TREACHEROUS ORDEAL

CHAPTER 2

In the middle of the night, Mike was half awake. The room was completely dark, cold and quiet. He was tired and too weak to stand up but he had a filled and hurting bladder. He needed to offload the harmful content.

Something wasn't feeling normal. His room never gets this cool and the bed was quite different from the one he sleeps on. This felt better.  

Then again, he noticed that someone's legs were on his legs. He became afraid and stood up immediately, only to realise that he was unclothed too. 

Madam stood up and turned on the lights. Voilà, his boss's wife seated right on the bed and smiling at him.  

Mike knew something had happened. He was afraid. He hurriedly made to leave the room but she stopped him.

"If you dare go out of this room without my permission, then pick your things and leave this compound, immediately." 

Mike made a mental calculation of his account balance, it read seventy thousand naira. He sent thirty thousand naira to him. in his third month.  

He also had about twenty thousand naira cash he gained when he went to the market to purchase food stuff. He never touched a dime from his salary except the one he sent his mom. And the time, past 1:00AM.

He begged her to let him go, reminding her that husband would be disappointed if he ever gets to know. 

"You're not planning to tell him, are you?"

"Not if you let me go", he replied.  

"Well, I'm not letting you go and you're not leaving this room till morning."

"No ma, I can't do this",  he said and walked to the door to leave. Unfortunately, the door was locked.  

"See? I've hidden the key. You have to stay with me here till morning. I won't say it again, come and join me here." 

For a minute, Mike regretted coming to work in Asaba. What if he had stayed back?  The next minute, Mike's face grew bold again. He's not going to fight her for the keys. 

"If this is what you want, then I'll give it to you. You've made me do it already."

He walked to the bed, got on and went for her.  It was an entire night of lovemaking romp. He wanted to punish her with it but the reverse was the case for her. Her fantasy!

She gave him the key to the door at about five O'clock in the morning. He took it and headed out to his one room apartment.

"Oh God, this isn't what I wanted. What did I do? I don't have enough money to rent an apartment and for the sake of my boss,  

I have to go somewhere far away from here. If he ever finds out about what I just did, he'd sniff life out of me", Mike wept. 

He picked his phone and dialed his friend in Lagos, Kazeem.  He lied to him that his boss's wife had asked him to resign at the end of the month. Said she accused him of stealing."

It was two weeks to the end of the month. So he needed to add the salary to the one in his hospital bank account. 

At about 10:00 AM, he got a notification on his phone from his bank. He was credited with fifty thousand naira by his madam.  

In few minutes, a message came from her and it read; 

 "That's a token for last night. Be a good boy and you will earn more."

"It's time to run", he said. 

Somehow, he felt it was important to wait for the next two weeks and collect his salary so it would tally with the day he told Kazeem he'd be coming over. On the other hand, Kazeem was already making arrangements for Mike to join him at the end of the month. 

Day after day, the third week of the month came to an end. He would get his salary within the next seven days and then disappear.

His conscience never knew  peace since that incident with his boss's wife. Staying around was more of a burden but he needed that forty thousand naira.  

On the third day of the last seven days of the month, she approached him in the kitchen; 

"Mike, what's wrong with you? You've changed since the last time we made out. I thought I'd compensated you for that." 

He turned and replied to her, "Yes ma and I'm grateful." 

He was trying to be as humble as possible till he got his final salary.  

Again, she made advances at him, this time,  it wasn't under the influence of any substance, Mike fell. He did more than the first, so much that the neighbours in the next compound thought it was a quarrel between residences in the compound.  

Little did they know that it was a bouquet service.

Finally, on the thirtieth, she sent him twice his salary. Eighty thousand naira. Mike was happy he now had enough money. It was time to take to his heels.  

He planned on leaving the next morning, as early as 6:00AM.

Now, he willingly went to her after the kids had gone to their room that evening. He wanted to render his final off-the-books service. She obliged and it was beyond the services he had ever rendered. Although, the loud moan was controlled to avoid waking the kids but the room was noisy.

They were halfway down in ecstasy when Mr. Patrick, Mike's boss, drove in. They had no gateman as the gate was an automated one that was designed to give way to it's registered vehicles with their plate numbers well displayed and captured by a camera installed on it. 

He wondered why no one came out to greet him and not even Mike? He checked Mike's apartment but he wasn't there, though his door was locked.  

He already had a bad day and that made him aggressive. 

As soon as he got to the entrance door, he called his wife on the phone. It rang but no one answered. They were still in their business upstairs. 

He dialed her line the second time. Mike saw the phone and called her attention to it. She took a deep breath before answering the phone, 

"Hello honey..."

"Don't 'honey' me, where are you?  I've been calling and knocking at the door!!"

"Sweetheart, I'm sorry I was asleep."

"Ma'am, come and open this door!", he yelled at her, hitting his palm on the door and then, hung up.