Chapter 8
I could use this guy as my pawn, the first time I met him was at the wedding day of Thane and Peace.
I overheard their conversation before the wedding reception.
He shamelessly hugged Peace and when I looked, she squirmed and threatened to scream. I suddenly remembered how I desperately wished I had come to the room with my phone to record the moment.
From the dialogue, he seemed to have been professing his undying love for her. A part of me started rejoicing because I had seen her tearing up a bit as he confessed; I could not contain my joy.
My salvation at that particular moment would have been Peace giving me her white dress and proceeding to call off the marriage because she had met her rib at the last moment, but to my disappointment it never happened. if I remember clearly she slapped him after the confession and was storming out to meet me at the entrance, with tact and guile, I pretended that I had only been approaching the door at the very moment she had reached the entrance.
I asked her if she was okay and replied with no words but a subtle wry smile, I wasn't sure how she felt but I knew that guy deserved to be treated better, she should just have accepted his feelings.
I went into the room and introduced myself;
"Hello, my name is Grace Ebube, I am the groom's cousin. I can tell you are a doctor, nice to meet you doc" I could tell that he was a doctor from the large white coat he had on with a face mask that bearded his chin. He looked at me with an ashamed face. And he buttoned his coat. He was avoiding eye contact with me as much as possible.
" I ran from the hospital as soon as I heard that she was getting married today, she did not deem it necessary to tell me that she was being taken by another" he said, he didn't look at me to say this. It was like I wasn't in the room. I wanted to offer him the contract of aiding me to make their honeymoon plans scatter. But I could see from his eyes that he genuinely likes peace and wants her to be happy ,the thought made me cringe. I also did not want him to ruin my plan
" You haven't communicated with her for years. What if you are doing a favor for her by bringing her out of her oppressive marriage?" I didn't love the fact that this would require me to taint Thane's reputation a bit but I had to. Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
"What do you know?"
" I know that you are her prince charming that would rescue her from the tower of this their so called marriage.
"I overhead when you confessed to Peace that day"
" I knew you did.." I shook by his side of revelation, I decided to keep myself calm, one of my trump card had already been exposed. I could still find a way to make everything go as planned.
" I also know that you care about her so much, currently she needs your help and that is why I need you to come talk to her so that she can open up to you about her marital crisis, I need you to make her see that Thane is not the right one.."
"Buzz!" the call had ended, I could not even believe what had happened. Was he not interested in what I had to say? I tried calling again to see if I had been the one to mistakenly end it.
'The number you are calling is not reachable.'
He must be tired, I comforted myself.I only know one weakness of Luther and that would be his love for peace would be his love for peace.
Luther
I ended the call in annoyance and disgust, I was fed up with what she had been saying. If there was anything, peace would not look so happy on her whatsapp story or even be holding a wedding anniversary!
Since she was happy, I decided to keep my distance as much as possible.
I meditated the proverb out of sight, out of mind to help me move on but each time I missed her I would meditate absence makes the heart grow fonder.
We still communicated a big deal, she would come to meet me to get pregnancy advice and birth control counseling. The Peace I am now was familiar with, was the one who didn't playfully tease me like the good old high school days.
She is so independent, charming and rigid with me. It was health bizz and nothing but health bizz we discussed . I sometimes stared in her eyes, to see if there would be some kind of sentiment but she was very cold and serious minded.
I knew she was just putting on the wall because of what I had confessed to her on her wedding day. At some point, I stopped trying. I didn't want to ruin the fact that she still trusted me enough to come to the hospital for checkup. I guess it was her way of saying that she still recognizes me as her blossom friend.
What Grace had said occurred to me, I had heard so many cases of domestic violence, even from couples I had not expected. If she was really in need and she was suffering in her marriage, I could check up on her and see for myself. It would be the perfect opportunity to see her since I had been so busy with work and I hadn't seen her in the hospital for a while.
As much as I loved peace, I knew that I could not force my feelings on her. She was married now and I wanted to be sensible to give her space. But what I won't allow is knowing that she could be somewhere in his home suffering and I was there taking random guesses.
I should go see her tomorrow