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A Few weeks later after my forbidden act with Stella, we were preparing to go to church one Sunday morning when my wife gave me an envelope, I became anxious and asked what the letter was about, she smile and asked me to read it for myself. I opened it, read it and shouted,

 “you are what?, three weeks pregnant? waw, our Lord is ever gracious!”

 “This is a pleasant news my darling, have you informed your mum already?”

“Yes” she happily replied “and they are extremely excited” she added.

 I felt proud of myself; I was going to be a father soon. I called my mum to inform her about the good news. She was elated and I could see it in her demeanour at church. Mum was dancing and singing in a manner that was uncharacteristic of her. I guess the pregnancy rectified a lot of things in our relationship, we became closer and I treated my wife like a queen. She appeared happier than before and also reciprocated my kind gestures.

During testimony time at one of our Friday all-night services, Mr Boahene came out to give a testimony and he was very excited about what he was going to say. He first requested the praise team to sing “Wuse Ayeyi (You deserved to be praised)” to show his appreciation and praise to God for what he has done in his life. I knew most of his testimonies were about winning business contracts and receiving funds that were due him but got locked up somewhere which had eventually come to him by God’s intervention. Usually, after his testimony, he does something remarkable for the church. He started, by mentioning my name “Pastor Samuel, with all humility could you be on your feet?”, at that moment my heart sank into my stomach and I faked a smile as I stood there. I turned to observe the facial expression of Stella who was also not too excited. Then all of sudden he said

“I want to use this opportunity to invite my sweet and adorable wife to stand by me as I give this testimony which will blow your minds” I began feeling weak and weird. I had no time to ask Mrs Stella Boahene what was going on.

 She appeared surprised herself at such an invitation. My heart was beating heavily and I could hardly feel my face.

“Was this man about to humiliate the wife and me in front of the whole church?”I pondered in my mind.  

He turned to me and shook my hand and said joyfully, “Osofo, well done, your efforts have not been in vain, your fasting and prayers for my wife and I have worked, praise the Lord!” and the congregation responded with a resounding “Hallelujah!” Mr Boahene continued,

“For the past years my wife and I have tried all our best to get a child of our own, we went to different fertility centres, herbal hospitals and also visited different doctors but to no avail. My wife told me she visited Pastor Sammy at his office and he prayed over a glass of water for her and fasted with her for 21 days. A miracle has happened, as I speak now my wife is pregnant! Glory be to God! To show my appreciation, I will sponsor this year’s annual leave trip for Pastor Sam and his wife to the United States of America for three weeks. I will take care of all the expenses.”

The whole congregation was happy and expressed it through singing songs of praise and dancing. After that testimony, I had sleepless nights till I met Stella at my office the following Tuesday. I was curious and wanted to know more about the pregnancy.

 “Stella, I am aware your husband was sexually weak how was he able to impregnate you?” I asked her anxiously. She was quiet for some time, looked at me mischievously and said,

 “Pastor Sam, the truth is that the baby is yours but I made my husband believe that it is his”. I shouted her name in shock,

“Stella!, how could you do this to me, you should not have kept this pregnancy. We need to find a way of aborting it!”

 “No way!” she exclaimed and confessed her intention,

“Besides my husband would never know it is not his child. Apart from the fact that I fell in love with you and enjoyed making love with you, I was desperately looking for a child of my own. Abortion is never an option. This will remains forever a secret between us”

There was a knock at the door and we had to bury the issue at that point in order for her to leave so that I can attend to my guest.

My life became complicated, my wife was pregnant and another man’s wife was pregnant for me yet she chose to give the responsibility to her innocent husband. Could I ever call that child my own? How did I get into this mess in the first place, only if I had resisted Stella’s charms I wouldn’t have gotten into this mess? I needed to take some break from work and thankfully Mr Boahene was ready to sponsor our trip to the USA.  My wife and I gladly took that offer and for three weeks we were in the USA. It was the re-enactment of our honeymoon. We came back refreshed but I knew all was not well with me. Eventually, I came to the realization that once no one knew about my extramarital affair with Stella then there was no need to worry myself and have sleepless nights. After all, she could not talk about it herself bearing in mind the implication it would have for her marriage and entire life.

Since my mother-in-law was a gynaecologist, I insisted my wife spend the last trimester of her pregnancy at her parents’ house so that she could be well monitored by her mum.  I checked on her every other day to make sure she and the unborn baby are doing well. Since my wife was not around, I could watch my pornographic movies in the bedroom alone, I was surely addicted to it and had no idea it was part of the breeding ground for my adulterous deeds. One day, the noise of the sitting room television woke me up in the middle of the night, when I went to check why the T.V was loud; I found that Miriam had fallen asleep whiles the T.V was still on. I switched it off and when I wanted to wake Miriam up I realised something interesting and heart-warming. She was in her transparent nightgown and I could clearly see her pointed nipples and white coloured pant through her nightgown. Her attractive physic and cleavages made me miss a heartbeat. I surreptitiously walked towards the sofa and sat down quietly and began rubbing my hands on her thighs even as I progressively move up her upper body. She was fast asleep and could hardly feel my exploration of her body, it was not until I began fondling her breast and began undressing her then she opened her eyes and bounced out of the sofa with a loud “Jesus, daddy please what are doing? please stop it”

In a low and gentle tone I whispered with my finger on my lips,

 “Sh… you are big girl, why are you acting like you have not done this before, come closer and let us have fun, I know you like me, don’t you?”

She quickly dashed into her room and locked the door behind her. I felt embarrassed and denied and did not know what Miriam was going to do next. In the morning I called her to talk to her and told her not to be afraid of me and that it was a mistake and will never happen again. She said it was ok and she won’t even mention it to my wife. I realised that Miriam was focused and would not allow anything to stop her from achieving her dreams in life. For the first time in a while, I had been denied sex by a woman and more so my house help. I was still determined to have a feel of that adorable body of Miriam. I began to shower her with a lot of gifts and money just to soften her stand. Knowing that she was poor and needed us to make it in life, I knew I could use money and gifts to lure her into bed.

 One rainy Monday, I returned home in the evening and realised that Miriam was taking her bath. I felt it was another nice opportunity to make a move and get it done with. I slowly tiptoed into her room and peeped at her in the bathroom. I patiently waited for her to finish her bath whiles I hid behind the window curtain. As Miriam sat on the bed to smear pomade on her body, I pounced on her, struggled with me initially but helplessly gave in, she laid down shouting whiles I was excavating.  

“Daddy this is wrong, no, no, no please stop it, I beg you!” When I had finished with her I went into my room to shower and slept like a baby. I woke up in the morning to realise that Miriam had left the house unceremoniously. She parked all her belongings and left. I called her line severally but her line was off.

Miriam’s sudden departure was a source of worry to me. I called my wife to inform her friend about Miriam’s sudden departure and asked to find out from her friend if Miriam had come to her. My wife informed me later that all effort to find Miriam’s whereabouts had proved futile. I felt bad, I never knew my deed would have hurt Miriam to the extent of her leaving us without even telling us where she was going.  Well, once she was gone, no one would ever know the reason for her sudden departure. My wife without knowing why she left was very disappointed in her. She thought Miriam’s help was most needed at the time when she will soon give birth and have her babysit our child.

Eventually, my wife delivered a bouncy handsome baby boy. It was all joy. We named him Emmanuel. He was very active and looked exactly like me. Our church members overly poured gifts on us to the extent that we had to start giving some out to my wife’s friends’ children. It was not long before Stella also put to bed a beautiful baby girl. Before I went to see the baby, my only prayer was that she shouldn’t look like me in any way and to my expectation; she looked exactly like her mum. Stella was happy and I could tell the husband was happier. They named the baby Christabel. I wish I had the chance of at least naming my baby girl, I would have named her Grace instead.

Upon Miriam’s departure, my mum opted to come and stay with us and help Juanita in nursing the baby. It was such a relief. She was to return to work in six months’ time and mum’s arrival would make light her burden. Life went on as usual and I was confident that none of my secrets would ever surface since I felt there was no adequate trace left in order to discover them.