LIFE AS SHE SEES IT....BELIEVABLE (inspired by a true story) BY ADESUWA

The reception had been very successful. It started immediately after they finished from church.  Overflowing with gifts, choicest food, wines and souvenirs. The bride and groom had danced to their hearts content... It was a relief to friends and family that they had finally tied the knot. The couple appeared to be so much in love the way they held hands, whispered to each other, kissed and laughed...it made one want to marry fast.

A surprise after-party was organised for them by their close friends at the couple's new home...

The party was winding down…at a corner of the garden a lady was having chitchat with her friend when a man walked up to them.

"What are you two doing? " he demanded.

"We were talking about.." she smiled and started explaining excitedly.

He didn't listen and turned to her friend "what are you discussing with her?!"

Her friend couldn't answer.

"What's wrong with you?" She asked clearly confused

"Are you asking me? You are asking me?!" he grabbed her hand and drew her as he walked inside the house.

"Leave me alone! Leave me! What has come over you?" She tried to lower her voice so as not to attract attention.

He didn't flinch, but led her to a room and locked the door. " you are my wife! I would not watch you play around with men! I have been warning you!"

"What in the world are you talking about? Since when did discussions translate to playing around? I was only chatting with him!" She was hysteric

"You are my wife!" he shouted

"And I know that" she shouted back and turned away from him

"Look at me when am talking to you!" he dragged her back

She made to push him, but he caught her hands and slapped her hard.

She cried out and lunged at him, blowing him with her small hands…"how dare you lay your hands on me! What has come over you?" She drew back and pulled off her wedding ring and threw it at him " I am sick of you already!" 

He had always been a jealous man, at first she thought it was love. She married him to save her the hassles of being a single mom. She still had feelings for him too...but for how long would she continue like this...she had hoped it would get better in marriage, but the reality of her life in the next 10 years was staring at her in the face. All of a sudden she felt she had taken enough.

"pick that ring up! " he thundered

"I will not!" and she turned around to leave. She got to the door and found it locked and then she remembered that he locked it. "Give me the keys!" she demanded and whirled around to look at him, as she did she heard the sound of glass.

He was holding a broken bottle "I married you to own you! I am talking to you and you have the audacity to walk away?!" he was shaking with rage.

A grave feeling came her..."what are you doing?.." she whispered. It used to be shouts, blows...she had learnt to handle all that over time...but a bottle?

As he came close to her she took steps back. "I would give you a taste of what you want!", he said as he raised the bottle in his hand.

With her eyes wide open, she fell to her knees "Ade please!...our child....stop this.."

She couldn't describe what she saw in his eyes but felt raw pain when he stabbed her arm and then her stomach. She screamed in anguish and tried to block the stabs with her hands, as she did each of them got sliced with the bottle...He didn't seem to hear her cries or screams. He was like a beast with no heart.

He stabbed her continuously... while shouting "you brought this on yourself! You are my wife!" he appeared to be possessed, no emotions in his eyes...they were dead cold.

She struggled at first but as he kept stabbing her, she felt the bottle go into her sides... and then her right hip..she gave up the fight, "Ade" she whispered.

She soon laid helpless as the jagged bottle went in and out of her body with pieces of flesh laced around its edges.

Life ebbed slowly from her... she faintly heard someone shouting 'he has killed her o!" she was going .

As she took in laboured breaths she ran her hands slowly across her gown, her hand stopped midway across her chest...she had no more strength. She remembered how much it had cost. Now it was soaked in her blood. She closed her eyes, she felt cold and could not move, she soon felt some one shake her and was crying. "Keep him away from my daughter" she said in her mind but couldn't say the words "Lord have mercy on me". She had thought of her life in the next ten years...now she was not even sure she  had ten seconds left.

"She is dead!!!" someone shouted.

Ade stood transfixed...and watched as two of their friends tried to rush his victim to the hospital...what had he done? When did he do it? What was he thinking? Her sister flung herself at him, wailing and hitting him with all her strength "You killed her you scumbag! I warned her but she would not listen! Today of all days!...you are the devil...!" she said crying, makeup mixed with tears smeared her face...she still had her gown on. She was the Chief bridesmaid.

He looked stunned, he could not feel her palms hitting him..his eyes were transfixed on his wife, the love of his life..the only woman who could bear his excesses...now she was being carried out of the room.

After 7 years and a child, he got over himself and finally decided to marry her.

He had just killed her on their wedding day.

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