
07/02/2025
MY WIFE LOCKS THE ROOM EVERY TIME WE FINISH MAKING LOVE
CHAPTER 10
I didn’t drive back home that night.
I couldn’t.
I just sat inside the car, sweating, shaking, staring at that black candle on my passenger seat.
The same candle I saw burning blue in our room.
Fresh. Unlit. Sitting there like it had a seatbelt.
I didn’t touch it.
I didn’t even breathe too hard.
For one full hour, I just sat there, hands on the steering, asking myself questions I didn’t have answers to.
How did it get there?
Who put it?
Was it a warning… or a message?
I didn’t know.
But one thing was clear—I was no longer in control.
I ended up sleeping in a cheap hotel at Nsukka. No appetite. No light. No sleep.
Just thoughts.
The next morning, I drove back to town. Straight home. No more Enugu. Not yet.
When I entered the compound, I met Adaeze in the kitchen. She didn’t act surprised. Didn’t ask why I came back early. Just rinsed her hand and said, “Welcome.”
I sat down in the parlour and watched her.
My heart was boiling. But I didn’t want to fight.
Not yet.
That night, while we lay in bed, the power blinked off.
I heard her shift closer to me.
Then she whispered, “You don’t trust me.”
I kept quiet.
She sat up slowly. Her voice was soft, like she was trying not to cry. “You’re starting to act like all the others.”
I turned and faced her. “What others?”
She looked at me.
Long and deep.
Like she was deciding whether to lie… or to tell the truth.
Then she said something I’ll never forget.
“All the men who tried to love me… but couldn’t handle the truth.”
I blinked.
“What truth?”
She didn’t answer.
Instead, she pulled the cover cloth off her legs, stood up, and walked to the window. Her back was to me, her arms folded tight.
“Somto, let me ask you something,” she said. “If you meet a woman, and you fall in love with her… and then you find out she’s not normal—do you stay? Or do you run?”
I sat up.
“I don’t understand.”
She turned slowly. “Would you stay… if you find out your wife is something you don’t understand? Something that scares even her?”
The room went quiet.
No sound. No generator. No car passing. Just that thick kind of silence that comes before thunder.
I tried to speak, but I couldn’t find my voice.
She walked to the bed, sat beside me, and held my hand.
Her palm was warm. But her fingers were shaking.
“Somto,” she said again, “I know you’re watching me. I know you followed me. I know you saw things.”
I looked at her. “Then tell me the truth.”
“I can’t,” she whispered. “Not yet.”
“Why?”
She stared at the wall.
“Because the last person I told… died two days later.”
I pulled my hand away slowly.
She didn’t fight me.
She just stood up, walked to the wardrobe, and opened the drawer I thought was locked all this while.
She didn’t even use a key.
She opened it like it was never locked in the first place.
Then she brought out something wrapped in a red scarf.
Dropped it on the bed.
And said:
“Before I show you this… I need you to promise me something.”
“What?”
“Promise me you won’t leave this room.”
I stared at the red scarf.
Something inside it was moving.
Slightly.
Like it was breathing.
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