EPISODE 9

*Flash back….*

” Hey honey, am just looking at the accounts records Mulenga sent from Lusaka. What is going on there? A lot of money is missing” I asked Clara on the phone as I sat in my office.

” What are you insinuating Ben? Am your wife and the accountant in this your company. Why on earth are you accusing me of wasting money!” She screamed.

” You are wrong Clara, I just want to ask because Mulenga raised a genuine complaint of us failing to settle debts there. The business is going down just in the few months I have been away” I tried to reason with her but she went on shouting and accusing me of calling her a thief.

My marriage to Clara was all rosy when we first got married. She was so sweet and I knew I found the woman of my dreams. But something about her changed drastically after she gave birth to our son Junior Benjamin..

She became moody and some people from the company told me some rumours of her having some affair but I was not the type to believe everything people said.

My late father had taught me to always try solve problems of my home without violence and never to act on people’s rumours about my partner, as that would destroy us.

That issue passed and a month later, Mulenga who was the assistant accountant called me again this time he told me the company was going into liquidation.

I travelled all the way to Lusaka to talk to my wife about the money problems our company was facing. She had refused to shift to Kabwe saying it was a ghost town and so boring. Which made me travel back and forth on all weekends to see her and my son.

She however just responded in a way that made me start thinking twice about what people were saying of her building a house and making some other business with her lover.

That week we had a huge fight and I went back to Kabwe very upset. I stayed for a week without talking to her then I received a disturbing call, one Friday afternoon.

” Sir, your wife is right now lodging...