FAMILY SECRETS
CHAPTER :3
UNEDITED
[MTHOKOZISI QAMATA’S POV ]
As I was putting my watch on, the thought of akhona’s disappointed face never left my mind. I never ever want to hurt her or her feelings because I am afraid if I do she will feel unloved and different from all my other wives that come after her, due to the circumstances we got married under . Why I say so? It’s simple, it’s because my marriage with Akhona is different, it’s an arranged marriage while my other marriages are love marriages including mine with Nandi even though the love is one sided.
My late father ruined me because here I am trying my best to keep up his reputation and the life choices he made for me going .
Yes you got that right everything I am today was all my late father’s choices , decisions and dreams for me. I never wanted to take over the family business, that wasn’t my dream it was my late bother mthunzi’s dream, I never wanted to be a business man and I certainly ever want to get married.
My father was a man of principles everything he did, every decision he made was made after carefull thinking and planning just like my marriage to Akhona. My father the great Lukhanyo Qamata was the greatest and richest man of his kind and time , his money and power got him a relation with the royal family, Akhona’s family. He wanted to keep that relation going and strong that’s why he arranged my marriage with Akhona the minute he found out that the king and queen of kwa Xhosa had a daughter. My father and the king’s friendship was so strong that the king in trusted his daughter to him.
I was 27 years old when I was convinced into marrying Akhona and she had just turned 21 years old. I refused to marry her because, I didn’t want to marry a girl I didn’t love nor know and I wasn’t even interested in marriage or falling in love yet. But my stubborn father convinced me to marry her for the family and the business if I ever wanted to make him proud and be called his son.
A whole family meeting was held after I told Akhona who was preparing to be my wife that I didn’t want to marry her because I didn’t love her. The whole family including her family told me that we would learn to love each other after marriage and if I don’t ever fall in love with her I am allowed to marry another woman of my choice, the woman I am going to fall for as my second wife. Poor girl was asked if she was okay with it and she agreed but I still wasn’t happy with the fact that she had to agree to let another woman in her marriage so that she could marry me.
And that’s how my polygamy journey begun. A man with four wives that’s who I am believe me I didn’t plan this it just happened. After my marriage with Akhona I met a beautiful lady called zanele who is now my second wife, her character and personality attracted me to her, then there is zinhle my third wife our marriage happened after I found out she was pregnant with my child, a child that was made from a night that I was drugged in and no zinhle did not drug me her innocence was proven, she was just my business partner on a new project, she happened to be there at the wrong time and place . I am glad it was her that night because I had long time started developing feelings for her, the is something attractive about a woman who knows what she wants to do in life and that’s zinhle.
Mihlali my fourth wife, well with her it’s different, she is my childhood best friend after her I thought I was done with marrying more women until Nandi came, I know this is going to sound greedy but I had to have her, the was just this something about her that is unexplainable and it is constantly pulling me towards her beside her beauty .
Oh God if I start to think about my relationships with my wives I will be here for a long time, let me go downstairs and wait for breakfast while working on some papers.
[NANDI’S POV]
I was busy cooking a healthy breakfast while Mihlali kept me company in the kitchen by telling stuff about every member in this house.
“oh! and there is Akhona the first wife, well her character is unknown, she is a princess from a very well known royal family, she is quiet although her quietness kinda gives me the creeps because quiet people are kinda dangerous, she is also classy, old fashioned. Her character, value and principles and discipline might be old fashioned but her clothes ain’t. She is an old money woman. ”
” and the coffee that went out of this kitchen was made for Mtho by Akhona, only she makes mtho’s coffee in this house and nobody else , Mtho gave her that responsibility because he didn’t want her to feel different and unloved from the four of us that come after her became we are all Mtho’s choice except for her, she is our late father in law’s choice. Where she comes from cleaning and cooking is a way to show love and win over your husband’s love but here it is the Qamata household everything is done by the help so missy here wanted to do something by herself for our husband to show him love with the hope she will be able to win mtho’s heart. Mtho’s knew that and how much cooking and cleaning for him meant to her so he came with the coffee idea since he knew that the cooking and cleaning was impossible the Qamata daughter in laws don’t do that, we are not allowed to do that. ” Mihlali said in a short breath, she very talkative
” and what about wife number two? “I asked
” well wife number two which is anele, she is from a wealthy family, she and mtho met at a business conference in Paris and they hit it off there , they both speak the same language, which is business mtho is attracted to women that speak the same language as him and before you think he is a man slut just know the are few women in this world that speak the same language as that man. ”
” wife number three zinhle well her story and entry is unique. Mtho impregnated her by accident. ”
” by accident? “I asked
” well the story goes like this, zinhle was working with mtho as his business partner, it was supposed to be zinhle’s father who was going to be working with mtho but her father handed the project over to her to work on. Everything started fine until the day mtho got drugged, he was in a different city away from both of his wives so non of them could help him get over his urge to have s*x and if he didn’t have s*x in 6 hours he would have been in a vegetable state as we speak because the drug was too strong and dangerous. According to mtho’s explain he had no choice but to ask zinhle for help he promised to compensate her for her troubles, she agreed but not because of the money she was promised but because she had long time started developing feelings for mtho including mtho. They did the deed and the next morning Akhona caught them in bed, mtho explained everything and Akhona started blaming zinhle and accused her of drugging her husband. ”
” well didn’t she drug him? “I asked
” no zinhle was innocent even I can testify to that, girls started drugging mtho way before zinhle came into the picture trust me I know. ”
” how do you know? ” I asked
” because I always saved his ass in high school from those jezabels. ”
” you went to high school with mtho? “I asked and she nodded
” then how come you became wife number four and not one or two? “I asked
” oh silly mtho and I were friends, just friends, we became friends after he saved me from the boys in my class, he was a senior and I was a junior. Our friendship became so strong that our parents became friends because of that. Mtho finished high school before me but he didn’t stop coming to pick me up from high school until I finished high school and went to a different city to further my studies and after I was done I started working in that city until my dad fell sick and I had to come back home. When I came home and my dad was in hospital I found mtho in the hospital already taking care of my mom and dad and since from there we have been inseparable. ”
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