THE WIFE I NEVER MARRIED - Season 1 - Episode 36

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THE WIFE I NEVER MARRIED - Season 1 - Episode 36

Once she is done from here, she may have to quickly go back to Ankpa and see how Laibe can terminate the pregnancy before more persons hear about it.

It’s already more than shameful as it were.

If Matthew had impregnated another person, like the Angela woman she was suspecting at the initial point, it wouldn’t have been as shameful and abominable as impregnating someone that is literally her own daughter.

Baba’s spirit would not be happy wherever he is, she thought.

She quickly discarded that thought as fast as it came. The dead are dead, and have no spirits roaming around anywhere, she reminded herself.

Another thought had come to her mind also. Perhaps this an answer to the prayers Baba made about hearing a sound of baby in her house. Perhaps, she wasn’t fated to give birth to a child for Matthew. This Laibe’s baby might be the opportunity she has been waiting for. She tried to consider the option of adopting the child as hers and letting Laibe continue with her normal life. Being the emotional person she is, she just knew she can’t.

What if the child is a girl? And Matthew being a paedophile abuses the child again.

No!

Laibe would abort that pregnancy and that’s non-negotiable.

She brought back her attention to the doctor who was only staring vacantly into thin air.

“Doctor, you are not talking?” she querried, breathing impatiently when the doctor’s silence was becoming deafening. The doctor on the other hand maintained a straight face, giving away no expression at all.

“He drove into a ditch.” The doctor said, looking straight at Udale and she swallowed deeply.

He continued notwithstanding. “Seeing the so many accidents that are happening at the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, Road Safety officers have been heavily mobilised to that area…”

Udale didn’t know if she needed all these details. Doctors and unnecessary protocols! He was trying to calm her down perhaps, so as to absorb the oncoming bad news better. But what is the need of calming her down in the first place if she was going to still hear what he had to say?

“They said it was while your husband sped off, after refusing to harken to their flagging him down, that he drove the car off the road and into a ditch.”

“What? Were the Road safety men chasing him?” She demanded.

“No! They said they weren’t even ready to chase after him. It was in their bid to attend to another oncoming car that they heard a loud noise, only to see the car has landed in a deep ditch. Well, it appears like an attempted suicide to me.” The doctor said and that made Udale flare up.

“You just said he was attempting to avoid the never-do-well road safety officers on that road, that’s because they only wanted to collect bribe and nothing else. How can they save him when it was needed? They were busy waiting for another victim of theirs.” Udale drew a long hiss, in spite of herself.

“I don’t think it’s so, Ma’am, because…”

“Because? Because what doctor? My husband is laying there in serious coma, and all you are doing is defending the Federal Road safety commission?” she stood up and made to leave. The doctor felt frustration sauced with anger in her voice and could connect to it.

“Have you ever seen him with this before?”
Udale stopped in her track and turned to face the doctor. He is holding out a little bottle. The bottle look both familiar and unfamiliar. Familiar in that she had seen it sometimes at her workplace before, unfamiliar in that she has never seen it with or on her husband at any point. She moved closer and closer till she collected the bottle and held it in her hand.

“We found that in his car’s safe. And after the tests we ran on him, we found the content in his blood. Obviously, your husband drank this poison before driving down that road, and its effects only started at that point, blurred his vision and made him drive into a ditch. Whatever the storyline is, ma’am, the point remains that your husband attempted suicide.”

“Jesus!” Udale screamed and fell into her chair again. She left herself off so thunderously that the doctor thought she fainted. Her body shivered more and tears flew down freely off her face. Her legs felt so weak and her head so heavy on top of her neck.

“The poison has affected a lot of things in his body. We are trying our best and hope he comes around. This is a very slim probability.”

“Doctor, you mean, my husband might not survive this?” Udale’s tears could make a lion have an appetite to taste grass.

“I can’t say Ma’am. Dr Max told me you are a matron, so I would be as blunt and open with you as possible. As it stands now, his chances of survival are slimmer than the slimmest of things there is. And if he eventually survives at all, he would remain impotent and a vegetable for the rest of his life.”

Udale slid down gradually from the seat till her butt0ckz touched the floor as she screamed out in anguish.