Category: THE MISTAKE OF MY MOTHER

THE MISTAKE OF MY MOTHER
The Mistake Of My Mother -Final Episode

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Anita
Derek: “So how were you able to convince her grandparents? I’m not saying I will agree to that yet o”
Anita: “Well it wasn’t easy actually but when I told them all she had been through and the fact that she had met them just once before and wouldn’t even recognise them and the fact that she needed stability and I was willing to provide that for her. I could be a mother and you, a father to her. I was the one told them they will continue being her family and will even have more access to her now than they did before”

Derek: “Hmmmmmm…you are worded mehn! And you are a good woman Annie. I am the luckiest man on earth right now. How did you come about this idea of yours though? I wouldn’t have been able to think of it myself” he was full of admiration for me, making my head swell uncontrollably.
Anita: “I just don’t want her being sad all her life. I don’t want her to go back to living on edge. And she is already getting used to me. I really like her. I like her very very much I don’t want her out of my reach”
Derek: “Okay sweetie. Know I am support of whatever you decide to do. We are in this together and we will surely give her the best, help heal those scars in her heart and her body. We will try all we can” he said, holding me against his chest. I could hear his heart pimping aggressively. We were alive, and we were making this decision together. I felt on top of the world, blessed and graced. What patience can do.
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Rose
I couldn’t help but overhear their discussion. I could not believe my luck. I who had always gotten rejected, I who had always been mocked and used is now being loved to this extent. I couldn’t contain my joy, I ran out and joined in their embrace even though I was not up to their height.
Rose: “Thanks Annie. No! thanks mum, I will call you two mum and dad from now on” I said excitedly and they both laughed.

Anita: “We are more than glad to have you in our lives baby”
Derek: “I guess we just had a child out of wedlock. Honey please marry me before we become the talk of the town” he said and went on his knees, brought out a ring from his pocket and held it in front of her. “I was going to this later today in a five star hotel but I just can’t postpone it anymore. What better time than now in front of our daughter? Will you marry me Annie?”
The two of us were dumbfounded…
Anita and I: “Yes yes yes” we said jumping up. I felt like I was the one being proposed to, I was extremely happy I didn’t know when I said yes yes yes. He slipped the ring into her third finger, I turned away when they started to kiss.
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Epilogue
My father’s lawyers tried all they could in court to prove he wasn’t guilty of the charges levelled against him by saying he had a history of mental illness and my claims were also as a result of the mental illness I must have inherited from him. They even went as far as pleading with the judge to take me and my dad to a mental home instead. At some point I was afraid I was going to be locked up in a psychiatrist hospital but thank God for the tests carried out on me and the scars on my body. He was found guilty and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment with hard labour. He later died in his third year there. Francis on his part was found guilty of murder. He was sentenced to death by hanging and before he was hung, it was reported that every day he spent in prison was like hell for him, he got raped every single day by men who were just like him. it got to a point that he almost committed suicide, he prayed for death and it found him when at last he was hanged.
Anita and Derek got married in a most beautiful way, we all lived together even when they gave birth to their own child, a son. My grand-parents seldom came to see me. I was made to go to Oxford University in UK for my university education even though I didn’t want to. I wanted to stay with my kid brother and parents.

I became a Girls’ Right Activist after my university education when I came back to Nigeria and realised there were many girls going through the same stuffs I went through. I couldn’t let that happen, I went from school to school, town to town, city to city, educating girls on their rights and how they shouldn’t keep silent about any form of abuse they were going through. They deserve to be heard and helped. I provided scholarship to as many as I could, sheltered some just the same way Annie and Derek did for me.
I thank God for my struggles and where I have been through. His grace sustained me, saw me through and gave me a home, a family and a voice which can be heard far and wide.
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Anita
IF I told you I don’t bless God for making me adopt that girl I’d be lying. She brought so many blessings to my home after we adopted her. Favours poured in from every angle and before we knew it, we were being used as an example of humanitarian couples all over the country. The evil men do surely do catch up with them no matter how hidden it is now, someday, It will surely be revealed. My baby girl became a poet and an activist for girls passing through the same stuffs she did and I am so proud of her. She will be getting married next month and I just can’t help but thank God for the man she is going to marry too.
Andre was her classmate who taunted her so much in high school. He told me how he regretted everything he did after she left. He actually liked her then and that was the reason he did all that, just to find excuses to talk to her. Well he is a good guy too, I and Derek are going to give them the best during their wedding for sure.
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THE END!!!!!

THE MISTAKE OF MY MOTHER
The Mistake Of My Mother -Episode 22

Anita
He walked closer to us winging the axe from side to side. He looked around and at that moment, I thought he was actually going to see the hidden camera but he didn’t. He was too occupied with scaring the daylight out of us. He took his seat in front of Rose who was still sitting on the chair I left her on to go check who was inside the house. He looked at her for some time and grinned. I ran up to her and folded her in my arms, she was as rigid as a stone, probably holding her breath. Held her hands in mine for a second and closed my eyes.
Anita: “What are you doing here please?” I asked preventing my teeth from clattering against themselves after i had let go of Rose’s hands.

Francis: “I love your courage. you should rather be asking how i got into the house. well i will tell you even though you didn’t ask, your boyfriend left it open in his blind hurry to catch me. Isn’t that lame? i should give him a gold medal for his carefulness and expertise judging from how i sneaked into the compound when he was sliding the gate open. I really like police officers”
Anita: “I said what are you doing here?”
Francis: “I have watched you ever since you decided to meddle in an issue that is none of your business. I would have come for you that night but that dumb fake husband of hers spoilt the show for me by getting there first. I should have just killed him when I had the chance. The drunkard” he said looking as lost as a stray dog.
Anita: “So why are you here now?” I had to keep him talking hoping against hope that Derek could view the happenings at home on his phone.

Francis: “I came to kill you first, then kill her second. Then if peradventure that boyfriend of yours shows up soon, I’d kill him too”
Anita: “Why? What is our offense against you?”
Francis: “Your offense? Ahahahahaha” he laughed wickedly. “Your offense is countless. Why did you have to meddle in our business?”
Anita: “You and whose business?”
Francis: “I and Rose of course you dumb smart girl. You probably want to keep me talking in order to give your boyfriend some time to get here. But not to worry, the address I gave him that I was at is quite far from here. He couldn’t be back until twilight. And besides, I love taking it slow too so I and my vics can enjoy the show. Rose here knows that much” he cast her a look.
Anita: “Okay then. We hope you take it really slow. So we can all enjoy it”
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Rose
Seeing the axe in his hands brought back memories I had buried deep down inside me. The image of him hacking my mum’s leg while I stood and watched helplessly. The images of my mum slipping into quietus while I watched unable to stop her. the images of her dismembered body. I didn’t know whether to be scared or angry. I must have been both at the same time. Hearing him gibber on and on made me even angrier, I wanted to pounce on him but Anita’s hands on my shoulders held me down when I began to tense up my shoulders. At least she couldn’t hold my mouth down so I snapped…
Rose: “Will you shut up you psycho? Just imagine what you are saying? You are really generous uhn?”

Anita: “Shhhhhh Rose” she tried to cover my mouth with her trembling hands but I shook it off.
Francis: “No leave her to talk. I guess she is awake at last. Yes being generous has always been my undoing. The same way I am extending my generosity to you now is the same way I did with your mum when she was carrying a bastard in her tummy. A child which was rejected along with her but how did she pay me back? By rejecting me. By tossing me to the dogs no matter how much I tried to get back to my feet, she kept pushing me back to the mud with pigs with her rejection. She kept longing for another man, a man who was doing the same thing she was doing to me to her. a man who was unworthy of her, a man who was trampling on what I treasured the most. That was what she did. She did all that to me” his voice quaked so much I thought he was crying but he wasn’t.
Rose: “So you killed her? Did she kill the man who was rejecting her? Just accept the fact that you need help. You are mentally deranged”
Francis: “And who will help me? Everyone in this world is broken, they just go about pretending to be alright. I must tell you, I am better than many of you”
Anita: “So was killing the one you loved that much the best thing you could have done?”
Francis: “You have no idea lady. Why would I have let someone else have her when she was originally mine? We almost got married, she almost agreed to marry me until he showed up. He treated her so bad yet she stuck to him like an ant stuck in a web. Did she deserve to live that way?”
Anita: “I guess it’s not she you should have killed. Isn’t the man the one who is the offender in this case? It’s he who deserved your punishment”

Francis: “Oh no! It wasn’t he who rejected me. Well I just cut off her limbs, the ones she kept using to run back to him thereby leaving me in the lurch. I didn’t know she’d die but her death was worth it. I no longer lay on my bed, thinking whether or not she is in another man’s arms. I feel good”
Rose: “You are a coward. You knew he was a man and he could have fought you off”
Francis: “Enough of the prep talk. I will proceed now. I think I will have to start from the lady so the young girl can have her fill of what her experience would be a second time. How do I do it? Should I have a change of game plan? Maybe do it differently this time? Even God loves variety, He would want me to send you all home in a different ways”
Rose: “Take me first”
Anita: “No I will go first baby”
Francis: “Awwwww this is touching. Not to worry, I will take the lady first and I think the backyard will just be good enough. I have circled everywhere before coming in. you have a garden at the backyard right? Now move!” he shoved her towards the back door and she walked on.
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Anita
I prayed at that moment that our closest neighbour will at least stir in his sleep and decide to get out of bed. He bent down and started digging. He wasn’t planning to bury me alive was he? I started quivering violently. He noticed it and laughed hysterically not minding that people could hear him. I thought of screaming my lungs out but that would make him carry out his act faster than planned probably by using the axe on me. I still had hope of escape and so I behaved myself and watched him dig. Rose stood at a corner watching him too, I felt sorry for her, for the fact that she had to face two psychotic men at such tender age. How on earth will she be able to trust men again if peradventure we escape this? At the back of my eyes, I saw someone hiding behind the mango tree at the garden, he was probably looking for an opportunity to pounce. I looked away from him in order not to call Francis’ attention to him.

To be continued!

QUESTIONS
Who could be hiding there?
Will the person be able to save them both? Or will Francis still carry out his deadly acts?
They need your prayers!

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THE MISTAKE OF MY MOTHER
The Mistake Of My Mother -Episode 21

Anita
My sight was blurred so I could not understand why Derek was running towards the house all of a sudden when we had decided not to call his attention to our presence by staying as lowkey as we could. I mustered all the strength I had left and ran after him. I saw him grab Rose’s Dad by the neck and they both began to roll on the floor with each trying to gain the upper hand in the fight and I began to wonder when the backup he called would arrive. I drew Rose closer, she flinched when Derek rained blows on her dad while I flinched whenever her dad did. Nevertheless, we had one purpose and that was to free her from the man.
Derek was a trained fighter and so he was able to subdue him at last and handcuffed him…
Derek: “You are under arrest Mr Olamide for child abuse and molestation.it will be in your best interest to remain silent since any word you utter can be used against you in the law court” he said breathlessly.
Olamide: “Child abuse really? And who is the child I molested?” he asked defensively.
Derek: “Your daughter. You have been sexually molesting your daughter for the past three years now. Do not utter even one word again” he threatened with eyes blazing in the moonlight.
Olamide: “You are infringing on my right and I will sue you for this. I am innocent of these allegations and I will make sure I call the services of highly qualified lawyers in this country to fight this case. You will be done for Mr Hero”
Derek: “Well I want to be done for. I can’t wait to see how well your lawyers will argue your case and what lies they will use. I can’t wait to see your face when the judge pronounces judgment on you. It will be my life’s greatest achievement” he pushed him to the back of the car and instructed me to drive while he climbed to the back with him. Rose sat at the front and remained as silent as the graveyard. I had to drive as slowly as possible because of my blurred sight.
Olamide: “Oh you mean your downfall? This will be your downfall man. I will see to that” he taunted and laughed.
Anita: “I want to ask you a question please?”
Olamide: “Do you have to be polite about it? Hasn’t my interrogation started? Ask away”
Anita: “It is a personal question besides I am just a social worker and your daughter ran to me for help when you made her life into a living hell. So can you tell me the reason you treated Ahunli so bad even though you knew she loved you so much? She kept loving you even in death”
Olamide: “Well not everyone deserves to be loved, I am one of those and I made it quite clear to her even from the onset but she decided to stick around. People think that the most painful thing in this world is losing someone you value but no, the most painful thing is valuing someone so much and then in the process, forgetting that you are special too. She should have just lost me rather than losing herself loving me”
Anita: “You haven’t answered my question” I cast him a look from the rearview mirror. “Why were you unable to love her despite knowing she is special and all?”
Olamide: “Well, I am stone hearted. I don’t know how to love and what I love, I destroy. So I shied away from love all together”
Anita: “Then you were afraid that your loving her or showing her love will make you do things that would hurt her?”
Olamide: “Yes. I was afraid like that. Do you have your answer now?”
Derek: “Well you could have opened up to her about your fears. She could have helped you overcome it. You two could have worked it out but you pushed her into the lion’s den, didn’t she get destroyed at the end?”
Olamide: “I have punished myself for that ever since her death. You think I felt happy she died? Of course not”
Anita: “Then are you paying her back for all her love lost by hurting the daughter she left for you? Her only child?”
Olamide: “I am not hurting her, Baby tell them how I did not hurt you. Or did I really? Maybe I love you too much, I should never have allowed myself to care so much about you.” he became sober and downcast. In order not to start feeling sorry for him, I kept mute and so did Derek, we left him to his misery.
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Rose
Hearing my dad say all that wrenched my heart. I wished my mum was alive to hear it. To hear that he actually pushed her away cos he loved her and was afraid of hurting her. I looked up at the stars through the car window and wondered if she was up there, probably watching over me?
Anita was taken to the hospital and the injury on her head treated after my dad had been locked up in a cell which had five other inmates. Derek took the two of us to his own place despite Anita’s protests.
Anita: “We cannot stay at your place, just take us home please. Her dad has already been locked up so we are safe”
Derek: “How about Francis?”
Anita: “He does not know where I stay at so we are safer now”
Derek: “I can’t believe you just said that mehn. How did Olamide get to know where you lived? He even went as far as having a spare key and you think a man as dangerous as Francis will not do even more than that? He must be somewhere there as we talk right now, waiting for you to come back home so just stay here”
Anita: “So how are you sure we’d be safe here?”
I must give it to her, she was really stubborn, and how could a woman argue so much especially when it had to do with her own safety?
Derek: “At least I’d be here to protect you”
Anita: “Oh I see! So you will be here to protect us? Its okay”
So she concurred and that was how we found ourselves there. He was extremely neat, everything was where they were supposed to be, and nothing was littered around despite him being a busy guy. I saw the way they looked at each other, full of admiration and love. They cared deeply about each other even though they weren’t rushing things up. I found myself wishing my own parents had experienced the joy of being in love rather than the hide and seek they were doing.
He got a call at exactly 10:30 pm that the guys had found where Francis was at last and needed his attention there with them as soon as he could. He was more than elated but Anita had her reservations, call it a woman’s instinct.
Anita: “I don’t think you should go. They should handle that themselves, I’m sure they can, they are not kids” she folded her arms across her midsection stubbornly like an overprotective house wife.
Derek: “Don’t be stubborn baby girl. You know this is important to me. The guys need me there” he said wearing his jacket, I pretended to be asleep.
Anita: “But you said you’d be here with us?”
Derek: “Not to worry dear, you guys will be safe. I won’t be gone for too long so chillax okay? I know you will miss me but just hang on for me. I’d be right back for sure” he said, gave her a kiss and bounded for the door.
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Anita
I didn’t want him to leave but he did anyway. I am definitely going to tell him to resign from the Force too. I can’t have a husband who will be running off in the middle of the night leaving me vulnerable. I wouldn’t have that happen. I looked up the bar and saw a CCTV camera hanging right above it. I was more than impressed with his security measures. Rose walked up to me with a worried look on her face…
Anita: “What is wrong?” I asked setting her on my laps as I sat down.
Rose: “I’m scared” she said placing her head on my chest.
Anita: “Me too but hey! It’s gonna be fine, we are safe here with God by our side. Okay? Do you know how to pray?”
Rose: “No! No one ever thought me how to, will you teach me?”
Anita: “Of course I will” I made her go on her knees and say after me as I told God how we wanted to be safe from thence onwards. We heard the keys click outside and the door opened, I went to the sitting room to check and there stood Francis with an axe in hand looking like he won mega lottery…

To be continued

QUESTIONS
How could he be here and not getting caught? I guess it’s our turn to get dismembered just like Anita’s mum?
What is our fate now???

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THE MISTAKE OF MY MOTHER
The Mistake Of My Mother -Episode 17

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Rose
I hid at the back of the house and saw him dash out with his axe still dripping blood. He cleaned it right there at the compound, he probably knew I was watching him cos he said “I will be back for you girl, there is no time right now so I will leave but be warned, if you as much as say one single word about what you saw to anyone, I will search you out and kill you without wasting time at all” he then climbed the fence and disappeared from sight when he heard someone unlocking the gate from outside. I stood routed on the spot, afraid of what I’d find out when I go check on my mum.
Aunty Alexis walked through the gate carrying shopping bags and some other stuffs she had gotten, I still didn’t leave my hiding place. Few minutes later, a scream rent the cool night air and she rushed out, quivering and retching everything in her stomach out.
She quickly took her phone and called someone on phone telling them what she had seen. She then went back inside and I peeped through the broken louver- something I had been afraid to do. I saw my mum, her legs and hands had been severed from her body and left to bleed out. She was whispering something to aunty Alexis, I decided to enter the house too, and I had to hear her last words…

Ahunli: “Rose…Rose…Rose” she kept saying as I walked closer to her with my eyes filled with hot tears. Aunty Alexis drew me closer and covered my eyes but I removed her hands. I also had something I needed to tell her.
Rose: “Mum…please don’t die” tears ran down my cheeks wetting my sweater.
Ahunli: “No baby! I am going to die, even if God refuses to take me right now, I will kill myself. Just take a look at me baby, I can’t feel anything anymore. I feel my life slipping though the mist already. I am weak, I want to rest” she said.
Alexis: “Oh Ahunli! Who did this to you? Please tell me?”
Ahunli: “Please take care of my baby” she seemed not to have heard her question.
Rose: “Mummy, dad hurts me. Dad said I am sick, dad does stuffs to me” I wanted to tell her everything I had kept away from her for so long, I wanted to pour it all out at once but with just a look at her eyes, I knew she was gone. My mother was dead, she was dead and gone. I think I must have collapsed cos the next thing I remembered was lying on a hospital bed all alone.

Two hours later, my dad came for me looking aghast and concerned. Immediately I saw him, everything went rushing back at me and I started screaming.
Rose: “Please send him out of here I don’t want to see him. Get out of here, please get out” I screamed louder sending my bed spread flying off the bed. He looked confused as a nurse went to calm me down.
Nurse: “What is wrong dear? He is your dad and he has come to take you home, don’t you want to go home?”
Rose: “He is a monster… I don’t want to go with him, please ask him to leave me alone”
Nurse: “Why?”
He interrupted before I could say anything…
Olamide: “My daughter is still in shock. Please let me take her back home. She needs to rest too. Her grandparents want to see her before they leave” I became interested when he mentioned my grandparents.
Nurse: “Then why did she call you a monster? There must be a reason” she said suspiciously.

Rose: “I will go with him” I replied. I wanted to see my grandparents so much but what I did not know was that he had lied. He had already sent them away before he went to the hospital to get me and they had gone back more heartbroken than ever bearing mum’s dismembered corpse with them.
When we got back home, he gave me a beating of my life for hinting to the nurse about him…
Olamide: “What if he had decided to pursue the topic? What did you tell anyone?”
Rose: “I am sorry” I writhed painfully on the floor as the belt kept tearing at my skin. I prayed harder for death but even death seemed to have been afraid of my shadow. He softened all of a sudden and began to cry.
Olamide: “Baby you know I love you more than anyone in this world so why are you making me do this to you? Why? I am sorry…I am sorry” he lifted me up into his arms and cuddled me, squeezing my sore boobs so hard against his chest. He dropped me, dipped his hand into his pocket and brought out the drug he had gotten earlier that day, handed it over to me and asked me to swallow it. I did without asking him any further question and slept off immediately.
I later woke up to a pang of pain in my abdomen. It felt like an unseen person was in there eating away at my intestines. He was there watching me as if he knew it was going to happen. I could not understand why that was happening to me, I thought the drug was going to make me feel better. He hurriedly came to my side…
Olamide: “Sorry baby!” he said caressing my face, he had warm water and napkin handy, he began to use it to wipe my tummy and face despite the hot sweat swimming down my face. I soon began to bleed from my v—-a…

Rose: “Oh my tummy. I am dying, I’m sure I’d die like my mum did” I wept folding my arms across my tummy tightly and writhing in pain on the bed.
Olamide: “You will not die, I promise” he said and ran off again. Handed me another drug when he came back “this is aspirin, it will make the pain subside a little”
Rose: “I want to go to the hospital. Please take me to the hospital” I wept as the blood kept rushing out.
Olamide: “You cannot go to the hospital, they will know the nature of your sickness if we do and they must not. It is a shameful kind of sickness. That is why I told them not to touch you when your mum’s friend took you to the hospital” he explained deceitfully.
I did not say anything any further. After some time, the pain subsided a little bit and I felt lighter but still sore. He carried me to the bathroom and bathed me yet again.
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Present Day: Anita
Anita: “Wait! He did all that?” I felt myself seething with anger. I wished I could lay my hands on the bastard at that moment so I could tear him to shreds.
Rose: “Yes he did all that. Please do you probably know what kind of sickness I had? The kind of pains I felt that day was out of this world” she said innocently, still believing what her dad told her about the sickness.
Anita: “You were pregnant dear and he aborted the pregnancy with that pill” I said. The look on her face at that moment was that of sheer terror.

Rose: “You mean I was pregnant? Like I had a baby inside me?”
Anita: “Yeaah but its okay now. You are safe now. I promise to protect you from now on”
Rose: “I can’t believe this. My dad got me pregnant” she wept. I didn’t know how best to console her, I didn’t know what to say to make her feel better. I dabbed at my eyes not wanting her to see the tears on my face.
We both stayed silent for some until the door to my office flew open and Henry; the colleague of mine who wanted her named as the prime suspect to her mum’s murder barged in with two officers.
Henry: “Lady your time is up. She is now the prime suspect in the murder of her own mum and she will be taken into a private cell now and this is because of her age. We cannot let her walk free due to the severity of the crime” he said happy with himself.
Anita: “What do you mean by that? Are you out of your mind Henry? Are you?” I cursed under my breath, I could hardly contain my fury. One of the officers walked over to her and handcuffed her…
To be continued!
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QUESTIONS
Do you think she is really innocent? Maybe she lied about how her mum died? If she is innocent, what do I do to get her out of this mess?

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