I carried on with plans of getting to know
the husband of Promise, I asked her many times to let me visit her house, but
she kept giving one excuse or the other, she boldly refused to give her house
address and these kept rising my suspicion that she’s not really married,
what’s confusing me is the wedding ring on her finger.
My background check on her proves my
suspicion right, she’s definitely not married and she’s successful and also
living alone. She’s been lying to me that she’s married which made me to think
that she doesn’t have feelings for me anymore and she don’t want to get
involved with me.
I started thinking of what to do to win her,
my thinking led me to meet with a close friend of hers who should know what’s
going on in her life. I got in touch with someone close to her, I was able to
persuade her to answer my questions and she told me everything after I told her
my intensions. She said, Promise has been in a relationship with a man for over
a year now and he hasn’t said anything about marriage, she said she doesn’t
trust the guy at all, that she doesn’t think the man is serious with Promise.
That gave me lots of hope, I felt very happy
inside me.
From all the information about her, I
prepared myself to pay her an unannounced visit in the evening. She opened her
door and was surprised to see me.
Promise: How did you get to know where I
live?
Me: I just did a little background check, can
I come in?
Promise: **Hesitating**
Me: Please…?
She quietly let me in.
Surprisingly, she offered me hollandia
yoghurt… then from one talk led to another, I started talking to her to marry
me. I told her I’m aware that she isn’t married, I talked to her about the
past, the present and the future till she got emotional and tears started
dripping down from her eyes. I went down on my knees before her and started
giving her promises which I’m very ready to fulfill. I begged and begged her to
agree to marry me, that I’ll start arrangement to marry her in one month or
maybe less once she agrees to marry me. I reach my hand into my pocket and
brought out the ring I came with; she started crying immediately I presented to
her, I took her hand and she didn’t withdraw her hand till I successfully
placed the ring on her finger. Before I knew what was happening, she flung
herself on me in a tight embrace.
Me: What about your boyfriend?
Promise: He has lost me… he’s not ready to
marry me, even though I’ve been pressuring him to, I was ready to sponsor the
wedding out of desperation to get married. Yet he kept giving one excuse or the
other.
Me: That’s fate wanting us to end up
together
Promise: How’d you know about him?
Me: Salome
Promise: That girl! I should’ve known it
was her
Me: Hope you’re not gonna scold her?
Promise: No, of course not
We talked and stared at each other for a
while before I left feeling happy.
***********
***********
We got married months later in a simple
traditional marriage and a court wedding with only close family members in
attendance. Although, I made the President and the first lady aware of my
marriage, they understood and gave me their blessings but couldn’t attend; I
didn’t want them to attend anyway since I wanted the wedding to be on a
low-key. They said I’m too young to remain a widower and I need someone to take
care of Vanessa.
Before we got married, I made a discovery
which is one of the reasons that made me rushed the wedding. Because… when we
were discussing (that’s before we got married) I found out she was born in the
same hospital where Mirabel was also born. Although I know they shared the same
birth date which was one of the reasons why Mirabel got to like her so much
back then. I suspected something and did a DNA test without her knowledge and
it was positive. I was shocked and dumbfounded immediately I saw it, so I kept
it a secret and rushed our wedding so it won’t be disapproved if they find out
the truth. So my plan is to tell them the truth months after the wedding.
Just a week after the wedding, the
President invited me to come with my new wife to the Presidential villa; I
honoured his invitation by going there at the expected time.
After a while there, The President started
talking about Mirabel not being his real daughter, how the investigation of
finding his child has been going, he then handed a paper to me. I looked at it
and it’s exactly the same as the DNA test result of Promise I did secretly.
I asked surprisingly like I didn’t know…
Me: So… what does this mean?
President: Promise is my daughter
Me: What? How is that possible?
He explained how it all happened.
What happened was that, a lady gave birth to a stillborn and she really needs a child for her husband and his family that has been pressuring her to give birth. So she connived with a nurse there to get her a child. The nurse took baby Promise and gave her to the woman, when she learned about whose child the baby was, (The President wasn’t the President then, but he is very influential) she couldn’t return baby Promise to them because she didn’t have the chance, so she took a random baby and gave to the first lady which was Mirabel and gave the stillborn to Mirabel’s real mother.
What happened was that, a lady gave birth to a stillborn and she really needs a child for her husband and his family that has been pressuring her to give birth. So she connived with a nurse there to get her a child. The nurse took baby Promise and gave her to the woman, when she learned about whose child the baby was, (The President wasn’t the President then, but he is very influential) she couldn’t return baby Promise to them because she didn’t have the chance, so she took a random baby and gave to the first lady which was Mirabel and gave the stillborn to Mirabel’s real mother.
Promise: (crying) my mother did that? Is
this true?
First lady: It is my dear, we’re your true
family; I gave birth to you (crying)
Promise couldn’t believe the woman she
thought was her mother did such kind of evil, and the woman loved her so much
as her only child.
Promise accepted her true parents and
pleaded with them not to let her supposed-mother to suffer for her
mistakes because she took care of her like her own child. Her wish was granted
and the woman was spared, but her supposed father refused to spare her as he
sent her packing from his house. The Nurse was dealt with a little before they
let her go after disgracing her. Everyone was surprised about this whole thing.
The President threw a party for the return
of his lost daughter and I was also honoured, I stood by her as her husband; so
I remained the President’s in-law.
***TEN YEARS LATER***
My dreams came true as I built my business
empire and became one of African’s richest. My business operations were all
over the continent with my headquarters in Nigeria. I had three children with
Promise while Vanessa make them four; two boys and two girls, and they grow up
to join the Vames Empire.
••• THE END •••
••• THE END •••
WRITTEN BY VICT-VAMES
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WRITTEN BY OLUWAFUNMINIYI KOMOLAFE
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