Turning Table

Part 99

***Blackmail***

🌹Rosetta🌹

I did not like this one bit, my gut feeling told me that whatever Sandile will let through that door will turn my life upside down, something told me that the visit from Muntu that came out of the blue was not right. But this feeling was quieter than anxiety a low hum of a household dryer as opposed to a shrieking kettle,
" I came to inform you that Oyama is dead "
I found myself smiling at that thought but what if she says
" he is on a run again...!!"

These pieces of false information downright tormented me. questions after questions in my head with no answers led to a different type of anguish. Intuition became my obsession. I wanted to know whether the voice I was hearing was fear, anxiety, my gut, or something else...

I'm shaking, sweating I almost jumped as I felt a tinny hand holding mine, I looked down and the little girl smiled.
Me: my beautiful Munchkin's please go to the garden and pick me beautiful flowers  " I said to the twins,
Nozibusiso: beautiful like a Rose?"
I smiled and kissed them on the cheek and they ran off,

Sandile opened the door letting Muntu in,
She walked in and our eyes locked, I folded my arms and gave her that look that says what you have to say and get the fuck out!

" Rose!"
She said making herself comfortable on the couch
Me: what do you want?"
Her: you need to sit down for this!"
Me: bitch just say what you bloody have to say and get out of here!"
Her: Ginger was short twice one bullet went through her abdomen,  and she experience a lot of blood loss, her surgery made things worse and she needed a blood transfusion, which kind of helped but her being anemic, her blood transfusion cause a lot of complications, she was later diagnosed with Anaphylactic reaction...  When the Dr tried to clean the blood off her system her body rejected the second surgery and now she is faced with TRALI - Transfusion-related acute lung injury
Me: and you telling me these big English words because...?
" she needs a donor," Sandile said softly
Muntu nodded
" The Dr did not pick up that her lung needs repairing, so she needs a match, " Muntu said looking at me
Me: you came to the wrong house I ain't no match "
Muntu: I know but I need you to inform someone who can "
I looked at her what weed is this old hag smoking?

" even if I can...which I won't!  I would never help you, After the lying, the betrayal you two bought to my life?..."
I said looking deep into her eyes but her face changed, she was not here to beg me or ask me kindly she is here to blackmail me to do whatever she wants me to do.
Her: coming here was not for me to kiss your ass and beg you to do this, this was more of me reminding you that you are still Mrs. Nqeve...your husband took Ginger from her family when she was only 14, molested her, feed her drugs made her pregnant and later sold her for sex, I found her high as a kite when Oyama left her for you, I cleaned her up, and made her go back to school and you come back, Rose it's not even six months and she is back in a hospital bed yet again fighting for her life, because of you!!"

I swallowed looking down
Her: to you, she may be a whore, homewrecker, but to me, in my eyes, she is the girl that lost her innocence to the devil, a demon! your bloody husband...the father of your son!"

I stood there frozen this was not shock but it was more of Hypovolemic shock, my body just shut down, I could not hear anything or assert anything, I  was feeling downtrodden to no extent of surviving 

I finally looked at Muntu tears ran down my face,
Me: why you telling me this?"
"Because you need to know that this mass was created by you, and it's close to home than you think, so  two girls from the same village... One treated like a princess the other as a slave, you see Ginger  stayed with her mother and brother,
In a small village in Bergville called Emazizini..."
Me: what?"
Her: yep, her house was down the hill from your mother's house...'
Me: what?" I said holding my head feeling dizzy
She side smiled
"Oyama saw you first,  loved you from the shadows, I remember one day we pass you by, you were coming from school, a figure like a model, so tall, so clean so perfect so beautiful,  I was in a car with Oyama, he looked at you and said "that girl I will make my wife one day"

And down the road a thick girl with a bucket of water on her head, dirty raggedy clothes, and barefoot,  it took only a lousy R20 for Oyama to get her, promised her life she only dreamed off she then became Ginger... "
Me: ooh my God !'
my knees felt jelly but Sandile was quick to catch me before my head hit the floor,
Sandile: babe... Just breath "

Muntu: Ginger....her real Name is Nombulelo Sibiya... I believe your mother attends church with her mother...so it will be best, you,  her homegirl to Inform her family that you found her...and she needs a donor "
Sandile: and if she says no?"
Muntu looked at me
Me: I can't because she has Oyama"

" smart girl, you see Rose knows the consequences to that, "
Sandile: You have your man so what the fuck Muntu!"

Muntu: Ya I do but Rose legally she is still married to a foreigner... Married in community of property...
The Prosecutors has hard evidence of Oyama's crimes...he is after all the most wanted man in Africa,
As much as there are no charges brought against Rose, there is implied guilt by association. This means that although Rose may not be charged with any crime, she is still an ex-convict on parole, she is in danger of being swept away as collateral damage through civil asset seizure and forfeiture.

And her business is not that that clean so legally she may be associated with her husband's crimes and boom back inside!.
But with her luck, if not found guilty the jurisdiction of Community marital property will gets consumed by a TRO (temporary restraining order) which in the end turns out to be permanent because the government can legally seize all assets may be held for either restitution or punishment.  And trust me regaining her fair share of marital assets is next to impossible when this happens  even if you can afford the best attorney in town. . . so she can't say No because I hold the keys to her money, her freedom... her life!"

I looked at Muntu with tears running down my face
" Why are you doing this to me ?"
Her: as you can see I got a lot on my plate, trying to get you out of jail, keeping Ginger alive,  filing for motion that Oyama serve his sentence in South Africa....all I'm asking is for you to tell Ginger family that she is alive and needs  medical help, it's a win-win-win situation"
I looked at her without saying a word
Her: hate me all you like I don't give a shit fact remains you are Oyama's wife...so fix some of your husband mas, who knows, this might help you get closure...
She threw her business card on the table and walked out,