CHAPTER 22
DEAR MRS...CHAPTER 22
YAKHANANI KUHLE MAXHOSA
My phone rings for the thousandth time this week. It's her once again I really don't know how to go about all this even my father wasn't much help when I talked to him earlier this week. I usually spen the hour I'm supposed to spend at her house here at work. I don't feel like fighting and lately it's all we've been doing. I sigh finally taking her calls I have to go home and see my father I asked that we go there all three of us maybe he'll advice us all three better than when I'm at his place alone.
"Why haven't I seen you Kuhle? Are we fighting?" Her voice is soft so unlike her. The past few days she has been a bull out to get everyone around us.
"I don't want to fight Liyana. I don't have the energy to fight." She sighs and it becomes silent for a while.
"I'm sorry. I just miss having you all to myself. Can't we go back to how it was before all this?" I don't want too. I can't imagine myself without Nise and the kids. I love the life we have together. "Do you love me Kuhle?" I keep quiet I don't know that's the honest answer. I don't know if I love her or not but I do care about her that's one thing I'm sure of.
"You love her more than me if you ever loved me to begin with. I should've known when you didn't care about my feelings when you wanted to marry her. Why can't I just unlove you Kuhle. You're hurting me. When.was the last time you took me out? Or even made an effort to make me happy? It's always about your Nise oko oko. What about mna nabantwana bam?"
"I didn't say I don't love you Liyana. I love you and our kids don't doubt that." She sighs I can tell she's crying with the sniffs here and there.
"I'll see you when we get to your father's house." My heart breaks for her. I just lied maybe I should've left her before pursuing Nise but then I thought I loved her. Who could blame me? I didn't know what love felt like. I could never differentiate between loving someone and being in love with someone.
I want what I have for her. I know I'll never be able to love her like she deserves maybe it's high time I let her go. I take my phone and go through my contacts. I land on his number an old friend of mine that just came into the country. He's way younger than I am but he's a giant in law.
"Maxhosa fancy hearing from you." I shake my head his bold voice domineering even in a phone call. He's the type that commands respect and attention without uttering a word. I guess that's what you get for being a legend in law.
"Ndyebo I need your help in something. "
"I'm listening. "
"I want to get a divorce but we're married in community of property can you help me out in dividing our things." He whistles before laughing out loud ohh I know I'm fucked I'm just greatful my father hasn't given us shares to the company yet and it's still a few more years before he does. I'm greatful for that.
"Please tell me the company isn't in your name."
"None of them are. I only have properties and my life's savings." It's alot of money. It could set an infants life until they're in their late sixties and that's if they're not reckless with money.
"That's better. Draft me everything you own and how much you want to give to her. Make it good so she can be able to sign without dragging it to court."
LIYANA MAXHOSA
I have always wanted a family. A man who loves me and kids with a blooming career and when I met Kuhle I wanted him in my life. He was troublesome back then. Always with that and any other girl. His reputation was known but when we started talking I saw a different side of his. He believed inlove and family. He wanted exactly what I wanted in life and we just became one. He never told me he loved me on the years of us dating but he did I felt it and when he told me a week before our marriage I was content.
It didn't matter that my sister told me he doesn't love me like that. All I saw was a man who was ready for me and our dreams to be realized. Ohh did we not? We became that couple and we were that couple for as long as I can remember.
When Kj was born things changed there was less ***, less communication but we still held on together because we knew what the goal was. I knew he didn't want to fail in his marriage like his father did. It's a fear that has stayed in him until today.
Then Zikho came along things went from bad to worse. Then we started therapy it helped we rekindled that old flame but he just wasn't the same anymore. There was that longing in him. When he started seeing her it was obvious. He became more lively but I was oblivious to all that because I wanted to believe he loved me and only me.
I walk inside her house it silent but I find her in the lounge busy on her laptop. I heard she's planning on opening her own restaurant as she should she's really good when it comes to cooking and snatching people's husband's. She looks up at me and smiles ever so sweetly at me.
She's innocent in all this I know for a fact if it was someone else they would be up and heavy fighting me back but not her. She just smiles at me and offers me a hug with a drink. She makes it so hard for me to hate her.
"Unjani sisi? Is the little one growing?" She asks as she closes her laptop and puts it an a drawer on her coffee table. She has a flute of mimosa in her hand as she asks me .
"She's okay last I checked. Unjani wena?"
"I'm okay but being a mother of three is hard especially now that Nina had to rush home for the week." I frown I didn't know that and the kids didn't tell me they just said she's been busy.
"I didn't know I would've came to help you but Kuhle didn't say anything to me."
"I told him not too sisi. You're pregnant so enjoy your pregnancy I manage with the kids."
"He hasn't been home." I blurt out. He came on Tuesday to see me but I started fighting and he left. He hasn't come by my house since then." You could've walked away. Told him you can't. He has a family Migcobo but you still went and got pregnant for him. As if that wasn't enough you stole him. I miss my husban but he's not there. All he ever talks about is you and you and you. Please leave him. I'll make sure he takes care of the kids just leave my husband for me."
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