Chapter 2 Episode 2

"Raima Bello"

Raima is a general education teacher. She has just finished teaching. She then leaves the classroom and rushes to get into her car. Direction the place of service of her husband. She intends to go and ask Suzanne, Eric's colleague, to leave her husband alone.

Once in the enclosure of the Crtv (Cameroonian radio and television), she parks in the parking lot. She then enters the hall and waits for the elevator to go to the 18th floor. In the elevator she thinks about whether it is a good idea.

In short, being already in the premises, she can't go back. The best thing would be for her to go all the way. After all, what does she have to lose?

Yes, you can! blows her conscience. Here it is her place of service, you do not have the right to come to make a scandal here... She adds.

With a determined air, she silences this voice which tries to discourage her and resolves to go until the end.

<< This is it, I'm in! >>, she whispers and knocks twice on the door. Suzanne asks her to enter. What she does besides without delay.

<< Oh Mrs. Bello, delighted to have you with us. >>, Suzanne says with a welcoming smile as she wants to get up to offer her her hand.

<< Do not give you this pain Suzanne, or I must rather say thief of husband? >>, retorts Raima the impassible face.

Chilled by Raima's question, the look on her face changes instantly and she retorts.

<< May I know what you are talking about?>>

<< She's banging my guy and she's playing ignorant. >>, Raima launches sarcastically.

Suzanne laughs for a moment, so funny and ridiculous does she find it.

<< Listen, if you suspect your husband of infidelity, it is certainly not with me that he cheats on you. I suggest you look elsewhere. >>

<>, asks Raima while taking out her phone from her bag to read the famous message...

Suzanne refrains from laughing while Raima reads the message aloud. She understands her pain, but she is not the cause of it.

<< Look, I'm going to talk to you woman to woman...Besides the fact that this number is not mine, this message is not from me sweetheart...Ideally you should call to check if it is mine.

I agree that your man has really changed. I've told him that. >>

This idea had not crossed her mind at all, so Raima decided to call the number in question. At the end of the line, it is a woman other than Suzanne who speaks. Raima hangs up instantly.

She sits down and with teary eyes, she apologizes to Suzanne.

<< I don't understand why he recorded that woman's number with your name. Why did he do that?>>

<< I couldn't tell you why. But maybe her name is Suzanne too.>>

<< No, I don't think so. It says "Suzanne colleague." Don't you have another colleague here named Suzanne?>>

<< Don't worry, honey, I'm the only one.>>

With a dejected soul and a heart in pieces, Raima gets up and goes towards her husband's office. She knocks and nobody opens. She tries to open the door, but it is locked. A colleague of Eric's passing by calls her to greet her and informs her that Eric has been out for more than 4 hours to an unknown destination.

Raima takes the way back to her house. After checking if her housekeeper has done everything she recommended, she takes care of David, washes and goes to her best friend Elisabeth's house.

Once at her friend's house, she is told that her friend has gone to church and that she will not be back until nightfall. Knowing the location of the church, Raima decides to go there with a strong will. She needs to talk to her girlfriend. Her heart is so full that she needs to empty herself, to confide in someone.

She parks and decides to go in. It's the praise session, so all the congregants are standing praising the Lord under the direction of a cantor. Raima is not in the mood to praise the Lord, she looks around the room for Elizabeth. A smile appears on her face when her eyes land on her friend. She wanders through the crowd, passes between the chairs and walks to where her friend is. The two of them hug each other, Raima leads her friend outside. The two of them leave to take a seat in the pews of the church.

<< What's the matter? Why are you so sad and down? You look like you've lost someone. >>

<< It's Eric, it's getting worse.>>

Raima gives him a brief summary of the whole situation.

<< I told you he was cheating on you, but you told me he wasn't. All men are like that. Let me tell you that if you don't do something, this girl will take your man and all your wealth...>>

<>, Raima abruptly retorts, running her hand over her head( a local practice that means "never happen").

<< You say God forbid huh, God has too many things to do that's why he gave us intelligence... If you don't do anything, you will lose everything. When I think of all you went through with that man, I want to go and beat the crap out of him.>>

<< I don't know what to do anymore, I've already done everything. I have prayed, I have counseled him, I have even renewed my wardrobe and changed many of my habits as a woman...Despite all this nothing has changed.>>

<< Are you sure you've done everything? >>, asks Elizabeth with a smirk.

<< What? >>, Raima asks.

<> Elisabeth adds with a frown.

<< Anything but that Elizabeth, do you want to kill me? >>

<< Okay, when you lose your guy you'll understand. Even the bible says "help yourself and heaven will help you."

<< Yes, but I don't like to go to the witch doctors. >>

<< Are you going there to kill someone? All he'll do is separate your man from that pimple so he'll come back to you.>>

<< No, there's no way I'm doing that. >>

<< Okay, if you say so. >>

"An hour later in Bastos"

Lying in the bed of his mistress, Eric savors the pleasure that the tongue of Anaïs on his penis gives him. If there is well a thing which he appreciates at her, it is his way to make the love. She makes him discover sexual feelings which he had never known before. She makes all his fantasies come true. At first glance, he thought she was a superficial girl because of her appearance, but as he gets to know her, he discovers some rather pleasant things that make him get attached to her little by little.

Anaïs as for her applies herself, she wants to make him crazy of pleasure. She is ready to play all the cards to push him to marry her after of course he would have divorced his wife. She doesn't have any feelings for him, but that doesn't stop her from taking care of him and treating him like a king. All this to achieve her goal.

When Raima called earlier, she knew it was Eric's wife. She had to take her number from Eric's phone while he was sleeping. She always sprays her perfume on Eric's clothes on purpose to provoke Raima. So far, she had limited herself to that. She plans to take it to the next level.

Then, after the sexual act, Eric slumps in the bed and is not long in being carried away by morpheus. Anaïs thinks about what she can do to provoke Raima. She displays a sly smile while taking her underwear which she deposits on Eric's head, she lies down then close to him. By making him a kiss on the cheek, she takes a selfie. She takes care to hide her face with a smiley before sending the photo to Raima. She does not fail to write below the photo "Do not dare to call my number the old woman, stay in your place".

Once the message is sent, she smiles and takes her underwear from earlier and puts it in the inner pocket of Eric's suit.

"Raima Bello"

At the dinner table with her children and older sister, Raima's phone signals the arrival of a new message. She decides to finish her meal before reading it. Once her stomach is full, her daughter clears the table, while Raima and her sister go and sit on the balcony to have a chat. About thirty minutes later, her older sister takes her leave. Raima remembers the message she received while she was having dinner with her family. She goes back to the living room to get her phone, once unlocked, she enters WhatsApp and...

Tac... that's the sound Raima's phone just made when it fell after she read the message from her husband's mistress. Lost in her thoughts and still in shock of what she just saw, she does not react.

She is in pain, her whole being is torn...

<< Mom what's going on? >>, asks Diana who has just come out of the kitchen.

At the same moment, she bends down to pick up her mother's phone, but her mother interrupts her.

<< No, leave it, I'll do it. >>, she retorts, promptly bending down to pick it up and starts to rush up the stairs.

She doesn't want her daughter to see this image. The phone is not damaged because of the ice and the cover.

<< Mom what is it? What is it? >>, she asks as she follows her mother.

Raima pays her no attention and enters her room, locks the door and slumps into bed to cry. Diana turns back and enters her room.

Raima wails as snot and tears fill her face. She wonders where she went wrong? What did she do to get into this? A lot of questions are running through her mind. She is traumatized by what she has just seen. She does not know if she will be able to recover from it. After all that she has gone through with Eric, he dares to do this to her.

"The next morning"

Her children have already gone to school, Raima doesn't have much of a head for going out. She sent a message to the school that she is sick and won't be able to be there.

Lying in bed, her eyes red and her face puffy, there is a knock on her bedroom door.

She knows it's her man, so she nonchalantly gets up and opens it. She returns at once to lie down and turns her face towards the wall. He enters and says hello to her. She does not answer, he throws a glance at her and then enters the shower to take his bath. He returns a few minutes later and starts to pack his travel bag with which he often goes on mission outside the city.

Raima gets up at the same time and locks the door, removes the key from the lock and goes back to bed. She is in pain, but she can't let herself go.

<< What does that mean?>>, Eric asks Raima, she does not answer.

Once her bag is ready, he calls out to her.

<< Raima opens the door, I have to go! >>

<< You're not going out! >>

<< Sorry? >>

<< I said you're not leaving this room, let alone this house.>>

He laughs for a moment, before retorting.

<< And may I ask why? >>

<< Ask your mistress. >>

<< Raima sorry, don't make me laugh. Give me the key, I have to go. I am very late. >>

After about fifteen minutes, Raima still hasn't reacted. Eric angrily moves towards her to snatch the key. In the process, he does not fail to slap her. She stops her cheek as tears fill her face, Eric takes the key and leaves. Her husband had never laid a hand on her until that day. Being devastated would be an understatement to describe her state of mind at that moment.