Slow Poison

A Lilea’s Blog reader narrated this particular story, he wants it shared and in any case hopes that the parties concerned will know the truth about their father. The story is about his uncle’s family.

Uncle Lewis was married to Aunty Kelly and they lived somewhere in Lagos in the early nineties. They were a very happy couple or appeared so to all who knew them, but when the marriage suddenly hit the rocks it was clear to all that “All that glitters is not gold”.

Rumour had it that the housemaid alerted uncle Lewis that his wife aunty Kelly was adding a strange substance to every food that she served him, he did not believe at first but when he hid in a corner in the kitchen as suggested by the housemaid, he saw for himself that his dear wife was adding something to his food. It wasn’t clear what it was for as Aunty Kelly never revealed if they were love portions or out rightly slow poison to kill him gradually but she struggled to get it back .

When Uncle Lewis seized the substance, she even bit his arm but he was stronger than her and so he held on to the substance and took it to show his father and other kinsmen.  He was advised to immediately run for his dear life.

Uncle Lewis moved out of their home, leaving Aunty Kelly with their three children but he never stopped taking care of his responsibilities, he constantly sent money to his estranged wife for the upkeep of his three children.

A short while after the marriage broke up; Aunty Kelly suddenly became very successful from her business and this marked the beginning of uncle Lewis’s woes, his ex-wife taunted him to no end, and it was even reported that during one rainy season that she splashed water on uncle Lewis as he trekked home, she knew where he lived and she laid ambush for him, targeted a pothole that had a lot of muddy water and drove right into it with all the mischievous tact she had and uncle (as he was usually called), was all soaked in dirty water; he didn’t see that coming.
Uncle Lewis tried his luck on marriage a second time and fate dealt him yet another bad blow, his lovely wife died from breast cancer even after she had a mastectomy leaving behind three children.

He struggled on for a while both emotionally and financially, a lot of his money had gone into treating his wife’s ailment.

Uncle Lewis took a leap of faith and relocated to Abuja, it was in Abuja that fate smiled on him and he found his foot in a new line of business, he made a lot of money that his ex wife’s money became like a child’s play. It became like a competition as Aunty Kelly tried to match every car that uncle purchased.  With this bit of luck, he made a third attempt at marriage.
The problem now is that Uncle Lewis’s children with Aunty Kelly hate their father because they had been brainwashed by their mother to believe all sorts about their father.

When his very first daughter got married a few years back, Uncle Lewis was nowhere in the picture, he wasn’t told and neither was he invited. Aunty Kelly even fronted another man as the girl’s father to the anger of the villagers. The community mandated her to hold the traditional wedding in the girl’s father’s house. It was a quiet one with less than twenty guests.

After the quiet ceremony, Aunty Kelly organised another traditional wedding in her own family house in the same village which was graced by all a lot of top shots and most of the big artistes in the country performed at the event. Everyone was there except the bride’s father.

The seed of hatred Aunty Kelly sowed in their children is worrisome, they hate their father and do not want to have anything to do with him, and they were made to believe that their father abandoned them and never provided for them.

When the reader who sent in this story engaged one of the children she told him that their father hated them and he discovered that their mother never mentioned to them that their father provided every single thing that they ever needed, they were totally brainwashed.

He pleads with every Lilea’s Blog reader to share this story with the hope that the children may get to read it because they need to know the truth.

Their father is wealthy and does not need their money, he also has other children, but because of his good nature he wants a good relationship with all his children especially in his old age. He has not even seen his two granddaughters by his first child. The animosity against this supposedly good man needs to stop.