All Chapters of The Gentleman's trap: Beast for a husband: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

"On behalf of my beautiful wife and beautiful daughter, I'll like to cut this cake with the sum of 1,000,000 naira." Cletus announced in church.It was harvest Sunday and everyone took this time to show the love that they had for their family, whether the love was real or it was fake like Cletus's.We were sitting at the very front pew of the church, Cletus looked at us smiling as he announced his donation.Everyone started to clap for him while some cheered. I faked a smile but the frown on Ezinne's face remained unfazed.Cletus was a great actor, a very good one. Now I saw how he was able to hide his true colors from me all the years we dated.He should win an Oscar for his award winning Acting skills."The love between the family of Cletus is one so beautiful I believe families all over the world.... should emulate this kind of genuine love. Husbands should learn from C

"Don't lie to me you slut now you are going after the presidents son right? you never get enough do you. SLUT! I'll kill you before you sleep with another man again! " He yelled shutting me up.He was shaking from anger and he was moving weigh past speed limit. I was so scared. My only comfort was that the church was close to our home. And hopefully we will probably get home before he kills us with the kind of reckless way he was driving.Presidents son. President of what exactly? I wondered, but I dared not voice out my question."Please stop! You are driving too fast our daughter is in the car? Please think about her." I pleaded holding his hands gently. He removed his right hand from the wheel and held onto my hair. Before I could react or think my head clashed into the glove compartment. I yelped in pain.Ezinne started crying immediately. "Mummy sorry!

The stark smell of bleach was overwhelming. I scrunched my eyes at the bright light that was sipping through my closed eyelids. I felt powerless and heavy. I could not move my hand, my head or my body.I slowly started blinking, desperately trying to open my eyes and see what's around me.Where am I? As the blinding light slowly subsided I took a look around my surroundings. I was at the hospital. I could hear the beeping sound of the heart machine, my legs felt heavy and so did my eyes but the most pain came from my stomach.The room was pristine clean and gloomy. Typical hospital bed in a poor hospital, IV and monitors beeping. The walls were a sickly green color and the linens were grayish.The place looked nothing like a room where a patient should be motivated to get better. If anything the murky room was making me even more nauseous.I remembered the hospit

After one week I was discharged from the hospital.The doctor had lied to me, saying that I fainted because of stress and I was on my period that's why I was bleeding when my husband rushed me in.I smiled and thanked him keeping up the facade that I didn't know what really happened.Pretending I didn't know the truth was harder than I thought.I envisioned killing him more times than I could remember. More times than it was legal for someone to think of committing murder.On getting home my daughter had lost so much weight. She was no longer plump as she used to be ,she was looking sad and sick. Seeing her change so much in less than a week brought  tears to my eyes and made me realize what I was doing was wrong. I was not only hurting myself, I was hurting her.I needed to save us both. I needed to.When she saw me getting down from the car he

If Cletus thought that buying me my favourite book would make me fall for his tricks again, then he had another thing coming. "Why are you giving me a gift?" I repeated, sounding angrier than the first time. My voice was raised a few notches."Because you are my wife and I love you," he cried hugging my legs. " I love you so much Zara, please forgive me I know I have not been the Perfect husband but I love you. Don't forget the good times that we have shared together. I'm sorry for hurting you." He pleaded.All crocodile tears!All crocodile tears! my mind warned."You are giving me a gift for taking all the beating and the insults right? A gift for being a slut and for being the weakest and most stupid wife ever! " I interjected as tears began to fall from my eyes into my lips.I let them fall. "I'm sorry I've been mistreating you. You

 I was kissing Cletus deeply. My hands moved to his cock, rubbing and squeezing. He sucked my earlobe as I mourned in pleasure. Throwing me to the bed he was about to take off my panties when I suddenly saw blood. Two kids were covered with blood from head to toe. "Mummy he killed us." They cried holding knives to their eyes. "He killed us like this!"  In unison the both of them stabbed one eye then they moved to other. "And like this!" They screamed stabbing their chest. Then they brought out their bloodied heart and showed it to me. Soon their cries turned to wails. Pieces of their body's were scattered in the room. Blood

Gozie put my head on her thighs stroking my hair. "What do you mean?" she asked, sounding confused and worried. She knew that I only complained about Cletus If the situation was really bad. And now it was really bad. I cleaned my eyes and raised up my head to meet her gaze. "My friend this is how it happened oh! I've been feeling bad, very bad, sick dizzy and nauseous. See me see steady sleeping and tiredness ever since the last time Oga made love to me." I consciously omitted rape. "But you know how my period comes with all these signs na. I just thought that maybe it was my period and it's wahala again. In fact I concluded that it was my period causing it. So I ignored it and went to by ibuprofen so that when it comes your sister will not die. Only for Cl

This Sunday it felt as if the mass was meant specifically for me as the priest in his homily talked mostly on marriage and divorce.  I felt more than uncomfortable in church. Although my mind was made up on the matter. I was getting a divorce and I was not going to change my mind just because of this sermon. I thought as I listened to the priest go on and on. The sermon felt like it had been planned because neither the readings nor the psalm had anything whatsoever to do with marriage or divorce so I had no idea where the priest who was Cletus's friend imported his sermon from.  "According to Jesus, God's plan for marriage, established at the time of our creation, has now been restored, in J

For one month I lived like a ghost. A real life example of the Living dead, a zombie without feelings. I ate,  slept and drank but I was not living, I was barely even existing.The only time I got to really, truly smile was when I tucked in Ezinne at night or when I catch Sam secretly watching me in church. That's the only time I got to genuinely smile other times I felt Nothing.Numb!Dead!That's all.Ezinne was vacating from school today and I was invited by the teacher to get her result.I was there now, staring at her teacher with a fake smile on my tired face."Your daughter is the brightest most intelligent and smartest student I've ever had the pleasure of teaching in my thirty years as a teacher. But this last month she has been acting really weird. She was present in class but absent in her presence." She paused and exhaled looki

"You want to tell me that you got below 90% after all the money I spend just to give you the best education?!" Cletus roared at Ezinne. I was holding her shoulders tight while she held  on to my waist for support.Every time he screamed she flinched and cried.In the end I realised that he could never ever change. I felt so stupid to have believed that he had finally changed just because he started being so nice to us after the miscarriage.I had foolishly thought that he had gone back to the Cletus I knew and loved before we got married, but I should have known better. The Cletus I fell in love with never even existed, it was only a facade, a visage, a broke man's trap.The devil doesn't just become an Angel. And now his true color was showing.It was funny how I was hurting by something I had seen coming. For one month he had pretended to be a changed person and I knew it was all an