MY HUSBAND MY CAPTOR

SAME OLD STORY ANISHA’s POV “Please…. you cannot keep telling me this doctor! It’s three years now and you continue saying there’s no problem… check again! There’s a problem!!” I almost wailed at my family doctor. She’s the one in charge of the obstetrician section in the hospital my husband and his family use. She looked at me like I was speaking a weird language that she couldn’t understand and just scoffed at me. I can’t even blame her, my husband disrespect and disgrace me everywhere, he has done it on so many occasions in her presence as well, that’s why she can disrespect me like this. “Mrs Keystone, put your mind at ease, all this stress and anxiety will only cause more damage to your womb, I assure you again that your fertility and womb is okay, your husband too is good!” She raised her voice at me, strolling impatiently away from her chair, I was sitting in front of her. I couldn't blame her for getting tired of my frequent visitation and questions but what can I do? “Doctor… I’m sorry.. you know my circumstances too, it’s all over the news and tabloid and I will lose my marriage if I don’t have this baby” I squirmed pitifully at her, reaching to hold her hands. She’s a little older than me, not sure of her age but I’m guessing early thirties and I’m just twenty three, and married to JAMIE KEYSTONE the most Influential, ruggedly and sophisticatedly Handsome wealthy young businessman, right now I’m going through lots of challenges and turmoil in my marriage. Threatening to destroy my home and happiness, married for three years now without a child, my husband seems to be so desperate, combined with my twin sister and mother adding more fire to the already burning house. “Mrs KEYSTONE, I think you should leave, I’m not God and I can’t give children '' the doctor spat at me, I got her message and quickly stood up to take my leave, I wouldn’t want her to call my already furious husband to report me. He would take her side and scream at me as usual again and I was in no mood to listen to his hateful and hurtful words. Our marriage wasn’t like this from the beginning, Infact Jamie loved me very much and he treated me like a queen. I was just a college girl at the age of twenty when he found me and married me almost immediately. Our first two months were like a dream, I thought I was hallucinating. Married to the very handsome and bountifully wealthy Jamie KEYSTONE, living in his multi billion estate and living like a queen!. “You are healthy.. how many time will I sing that to you, please leave and settle your marriage outside our hospital” the doctor harsh voice pierced into my thought, I sighed loudly and walked quickly out of her presence, I knew her rudeness was coming from a place of jealousy and aggression, they were all jealous that Jamie picked me, a young and poor nameless girl to be his wife. When my mother and twin sister heard about our relationship and incoming marriage three years ago, they almost went Crazy too. I remember my mother howling and throwing a full tantrum. In our small house that day, they heard the news on the television. I chuckled sadly at the memory, entered my sleek black expensive car and started the car. I need to be home before six in the evening, Jamie and my twin sister would be back by then. I suddenly didn’t feel like going home once the memory that Carla would be coming home again with my own husband, “I will ruin your marriage and take him from you Anisha” my twin sister's threat three years ago rang inside my ear, fresh and loud. I didn’t know when I started crying, I stopped driving and packed my car to relax into the seat and let the hot tears just flow. One of the reasons I stopped my driver from taking me today, I knew I would cry again. My mother and twin sister kept to their threat and didn’t allow me to enjoy my happy home, two months after my marriage. I found out that I had lost my husband's love and trust to them. At first I heard the news from Hilda; Jamie’s cousin's wife; she lives in the mansion too and she warned me severally about my twin sister sneaking to seduce my husband in the office, she works in the company as well and she swore that he had hired Carla as a secretary, before I could do anything their relationship was already in the public. Just two months after our wedding, two months after Jamie spoiled and pampered me like never before, showed me true excessive love, and I thought I was finally free from my mothers’ and twin sister bullying and torture. But I was wrong. “I don’t know why my mother hates me” I muttered to myself as I continued to cry my eyes out, my car window was tinted so no one would see me inside the car, I just allowed all the pent up emotions and sadness out. My phone rang, jittering me from my tears, it was a message from Carla, “my man asked me to tell you to make sure dinner is ready before we return, we are on our way home…from the club, ohooo mother is also coming for dinner and she’s staying for the weekend, tell the maids to prepare the royal guest room for her” I hissed loudly and almost flung the phone out of the car after reading Carla’s text. It had been like this for the last three years and my mother successfully separated me and my husband, Carla is his secretary and girlfriend, he didn’t keep it from me from the onset. When I tried to ask him about it, my husband warned me to stay away and face my business as his house wife, called me several demeaning names and accused me of various weird and unbelievable things, claiming that he knows all my secrets and I’m just a pretender. I know my mother and twin sister were the culprit, they didn’t hide their involvement, instead they threaten me everyday to leave my home and my marriage. As it is now, my twin sister and mother are the one in charge of my home and marriage, Jamie would never allow me to have a say. It happened so fast and spewed out of my control. My father and best friend; Ryan, have begged me over the years to let the marriage go but I didn’t want to lose to them this time again. Carla had always taken whatever belonged to me and this time she wanted my love and my man. For three years I had fought everyday to stay in my husband's house. “I’m getting tired and weary, they were over powering me and I knew the only miracle that could save my family right now is a baby. Jamie hardly talks to me anymore, he’s hardly home and whenever he does come home, my twin sister is always with him, giving me no chance to talk to my own husband, it was that bad. I started the car and continued my journey home, I called my father to speak to him. I need his love and comfort now as usual, although he’s divorced my mother Since I was eighteen. He has been my very strong support since birth. “I know what you are about to say Anisha and I can hear your labored breathing… before you talk about it, you’ve been crying again … just come home to me, leave Carla and her mother… nemesis will catch up with them” my father sweet and soft voice filtered into my ears. “ But why did they hate me so much?I'm also her daughter. Why is it only Carla that gets to enjoy her undiluted love and motherhood… I know we don’t look alike at all, dad it’s not fair, they are ruining my life and my marriage” I sobbed into my phone. My father didn’t say anything, he was quiet on the other side of the phone for a few minutes, “come home and rest.. Anisha” he said to me finally, his voice denoting his finality, he’s a man of few words. I could feel him hurting as well. I ended the call abruptly and sniffed back my tears. I know my father loves me and doesn’t want me to be hurt but this time I won’t leave my husband to Carla. I will fight till my last breath.