Chapter 9: Reunion

I t was raining when I woke up the next day, the events of the day before rang ever so fervently in my head. The implications of what PA Dike said to us continued to hit me in waves of leg quavering confusion. Obiamarachi still hadn't come home, this was very unusual, he'd usually run home as quickly as he could, back home to me. Now it felt like he didn't even want to see me, I was sure he didn't want to answer the numberless questions I had to relay.

Did he know that I knew? On second thought I concluded, he had to know, wasn't he the son of the gods? was it not he. That the people prayed to for rain and thunder?

Then, it struck me! In a single concise swing of goose bump filled shudders realized. It rained each time we made love! The thunder striking at the point of our climax, how could I have not known?

He might not have told me, but the universe tried to. Thinking of Uremma's pregnancy and affair with Enyichi, confusion brewed!

Wait! I didn't even know which one was Amadioha at this point, considering the turnout of events, they were probably also at it while we were. If we would give birth at once, we must have conceived at once!

Amadioha could be any of them!

Contempt overtook my thoughts, why didn't he tell me?

Were we not in love enough?

Didn't he trust me enough?

Did he maybe think telling me I was making love to a half human would change anything?

That knowing that he and his supposed brother were not humans would drive us away?

Any scenario I imagined annoyed the heavenly beauty out of me!

Or, did he maybe not know?

Was he unaware of his true identity?

He had to come back home. He needs to answer my questions!

He needs to clear my doubt...

Somehow I knew, that if he came back and whispered an I love you in my ears, it'll all go away! The confusion, the anger, the hurt. Everything! But where is he?

where has Obiamarachi gone to?

Where is Obi?

Where is my Obim?

It was evening when he returned, the rain had stopped and the grounds muddy...and just like every other pregnant woman in rainy season, I was asleep. I'd call it an antenna connection but that much civilization hadn't hit the grounds at that time of human existence, but although deep asleep, I felt his immediate presence like waves of entangled tingling all through my veins, hair standing like soldiers at attention during a parade. I could have sworn my belly felt warmer.

I would have run out to meet him as I had grown the habit to, but held back by all the mixed feelings rummaging my thoughts I decided not to, I heard the voices of everyone welcoming them back, he had returned with Enyichi.

Not long after I heard voices, he joined me, I continued to pretend I was asleep, I think that's why he felt he could un-burden.

"Obim, I know you must be overwhelmed by all you've heard....I'd be shocked if you don't resent me after all that, but it wasn't in my place to tell you, you finding out meant our days together are numbered....

That's why... I didn't want you to look at me like you are now!

Like I'm not the man you love!

Like I'm some wild creature of the beyond... The confusion in your eyes hurt more than knowing we'd soon be apart"

He placed his palm on my belly, his warm, large rugged palm.

Then he continued...

"that I won't be able to hold our child when he or she is born. That I won't be able to hold your cheeks and tell you how proud of you I am that you have given life to such graciousness! I want nothing more than for a new prophesy that changes things... Or to be able to tell you more... But my fate is sealed and my tongue tied."

I knew at that moment that I was in for more than I bargained for, this sultry taste in my mouth wasn't going away just yet.

Like a surge of indescribable energy, desire swept through me like electric waves in a dam, if I didn't know better I'd say I felt it alone...but one look at him told me I was far from alone.

Cupping my face on one swift tantalizing action, he claimed my lips, then my mouth then my soul!

I could feel his mark registering in the fibers of my very being.

There it was, that spark, that inferno I felt the very first time we brushed flesh, sweeping through me like a nuclear bomb released on a market on black Friday sales.

Thoughts of lonely nights when he's leave captured me, but a single stroke of his hands on my now bare breasts banished all thought, all thoughts and left me breathless and very hot.

At that moment I couldn't think, I could only feel and by the gods I felt very hot. "How can someone feel so much pleasure just by someone touching me!" I asked myself.

For what felt like decades he put his mouth, tongue and hands everywhere, every part of my body had its fair share of exclusive pampering.

I didn't think this amount of pleasure was possible to be felt in a day, until he put his mouth to my depths! Slowly licking my doubts and fears away, then vigorously claiming my spirit and mind!

"please! "

I didn't even realize I was begging!

Pleading!

I needed him inside of me, his fullness and strength, the share joy of his penetration sent me to the heavens and back and for what seemed like hours we continued to merge souls and birth a bond. A deep connection that neither time nor prophesy could break! Our climax was out of the ordinary.

Like cold water for the inferno we brewed, body entangled and fingers entwined. We lay! Heavy breathing and syncing heart beats, the he whispered again those two words that seems to make me remember that all these was actually happening.

" I love you "

And I knew with every part of my being that he did. And I loved him more than I could express in words.