Chapter Three

Things continued this way untill Felix started writing his final exams in readiness for the university. He could no longer afford spending much time with his women but it did not matter to him.

The person whose opinion mattered to him was Gift and he felt she would understand having discussed this at lent before now. He had also asked his parents to go to Gift' s parents and make formal introduction as their future in laws. All this had been done two years previously. So it was a given that they w ould get married. Midway through his exams, Felix started hearing or getting wind of some incredible rumours of Gift' s escapades. He would not believe it. The other girls must be getting desperate and are spreading these rumours to effect a break up between him and Gift. When his friends started reporting these same things to him, he at first thought they were just showing off their envy but when it didn't stop, his concentration started suffering.

He had to find out if it was true so that he could be at peace and concentrate on his exams. A friend of his had asked him to lye in wait at a particular spot. So one evening he did just that and not long after that, Gift came along, he waited to see where she would go and was surprised to see her enter a place where he knew she had no relation living. He still gave her benefit of doubt. She must have gone in there because she was running errands for her parents, he reasoned. After a while she came out but not alone. She was in the company of the man who owned the house she had entered and he was holding her in a tight embrace. Felix could not believe it. Gift never allowed any man to hold her, say nothing of a tight embrace.

Something was terribly wrong. He followed behind them until close to Gift's house the man gave her a goodbye kiss and turned to go back home. Felix barely controlled himself. He was consumed with jealous rage but he reasoned that his quarrel was not with the man, though he dared to hold his fiancee intimately.

He stole a look at the man and his suspicion was confirmed. The man was none other than Samuel, the village drug seller. He sold all kinds of medicals in his shop. He was a short stout man. Very ugly and dark in complexion. He could not believe Gift would allow someone such as he to touch her intimately. Before Gift could step into her compound, Felix draged her back. 

first she was shocked to see him but she recovered very fast.' What are you doing here at this unholy hour? Are you not supposed  to be studying for your exams? She asked. 'I could ask the same of you. Where are coming from at this late hour and who was that I saw with you?' Felix asked. ' Oh that was Sam my brother's friend. I went to give him something from my brother,.'she lied ' Your brother sends you to him every night and asked him to hold and touch you intimately?' Felix asked. What are you insinuating? 'Nothing except that I have heard alot of rumours about you. I had asked you previously but you denied it and I believed you but I just confirmed that all the rumours are true. What have you to say for yourself? Or did you forget that we are engaged to marry?' Felix asked the pain evident in his voice. ' Yes, I am having an affair with him. Whatever you heard that I am doing and however you heard that I now act, is exactly what I am doing and how I am acting. What will you do?'