Chapter Four
Title:GIVE US CHILD, OR GO
(Marriage With A Mandate)
Chapter Four
"Milfred.". She shook her head. and put her decision aside, going to the king.
"King, with the mandate which you agreed to, how are we going to do it?"
"Like?"
"Like? Will I fuck myself? Let me come down that way since you are now ignorant of what I mean."
"Youngest Wife, sit down, you are a queen, remember?" asked, King, in doubt of her character.
She sat. " A queen. What happen?"
"Don't rush words, be gentle when you want to ask a king a question."
"Are we going back to the discarded majestic life? After we have been living our informal lives?"
" We are not…but listen. Speak with grace, and act with grace…"
" To whose detriment?" she cut him.
"Okay, what is the problem now?" King asked.
"Princess brought the wife to you the first time and I kept silent. Your family held a meeting and gave two of us a mandate…or do you think it was just to me?"
"It is not," King said and to explain to her that he fully grasp what had been bothering her and her question, he went on, "I will perform my duty to you and as a king marry another wife if desired."
" Go ahead…marry as many as you can at your age but don't say you are tired."
She walked away.
King waved his head at the fire girl she married, and she was serious, damn serious.
Mama Sara rang the doorbell nonstop.
She ran down, mouth ajar. " Mummy you made me afraid!" she said, and relaxed, having seen her through the security glass.
" King, with another woman!" Mama Sara whispered.
"She passed here?" she asked because King did not go out.
"Barth drove her, fiam!"
"Is this how to marry another wife?" she asked, surprised, " Changing women like wrappers?"
"Men," Mama Sara told her," when they want to frustrate their wives, do it!"
"Hehe-hey!" she laughed and accompanied it with a clap of surprise."King!" she said and stopped short of saying she will take her revenge."let's go and see."
She took Mama Sara by the hand, running.
"Your Highness!"
"Shh! I don't want to hear!" she kept on running, both of them.
"Stay here," her voice loud and clear, as she ran up the steps.
Phew!
She cascaded from the flight of stairs as King, with suddenness, pushed her with the door leaf.
Seeing her rolling down, he locked the door.
Mama Sara heard her screams, ran, and swung her arm across her shoulder. They limped and limped, going back.
Dr. Isaac bandaged the sprained ankle and gave her painkillers and instructions.
"Now is my turn," said Mama Sara, as she came the next day.
She carried the ankle in her hands, rubbing it with the recommended ointment.
"Your Highness, my view is being patient till when we go and come back, this is wife abuse, it can't continue."
She was waving her head, lips, gummed together.
"Sorry!"
She nodded and felt relieved when the leg was let free.
" Should I stay to attend to you?" asked Mama Sara.
She shook her head.
All the maids attended to her before but she stopped their service. They can serve the King and do other palace works, but no more for her private affairs because of gossip.
It was recently she told Mama Sara why.
Not that she heard them gossip about her but she felt they do or will do.
"You can be checking," she told Mama Sara
"Okay, Your Highness," said Mama Sara.
The next day, she limped to King."Thank you Shina the king, wife abuser, that does not say sorry," she sat herself down.
King Shina blanked his face but his nose was twitching as it does when he has a lot to say but lacked the will to say them." Sorry? You saw a car, and ran after it…" he said.
"Swear, there was no woman in it!" she said, accusing him too.
" You know I have to marry another wife, and an only son, you know?"
"Yes, I know," she replied, there was no point arguing that
"And I have told you my struggle before I sat on this throne…let me repeat…my father had an illegitimate son who dragged this throne with me.
Minus people like Mr. Pat, I would have lost. So, if I join my ancestors today, the kingdom will relapse into war again. Therefore, understand why my relations and the chiefs worry."
"And you cannot tell them to be patient?" she asked.
"Patient, patient, till when?" asked King Shina.
"Okay, marry as you can, but follow due process. Respect me, and my matrimonial home!"
"I understand. But, will I take them to the hotel?"
"If you can't, then, bring whom you want to marry to me, and I will approve, then you people can go to blazes but, but my own time, don't joke with it!"
"I know, but for your approval…Queen, no!" King Shina was opposed to that.
"Even, it's a mistake telling you to bring the person for my approval," she said and pointed out why," Sara recommended Haggai, yet, she was scorned, therefore, from now on, no rival here!"
She limped away.
Mummy, they brought another woman for a king"
"She will not stay, I am working underground here. Just stay," her mum said.
"Just stay, isn't it? she asked.
"Okay, fight, but no divorce, let that sink in your head."
"Mummy you are not caring!"
"Shhh. You know your dad is late, your position there is for our benefit. Let it sink into your head too."
"Mummy, what did you tell Milfred?"
"Why asking again? So you people have not started? Start fast and don't miss your days with your husband, okay."
The line went dead.
"Milfred, Milfred," she said "now we have gone out. Let's see what happens…" she said to herself
Queen Lati in her insane moment changes her mind. She is such a capricious girl.
Mama Sara rushed in and told her a lady is with the king again.
"Again? Mum said no one will drag the palace with me, should I let him continue attempting to marry as many as without success? Without success because mum said there will be no rival here….No!"
She went up to put on her combat, and her sneakers.
She barged into the house, looking into every room and closing…turning, it was King.
" Queen why do you worry when there is nothing!" asked King.
"Worry me, I worry you, King…"
"It is sorry. What you call abuse was an act of annoyance," said King Shina
"So, it won't happen again?"
"Not again but let's not give room for trial and temptation."
"Myself, I don't want war," said Queen Lati. "Just give me my time starting now." saying that, she held his cheeks and kissed him.
"Hope am cooing into your ear how I love you?"
"Am surprised at your pranks to push me out?"
"How?"
"You don't want a divorce. You want me to run away on my own."
King Shina laughed. "Such a negative thought. If you can just stop attacking my visitor since you know I am to marry and as King, can't take her to the hotel, there will be peace."
"Okay, dearest husband…please give me the key to this room." Queen Lati demanded.
She had touched the handle before but was not satisfied.
"The key is not there?" asked King,
and both of them began to go up together.
"King, there is no need, I'll go alone for the second time," she said. It was like a relief to the king but knowing his wife as capricious, he would have followed her
Reaching the door, she tapped and announced," whoever, that's here, I'm the Queen, no rival!"
She announced it in a jiffy but clearly that whoever was inside heard her and in a jiffy, that King did not need to come up.
"Am coming," she told King downstairs but never came back.
What damage has she caused?
Will she later come back?
Of course, she said she can't run away from her husband like some women do and give King the space to carry women as he wants
So what will happen?
Let's go there.