Family Affair

Episode 21

The Duty

“It pains my heart to know that, all of the time I spent training and bringing you up as any father would do to a child, was just wasted. You had just being a pretender I guess” Mr.

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

. Nnamdi said.

All these while, their mum couldn’t even say a word

. She was still in shock that her children had brought such disgrace to their families and were able to have committed such acts.

“Well, let’s get on with it as you said” Mr.Nnamdi said as he now straighten his face.

“Helen came home two days ago and narrated a story which we all could not comprehend that you had sent her packing out of the house. While we were still wondering why you would have done so, since she refused to tell us, just yesterday also Marvelous came here with another story.”

“His own part of the story seem so complicated. Since I have been born, I haven’t heard of such before. So we had to call upon you too to give us your own side of the story” Mr. Nnamdi said.

“How can I give my own part of the story when I haven’t even heard theirs?” Constance said as if she didn’t know what Marvelous was capable of saying.

“Well, as you said time is of essence

. To save we all the time, I will just summarize what Helen and Marvelous said” Mr. Nnamdi replied Constance.

Facing them all this time around, he continued “As said before, Helen refused to tell us what happened. All we know was that she was sent back home. However, Marvelous had told us that , you constantly refused to perform your duty as a wife. Which is the Genesis of all these issues we are here to discuss today.”

“What duty? What nonsense duty? Did he also tell you that he failed to perform his own duty too as a man? In fact, he is not even a man. Because I still can’t see why one who calls himself a man will get up from his duty after five minutes” Constance cut in, then hissed.

At this statement everyone except Constance put their heads down and Marvelous was in kinda of in shame.