Lonely Women

Episode 18

“So you mean that even university graduates will willingly accept to be Gigolos?” I asked in disbelief.

“Yes of course!” Patricia said, “How else will they put food on their tables and besides, being a gigolo has a lot of benefits. You don’t have to wake up early and start hurrying to work or spending hours in the traffic. All you have to do is wait in the nice apartment I’ll get for you and I’ll come over to get smashed and you automatically get paid. Tell me Winifred, is that not even better than most jobs?!”
“Well, I don’t know what to say. But what about their girlfriends? Are you not scared of getting caught and being disgraced?” I asked.

“God punish girlfriend!” Patricia spat venomously. “Aren’t our husbands already picking them up every Friday night from their various hostels in the university to spend weekends with them in their guest houses? Since they are satisfying the shameless old men, the least they can do is leave the young ones to us! Any man I have picked dares not have a girlfriend! He can’t be using my money to take care of some stupid little girl. I’m not sharing him at all. If he wants to sleep with a younger girl, he should do that after I have disposed of him! I just can’t risk any infections.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.

“I take my men for a STD or HIV test before we dig. If he’s to service me, he must be clean. Anytime I catch him with another girl, I’ll make sure I accuse him of fraud and let him at least spend a month in jail to teach him a lesson not to mess with me next time.”
I swallowed hard as I thought of Steve. He had been sleeping with different girls before he slept with me and he had never used protection on me. It caused fear in me and I dreaded if I had already contracted a disease from him.

“Amarachi…” Patricia began mischievously. “That Akpan guy can sU-Ck o…”

“Ehn-ehn, and so?” Amarachi gave her a disgruntled look.

“You know that being given head is my weak point na, can you just lend him to me once in a week, please na, for the sake of our friendship.” Patricia said.

“Something is wrong with you.” Amarachi stated. “Do I borrow your own man? If you know that Sani can not service you anymore, go for someone else. As for that Akpan, I’m not sharing him, not even with his wife because I’ve already forbidden him from sleeping with her.”

“You are too selfish!” Patricia said and we all laughed.