Married Single - Season 1 - Episode 60

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Married Single - Season 1 - Episode 60

He stood outside by the pool after driving in I wondered what was now bothering him. My heart raced a bit as I walked to him handing the baby to be bathed by the maid.
” Lucas,!” I called him in a low tone like i was scared to face him.” What if the test was showing he wasn’t the father?” I asked myself with each step i took towards him.

He turned his face towards me and opened his arms for me to hug him as he smiled widely making me sigh in relief.
” so?” I asked as he rubbed my back not breaking the embrace.

” I told you this is over. Am just from the prison to inform your ex boyfriend that he should never come near my family again. Lucy is my own blood and no one will ever cross me or say anything otherwise” he smiled gently stroking my hair.

I stepped back looking at him. ” it’s finally over!” I exclaimed happily.
” yes it is!” He nodded his head placing my head in his palms.

I sighed as i went back burrying my head in his chest.

” thank God! I just hope this will make him stay away from us for good. ” I whispered.
Lucas assured me he would. Telling me by the time he walked out of Prison Mike surely would have thought through his mistakes if he was a normal man.

” I talked to his father at length and he seemed to understand my concern of his son. He told me he would try talk to him and see how he would help him. ” Since Mike has kids already, he has no option but to try change and raise the kids as he should. ” Lucas explained Mike’s father’s words.
” it even seems the family sat together and the wife has agreed to take him back when he will be finally released” Lucas added as he held me to sit down with him.
” that’s good news, at least things sound promising” I responded

26 months later….
Chris was realesed from Prison as his sentence had come to an end.
His sister who had not stopped contacting me told me so and unfortunately told me Chris was no longer the same.
I asked what was wrong with him and she told me he was very sick and wanted to see me.

” go and see him” Lucas, told me after I was done explaining what Chri’s sister told me.

” but swity, for what? That man has ….”
” I know, he hurt you a lot” Lucas cut me,
” just go and hear what he has to say he won’t bite you or something. Fulfil a dying man’s wish” he had teased kissing my forehead as he lifted his brief case to go for work.

“Just let them wash the car for you since you complained it’s dirty and you can see him later in the day” he added and walked out leaving me staring at him.
I took my time preparing not really intrested in seeing Chris. Until after 14 hours, I decided to finally go to UTH and pay him a visit.
I walked into the hospital with his sister who had waited for me by the entrance.
I would admit seeing Chris so weak and pale made me feel pity for him. He smiled a faint smile when I sat next to his bed.
” you came!” He whispered weakly his mouth dry.
” yes, how are you Chris?” I asked him trying to smile at his sad face.
” am dying Stella” he sighed sitting up revealing his very weak and now small body I swallowed hard to avoid crying.
” you are going to be okey Chris,” I tried to comfort him but he shook his head.
I asked what was wrong with him and he narrated the story of how Mwenya had taken away all his things and ruined his business over the years he was in Prison. He told me she hired someone from inside the Prison to be feeding him small portions of some deadly drugs so that he would die.

Asked how he knew about all that, he went on to explain how the same prison warder was charged with another case where he was accused and found guilty of poisoning the Prisoners on request from people outside.
During his trial he even revealed the drugs he was adding to Chris’ food and revealed that Mwenya paid him to do that.

I couldn’t help but shed tears. ” how can someone be so cruel?” I whispered tears in my face as I looked at Chris now crying too.
” I regret what I did to you, you loved me genuinely and did all you could to make me a better man but I failed you” he cried.
” I wish I could turn back the hands of time to make things right but I guess its too late now. The effect of the drug is so emmerse it has destroy my liver and kidneys, its just a matter of time and am gone. So I wanted to see you and apologise trully for all the pain I have ever caused you” Chris held my hand and talked sincerely.
I stood up and held him tight in a hug as he cried in my chest. ” am so sorry Stella forgive me!”
” its okey Chris. It’s all in the past and I don’t hold anything against you. You are right we can’t change the hands of time but we both learnt our lessons. God willing you will survive this and am sure you will become a better man” I comforted him with a smile.
I sat besides him for another 30 minutes as we talked about a lot other things.

I told him about Lucas and he smiled.
” that idiot won after all” he teased with a laugh.
” yeah” I laughed shaking my head.
” Go and marry him. He’s the one for you. Some of us were just for a passing period and now I believe God was preparing you to be happy with him” he smiled looking at me.
” thank you for your kind words Chris and I wish you well too. I hope the police will find Mwenya and make her pay for what she did to you” i added as i stood to go.
” It doesn’t matter anymore. I lost everything already and now I await my day” he said calmly and sadly.

I walked away feeling my heart heavy with pity. I had not anticipated feeling that sad about seeing Chris suffering. Even when all the time I had talked about him paying, now I wished I didn’t say the words.
” oh God” I sighed as I opened the door to the Toyota NAVARA that Lucas got for me. ” please heal him if you would” I prayed sighing and wiping my eyes.
Lucas and I planned our wedding after I finally agreed to marry him. His mother who had practiaclly moved in with us after Lucy was born, helped me to organise what she called a wedding of the year.
My friend Linda as always supported me and Made a lot of things easy for me. She was too married to her pastor.
A month later, I walked to the aisle with my father holding my hand, our daughter Lucy sprinkling fresh petals on the red carpet displayed down our feet.