The Silent Vow
EUNICE ANSAH-AGYEMAN
THE SILENT VOW
Eddie looked over his shoulder and gazed at the stranger strapped in the passenger seat of his car. A woman he had vowed to love for better and for worse and had kept those vows until now.
Yawa was a beauty to behold, and since she trained as a beauty therapist, she knew just what to do to enhance her looks.
Her exquisite beauty and grace may have been the two things that had drawn him to her. She was fair-skinned with a well-crafted face, a pointed nose, a sensual mouth, and a body that most men would look at twice. Looking at her now, he wondered where the innocent, carefree young woman he had met and fallen for had gone.
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The dress she was wearing had shifted up a bit, and her creamy thighs were visible. In the past, this could have triggered a desire that would have been almost impossible to ignore, but today, he just looked on unaffected. The thing was, his mind was made up, and with him, that was like saying there was no turning back.
He was the type of guy who did not hold grudges, at least not for long, or got angry easily, but once he made up his mind about something, nothing would change that.
They had been travelling for the past thirty minutes, and not even a single syllabi had passed between them. Yawa seemed to be chatting with someone on her phone, and she was really into whatever they were talking about. He could tell from the giggles and funny faces she made as they drove along. It was as if he was invisible.
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Eddie knew he had been through hell these past months with her and all attempts to get her to see reason had fallen on deaf ears. He could take a lot of things as a man, but betrayal was not something he glossed over, and that was why he had practically forced her to come with him to see her parents.
Eddie forced himself to concentrate on the drive, and fifteen minutes later, he pulled up in front of the magnificent house his retired airforce father-in-law shared with his adorable wife of many years.
Mrs Worwonyo was the first to come out to meet them, her joy written all over her face. She hugged her daughter and son-in-law, and before they could walk up to the house, the old man also stepped out with a big smile on his face.
It was evident he was as fit as a fiddle now.
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He gave his son-in-law a bear hug and looked at his daughter still staring at her phone screen with a smile playing around her lips.
“You are just in time for breakfast,” Mrs Wonwornyo said when she saw the look of worry on her husband’s face while he looked at their daughter.
They all went inside, had breakfast, and retired to the garden behind the house. It was one of Eddie’s favourite places in the house.
Eddie could see the old soldier casting worried looks at them from time to time, but his wife was doing her best to diffuse the tension she could see between their daughter and her husband.
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When nothing she did seemed to work, she snatched the phone from her daughter’s hand, causing Yawa to look at her with angry eyes.
“What’s with you, Yawa? Your father has been unwell for a while, and you have not even bothered to find out how he is doing!”
“Ah, Mama, I see he is doing well. Can I have my phone back?”
“No. And what is this cloud hanging over your heads as if you are at the crossroads of your marriage?”
Yawa turned to look at Eddie with anger. Somehow, she was feeling coming over to her parents’ was a setup.
“What did you tell my parents? Is that why you forced me to come here today? I should have known better than think that you genuinely care about my parents.”
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“You shut up that unguided mouth of yours,” the old soldier cut in. “Eddie here has been calling every day since he heard I was not well, but my daughter obviously has better things to do with her time. When we call you too, you don’t pick or return our calls. Every time we call your husband, you are not home. And, I see you being rude to the one decent person who has honoured you as a woman. What has come over you?”
“Dad, I’m not here to talk about my marriage with you. Please don’t start.”
“Don’t start what?”
Eddie seized the moment to tell them everything that had gone down with them.
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“I’ve really done my best to accommodate her. I made excuses for her when all this started because I knew she has been through a lot. We lost our babies before they could make it to this world, but somehow she felt comfortable blaming me for it. I could take all that because I knew someday all that would pass, and everything would fall back into place. Then, I made a shocking discovery that made my blood ran cold. I still can’t believe she would go to such lengths to hurt me…,” Eddie’s voice trailed off, overtaken by his emotions.
Yawa sat down with a plastic face, not very sure what he was blurbing about. She was not sure if he had found evidence about her cheating, or he had discovered her plan to change the title and deed to a property she knew meant the world to him.
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“When people around you start behaving the way she’s doing, it’s time you count your losses and call it off. I regret to say this, but I can’t stay with a woman who can forge my signature and try to take something that’s not hers. I can’t trust someone like that with my life.”
“What are you driving at? What are you even saying?” Yawa asked, confused.
“I’m sorry, Mom and Dad, but I can’t continue on this journey with your daughter. She’s not going back with me. My family will come and do the needful. I’ll make sure she gets a place to lay her head and a substantial amount of money to live on for a year or two, but that’s all I can do for her. We are done.”
Yawa’s parents exchanged worried looks when they saw their daughter’s face going dark with fury.
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“You traitor. Is that how you treat me after staying with your sorry ass for all these years?” Yawa said, trying to pull out Eddie’s eyes.
“You betrayed the trust between us. I will never have believed you could be this calculating and ungrateful,” Eddie replied calmly.
Yawa tried to talk back, but her Dad shut her up.
“You are not denying you tried to take his property from him, are you?”
“What evidence does he have? He is just speculating,” she said as she took her seat again, getting worried by the second. She could not help but wonder how he had found out so quickly.
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“I have your application and the transfer documents that were supposedly signed by me. That is a serious offence, Yawa. Don’t try to downplay it. If I take you on, you and your accomplices will do time in jail. I can never trust you after pulling something this frightening.”
“Who cares about your damn trust? I don’t need anything from you, imbecile,” she shouted angrily.
Eddie realized it did not make any sense to argue with her. She was avoiding to answer the pertinent questions that were at stake confirmed his suspicions, and it looked as if she was never going to answer those questions.
“Whether you like it or not, you are still married to me. You can’t stop me from coming to the house we have shared all these years.”
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“Don’t push it, Yawa. You have no idea what I’m capable of. For the sake of your parents, I want to let this unruly behaviour slide without any action from me but don’t push me.”
“You are not leaving me here. Get that into your skull. What can you do to me, kill me?”
Mrs Worwornyo, who had been quiet all this while, looked at her daughter with worry on her face. She was just surprised at how hostile her daughter was to the man she begged them to accept as her companion. She wondered what on earth had triggered such senseless behaviour from her.
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“Your husband has levelled allegations against you, instead of telling your side of the story, you are here fighting as if you own the whole world. If indeed, all he has said is true, I will not fault him for taking a stand like that. Where did you learn to be this wicked?”
“I’m not surprised you are siding with him, Mama. He has bought all of you with his money.”
“You will not talk to your mother like that, Yawa. As it is, you are not giving us any choice. You are neither confirming nor refuting the allegations. You are only attacking his personality, and that is making matters worse for you.”
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Mr Worworno turned to his son-in-law. It was not like he blamed him much for coming to that decision. He was not new to this. He had known something was going on between them, and when he pushed, Eddie had told him what was going on. As a man himself, he had been surprised Eddie would take all that nonsense from any woman. He was even ashamed his daughter could be this callous and greedy.
“We have heard your words, my son. Let Yawa stay over for a while. We will talk to her and hope things would change for the better between you two. I know you gave her a long rope, but just give us a little time to have a chat with her.”
“Don’t waste your breath, Daddy. I’m not staying here. I’ll find my way back if I have to. I am tired of staying married to him anyway. He should take his house, his damn things and his filthy money,” Yawa said as she got to her feet, and without saying anything, stormed out of the house.
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The first thing she did was call Kwesi, a mate from high school who had come down from the states for holidays. They had been attracted to each other during the homecoming event and had since been spending lots of time together.
She walked to the roadside and picked a cab to the residence of Kwesi.
Yawa’s parents saw Eddie off after a long talk and were appalled by their daughter’s behaviour.
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