I married my wife 7 years ago; and for 7 years, my wife and I lived happily even though we had no children.
My work involved lots of travel. I install and fix inverters for companies, businesses, homes across Nigeria and even outside Nigeria. I used to take my wife along with me until she got a job three years ago and we couldn’t go together as often as I wanted.
Then a year or there about after my wife began to work for this company; all she ever talked about was how good her boss was; how kind he was, how generous he was…her boss did this, her boss did that. You know, as a man, I felt that, well, maybe she got lucky to have a super boss; mine was harsh and hard to please.
When she wouldn’t stop talking about this super boss, I told her to keep her boss’s info at work. I was tired of hearing about super boss. Super boss, abi? Rings a bell!
Anyway, I just shrugged off that jealousy welling up in me every time my wife mentioned anything her “super boss” did as if it was an extraordinary thing.
“My boss travelled to Italy and he bought wrist watches for me and two other staff members.”
“My boss paid for our lunch today.”
“My boss…”
Who is this super boss, sef?
At the back of my mind, I was wondering, was this super boss toasting my wife because you see, my wife may not be as young as you know who but she is finer than her by far, far.
One other thing I also noticed was that my wife began to do plenty of chatting on WhatsApp; late into the night, she would get up into the toilet with her phone, lock the toilet door and be chatting.
When I asked her who she was chatting with, she would call one name I wasn’t even familiar with. I said, so, you are chatting with this person in the dead of night?
This person doesn’t sleep?
This person has no husband to ask why she was chatting with you at 2.30am?
She said it was a girls’ thing, I should stop monitoring her…
I said, “ok, o. I am not a monitoring spirit. But you should know this is very suspicious.”
She stopped the night chatting and began to go to work on some Saturdays. I didn’t immediately suspect anything, since she said work load was much, Saturday work didn’t immediately raise any red flags. I too work many Saturdays, so…
Then one day she left her phone in the toilet to open the door for a visitor, I was in the bedroom. I didn’t even know her phone was there. I picked it up to find out who she was always chatting with. It was locked. Now, my wife and I never locked our phones. We used the same types of phones with no password or lock, so when I found she had locked it, I decided not to ask her why. I unlocked it the next time she left it charging in the bedroom. Ko
…don’t ask me how I found out her password. I studied computer engineering, so go figure.
I checked her whatsApp…to my anger, it was the so called boss….
I saw several nudes my wife had sent to him, he too sent his own…it was sickening!
I transferred everything in her chat with him to my phone; that’s how I found out they had also been meeting at guest houses on those “Saturday work days.” Who knows how many other times they had met since I was always travelling and so not always at home?
I decided not to ask her about it because you see, I feared I would kill her. So I took on an assignment I wasn’t even meant to take…unfortunately for me, maybe because of my state of mind, I bungled the job; the batteries caught fire, while cabling, I must have mixed things up and it cost my company millions; I was fired when the company reported to my boss!
I was a wreck!
I wanted to confront my wife and blame her for my calamity but I couldn’t.
I didn’t tell her I lost my job but one day, an idea formed in my mind. I called the boss; I told him I knew he was having an affair with my wife and that I had photos of him naked. (Why do people do this kind of thing?)
I told him I would expose him to his wife and his colleagues except he did what I asked; first he must stop sleeping with my wife, secondly, since I lost my job because of my mental state when I discovered his affairs with my wife so he must be paying me 400k every month until I get a new job! That was my monthly salary!
He agreed to it all; you see because he is a rich man. He took a poor man’s wife and ruined my job!
He has been paying me in the last 6 months!
I have got another job but I am now of two minds, should I stop or should I continue to make him pay?
As for my wife, the new story is, her boss is not a super boss anymore, he is as mean as mine! I just dey laugh!
(Series written and edited by Peju Akande and based on true stories)
It was a fascinating story. Got me wrapped up to the end. Very brilliant 👏.