan. Julius refused her because she was a married woman. She rented a room she lived in within Juba where Julius resided and bought a Hummer vehicle which she gave Julius. He was not willing to take it even. She then made up her mind to sell it running at a loss. It wasn’t any charity work but luring Julius to love her back. While Julius had gone to work, she could go to Ann if she would blindfold her. She could explain who Julius had been to her, gave her money and left. Ann didn’t use that money for anything at all. Finally at the ripe of her plans, she asked Ann to avoid Julius like jiggers. It was best this time to let Julius know about it. Ann sat when she had estimated the time of the coming of her husband from work and counted the money amounting to five thousand US dollars. On his arrival he garaged his motorcycle, and then tiredly walked to his room to change. He caught sight of her pretending to not have seen him. His surprise was in that he had not given her any money huge like he had seen her counting. Until Julius uttered a syllable, she had pretended. ~Hi darling. “Oh welcome sweetheart.” She smiled, dropped the money beneath the pillow and rushed to remove his coat. Julius sat tiredly on the bed; took the remote and reduced the volume on the TV to ten percent that evening. Julius glued his sight on her. “Is anything the matter?” she asked. ~Not really. “Am sorry. I didn’t tell you that my brother would come today. He hadn’t called me. He is the one who gave me that money.” She lied that he worked for the Ethiopia airlines. ~Oh, great! But you would have let him wait for me. “Sorry. He was in a hurry.” He wondered if Charity had advanced to her yet could not bring out how she could have done so. The moments they met, they chatted in lodgings because he didn’t want his wife to know about Charity and him. Immediately, he got out of the room and gave Charity a hot call. ~Charity, did you come to my house today? “Did you tell me to or do I know your household?” He cut the line. Charity kept on giving Ann presents and eventually asked her to leave Julius alone to resume her long broken relationship with him. It was unfounded statement. Ann couldn’t agree at all. She threatened to arrest her and let her be deported. She couldn’t give up her man. By then; she began to think a lot. Sometimes Julius could find her prostrated, not cooking even. One night Julius asked, why don’t you look at yourself nowadays? She woke up. “As in? I don’t get it?” ~You look depressed. “What do you think?” ~Something must be wrong and you don’t want me to know. She had been threatened to not tell Julius. She was dumb. ~I will solve it. Don’t doubt my love. She veiled her face as if she could speak...she feared. ~Tell it Ann. If am your husband whom you love and care for, tell it. I am bound to let it cease. “You have betrayed me.” ~How baby. Julius got an idea then. He could guess Charity had set his family in a mess. ~God forbid. Julius cursed bitterly. “Didn’t you promise to care for me and never to let go of my love?” ~Go straight to the point. I won’t entertain this you know? “You didn’t tell me you were married.” ~Who said? “Come up.” ~God. Who said? He rose and walked to and fro…provoked. He then advanced to her ordering her to speak out who the person was holding tightly her collar. “Charity.” ~Charity again? “She threatened to kill me if I reveal the secret between us that I would take the money you saw and abandon you like filth.” ~But why? “You were her first love. She wants me to find my countryman for a husband.” ~Enough for now. He murmured. ~Charity again, no I can’t take it. He rode to her room. She wasn’t in. He was not settled. He rode round and round if he could catch sight of her. He however could not forget to return to the room she lived in. She was told a fierce man was looking for her. She changed her dwelling that night. Julius gave her a phone call to trick her if she could get into his hands. ~Hello Charity my love. He tried to be more polite than the word itself. “Who are you?” ~Am Julius. I still love you please you can’t do these. This foreigner is very stupid. She has blown off my mind for these years. I need an end to it only if you will be my wife. Come and meet me please. “Really?” ~Yah, don’t doubt my love. “Trickster stories are for animals to entertain children. You better get serious.” ~I swear by almighty God that you will be my wife from today onwards. He meant trickery. He felt sorry for that statement he thought he could not stand by. ~Forgive me lord. He spoke it out clearly unknowingly. “For cheating me?” she said. “I am no fool.” ~You are oppressing me now. Remember all you promised me while young. You were sought but rejected men because of me.” He flashed back to the strange face of her father. ~Recall your promise to not forsake me. You don’t know how my relatives disowned me because of you while you were in America hiding and making love. He poured all which angered him. ~While poor you married another man…now that...that I am rich, you cry for me. He stammered. Immediately she realized her mistakes, she dropped the phone. The line was cut abruptly.