The Secret Room - S01 E04

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The Secret Room - S01 E04

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 4

A woman came chasing me as l ran with every strength l had in me, screaming for help but none came. We were in a deserted cemetery, l wondered how l got there in the first place. She looked horrifying with her hair scattered on her head, looked like a blood sucking demon. Running out of strength, l hit my right foot against an opened grave and went falling right into it. It was Eliza, she came over to me, laughing hysterically as she thundered in a loud voice, “You are coming with me…”

Jerking up from my sleep, l found myself on an hospital bed, my head went aching as l gave a loud scream. My husband Bernard and the doctor were startled by my scream. My church pastor stood beside the head of the bed as he looked at me with pity.

The doctor placed his hands gently on me saying, “Ma’am, you have to relax your body. You have been in a comma for 2 days now ma’am”. My eyes bulged out of the socket, still in disbelief and shock. I asked immediately about my phone, but none knew where it was. I was sad, my hard earned evidence was gone, just like that.

The doctor talked about transferring me to another hospital to get psychiatric care and attention. What could be wrong? My husband was the one who needed that help. My husband had told the doctor l had been behaving strangely for some time now. He told him l claimed l was seeing ghosts and l had completely lost it. I had to act cool so l wouldn’t be locked up in a mental health center with people thinking that I’d lost my mind.

Two days later, I was finally discharged to go home but would be under medical supervision. Getting home, my husband bursted out laughing. ” You are such a big fool. If you wanna keep staying in this house, then keep your mouth shut about my wife or you’ll end up in a mental asylum”. I couldn’t believe my ears. I broke down crying.

Later in the day, seated in the living room, my gaze was all on the door to the room where Eliza was. I wondered who took my phone and had left me helpless. The home cell phone went ringing, l wondered who it was. Went over to pick it up and a man’s voice echoed from over the phone.

“Hello. Please I want to talk to Miss Claire”. It’s Miss Claire over the phone”, I responded the young man. ” I found your phone at your accident scene and I’m really amazed. l got to see something you wouldn’t want the world to see ma’am”, the voice went chuckling. I already knew what his mission was, to blackmail me so he wouldn’t tarnish my husband’s image and money would be demanded.

Of course, l wanted the world to see it, it’s so amazing how fate works. I smiled to myself. “Look, I want you to upload that video over the net, I’ll give you all my husband’s details, and also caption the video that I have been held hostage by my husband so I wouldn’t spill the beans about him sleeping with his dead ex wife.

I’m going to award you One million naira to do this. Send your details, I’m sending 500k in some minutes time. When I’ve finally seen the video on net, I’ll balance you up immediately”. A long silence followed as l heard the young man sigh. “I’m sending the details now madam”. He hung up and a message popped in. I went running upstairs to get my ATM card from my drawer. Getting it, I rushed out of the house, took a bike and headed for the nearest bank. Inserted my ATM card in the dispensing machine and made the transfer.

On getting home. I received another call from him telling me he had done it. I slept peacefully that night as my husband went in to meet his beloved wife to spend the night with her. Messages came popping later the next day, the video had gone viral. Calls from family, friends, business partners were rushing in.

My husband came rushing home from work as he went sweating all over. On sighting me he gave me a resounding slap and yelled at the top of his voice. He rushed to the TV and tuned in to a news channel, his face was all over. It was the trending news. He bursted out crying and mumbled to himself, “they will come to take my wife from me”, I stared in utter amazement.

Another headline came in, a young man was found dead at the roof top of his house with his head having been dismembered from his body. His death was mysterious, his name popped up on the screen and it read,” Mr Saheed Ogundele Joshua”.

The name rang a bell, I had seen that name before. It was the name that the blackmailing guy had sent to me with his account details. I stood transfixed to the floor. Eliza will also come for me… Eliza had gone to finish him up…