章 100: The Search
Jubril walked into the room and Petra was startled. She ran and grabbed a cloth and covered her body, her face was stern and she shivered.
“How dare you barge on me? Can’t you see that I am not covered?” He marveled. She was wearing a jeans and t-shirt.
“You are not naked, Petra and I am your husband for crying out loud. We have been married for six months and I have never held your hand.”
“It was a consensus.” “And I held on to my part.”
“But you are not doing that now.” “There is one part you never put into consideration….we did not talk about time limit.
I agreed but in my heart, it was only for six months.”
“You can’t do that. I made it clear and the second condition has no time limit.”
“I agree but the first has and I am running out of patience. Get prepared for me tonight.” He said and went out angrily.
He went out of the mansion, got into his car and drove out. He dialled a number as he drove.
“I am getting tired of her.” He said. “She would not even let me get closer to her. Who the hell is this Justin? What kind of love is this?” He said.
“I told you what to do,” a male voice said from the other end. “Just do it.”
“Okay, don’t you think you should talk to her?” Jubril asked.
“I will figure out something.”
“Okay, Addy. This cousin of yours is giving me a hell of a time and I love her.” Addy chuckled.
“I guess that is what you get for being so Islamically chronologically oriented.” “Break it down.”
“I was on with Lori before we got married. How do you buy a product unseen? What if it turns out to be bad?”
“I don’t get you.”
“You should have had her before the wedding.” Jubril felt his palms grabbing the steering wheel tighter.
Was this guy a Muslim? Okay, one may sin and knows it is wrong but accusing him of being foolish for following Islamic orders was off limit.
“I don’t think she would have agreed.” “Skills boy. But that is over now. Come see me. She will be yours tonight and you are going to thank me later on.”
“Okay, dude.” “Six fuckin* months? Crap! What kind of patience do you have? Wait, are you…..are you okay?”
“Come on Addy….I am a full man.”
“Then come see me.” Addy said.
“On my way.” Jubril said and pressed his foot on the accelerator.
Petra was jittery. Jubril had never acted this way. Their six months stay had been dramatic. They went to work together, came back together and acted like a perfect couple but it all ended as a show.
Jubril tried to be friends with her but she would not give him the chance. She was scared of doing that. She had told him that day in the garden,
“One: when we get married, you will never come close or touch me.” “Why?”
“If I refuse, the angels will curse me but if you agree to marry me and stay clear off my body, that will be an agreement until I am sure Justin is dead.”
“What?” “I am not forcing you. If you don’t agree, let me marry someone else.” Jubril had thought for a while. He just wanted her and could not let her go. It was stupid but he said, “Okay. I accept.”
“Are you sure?” She had not expected his reaction. “I am a gentleman.”
“Okay.” “Hmmm? Rule number two?” “If Justin appears, you would divorce me at once.”
“What? “Why else do you think I will not allow you touch me?”
“Okay……but this won’t last forever right?” “I will tell you when I feel he is no more.” “I know this is the stupidest thing I have ever obliged to but the love I have for you can make me do that. I am sure it will come to pass.”
“Do not spend much money on the wedding. Just make it modest because it is not worth it.” But Jubril went ahead to make it grand because his father was stupendously rich. Her family members also spent a lot. She was her father’s only daughter and he had to make it memorable.
She did not expect the kind of lavish wedding she was given. Now he seemed to be fed up. Was there an external factor? Was there anyone instigating him? She was confused. Was he planning to rape her? Oh no! What would she do?
She went to his room. They slept in different rooms. It was not locked. She did not know what she was looking for. She began to carefully ransack the room, making sure she replaced the things she moved. She searched for a while and found nothing extraordinary. He was a lover of perfumes, wristwatches and designer clothes.
She saw his results and realized that it was true when he said he was not academically good. He only managed to graduate. She also saw family pictures, since childhood. She was now sure he had nothing to do with Justin. The similarities were just coincidences.
She was about to go out when she saw a picture in between a magazine. She checked it and got a shocker of her life. It was him and Addy standing in New-York.
What? He never told her he knew her cousin. Wait! Justin told her that he lived with Uncle Abbas. Why did they have the same mark? Why was Justin scared of letting them know he was alive.
She thought for a while. She remembered when she accused Kacha and said, “so you killed him! You killed him!!” “No ,we did not. ”Kacha had said. “We need the PDA. You know better those who killed him. It is not our business. We had no reason to kill him.” You know better those who killed him! Was Uncle Abbas involved?
Was it Addy that told Jubril about Justin and he used the information to act like him? Was Jubril involved with them? Why did he not tell her that he knew her cousin?
A mysterious cousin at that! She searched the room again and saw a small diary. She knew what she was doing was wrong but something did not just feel right. She began to flip through the pages. It was a normal diary of a young man. Jubril was not related to Justin, she was now sure of this.
Then she saw something he wrote which was of recent. I asked Tony to find a guy named Justin Abbas. He came out with my friend’s profile. I meant another Justin Abbas.
In another part, he wrote: My wife won’t let me touch her. Who is this Justin? Why do I feel my friend Addy knows him? Then he wrote: I decided to give my wife one more month, if she does not see her Justin, I will cancel the deal.
She returned the diary and left the room, making sure everything was back in place. She went back to her room more confused. Jubril did not know about Justin but he was curious. Addy did not tell him. Then it was just coincidence but they were not that similar.
They had a lot of physical differences. It was just a few words and ideas that coincided and that feelings she had when she met him. But she saw his pictures while growing up. Justin could not have had such pictures. He was nineteen when he was shot and never met his parents. Then the bitter idea that Justin may be dead began to dawn on her.
She felt her eyes becoming watery. No, it was almost four years. Justin would not be alive and not look for her. Her love for him may have erupted those feelings she felt about him being alive. But she was not ready to succumb to Jubril’s demands.
Being married to him alone was heart breaking already not to talk of letting him take her to bed. But what was his plan? Was he planning to rape her? Could Jubril do such a thing?
She was going to put up a fight. Should she run away? What would she say? He was her husband and she had noticed that Ummi was studying her the last time they met. When a girl got married, the next thing was she became a specimen. She dared not say she had a headache. The slightest change in her would be interpreted to mean something else.
The other day, she told Mercy who just got married that she felt weak, and she was like, ‘Very good. Use PT first before seeing the doctor’. Very soon, her mother might ask, hope there was no problem?
So who would she tell that she had not lay on her husband’s bed because she was hoping her ex who was thought to have died may come back. That was something nobody would understand with her. She would not run away. She would wait and be alert.
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