Professor Idaraueser of the prestigious State’s University was questioning his younger brother. ‘Where is your wife?’
Dr. Eremie twisted his fingers restlessly, it was a case of karma.
‘I ask again, where is your wife now?’
‘She is still in the hospital.’
‘And the woman?’
‘She is also in the hospital.’
‘The news is everywhere Eremie, Eremie, I warned you to be careful, from my school, I could hear the wind of your carelessness and I told you, everyone told you. Our father is dead, I am now like your father and I recommended you as a lecturer in that school, I did.’
‘Brother…’
‘No, be quiet, be quiet!’
‘I just came to change my clothes before going back to the hospital,,,this is what I hate in women…women.’
‘Look at this boy, look at...just look at the rat. Now you have to blame everyone again not yourself. Eremie, are you growing or you are digging a well to fall in. I am going to bring Mama here like she requested if you like, go back to your wife if you like, don’t.
He walked away and came back, ‘Am I not married? What has gone wrong with your life Eremie or who has done this to you? A fool at forty is a fool forever. If you don’t have a family, what do you have as a man, tell me!’
Dr. Eremie was looking vacantly at the wall, his brother’s words bounced in his ear, all he wanted at that moment was to catch one of his bed-warmers and give her a hot bang, he wasn’t a keeper of women, never, ‘what has Hosanna done to me, how did I marry?’ He asked foolishly under his voice.
His family was complete in his house when he returned the next day. They had gone to the hospital earlier that day to see Hosanna and the other woman and returned to await him at home. His head was clogged with regrets of getting married not even guilt. Looking at them scattered in his living room, the action to take escaped his nerves.
‘Eremie, welcome.’ His old mother called from her seat. ‘How is she?’
‘She is fine and she has gone home to her family.’ That threw in silence. He walked aimlessly to his room. The Professor went..... https://egbechopublishers..com/2020/09/old-flame-part-4-written-for-moyo-lawal.html


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