Echo

Chapter five

In those days I brazenly deprived several women of the love of their husbands and this may be the reason why I am suffering today. I remember one of the men who was in his 60's then, I made him believe that I loved him and he felt so flattered. He was in my school every other week and he literally spent all he had on me. His wife eventually died and I was so bold and brazen that I attended the burial. Who knows, perhaps that woman died as a result of heartbreak caused by my relationship with her husband.

I bluffed when the old wives would call me husband snatcher and tell me that it would not be well with me I remember one of them told me since you don't want to leave me to enjoy my peace with my husband, you will never live to have your own". How true her words have become today!
I lived this way and before I knew what was happening, age was no longer on my side. I graduated and barely had a third class and so I could not secure a good job either. I seriously desired to settle down, but it was as if any man I tried to hold would just slip out of my hand.