After the wedding

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Helen picked up her phone trying to call her husband's number but he wasn't picking up his calls. "Where could he have gone to?" My honeymoon has turned into an episode of tears. She cried in her thought.

She called her mum's number. "Mummy! My marriage is on fire, please come over" she screamed into the phone.

"Marriage on fire?" Which marriage are you talking about Helen? Her mother asked in shock.

Helen ended the call and jumped out of the bed, changed into a red mini gown, and walked out of the room to search for her husband. She sew her husband loitering around the hotel corridor thinking of the next step to take, her husband walked down the stairs at the site of his wife. Helen walked along. "Please wait"

Her mum kept calling on the phone but she wasn't picking up. Frank walked down to the poolside, Helen followed. They both sat down with Frank's eyes glued to the television not minding if anybody was with him.

After some minutes, Helen held the hands of her husband and said calmly. "I think I can explain"

"So you have an explanation all this while? Yet you pretended as if you knew nothing about all these. What else do you want to explain? Hmm… "Tell me"

"Frank, I have never seen you in this mood before and it is not my intention. Helen cried. Frank felt hurt, cheated, and betrayed. "Frank please listen to me" Helen called out after a few minutes of silence. "I never meant to make you feel hurt and betrayed, I have always loved you since I met you, what would I have gained for telling lies that will destroy our marriage? I have always been a virgin, no man has ever slept with me except you just this morning. I have kept myself all through".

"Oh really" so how else can you explain what happened out there? Frank asked. "Please Frank listen. There is something that kept flashing through my mind since you left the room and I kept wondering if that could have been the cause. Though I have never told you that before

"Do you think this is the best time to share your dirty past? Why not during courtship? So you deceived me into marrying you? I will never forgive you for this trauma". Frank shot in anger. She has been the only woman she has ever loved all through his life.

Helen felt so bad as she saw tears dropping down Frank's eyes and the fact that she was the cause made her too heavy to bear.

Helen spoke again. "I am sorry Frank. It is not like I had s*x but there was this thing that happened to me when I was a child. Around eleven years old or thereabout. I was too naive to know that it could have led me to be deflowered. I was too young to understand that everything was not that right at the time I was going through that experience"

It happened after I finished elementary school, and was awaiting admission into a junior school, my parents took me to spend some time with my grandmother, because they were too busy looking after me. My grandma neighbor's son, Ambrose, who was also in the same shoe as I used to come around our house to spend some time with me after his mum must have gone to work during the day. Ambrose was a very good and obedient boy, so we both got along. Ambrose's father works in a car manufacturing company as a security guard.

It happened that Ambrose and myself always played together. Ambrose's father was on night duty, which means he was always at home during the day and goes out in the evening.

On Tuesday morning, after he had returned from work, he sent Ambrose on an errand and called me to their apartment under the guise of wanting to send me on an errand as well. That day he locked the door, removed my Clothes, and inserted his fingers inside my private part, he told me to feel relaxed that he was trying to clean the dirt out of me. Within me, I knew it wasn't right. I felt a sharp pain in me, and blood was coming out from my private part, he told me not to worry and that I will be used to it, he cleaned me up, hurriedly dressed up, and hastened to leave. He threatened me not to tell anybody what had happened. I never mentioned it to anyone.

The following day, the same thing happened, I was so hurt and determined to tell my grandmother. When he called me the third day, I refused to go. He came to our apartment in the guise of coming to call Ambrose. I opened the door, he lifted his shirt showing me his gun on his waist. (The one he used at his workplace). I went mute entirely. I think that was what led to me losing my virginity unknown to me.

AT THE HOTEL

Frank stood up angrily and work towards the reception hall. He open his mouth in surprise as he recognized the person who entered.

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