CHIDINMA'S STORY

Part 12

12

Aunty please! 

Mummy please!
 
Nooo, Daddy no! 

Kalu, what are you doing? 

Please, I'm not pretending, I don't want attention. Forgive me!
 
I mumbled all of these as I cried in my sleep. I was pulled up from my nightmare and pulled into a warm hug. " You're safe now," he kept saying as he rubbed my arms up and down, trying to make me feel better. As I sobbed silently into his chest. 

I remember that day clearly. My madam flung my belongings, of which I had very few, and threw me out of her house, accusing me of seducing her husband. How will her tiny husband try to rape a big girl like me? She told me how much she cared for me and wanted the best for me, but I paid her back with evil. I cried and begged her, telling her that I would never lie to her and that I was being truthful. 

That morning, my madam had gone for her usual morning jog. As I dashed to the shower after finishing my morning chores, I was in my room in my towel as the door opened. He looked at me and asked me what I had for breakfast. As usual, after the whole creepy event, I replied to him with a frown, saying I would start making breakfast after changing. I clutched my towel tighter to my chest as I noticed him staring at me in a way that made me feel violated. 

He slowly walked up to me, and I responded by moving backwards. He looked at me with a smile and said, "Why are you running away from me? Did I say I was going to hurt you? Have I ever insinuated that? " "Just because I wanted us to be friends, you started acting weird towards me." 

I was trembling and afraid, but I was ready to defend myself, no matter what it took. It would be hard. I was in a fucking towel, I thought. 

"You forget I am your boss, right? I'm the reason why you're still here. Yet you don't respect me, or even do a little to appreciate me. " Then he stood up and walked close to me as I stepped backwards. 

"Why do you keep running? Am I that ugly? " "Did I say or imply that I would touch you or do something bad to you?" His voice was getting angrier and my fear heightened. 

In one swift motion, he slapped me and pushed me to the bed. It happened so fast. "Ungrateful girl!" 

He slapped me again. "You are so ungrateful; you have no idea how many girls wanted me back in Brazil, where I was based." "Beautiful girls, fresh skin, not a local girl with dirty looking skin like yours." He noticed I was trying to stand up as he pushed me back again. 

"You're supposed to be thanking me for even looking in your direction, you ungrateful girl." I was still on the bed in tears as he tried to pull my towel from my body. I held on to it tight. He wasn't able to pull it off and got so angry, so he instead started kicking me. He kicked me as I ran out of my bedroom. 

My madam came back immediately, found him furious and me half naked and in a situation that any normal human would have guessed I was being abused. But no, my madam saw something else. And she took over from her weird, disgusting, very horrible husband.