IZIGORA

Chapter 22

'Come in,' Pastor Joshua called out.

The door opened. As whoever was at the door quietly stepped into the Pastor's office, every hair on Izigora's body stood, including places she had no idea she had hairs in. That cologne!

Kainye.

Izigora turned, her heart skipping a beat for two reasons: he looked really good despite his uncharacteristic imperfect appearance and the sight of him frightened her. God, would she ever stop being scared of this man who was for all purposes still her husband?

He was dressed in a striped shirt beneath his black suit. His tie was loosened and his hair looked uncombed. To the ordinary eye he looked like a man suffering and as such would easily gather sympathy and raise more judgmental eyes in her direction. However, Izigora knew better especially after the stunt he had pulled three months ago.

That stunt had cured her of him completely and given her the strength to take out the divorce petition against him. She had been planning the divorce especially since he attacked her in Kobi's apartment but she hadn't seen Kainye since the attack and so naturally relaxed into being separated from him, taking up the role of an estranged wife. How stupid she was, at the time.

She ran into him during one of her physiotherapy sessions and he invited her out of the blues to talk. He looked so repentant and not wanting to seem so unforgiving, she foolishly agreed to meet with him. After all, the restaurant was a few blocks away and she didn't have to be in his car. Besides, she had to see him, to ensure that she was really cured of him. Wrong move.

He apologised for his abuse and once more showed her 'proof' of seeing a psychiatrist but having been fooled before she refused to be fooled anymore. She informed him that she would have a rethink when she confirmed that he was done with the sessions and he told her she couldn't live without him. When he kissed her, something unbelievable happened: for the first time in almost eight years, Kainye's kiss left Izigora cold.

Rather than respond to his kiss and feeling the whole heat that came with it, her body rejected him, rejected his touch, the same touch she had wondered if she could survive without! She couldn't believe she was cured of him. That kiss was necessary to show her that she was over him.

When she didn't respond to his kiss, Kainye got angry and pushed her away from him, calling her a slut who didn't deserve him, telling her he would mess her up. He ripped the fake document, telling her that she wasn't worthy of him and that he could have any woman he wanted at the snap of a finger.

And yet here he was!

'Good afternoon Pastor,' Kainye greeted humbly.

'Good afternoon Brother Kainye.'

'I'm sorry I arrived late,' Kainye apologised presently. 'I joined the sanctuary workers to clean the church after service and then had to rush home to fix lunch before driving back here.

Chim o! Which mumu lunch? Kainye couldn't even boil water even if his life depended on it. Izigora doubt if he even knew how to use a cooker. Why was the Pinocchio concept not true? Kainye's nose would have grown so long it would have had branches, leaves and fruits.

Pastor Joshua literally eyeballed Izigora and she could imagine what was going on in his mind. Bad wife, making her husband suffer by cooking his own meal. Well, he was entitled to his opinion.

'I'm sure that would change before the end of today,' Pastor Joshua told Kainye and the assurance had Izigora looking at him. A look passed between him and Kainye and Izigora wasn't comfortable with it at all. Did the pastor actually think he had what it took to convince her to go back to Kainye? Even a forceful deliverance wouldn't work that magic.