“Because I feel it too, Inemesit. The same thing you feel. The same fire. The same pull. The same… madness.”
Her eyes widened.
“I did not know,” I continued, “that beneath the myth about Akwa Ibom and Calabar girls — beneath the stories of fire and flexibility and bedroom warfare — there is something else. Something people miss because they are too busy looking at the surface.”
I lifted one hand and gently wiped a tear from her cheek.
“There is a woman. A real woman. With a heart capable of love. With dreams and fears and wounds and hopes. A woman who deserves to be seen. Really seen.”
Her lip trembled.
“And I see you, Inemesit. I see the graduate. I see the mother. I see the survivor. I see the woman who has been used and discarded and has still found the strength to wake up every morning with a song on her lips.”
I pulled her closer.
“I see the woman I want to build my dreams with.”
She let out a sound — something between a sob and a laugh.
“Emmanuel…”
“I am not asking you to be my side chick,” I said. “I am not asking you to be my secret. I am not asking you to hide in the shadows while I live in the light.”
I looked into her eyes.
“I am asking you to open your heart. To follow it. Because I am following mine. And my heart is leading me to you.”
She stared at me for a long moment.
Then she smiled.
Not the wicked smirk. Not the performance.
A real smile. The kind that reached her eyes and made them shine like stars.
“Okay,” she said softly. “Okay, Emmanuel. I will follow my heart.”
She leaned into me, resting her head on my chest. I wrapped my arms around her and held her close.
For the first time in weeks, the silence between us was not cold.
It was warm.
It was peace.
I stayed with her for a while — just holding her, just breathing, just being.
When I finally went back upstairs, my wife was still sleeping. Still snoring. Still turned away from me.
I climbed into bed and stared at the ceiling, my mind racing.
I have found someone, I thought. Someone I could build my dreams with.
But then the other thoughts came. The hard thoughts. The ones I could not ignore.
How will I deal with my wife?
What is the best way?
🔥💖OGA I WAN KNACK💖 – EPISODE ELEVEN – THE WALLS COME DOWN 💖🔥