I AM HIS ONLY LOVE

"And you expect me to accept that, when you just told me you are going to tell me everything? please tell me you don't want to talk about it and I'll be okay, than telling me it nothing and I shouldn't worry about it." Enoch said.

I could hear from his words he was angry, but I don't know why he was smiling from ear to ear, yet I got the massage he was trying to give me so, I decided to talk, to let him know the little I can tell him.

"Please don't judge me after what am going to tell you. I think I might be paranoid but, I just don't like them, I feel they can hurt me so I turn to get scared whenever I see them." I started talking.

" Okay, but what makes you think I'll judge you? I won't so just go on, and don't be scared to tell me anything. They say it good to share your problems with strangers, because they know nothing about you and no one to tell, and not friends who will gossip about you after listening to you." Enoch said, encouraging me to talk.

" They are both my uncles, one from my mother's side and the other from my father's side, but all of them are not good to me, especially the one from my mother's side, he's a devil, and I really hate him, I think I'll forever do." I said, trying not to remember the past.

" Why so much hatred, what did he do to you that can make you hate him forever, do you want to share?" Enoch asked and I just nob my head.

It not like he was forcing me to talk, but it was a bit difficult for me to talk about it, and because of that, non of my family members know this except for him who hurt me, not even my mother.

" I..... I was almost.. raped by him." I said in a low voice, with my head bow.

" What! who is he, and why did he try to do that to you." Enoch said, standing up from where he was sitting,

" Hay! calm down, am going to tell you but I won't tell you who he is, at least not now, and I want you to just listen, and don't be angry okay." I said, making him sit back beside me on the stone.

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" I was a naive girl who had just completed high school, so I went to him at his office to see if he had any job opportunities for me, he was very busy that day so he asked me to go see him in his house during the weekend.

I was so excited and I didn't even think of anything bad, because he is my uncle and he is married with children that, some were even my age, so why would I think bad of him when he's family.

I got there and no one was in the house but him and his body guards. Thank God one of the guards was a brother of my school mate who thought of me as a friend. He was the one who showed me to the leaving room.

Just then my uncle came and sent him to God knows where, leaving me alone with him. He offered me some drink and told me he'll be joining me soon, so I nob my head, took the drink and was about to drink but my eyes saw something in it.

Some white substance that looks like particles of a tablet was at the surface of the drink near the glass. I thought it was dirt so I throw the drink away and lay in the sofa waiting for my uncle to come. He took a while so I almost drift off to sleep before he came.

I felt a hand on me and fingers tracing my laps. lucky me, I was in jeans, so I wanted to know what the person is going to do so I'll catch him red hand and report to my uncle, but it was a mistake I'll never repeat.

The fingers tried opening the bottom on my jeans so I heled the hand and open my eyes, but I got the shock of my life. The one I was thinking of complaining to, is the same person doing this to me. It was my uncle, who was trying to undress me, but why?

I tried getting up from the sofa but he pushed me back to it, so I screamed and straggle with him. But where stand my strength against a man like him who has been trained to fight, and works out almost every day.

God willingly, my screams got to someone's ears, the guard from earlier came back barging into the room. his actions made my uncle let his guard down, so I pushed him and run out of the room, not looking back.

But how can I leave the compound, my shirt was gone, tone into pieces by my uncle, I also left my phone and purse behind, and it's raining cat and dog so how will I get home now. Just then the guard came with my things and hundred me an envelope and a note, with a new shirt.

I read the note and it was a massage from my uncle, saying I should take the money in the envelope and not say anything about what happened to anyone, that he was sorry and it was a mistake, and I can ask him for anything if I ever need help.

The guard was already gone by the time I was done reading the note and I wasn't going back to that place, so I took a cab after putting on the new shirt and went back home, drench in the rain and my tears.

I got sick the next day but nobody cared to know what was wrong with me, thinking it was because of the rain I walked through, so I also decided not to say anything to anyone, especially my mum, knowing how temperamental she can be sometimes.

So I decided to get into the military so I can punish him when am strong, bet I was not lucky enough to get picked, so I joined the police service instead. And till now nobody knows what happened that day. Since that day, I get scared whenever I see him thinking he can do it again."

........ Present time.......

I narrated my story to Enoch, which obviously got him angry, but he was still calm, spacing out. I couldn't tell if he was even listening to me or not, so I decided to be quiet for now untill he say something, which he did.

" You are not done, so go on am listening to you." He said, still looking out in the open space with an expressionless face.

I knew what he meant, but I still wanted him to ask, so I can tell him that one too. "Am done, you were not listening, I told you everything." I said, not looking at him.

"I meant the other one, what did he do to you." He said with a smirk plastered on his face, so I decided to make it short for him.

"He didn't really do anything to me, but because of him, I almost got killed by my aunt, his sister that I was staying with, at the age of ten, and I can't seems to forgive him." I said trying to escape the topic. But he then asked with a prompting voice, " How!" which caused me to continue.

"I was just ten and I meet him on my way home from school because I was sacked to go back home for my fees. He gave me the money to go back to the school and pay the fees. But when I checked the money after he left, I noticed it was more than what I was owing so, I paid the fees and left the remaining in my back pack.

later in the day, my auntie saw the money in my bag and complain I've been stealing from her, so I told her where I got the money. But when she called my uncle, he said he gave me what I need to pay the fees so he had no idea where I got the money in my back pack.

My auntie believed him and decided to beat me with a wooden paddle used in preparing food. I black out after receiving dozens of lashes from her.