THE MISCONCEPTION

Tessy Jay

It was a sunny day, we just came back from a vacation in Paris, exhausted and hungry, Felicia made us something to eat.

After dinner we laid on the bed caressing each other. I loved Felicia so much, she was the Woman I always dreamt of spending forever with.

Well my dreams came through when we walked down the aisle three months ago, and we had spent quality time together by going from one vacation to another. We were back to Nigeria, after a long stay in Paris.

  I looked at Felicia again she was deep at sleep, I smiled, she looks more beautiful each day that passed. I took her phone and screwed down to her gallery and I saw more of her beautiful pictures, the one's we took at our leisure time and even more...I took my time to view each Picture,. I was amused by what I saw.

Then I went back to her messages, both the inbox and sent box messages.

   Suddenly, I felt a rage of anger when I came across some messages which Daniel her ex boyfriend had sent and also her replies to the message.

It read of how she has loved him so much and how she would love to see him at night.

And the reply Daniel sent to her of how she was good in bed and how he would want her every day.

  I was furious with what I saw, so Felicia was a cheat and a bloody liar. She had told me that she had nothing to do with Daniel few weeks before we met. She said they had misunderstanding and it led to break up.

My anger engulfed me that I looked at Felicia who was still sleeping with hate and spitefulness. I fumed with anger to the extent that I smashed her phone on the wall, and the sound made her to jump up with fear.

Before she could utter a word, I slapped her across the face...I beat her up rolling her on the floor, I called her so many name's; a cheat,liar, unfaithful wife,an idiot and so on.  I was so mad that I couldn't stop beating her, she screamed and begged but I didn't stop.. I gave her the beatings of her life that she couldn't walk straight.

  She only managed to escape through the back door with the help of the gate keeper who saw her in so much pains.

 I sat on the bed, I was still angry, not because I was jealous but because I can't cheat on my own wife.

I picked up the phone again,by this time my anger had subsided. I switch on the phone, continued scrolling through the messages and I saw all the messages of their misunderstanding and messages of break up. I went back to all the messages I had read earlier and the date shocked me. It was 20th April 2020, that was eight months before we got serious in the relationship. I immediately regretted my actions that I almost cried out. So all what I read had happened in the past but instead of checking that, I allowed my emotions engulf me so much that I couldn't control it.

I rushed out and found out that my wife has been rushed to the hospital.

When I got there, I saw her crying. She looked at me and said "I lost my four months pregnancy because of the beast in you, you don't deserve my love, it's barely a year into our marriage and you have shown that we can't stay together anymore..."she was weeping profusely.

I knelt down and was about to ask for forgiveness when she said. .."I have called my lawyer, I am filing for a divorce and that is final.

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