Regret

LARABA’s LAIR

Manji was cheating Ndidi with Laraba. Ndidi herself knew. But often Manji was with her, so she showered him with love still, warning him daily about how evil women like Laraba could be. But Manji was deaf to all her warnings and continued to visit Laraba the whore in her lair.
“I cannot continue to cheat on my wife” he told Laraba after refusing to make love one night. “Then you will never feel any woman’s breasts again” Laraba swore, just before he left for home.

Ndidi was still at the farm house, waiting for her beloved Manji to return. And he did return, just as he had promised, but without his ten fingers. She was sorry for him while she treated him, without saying a word. His eyes said he was sorry, and she believed them.
Laraba, the woman he went to see, had sent thugs after him, to retrieve the fingers that refused to touch her breasts.

Younglan Louis