The Missing Rib: The inkwell Prompt #70

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Rib! Rib!! Rib!!! These words echo in my ears because it reminds me of a particular story of a young man who fell in love with a genuine Lady.

It happened this way. There was a young couple who married for five-year before the sudden demise of the wife while she was trying to deliver a baby at the hospital. This untimely death had caused a setback to the progress of Mr Kanu because he hardly eats alone while Lydia, his wife, was alive and she was the backbone of his success in business because when things seemed difficult, she used to encourage him at times and suggested alternative solutions to the problem at hand.

The rib that means a lot was Lydia. She was a mother, sister, and friend in Kanu's life. She was more than a wife to Kanu! And ever since that incident occurred, he couldn't eat, talk, and go out because it was just like a nightmare and the shock had made him weak as a man. If he sits down, he will lose in thought until they tap him before he would realise that people are talking to him. He decided not to fall in love with another person again because he thought that no one can replace her in his life.

  • This has made his family ask him to remarry to take care of his little children and to allow him to concentrate on his job.

Mr Kanu said I know, but I am doing it. I promise to take good care of them and you will see because I won't let them know that they don't have a mother the way I will take care of them.

Eh! We are talking to you now as your parents because we know what you are going to face later. Won't you go to work? The role of a woman to children at home is quite different to a father. Said Mr Kanu's mother.

Initially, he refused to dance to their tunes but when the pressure was much on him, he gave it a second thought by trying to allow another person in his life.

The following day Mr Kanu sat down on the couch in the living room, and he thought about what his parents had discussed with him. His mind was saying, don't worry you don't need anybody to take care of you and your kids. Another one was saying, can't you give them to your mother to take care of them? One mind still says you need a good woman who can fill the vacuum in your home because you have to hustle for the daily survival of your home.

After a while, there was a particular occasion that involved him and his extended family members. During that event, Mr Kalu was introduced to a lady by one of his family members who accompanied them to that place and Mr Kanu was told that if he can allow her love in his life things might have changed he needs to let go of what has gone and face future challenges. You know children will need someone that is supposed to look after and care about them all the time.

Mr Kanu summoned the courage and approached the lady they introduced to him at the party, and she agreed to give it a trial. Both of them started their love affair. This lady used to come around to take care of his children whenever Mr Kanu was at work by picking them up from school, preparing meals for them, and washing their dirty clothes.

The attitude of this Lady prompted Mr Kanu to ask her to take their relationship to the next level because his children were happy with the way she was taking care of them. What else did I want from a woman that she didn't give to me? And she was delighted to accept Mr Kanu's proposal.

Thereafter, they have done all the necessary things both for the groom's family and the bride's family. She moved in completely as a wife.

However, after some time, she started to change her attitude gradually. First of all, she stopped taking care of these kids as it was before and also demanded more cash to buy jewellery, expensive clothes, and nightclubs.

At times, after she comes back from the nightclub she used to act under the influence of alcohol by vomiting all over her body. This uncared attitude was disturbed, Mr Kanu was looking at her. Maybe she would change.

Ever since she got married to Mr Kanu she didn't conceive for once and she didn't bother but the only thing she cares about was a party, the one that was closed to her and the one that didn't concern her. She must be on every occasion.

One day Mr Kanu woke her up at midnight when he knew that she didn't drink and her sense was normal. He talked to her as husband to wife, he asked her what she was doing about the issue of pregnancy and she was not feeling remorse. All that Mr Kanu was saying was nonsense to her.

The only thing she said was Mr Man, can I have my peace? You are the one who is after the child. Are they telling you that people that died will not be carried and buried by children? Please let me enjoy my sleep! I beg you in the name of God.

Lately, I don't know what I have done to you as your hubby because all the care for these children was not there again and I am thinking maybe I have offended you. As you know before we got married, you used to help me bathe them, take them to school and pick them up after the school hour but you did not do it again. My business does not function very well again and you know it, you didn't bother at all. Is there anything I have done to deserve this? Please if I have offended you, find a place in your heart and forgive me because I love you sincerely and I want you to nurture these kids like your own. Don't let them know that you are not their mother. Said Mr Kanu.

Nevertheless, after some days. Mr Kanu was at the famous hotel to see one of the esteemed customers that used to give him a contract and this customer has instructed the receptionist to allow Mr Kanu to come to his hotel room whenever he shows up because he had been introduced to them.

On this fateful day, Mr Kanu went straight to meet this man in his room but on getting there, he knocked the door and he was told to enter the room but when he got there it was his wife he met with this man in bed. Immediately he spotted this, he was feeling dizzy to the extent that he fainted and rushed to the nearest hospital for treatment.

After some hours he was resurrected in the hospital bed and panting, this man asked him what happened to you, Mr Kanu? I intentionally asked you to come over so that we can talk better and have all the documents to the contract signed at the same time. The Lady you saw was my ex-girlfriend, I called her over to have a nice time together.

Oh! Yes, don't worry about me. There was a drug I took before coming to your hotel room. Please pardon me, how was madam? I hope she didn't get angry at me. Said Mr Kanu.

The man said No, not at all. She was the one who suggested taking you to the hospital on time. She just left this place to prepare a meal for you so if you wake up to enables you to eat something.

But she should have not bothered herself because I don't have an appetite to eat anything for now. Meanwhile, do you herewith the documents to sign for the contract? Said Mr Kanu.

But the man said no problem, you don't have anything to worry about because I have done my part and remained on your side to sign. The contract has been awarded to your company already. Just make sure you are okay.

The doctor entered the place. Eh! Mr Kanu, you have woken up! The doctor examines him and says he has to be watched for an hour. After that, he can go home.

Okay, Sir, thank you, doctor. Said Mr Kanu.

When Mr Kanu got home, he met his wife crying and he didn't say anything to her. The only thing he was doing hmmm, so this is life. It was a prostitute I brought home as a wife.

His wife went to inform one of his family that Mr Kanu used to listen to and she confided in him and she asked him to beg her husband on her behalf.

Immediately after she got home, she held her husband's legs and asked for forgiveness so that such a thing will never repeat itself. Please forgive me, I am ready to obey you and make you happy as your wife.

They were on this, the man she went to meet came around and he met her crying trying to plead with Mr Kanu to forgive her. And the man said, Kanu, please you have to forgive her because she has realised her mistake and I believe she has learned a great lesson. When she came to me, could you believe that she didn't hide her offence while she was talking to me because I was shocked when she was telling me what happened? If you say you don't want her again, do you know the attitude of the other Lady you will meet? The devil you know is better than the Angel you did not know. I would advise you to draw her closer to you.

Mr Kanu said hmm, so she could narrate everything to you. Oh my God! This is the thing of shame. No problem, I have heard you and forgiven her. Thank you.

That was how Mr Kanu embraced her again and warned her not to let such a thing repeat itself.

      The End


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Not every man would be so forgiving. Mr Kanu has had some hard blows. His wife dies and then his second wife is faithless. He finds it in his heart to forgive her. We are impressed. Certainly, you found good use for the prompt here and you did inject great conflict in the story.

Thank you for sharing this story with us. We appreciate that you engage with other authors.

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First it would be really hard for Mr Kanu to loss his first wife, and later his second wife also betray him. But thats good he forgave her and they were together at the end.

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He wanted to think otherwise but thank God for his relative's intervention that cautioned him to exercise the patient and not to send her away because if he asks her to go now, does he know the attitude of another person he would bring in as a wife? The devil you know is better than the angel you don't know.
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