There was one thing that I thought was wrong in the relationship, and that was the fact that Richard had no time for me. It was always work and nothing but work. He goes to work very early and comes home late in the night, sometimes I had to spend the nights alone When he must have travelled out of town for one office assignment or the other. In fact, the relationship was characterized with lack of seriousness and total dedication.
I did everything I could to make Richard see things my way and change for the better but all of my efforts yielded no results. It soon became a matter of time that I would lose interest in the relationship. I easily got irritated by most of Richard’s attitude. We were often picking quarrels at each other. In the heat of my frictions with Richard, I ran into Emeka. He lived in the next street and owned a big supermarket somewhere around Oshodi. We agreed that I would be the one to visit him occasionally in his house and that would be when my husband must have gone for work .
“You are such a beautiful lady. I wish you were not engaged, I would have married you.” He told me during one of my visits to his house.
“Are you sure?” I had asked.
“If I am sure? If anything is far better than sure, then that is what I am.”
I felt a sudden tingle of excitement in me. Emeka is also tall and handsome, he had some advantages over Richard. He is more caring. loving and romantic than Richard and he had time for me, we often played together when I visited him in his house.
Emeka and I became even closer and we began to see more of each other. Soon, I, became fond of him and lost total interest in Richard. One particular day, Emeka and I were together in his house, sitting in a lounging chair in his sitting-room when I decided to have serious discussions with him
“Honey …. • I started. He turned sharply to look at me.
“What’s the matter?” he asked me, I studied him for a while and then I continued.
“Are you aware that I love you so much?”
“Of course, I do”. He smiled lightly. A moment of silence passed.
“If I quit my relationship with Richard, are you going to marry me?”.
His face grimaced. He seemed shocked and puzzled at the same time. I knew he never expected this from me.
