MORE THAN LOVE PART 3

I wondered what a young girl like Tania could come see this old man for …….. Sorry a General. He has lost the sense of manhood and maybe that’s the reason Tania really came. Some girls were sitting at the pool side; I wished I had a company but I wasn’t in Calabar for that and Tania was the only one I’ve seen that fit into my specification. I walked out of the restaurant and prayed I could get a sleep when I get to my hotel room. Sleep had been a luxury I enjoyed back in my home. No one disturbs another and there is no room for play. I opened the door and believed Tania would just be on my bed waiting for me but ….. She wasn’t.

It was difficult waking up the next morning. I felt the difference in mattresses; this should have been my mattress. The softness was adequate that a sound sleep cannot be disappointing. I switched on my phone and a text message came in. Send me your hotel room number and I’ll see you this afternoon – Tania. I stood up from the bed and hurriedly sent it to her. I was forgetting I had a continuation with the General after breakfast until I got a call on my room intercom. It was the restaurant and General Tam was waiting for me. I hurriedly brushed my mouth and washed my face not to keep the General waiting. By the time I got downstairs; he wasn’t alone.

I greeted my way to the seat he reserved for me as we exchanged pleasantries on how the night was and asked how is trip was to the governors house yesterday. He said it was a long meeting to be continued same time this evening. I wonder what they are getting from him at that old age.

This is Debby and Betty…… they were once separated from their husbands but they got tired of the emptiness and came back.  Same way you are tired of your marriage. Now they are sex consultants….. This is another name for a professional in marriage building. Their husbands who were nuisances are now responsible. The children who were scattered all across the land ranging from gamblers to weed sellers in short they partake from all sorts of illegality based on an insecurity created by their parents, are now back. Who is really to blame when we see such things and now they are here to share with you their experiences before they became sensible. They lost the sense of womanhood for a while and had to apologize for a long time. 

I didn’t see what Debby and Betty could have done wrong. Their beauty and intonation was impeccable. Although they were on the chubby side but ….. I wouldn’t mind.  The man might have been wrong and all blames are put on these innocent women right now. Debby was the first to speak up and she went thus

General, it wasn’t as if I was a prostitute but my husband pushed me into a lot of things. Shortly after marriage, my husband had an expectation of who he wanted me to be not putting into consideration that which I was before we got married. He got pissed by everything I did wrong and those I didn’t do right. Thus it took days for quarrels to settle and the distance was getting wider. I had to beg and pet for sex from my husband and the first time it clocked six months of no sex, was just within the first two years of our marriage. 

 Luckily one horny evening he was interested and he plunged extremely into me. I accommodated all the sperm and the next two weeks saw my period disappear. I wasn’t sure if I should be happy because the way my husband was going he was building hatred more than affection. The whole pains and stress of the nine months was bore by me. He saw me to the clinic just twice out of twenty times that I went there. I got beaten by rain sometimes and my husband goes to drop his colleagues at home. When the child came the distance became extreme. It was as if I brought a bastard home. He didn’t show love to them at all so I had to keep telling my child how well daddy loves him.

One faithful morning; it was two days to our child’s first year birthday. I asked him for money to arrange a small get together for our child and he said he doesn't have money. To my surprise that day he gave his secretary some money to arrange for something similar. I went to Mr. Buchi’s house to tell him about his friend’s behaviour and when I got there, he acted so caringly. It was when he started fondling my breast that I realized I was making a mistake but I gave in fully because I needed this a long time ago but I was living with a dead man.

My food had been served a while but I couldn’t eat, I was just listening to the exploit in a person’s life and there I thanked God I wasn’t that wicked at least to my wife. General Tam asked me if the man was considerate and I shook my head in disagreement with what he did.

Betty started with marriage killed my dreams. I was a promising young lady who knew what she wanted until met the man I married. I graduated with the best grades in school to settle for the kitchen. He needs someone to pamper his ego and slave to his commands.  I wasn’t ready for that. Even when he was wrong I had to apologize. I remembered the first days we met; he was so much of a nice guy. All he wanted was my happiness but now he craves for my sadness. It’s so bad general I’m not sure I’ll cry at is burial.

Then I saw hatred in the tone of this woman. She hated her husband with a genuine hatred. Same way I wished my wife was dead. It means we might have similar circumstances. The food was finished as General got another call. He said he needed to excuse himself and asked what my plan was for the day. I hurriedly told him nothing. Then he pats me on my back as he said Betty would keep your company, I and Debby are going for a drive. I tried to say no but it all came out as okay sir …….

MORE THAN LOVE 2

The text didn’t deliver till the next day. The drive to the hotel was like sightseeing. The driver was a talkative. The moment he knew that was my first time in Calabar, the stories began. How he fought in Biafra and how they killed his grandparents when the slave masters came to Calabar. He talked for almost twenty minutes before I pretended I received a call. That kept him mute for the rest of the trip.

The hotel lobby is big and luxurious . The attendants were of good manners as I was welcomed to the Tinapa continental hotel. My room was on the fifth floor and one of the attractions for this particular hotel was the free dinner at the futashi restaurant. It is always accompanied with some native dancers and my friend said they go nearly nude sometimes. I had a short nap after settling down and I got set for the dinner. I shut the door behind me as I slowly walked to the elevator to make the ground floor. I was with an older man. Like seventy; he looked at me and smiled. You came here alone, he asked? Yes I answered….. Business or pleasure? Who comes to Calabar in the middle of February for business? I said none

He kept quiet till we got to the restaurant and we sat together. The three course meal was on point and that particular evening was for jazz music. We started talking again.

Old man: so you left your wife and kids at home to make valentine alone in Calabar?

Barr mike: really my wife is so annoying to me right now, so I just travelled to clear my head.

Old man: he giggled for a laugh as he looked at me and said my son……… I’ve been here for two months now. My children are taking care of me. They felt I needed to run away from their mother based on her behavior when this illness of mine started.  Instead the illness always runs away from me when my wife is around. 

Marriage: an institution created by God to check man’s tolerance. I tell you my son if you can’t forgive your wife for whatever she does, you can’t make heaven. God forgives us and we mess up more than our spouses. As a Christian emulate Godly principles and learn to forgive your wife. So tell me what did your wife do?

It’s being eighteen years  that I have been married and it still seems like I am getting to know her more and more. My wife is like a chameleon that changes her behaviour according to the weather. I met my wife in church. The popular Baptist church in Abeokuta. My dad was the organist then and her dad was the laity chairman. Just after my degree in London I came back to work in my father’s land and I met Patricia. She is a graduate of École Polytechnique in France where she read linguistics. My approach was fantastic and my looks were charming. It was obvious we were meant for each other. The next two years saw us going on with our sex scenarios over and over again. We exhumed all the affections within and laid it up on the plains of love.  We were love birds and heaven sealed it at that time. 

 

She got pregnant before we got married. The pregnancy really facilitated the joining as the bride’s family wanted to conceal the protrusion in her before the whole world. I wished my father in law was alive, all these wouldn’t have happened. The wedding was magnificent as all dignitaries were there. Our honeymoon was in Gbadolite in Congo. Mobutu welcomed us into his mansion and we were there for two weeks. It was all yummy until the first child came and I became a second citizen. 

That attention was lost wasn’t much of an error compared to the fact that my wife wasn’t ready for the future. She still expected us to do things like of old. We lived outside planning, had sex on daily basis, visit a club every fortnight, etc. it was the beginning of our lives thus I felt we needed to sacrifice some things to enjoy a better future. But for her the present counts a lot. I accepted some part of that but for some I had to be the head of the family. 

And it came afterwards the rise of churches. Liars were now on parade in the name of God. With church names sounding like poetic scripts, and the philosophy changed from salvation to money. My wife was one of the first culprits. She became an addict in weeks and the attention shifted from the family to the church. She spent the whole day praying against enemies that didn’t kill her in her first twenty four years of living. Fasting became a regular which in turn reduced sex. Then I started being an adulterer.

The waiter brought a note for him and as I peeped I saw below General Tam. He picked up his phone and placed a call and it went thus: Tania, tell my wife to get set we are going to see the governor.

Young man….. I need to see someone now. Maybe we could finish this after breakfast tomorrow. Anyway my name is General Tam

MORE THAN LOVE

It was a season of love and the whole atmosphere was painted red. The Calabar city was setting up its carnival again. A town accustomed with enjoyments and wild sexual capacities waggling from the trails of the wonderfully made beautiful ladies that originated from the place. Calabar, a popular city on the coast of Nigeria is a pride the country cannot do without and the beauty and neatness of the town smelt out the aroma of love in the air. I wasn’t there for the same enjoyment others came for but I was there because I had to run away from my home. 

 The flight was delayed for two hours and the waiting lobby was getting fuller. I had to shift for so many people to get a place to sit and the last feminine body I felt was the answer to my problem. Tania is in her late twenties, but with a fully matured body. I am 6”2 and she is almost my height. Her courage spans beyond my imagination and confidently she told me to shift a little more for comfort. I willingly did. I looked at her with a smile not forgetting the days of youth and she smiled back. I’m Barr Michael Tisson and she replied Tania Adegoke. So what does Tania do? I’m a sex consultant she said and the conversation got better. 

I wasn’t going to Calabar to look for sex I said earlier; but I was retiring out of my home for the boredom was extreme. I have been married for eighteen years and now I’m tired. My wife is also tired of me and I can remember I haven’t had sex with my wife in two and half years. It was just something out of the regular. My children are grown up and when I look at her in her late forties I get a bogus impression of mistake all around my thought. 

Tania: so how long do you intend to stay in Calabar?

Barr Mike: till I can clear my head off all these……..

Okay I will help you she said and it was then the announcer called on flight no 657VC. “Arik flight from Lagos to Calabar”

I enjoyed my conversation with Tania. She reawakened in me the youthfulness and it was at this moment I realized the trip would be worthwhile. I got a seat at the fifth row but she had to go to the back thus I had to wait the whole one hour off a lady I just found that would make my trip a wonderful experience. I fastened my seat belt as the plane lifted off the ground and there was something I couldn’t forget …… “I’m a sex consultant”. What school teaches that course? 

Two weeks ago, I had an argument with my wife and she started ranting at me yet again. I wondered how long I had to live with this woman under the same roof not thinking of how I feel. I had used up my life providing for her and the children and the little bit of love and respect I desire she removes it from me. I was so mad at her and sincerely for the fifth time I wished she was dead. I walked out of the sitting room holding a newspaper and slowly into our room. I tripped as I was about entering the room and nearly fell. In her local language she said…….. “If I like I should fall down and die”. Then I knew we had the same wish for ourselves but God won’t just permit that. The house was beautiful but the home was empty. There was no love between the two pillars of the home and then I knew it was something more than love that keeps people in marriages. What it was; I don’t know and I didn’t wish I was going to find it in Calabar but with Tania ………….. 

The plane landed and we had a short stroll into the arrival lounge of Margaret Ekpo airport. I looked around a while and saw Tania. She already had a cab coming to pick her thus we rolled together. She took me to my hotel which I had booked online but something changed as we got there. She dropped her bag also and checked into the room with me. The cab man was gone and I’m in a room with a sex consultant who doesn't seem to plan her exit in a short while. She opened her box and brought out tubes of cream and headed for the bathroom. I need a shower she said and through that transparent view of the glass I could see the wonders of her body. My body rose as I intend to shower almost immediately also but I know the law, thus I was calm. 

She opened the shower door and asked me if I wouldn’t join her and speedily I pulled off my clothes as I made my way to the bathroom. I wet my body and clung to her soft body and the action was to begin………..  The old woman sitting beside me tapped me and said we are landing and then I knew I was just dreaming of Tania in my room. I looked around and the airport doesn't seem as neat as I expected. The cab expected was coming to pick myself and Tania were just dreams as a military car pulled over for her and I saw her drive off. The car stopped and she came down, walked over to me and handed her card over to me and said “I’ll be done with General Tam in three days; if you need my services send a text  message a day before”. I watched her shake her ass back into the car and off she went. I sent her a text almost immediately letting her know I want her services but ……….