Femke didn't really like the idea of going to hide but she had no choice than to listen Judin if she doesn't want to stay homeless for probably the rest of her life. Even if she has another plan for herself, she has to play smart at first to collect the money he had proposed to give her earlier. She sluggishly stands up and puts her clothes on.
Judin is still sitting on the edge of the bed with only boxers, he bows his head in worry thinking of what to do and how to approach his wife. "This shouldn't be happening now that she would soon start making plans and taking steps to pursue her political ambition." He whispers in his mind.
A lot had just happened that day, he had quarrel with her earlier and told her he married her because he wants to use her political influence in the future and not because he loved her . Now, she caught him and the house maid on their matrimonial bed. The most devastating part is that the maid didn't act sorry or try to apologize.
"Give me the money so I can go and pack my things." Femke whispers immediately she finished putting her clothes on.
"What can a million do for you?" Judin asks proudly, he believes people like Femke would do anything for money. Hence, he plans to pay her off since he was done with her anyways. All he had told her about marrying her was nothing but a lie. The cares he has been giving her we just to always have use in his bed.
"A million?" She asks with shock. For good twenty two years that that she had been living on earth, she had never dreamed of having such amount of money.
"Yes." He nods. "What can it do for you?"
"I can get a well furnished apartment with that." She whispers trying to hide the fact that she was flustered a while ago.
"I will make it two million, get yourself a well furnished apartment and start up a business, live quietly until you get a call from me."
"Alright." Femke nods in a bit of happiness and sadness. In her mind, she had already decide on what to do. Immediately she collects the money and steps out of the house, she was going to end all sort of relationship between them, exactly what Judin was paying her for at the moment. That is the best thing for her to do, Judin is the opposite of what she thought.
He actually never loved her, he only found her very sexually attractive and used her to ease his sexual urge. All this while, she loved him deeply and thought he does the same too, but she was wrong. Judin is a man who only cares about himself and ways to always make more money. Though, he always show to deeply care for his children as he made sure he spoke to them everyday and provided them with whatever it was that they needed or wanted.
With her is a old fashioned traveling bag, she holds it tightly looking at the house again before she leaves forever. Femke takes a peep at the message on the screen of her phone again, still confirming the huge sum of two million that Judin sent to her some minutes ago. All of a sudden, she feels very sorry for Lola and wants to apologize to her for acting so stupid the other time. "I did all these because of love, now I have been put to shame."
She thinks about it again as she walks to the road. All these things she did to Lola, what would she have done if someone else does such to her? she could have pounced on that person and give her the beating of her life. But Lola, being who she is will never do such at all. It will speak so low of her and portray her as being petty. She is indeed a woman of virtue to some extent.
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Lola on the other hand, chose not to cry her eyes out anywhere close to her husband's house, she acted brave inside so she should still keep that energy and drive somewhere far from the house to cry. She drove herself out to the highway looking for a quiet place to pour out her feelings and cry to relief herself, luckily she spots a very calm street on her left hand side. Carefully, she drives in and parks her car well then began to weep profusely.
Why is today like this? All her life she had thought her husband really loves her but she was wrong. Her husband never did, he was even having an affair with the maid and making out on their matrimonial bed. This is so unfair and unacceptable, she thinks of using the opportunity to her advantage and asks for a divorce before he finds out she is even worse when it comes to extra marital affairs.
Getting the divorce now would be better, at least she could use his extra marital affairs as an excuse and make him take all the blame since he is the cause of it anyways. If she does that now, and give her children little time to accept the fact, she can later settle with whoever she was to.
"I thought I was the only one without dignity, but no I was wrong. We are the same!" She sobs.
She had sometimes felt sorry for her husband any time she was with one of her boyfriends, thinking he was very loyal to the end but she happens to be wrong. Both of them are piece of trash embarrassing and disgracing both parent hood and adulthood.
"How would my kids even react when they hear about this?" Lola asks herself then something else pops up her mind. "How would they react when they find out about my shameful and dirty acts too?"