Family Affair

Episode 17

The Pregnancy

Out of fear, they rushed Marvelous to the hospital with an ambulance. This was with missed feelings of whether he should die or not. He had lost so much blood and both had already thought he would not make it.

“Madam, your husband was quite lucky. If he had been brought here a little longer than he was, he would have probably not make it.” The doctor in charge said to Constance who was with him in the hospital

. Not withstanding all that have happened, Constance still had that feeling of love for Marvelous.

Marvelous was operated upon and was to be discharged in a-week time.

Read ” Love-Life of Asante ” by the same author ( Ebony Story )

. Constance saw it as an opportunity for Helen to have the check up on her recurrent sickness.

“Since you have taken various malaria drugs on this sickness of yours, maybe you can just have a check up this afternoon when we go the hospital today” Constance said to Helen

Helen didn’t give any verbal response. She just nodded her head in affirmation because she already knew what was going on.

All these while, Marvelous was still in the hospital

. When he finally gained consciousness, he started to brood on the scene of Constance and Helen he saw and the fact also that he was almost killed by his own wife. After all, he also lost his temper and almost killed Helen too. So everything can be termed anger or accident. However, in all of these, he was still too weak to take any action. So he decided to get strong before he would do anything.

Meanwhile, the knowledge of Helen’s pregnancy has just gotten to Constance. “Pregnant, how could this girl had gotten pregnant under my nose” Constance said to herself. She was deep in these thoughts as she walked back home form the hospital to her house.

“Could it be Edwin? But the doctor said it’s being four weeks and Edwin had only come just two weeks ago” She kept on thinking to herself. This was when it dawned on her that the husband could have had something to do with it, as Helen rarely goes elsewhere, save the shop and the church.

After much threat and shouting from Constance to Helen when she got home, she finally yielded in and agreed that Marvelous was responsible for the pregnancy. At this Constance was devastated.