Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 11

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Lust & Love (The enemy within) - Season 1 - Episode 11

No pain cuts deeper than the pain of knowing that those who accuse you wrongly of a wrong doing knew that you were innocent all along, the feeling of being victimized, the question of’ ‘why me?’ and the pain of the consequences that follow the accusation…………nothing can be compared to that.

I looked in the direction of my father in-law like ‘what did you just say?’ he waived his index finger to reaffirm his statement ‘she was never pregnant!’ the feelings I felt at this point were many and they came almost simultaneously. At first I felt a sigh of relieve that at last! Someone of importance knows and confirms the truth, but that feeling didn’t last more than a few seconds. Then there was this rage after remembering that I have been separated from my sweet family for so long and the shame I had to face whenever I see a close family member. I screamed back at my father in-law ‘then why did you allow me suffer this much injustice?! Why did you not just say the truth all along?!! My mum is in a state of despair, my wife hates my existence and my kids are dying to see me come home. All this for what?

A silly prank by you and Abigail……….’ I was ranting on when my father in-law cuts me short ‘Ben!………..I didn’t know anything about all this at first, Abigail only told me a day after she named you the father of the baby she claimed she was carrying……………. and if I were you, I will be grateful’ I was so angry at his statement that I responded rudely at the top of my voice ‘grateful for what?! For you – still giving a stupid job that almost got me into prison? Or for the family you gave to me and then took back? Please explain to me why I should be grateful’.

I was obviously getting my father in-law angry, I could see his countenance has changed but he was trying hard not to lose it. ‘have you…have you heard of the drug called Calcium Gluconate?’ he screamed back at me ‘wha…what has that got to do with anything?’ I was beginning to get irritated at his attempt at trying to change the conversation. ‘since you love your wife so much why not go ahead and Google it, Calcium Gluconate, and then maybe we can pay a visit to a hospital, maybe a doctor can tell us why you have been having pains in your chest lately’. By now his demeanor was no longer that of a person who was having the time of his life, it was as if he was about to say something he wish he doesn’t have to say.

The first thought that came to my mind was to ask him who told him I was feeling pains in my chest but I refrained after remembering that the pain has plagued me all the while I was there so I figured he must have seen me rub my chest in obvious pain. I scrambled out my phone from the left pocket of my trouser, unlocked it and quickly typed calcium gluconate on the search on the home screen though I wasn’t sure of the spelling, first topic that Google brought was the ability of the drug (Calcium Gluconate) in fighting some excesses in the body but what I later saw that got me bewildered was the topic ‘The Perfect Murder Weapon’ I glanced through it but what I saw wasn’t pretty at all, then I heard my father in-law’s voice again ‘like I said earlier Ben, you were already a dead meat, your only saving grace is I know your mum prays a lot and secondly Abigail, the girl you hate so much’.

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