Marriage Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode 25

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Marriage Chronicles - Season 1 - Episode 25

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..ANNA..

The plan had been on hold for far too long and
the best time to execute it was now. Three solid
years after my marriage to Rajesh. Yes, it had
been 3 years since I’d married that monster and I was yet to fully have my revenge. I say this
because I was partially avenging the atrocities
inflicted upon me via how I treated Rajesh and
slowly made him my slave. That’s really
punishment to manly men if you ask me..men of
Rajesh’s likes to be specific.

But before I go deep into explaining some of the
mental ways I was punishing Rajesh, let me gist
you on some of the major happenings in the past
three years.

For starters, I now had a son who was 100%
William’s cause there was no trace of Rajesh in
him whatsoever. Thank God cause truth be told,
I’d been fearing the child would end up being
Raj’s after all and then what? I’d be disgraced
like no man’s business!

My son was 2 years 6 months old and was
staying with my parents whom he had been
staying with ever since he was six months old
when I’d weaned him. His name is Benjamin,
courtesy of his father who still had 17 years to
serve before he could finally leave prison. I did
feel sorry for Willy from time to time but the
b-----d had hurt me and no man toys with my
emotions and goes scot free.

But Rajesh was free, you’d say. Take a chill pill
and sit down cause honey, I’d just been having
cold feet killing the son of a b---h these past
three years. At first I’d thought of slowly killing
him by slowly poisoning his food, which I’d even
started doing until I realised one day that an
autopsy would be conducted after his death and
the slow poison would be found and then I’d be
busted..I’d go to jail for murder obviously which
was too big a risk so I quit poisoning the
b-----d.

Who had been supplying me the poison? You
may wonder but it was none other than Doctor
Mainza. Him and I had become so involved over
the years that if I asked him to jump he’d ask
how high. Speaking of him being at my beck and
call, he’d saved me from Raj doubting me when a year elapsed after I was diagnosed with that fake tumour by him (Mainza).

I had been breastfeeding Benjamin that night
when Raj wrapped his hand round my waist and
kissed my neck.

“I wanna have me some Anna tonight. These
days, all you care about is this baby of yours.”
“Raj, Benjamin will only be here for three months more before I take him to mum’s so kindly exercise some patience..I’ll give you me once he falls asleep.” He breathed down my neck before sighing with frustration. “It’s fine..I’ll just sleep.

We can have sex tomorrow, or the day after. Or
the day after.”

See I was sexually starving him cause I knew
he’d feel too guilty to cheat on me since he
believed I was dying any day from now and that I
was trying my best to convince myself and him
that I wasn’t dying.

He slipped under the covers and was telling me
not to forget to turn off the light when his phone
rang.

“Are you going to pick that, Raj?”
He groaned and reached for the phone. “It’s
Doctor Mainza,” he announced before picking up.

“Hello….tomorrow? Is it good or bad
news?…Okay, Anna and I will be there…Sleep
tight, man.”

“What did he say?” I enquired as soon as he was off the call.

Of course I knew what Mainza had
just told Raj cause I was after all the one who
had instructed him to make the call in the first
place.

“That he has some news to share with us
tomorrow. I asked him whether its good or bad
and he said we just have to go over to his office
to find out.”

“Okay..” I said, feigning sadness and finally
dropping some crocodile tears.

“Not again,” he got out of bed and put Benjamin
who was fast asleep in his crib. Raj hugged me
tightly and rocked us back and forth. “You know I don’t like it when you cry, teddy bear.”
“It just hurts, knowing am gonna die any time
from now and leave my son all alone..You too.”
He didn’t say nothing. If there’s one thing I’d
come to learn, Raj loved me with his whole heart
but my son, he despised him. No wonder I just
wanted to take him to my parents’ place as soon as possible.

The following day, Raj and I paid Mainza a visit.
We were seated in his office while sipping on
mineral water as Mainza said, “I didn’t wanna tell you this earlier cause I didn’t want to raise your hopes. Mrs. Anna Mumba Sharma, I have great news for you. Your brain tumour has been
cured.”

“You lie!” I screamed, faking disbelief.
Rajesh looked equally bewildered.

Mainza shook his head and assuringly smiled at
us. “Am not lying..” he got two envelopes from
his drawer and spread two x-rays on the table.
“You see this,” he pointed at one where there
was some growth on the brain. “This was the
tumour.” and then he pointed at the other one
which had no growth. “In this one the tumour is
gone..” He leaned back in his seat. “If you ask
me, this is nothing short of a miracle.”

You’re a miracle worker yourself, I thought and
broke down, dramatically.

“This..is..overwhelming news!” Raj scooped me into his arms and spun me around, kissing
almost my entire face. “You’ll live, Anna. You’ll live!”

And you think that’s something to be happy
about? Just how dumb was this Rajesh ai? And
so I continued living with him. When Benjamin
clocked 6 months old, I took him to my parents’
place who kept on asking me why I was
practically abandoning my son.

“Mum, Dad, I wasn’t prepared to have this baby in the first place so instead of whining, you two ought to be thankful I even kept the pregnancy and gave birth to Benjamin.”

Did I love my son? Hell yeah I did! It was
because of my love for him that I was keeping
him away from Raj the lunatic.

Raj was so euphoric when I took Benjamin to my
parents’ that as a reward, he took me on
vacation to India for a whole month. To cut a
long story short, he treated me like a queen, his
queen. But to me all that didn’t matter, all I
wanted was revenge. An eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth was my slogan y’all.

Upon our return to Zambia, I begun poisoning him
at the price of being Mainza’s lover which
wasn’t really bad a price to pay cause the guy
had skills in bed.

As I’ve stated, I quit poisoning Raj when I
realised I was implicating myself in the process
so I decided to dig up some dirt in his business
cause I wondered how boutiques and jewellery
stores would make someone as rich as Rajesh
was and walla, the dude was into drug
trafficking. I made my private investigator
provide me with enough evidence and then I was
ready to strike. By then Raj and I had only been
married for a year and eight months.

I served breakfast for him that morning and put
them implicating pictures of his transactions
under a plate I knew too well he’d use. I sat
opposite him and rested my chin on my right
palm as I watched him lift the plate and notice
the pics. The look on his face was priceless.

“What’s the meaning of this, Anna?” “You don’t trust me. That’s the meaning, Rajesh. Am your wife and yet you didn’t tell me you into drug trafficking? Do you know how cheated I feel?”

“It was for your own good.” “Spare me that
crap!” I slammed my hands on the table. “I hate it when men are dishonest with me. Your
punishment for lying to me all this while will be
you doing everything I ask you to do henceforth
without questioning me or else you’re going back to jail. And don’t you dare try outsmarting me cause should anything happen to me, I’ve made sure you’ll be the prime suspect, Rajesh
Sharma!”

Since that day, I literally turned Raj into my
b---h. I made him cook for me, wash my clothes,
sexually starved him and checked his manhood
every time he came back from somewhere to
ensure he wasn’t s------g some chick out there.
Once he got home, I would tell him to take off
his trousers and boxers and show me his penis
which I’d thoroughly examine.

“You didn’t f--k no one today,” I’d say,
instructing he dresses up. “And don’t you even
dare try it cause I have eyes on you, 24/7.”

“Noted, boss.” He’d roll his eyes and dress up.

Whenever I felt h---y enough to have me some
Rajesh, I’d dominate the session, much to Raj’s frustration as he couldn’t do nothing to save his huge ego. So turning a man into your b---h for 14 months eventually becomes old and an utter bore.

That’s what it became so I decided to
finally end it all. Just as Coreen’s husband
Cephas had ended his girlfriend’s life 14 years
ago. Yes weh, I’d been following the case on
news and now Cephas had how many more years
to serve? 27? Yeah, 27. The nigga had been
sentenced to 30 years in prison when he was
found guilty of murdering Coreen’s twin. I’d
laughed my a-s off when I’d read the verdict in
the newspaper.

And Coreen herself? I hadn’t heard from her for
years as she had moved to the Copperbelt and I
cared less about how she was doing. She might
as well just drown herself in the river for all I
cared.

So today, I woke up early in the morning and
dressed up as best I could. Today was the day I
finally put my plan to kill Raj into motion after all
so I had to look splendid. I was humming Pharell
William’s ‘Happy’ as I got into my expensive car which Raj had bought for me only but two
months ago.

I hit the road and smiled, “Game on, b---h.”
If only I knew how much things would spiral out
of control, maybe I would have come up with
another plan.