Chapter Six

It was in the third month, since he started dating Ifeoma that she found out that another woman had her husband captive. She'd been suspecting it all along but refused to admit that the man she loved and married now had another woman he was sharing her with. The day Fred had asked her to twerk for him and had gotten so angry when she had said no, was when she started to realize that her marriage was heading for the rocks. He no longer found her attractive. Fred had never been able to keep his hands off her all the time they've been married, but now, he even started saying no and using being exhausted from work everytime she asked for them to make love. Love making became a chore and not something to be enjoyed anymore. Fred had always been a stallion in the sheets, now he would even flinch when she touched him. He always looked for a reason to go out and would come back home late, one day he got careless and came home with the other woman's perfume all over him, that was when she confronted him. "Baby what's happening to our marriage?" "How do you mean?" He asked, avoiding her gaze as he dropped his car keys on the table and carried his 5 month old daughter. "Fred, another woman has taken you from me and she's smelling all over you." She had said as she stood behind him, sniffing his shirt. "This is the same smell you had on you the other night you said you got arrested. How long has this been going on, Fred? Have you been lying to me all this time?" "Bimpe, please I had an exhausting day and I really don't have time for your baseless accusations. You fully well know that in my line of work, I would definitely come in contact with different people and sometimes, I would smell different." He said, still not looking at her. He placed the baby back in her cot and was about to go upstairs but Bimpe was relentless. "Fred you have your own company, yeah you do come in contact with people, but do you hug everyone you come in contact with? Or you came in contact with the couple you got arrested with the other night because this is the same smell you had on you that night. I know there's another woman that's why you've been making all those crazy demands, asking me to send you nudes and twerk videos." He ignored her and went upstairs. She became angry. "Fred!! Fred!! We're not done talking o." she carried the baby and went upstairs too and net him in the room. She placed Fiona on the bed, then went to stand in front her husband. "Fred you used to talk to me about everything and anything, why has that changed? You're becoming someone else I can't even understand. You flinch whenever I touch you, you no longer even want to make love to me anymore. Tell me baby, what did I do wrong? What is she doing to you that you feel I can't do for you? I'm your wife babe, please talk to me." She knelt in front of him, between his legs, helping him take off his shoes. He held her shoulders "Bimpe, there's no other woman, why can't you believe that? I do get tired from work and want to just come home and sleep whenever I get home." Then he stood up, removed his clothes and walked into the bathroom. Bimpe sat on the bed, watching her husband take off his clothes and she yearned for him. "Should I join you in the shower?" "No, babe. You can have your bath after I'm done." he had replied from the bathroom. She looked around and saw his phone, she picked it up and saw that it was locked. Her husband had never had any reason to put a lock on his phone. She got furious, but being mad right now won't solve anything. She took off her clothes to and went to join him in the shower. He didn't hear her come in, she stood behind him and hugged him from behind, startling him. "I really don't have time for this, now, Bimpe" he said, holding her hands. "I want to just shower, have dinner and go to bed." He got his towel, and stepped out of the shower stall, leaving his wife dazed under the hot onslaught of the water. The water washed away the tears, but did nothing to drown the pain she was feeling inside. She kept looking as Fred cleaned up and left her in the bathroom.

Three days later, after she watched videos extensively on YouTube on how to unlock an iPhone X, she tried out her new knowledge on her phone first and it worked, then when he slept off one night, she took one of his pictures from the photo album, raised it up to his phone and then his phone recognized the face and unlocked. She looked back at him, he was snoring away, deep in sleep. She went through the phone, saw the number of the other woman, copied it out on her own phone, then she went through his whatsapp messages and read their conversations in tears. She forwarded all the pictures and videos the other woman had sent her husband to her own phone. Quietly, she placed her husband's phone back on the wireless charger and then she went downstairs. She went to the dining room, sat down on one of the chairs, watched the videos, they were so many, then she went through all the nudes she'd sent him. She created a folder on her phone and stored all the pictures and videos in the folder. She also created a lock for her phone as well. It was almost 3 am on the clock, she went to the guest restroom close to the living room, washed her face, then going back to the living room, she knelt down and prayed for her husband. She had never prayed for an hour before, but when she got back up from the floor, she felt relieved. She knew exactly what her next course of action would be. She walked back upstairs, got into bed and snuggled up to her husband. He moaned as she started to touch him, he was half awake when he got hard, and taking no chances or giving him no room to turn her down, she removed her night gown and descended on him. She put his half erect dick in her pussy and he got fully hard while he was in her. He was now awake. He looked at her surprised as she started to go up and down on him with her eyes closed. This was her right and he wasn't going to deny her of it. Then he started to fondle her boobs as she rode herself to an orgasm. When she was done, she got up and walked into the bathroom. She didn't care that he was still hard and had not even cum. She got back into bed, pecked him on his forehead, "good morning my husband" she said, and then she turned her back to him, puffed up her pillows, laid her head on it and went to bed, Fred just laid there, an erection in his hand, looking at the new woman in his bed. Something was really wrong.

After breakfast, Fred carried Trey to the car. Trey was four and was in a private school close to his office. "See you later babe." He pecked Bumper as she had some cereal as well. "Won't you give mummy a kiss?" and then Trey pecked his mum too the way his dad just did and then she watched them from the window as Fred drove off in the blue mustang. She still had an hour before she would leave for work herself. She had felt pity for her husband and had allowed him make love to her till he got his release and they had showered together that morning, like old times. But it wasn't like old times anymore. Working with MTN gave her unfettered access to any information she wants to get about any of the telecommunications numerous subscribers. All she needed was a number and she would get all the information she wanted. She already had the number and a first name. She needed a last name too. Then she smiled as she went up and got dressed up for work. She stood in front of the mirror in the bedroom and was proud of the woman looking back at her. The herbal tea she'd been taking all these months and the exercise she'd been doing had really paid off. She was back to her old shape and she felt tight once again. Even Fred had asked her that morning in the shower, what she took that made her so tight. They had made love again in the shower and she knew he would be so exhausted to want to make love with the Ifeoma lady that same day, not after how she handled him that morning. But then again, she would never know if he was on some kind of enhancing drugs. She dressed up her baby and carried her downstairs, contemplated on whether to drive the Benz or just drive her red Camry. She took the key to the Camry and went outside. "Madam, I dey comot?" Unman asked as he rushed to open the gates. Madam didn't tell him to wash the car, so he had assumed she won't be going out. "Yes Usman. I'm going to work, help me hold baby." she handed Fiona to Usman who tenderly carried her and he smiled as Bimpe opened her purse and brought out a crisp one thousand naira note and gave it to him. "Haba madam, you be better woman o. You and oga just dey do me better better. See madam, if my Mustapha grow up ehn, I go tell am make he come be maigad for here. He go be better maigad like me him papa. Madam, you dey comot with babies?" Usman asked as Bimpe strapped Fiona in a baby carriage in the back seat. "Yes na, Usman. Make I no carry her go? Are you a babysitter?" "No na, haba mana madam, I no go sit am for babies na. I sabi take care of babies o. I get 9 pikins for Kano." He replied as he rushed to open the gates. "Thank you, Usman. I would drop her at a daycare. Take care of yourself." She rolled up the window, turned on the AC and backed up out of the house.

She finally opened a business page on instagram, selling weaves, wigs and make up accessories for women. Fred wasn't just a sex god, he was also very generous. He really had spoilt her rotten. On her 34th birthday, he got her a Honda Crosstour, an IPhone X like his own and also gave her 5 million naira to start any business she wanted. After a month of dating him, he started winning huge contracts left, right and centre and he had gotten his wife a brand new 2018 Camry and then asked her what she wanted for her own birthday and she had said she wanted a car too, the next day, he drove the Honda Crosstour to her house and gave her the key. This time, the car was in her name. She had come to terms with Fred always going back home to his wife. What she didn't like was the fact that no matter how hard she tried to satisfy him, he never stopped talking about his wife and all the sacrifices she had done to make him the man he now was and he never ate in her house. He would always tell her that no matter how much he enjoyed coming to make love with her, his wife was the only woman that would cook his food. Four times he had made her cry when he refused to touch the food she had painstakingly made just for him. She wanted to show him that she had more than her body to offer but so far, that hadn't worked, but she was okay with her small victories, even the old man had told her it would take time before he would be fully hers. She was tired of hearing him talk about his wife that way, she wished she could find a man that would really love her the way Fred loves his wife. She wanted him to herself alone. She got more pebbles from the old man and would always insert one anytime they were about to make love and so far it had been working for her. The only thing she dreaded was the day the charm she's using would fail because pebble or not, she had fallen head over heels in love with him. Anytime she didn't put pebbles in her mouth before talking to him, those were the times she got to see the sides of him she was scared of. One day, she had put a pebble in her mouth, the taste of the pebble made her realize it was the wrong one she had placed in her mouth, she had mistakenly put nzu(a native chalk) in her mouth, thinking it was the right pebble but when she found out, it was already too late to remove it, because he was staring at her. Then she had asked him to drive his wife out of his house so she could move in and the way he had slapped her, it felt like she had an accident. She was blind for a minute as everywhere went dark even though it was noon outside and then he warned her to never say something like that, then he had stormed out of her apartment. It took her 3 days of pleading, nudes and twerk videos before he decided to see her again. Since then, she started separating the pebbles. The ones she was to swallow was in a sealed container under her bed, while the ones she was to insert in her pussy was in another container behind her toilet seat.

She sorted out the bundles of wigs and weavons and took pics of them and uploaded them to her page. Then she paid a tech guy some money to help her get followers on her page and in 3 days she had twenty thousand followers and they liked and shared her pictures, then people started to place order for her products. She was now in business. She decided to make her page private one night and 2 hours after making her page private, a lady sent her a follow request and then slid into her dm and offered her a deal that was so hard to say no to. In just 5 months of dating Fred and starting her business she just landed a juicy deal. The woman asked that they meet for lunch the next day at 805 in Wuse 2 and the choice of venue made Ifeoma conclude that this woman really meant business. She agreed to the lunch date, gave the woman her number, then went on to check the woman's page. 'Margaret Pepple' the name didn't ring any bell, what got her wheels spinning was when she got on the woman's page and saw pictures of exotic cars and beautiful houses, and there were also pictures of exotic cities the lady must have visited there was only one blurry picture of the woman and Ifeoma concluded that the woman was probably so rich and famous she didn't need the world to know who she really was. Afterall, the woman had said she got Ifeoma's handle from a satisfied customer that had bought some Brazilian hair from Ifeoma. She dropped her phone, as she went to look for the best kind of dress to wear for lunch tomorrow. With her new Crosstour, she now definitely looked the part, now it was time for her to also make rich wealthy friends. Fred had gone home to his wife an hour ago and she couldn't call him to tell him the good news. He had told her to never call him when he was home and so far, she had done that. She was so hyped for the lunch date tomorrow. She went to bed with thoughts of all the wonderful cities she would go to soon.

When Bimpe got to work, her colleagues started admiring her at how fast she was able to get back to her old shape 6 months after giving birth. She was happy to be back at work. She had come to work today for a singular purpose: to know everything about the Ifeoma lady that was on the verge of tearing her marriage apart. In 15 minutes behind her computer, she got all the information she needed and then she smiled and buried herself in her work. She had a backlog of work waiting for her. Her colleagues at MTN were like family, they had all chipped in for her in her absence. Instead of the normal three months maternity leave, her superior had insisted on her taking 5 months off. She won the award for 'Best Staff' 4 years in a row so she deserved the extra months. Whatever she set her mind to do, she was relentless till it was done. That relentless drive was the main thing that made Fred fall in love with her and married her. She had a wonderful job at an insurance firm when she met Fred. Fred was in between jobs at the time but she saw in him a drive that she was sure with the right push would take him to great heights. Then she had drawn up a business plan and presented it to him and at first, he didn't see her ideas working, but she kept insisting that he tried it out first before giving up. Fred had been content with running around chasing vacancy adverts and wanting to work in an office under someone, but Bimpe wanted more than that for him. She saw in him a fire that he didn't even see in himself, so she had set out to bring that fire out of him. She had saved up sixty percent of her salary for 5 months and then gave Fred forty percent of it to finance the business ideas she pitched for him. Many of her friends back then had scorned her, laughed her, called her names for doing such acts for a man that she had only known for 4 months but she didn't listen to them. She stopped telling her friends things about her relationship with Fred. Even when he flopped twice because he wanted doing things his own way rather than the way she had told him to, she still stood by him. Then she gave him the remaining 60 percent of the savings she had and with her connection at her insurance firm, she landed Fred his first major contract. As soon as the money got into his account, he paid her back the seed money she invested in him with a generous interest, then he had gone to see her parents and told them that he needed their blessings to marry their daughter. Her parents agreed to it, at first her mom had been skeptical with the tribe difference, Bimpe was Yoruba and Fred was an Edo man, but knowing how determined and unyielding Bimpe could be once she put her mind to something, her parents blessed the union and happily gave their daughter out to Fred. Bimpe had only one sibling; a younger brother that her parents doted on so much. Dotun was her best friend and brother, at first he had been jealous of Fred taking his sister away, but he came to terms with it and then he went to the US to study and he joined the FBI. Her friends back then were surprised that the man Bimpe went out on a limb for ended up marrying her. They learnt to stop thinking all men were scum. After the wedding, Fred pleaded with Bimpe to resign from the insurance firm and work with him in setting up the company and she agreed, after all, he was now her husband. They became a power couple, because Bimpe would handle negotiations while Fred executed the contracts and they gradually started growing from lower middle class to upper class. Then she resigned again from the company when she got pregnant, now Fred could handle everything on his own, he could now afford to get the best people to work for him. She had a miscarriage at 5 months and was devastated, but Fred was her pillar of support in those trying months as she had been for him at the beginning. Four months later, after they bought their first house, she got pregnant again and Fred instantly became a hands on dad. He made sure she never lacked for anything. He even started pushing her around in wheelchairs around the house because he kept saying walking up and down the house would harm the baby. Then she had Trey, 2 years after they got married. When Trey was one, she got tired of being a stay at home mom, then she reached out to her old friends from her previous firm and they helped her get the job with MTN and she brought her relentless drive to her new job and in no time, she won the admiration of everyone. Her marriage to Fred had been everything she wished and dreamed of, they had gone on vacations to 12 countries, even Trey their son was a Canadian citizen, Fiona was born in the US. Fred had always wanted the best for his family till now that Ifeoma Nwosu came into their lives, trying to ruin her marriage and her family. She went on instagram, created a fake page and then searched for Ifeoma Nwosu, after about 5 different people with the same first and last name, she found the one she was looking for, then she went through the page, saw all the things she was sure her husband had bought for her. She even saw the red Honda Crosstour Ifeoma claimed she got from her toils as a business entrepreneur. Bimpe laughed as she clicked on follow after she noticed that Ifeoma's page went private.

On her way home from work that evening was when she decided that she was going to have to see this other woman in person, then she thought up a plan and when she got home, she asked her out to lunch and of course, Ifeoma accepted. No one could say no to Bimpe Daniels.