I met my wife when i was in 300 level
My wife came with two of her friends to my father's burial
My father died on his way back from Iseyin where he was supervising some building projects for his company
My father was just 54 years old
It was a closed coffin burial because of the

extent of his injuries
They could barely get enough of his body parts to bury
he was buried in our compound, in the only house he built
His death was a sad tale and many of the students of the university i was attending came for the burial
One of them was a friend to my wife

I had not paid my second-semester school fees
My father's house was barely habitable when we moved into the house because we couldn't afford to pay house rent
Things were very tough
i had served as an apprentice under a photographer immediately i finished from secondary school

but i didn't have enough to buy my own camera, i still did some photography in school to make ends meet but there was nothing like having your own equipment and owning your own studio
This was what I said when my wife and her friend asked me what my plan was after the burial

One week after the burial, my wife showed up with N250,000. She said she wanted only one thing in return, of i had a girlfriend i should leave her and if I don't I should never have another! She will be my woman because she saved my life and purchased a future for me! It was

was a business transaction
The money was her savings from her entrepreneurial drive on campus! She had two salons, sold weave sons and attachments, sold gold and other jewelry, shoes, bags and clothes! She was Madam the madam! She was also three years older than i am and very

pragmatic
Immediately I collected the money from her, she made us swear seven different types of oaths! She was hell-bent on securing her investment and i followed her everywhere she desired because I had no intention of jilting her or cheating on her. I just wanted to survive

That was the foundation of our relationship. For her, it was all about control. I prospered as a photographer. If she claimed she made me, i will say it is true. The money bought me a professional camera with all the right lenses that my expertise turned to gold. I became an

household name in no time. I must also add that when i started out, she gave me some space in one of her shops to use as my stand. That gesture saved me a lot of money. We got married three years later, I cannot say we were happily married but we had a benefactor/benefitor affair

i didn't mind
i would have given her my life for that gesture of hers at that time
That gesture saved my family from experiencing the horrible fate that befalls those whose father died prematurely. I have seen a lot and i know her coming through was divine. So I couldn't take

offence at anything she did.
And she did a lot of despicable things
To her, the value or worth of a human being can only be measured in monetary terms
She was an oppressor of the poor and a user of the defenseless
Her salesgirls always end up telling tales of horror and pain

I tried to do a lot of damage control because she had this habit of breaking people to pieces and walking away without a shred of remorse
I believed that must be the reason she married me
No other man would have stayed a day with her
but I owe her big
My family owe her big too

She brought her sister home from the village when it became obvious that she had been blacklisted by agents who usually supply her with salesgirls
She was a hard taskmaster and would look for an excuse not to pay salaries at the end of every month regardless of how much money was

made! And whenever her employees protested, she would accuse them of one crime or the other just to lock them up and teach them a lesson
I had thought she would do better with her sister but i was wrong
In all fairness, I was against her bringing in her family members initially

I didn't want anybody seeing how I was being treated in my own home, i didn't want to become a laughing stock!
Our marriage was all her! I might as well have been part of the furniture or just another property. Money was my saving grace but it could only save my public face! Yet,

I couldn't stand by and watch her ruin her sister's life! I had done this with her previous sales girls, she would laugh and call me bleeding heart and softie but the problem with her sister's case was we couldn't send her away. After a bitter spat over it I decided to enroll her

sister in a boarding school. That I believe would give me some breathing space in the house because she was hell-bent on returning her sister back to the village if her sister wouldn't serve the purpose for which she brought her to the city. The boarding school thing worked!

Her sister graduated and even gained admission into the university
Then she came to me one evening and asked me why I was unconcerned that we didn't have a child. This was a woman i wouldn't dare ask for sex Whenever she wanted to have sex, she would touch me or say so, otherwise

i will face the wall and service myself
I told her i felt she wasn't ready to have one yet, she replied by saying we will be going to the hospital the following day for tests
I willingly followed her to the hospital
Our samples were taken and we were examined. Two weeks later

She came back home screaming
"You are a bas***d, I knew you would cheat on me! After everything I did for you? When did you "catch" Gonorrhoea? When did you "catch" syphilis? You are an unfortunate man? I was shaken like a leaf in the sitting room, I almost urinated on myself"

I married her a virgin sir. I was 22 when she gave me the money for that camera. By that time, the only thing I was in love with and dreamt about was my professional camera! I couldn't cheat on her because of the oats we took (I really didn't want to), so what she was saying was

very strange to me!
She moved out of the room that night but she didn't move into another room or even the guest room! She moved her mattress into the sitting room and told me she would remain there so that anybody who visiting and asked her why she was in the sitting room will

hear the tale of the dead sperm husband!
I had to be careful not to bring people home from that day, she refused all entreaties and would raise hell every time i approach her to talk things out
This was the situation of things when her sister arrived at the house for her holidays

It was obvious something was wrong but it was a problem between us
I have always kept our couple problems away from a third party
i didn't know why I opened up to her sister, that was the slippery slope
Once i started talking, I couldn't stop talking
I talked on and on and on

that talk changed everything
Maybe because we were both victims or idiots, she listened and I just felt a sudden sexual attraction to her
I told her so the next day
Even advised her to leave the house but it was too late
What happened would have happened eventually, I know this!

Her sister came home that same night acting like a mad dog, it was not unusual but it was a trigger that lit up pent up feelings and made me dare to die or perish for the first time
I defied all the oaths and took advantage of that girl sir
She was twenty-one, barely an adult and

I knew what i was doing!
We made love all night
I actually felt human and oddly happy
The prison my camera bought for me was suddenly broken and I was free
She stayed with us and we started making love everytime her sister was not at home
I knew there would be consequences but i

wasn't expecting "pregnancy"
I was supposed to have dead sperms
Well, she got pregnant and that is why we are in a mess
Her sister didn't know yet
Nobody does
I rented an apartment for her and I plan to relocate with her after all these COVID mess
That was my plan until she

suggested that we talk to you and see if there can be a divine intervention that will settle everybody!
This was why she wrote
It is also why i am writing
I love this beautiful girl sir, I know I am not meant to but she is my life
I will do everything to be with her
Thank you sir