Hurdles - Cindy (Book 2)

A week after my ordeal with Elias I decided it was time that I completely cut him off and if I had to do that the only way was for me to go to court and divorce him, the very thoughts scared me but it was high time I did it because clearly there was never going to be any future between us. I went to see a friend who works as a court clerk to ask for advise and direction because I could not afford a lawyer at the time and up to date I will forever feel indebted to her because she came in handy.

After I explaining what the situation had been like for the past sixteen years, she wondered why I waited that long but I couldn’t explain that I was holding on to the faith that maybe some day he might change.

‘I really hope he hasn’t done anything to the properties.’ She has said worriedly

I had thought of that too considering how sleek Elias was but then again all I wanted was just to get him out of my life for good.

My friend explained to me all the court proceedings and the kind of questions the judge would ask, she also told me what the possibility of what would come to my name after listing down all the property I knew of in his name and she told me to go home and think about it carefully.

I did think through, I sued him after doing my Mathematics and I asked the court messenger to deliver the papers to him.

At first he was in a panic state, he started changing names of properties and later failed to attend the first court hearing.

His relatives started calling and asking me who I consulted, he complained to his relatives but he did not come directly to me for reasons only him and his village people know of.

When they couldn’t get to me, my mother in law started saying as a woman I was supposed to humble myself and ask for forgiveness no matter who was wrong. But I had done that for sixteen years and if anything it did more harm than good so I wasn’t going to walk down that road again.

So I stopped answering all their calls and I told myself if he wanted to talk he knew where to find me but he did not come, confirming my thoughts that this marriage was over the moment he left and now he was just scared of losing his property.

He showed up two weeks before our next hearing telling me how he was going to give me what I wanted but I was not interested and when he saw this is requested that he takes the kids out. Somehow I had a bad feeling about all this but the smiles on their faces after seeing him was priceless, I couldn’t take that away from them even if I wanted.

So I prepared them and asked that they go his car car, I questioned where he was taking them and his response was that he was going to buy them sweets at the near by shops.

Again my spirit said no but by this time the kids were shouting saying they had to go so I let him take them. Ten minutes late they were not back, fifteen minutes and what was minutes turned into an hour. Worried I left the house and went to the shops but there was no trace of the kids or Elias himself, I asked the shop keepr if he had seen my kids and he said yes. In addition he pointed at the direction in which they had gone with Elias.

I decided to call him

‘Cindy you are one foolish woman, these are my kids and I can get them anytime I went.’ He said then hang the line on me

I was mad, yes he could have messed with me all those years but he couldn’t just show up in the lives of the kids like that. I had told him we needed to come up with an agreement with the kids earlier but he couldn’t hear me out, what made him think he had the right to just show up and get them? And so I wrote him a message saying I was going to the police to report him for kidnapping the kids and I would give them his number plate. I was not bluffing, I went back home and carried some money then started off for the police station bit before I could reach he called me saying he had dropped the kids at the shops.

I knew something like this would happen again and so I called the court clerk again, she told me

no woman had ever been made to pay the husband for divorce even those who committed adultery still were paid by their husbands in the twenty years that she worked as a court clerk.

With that I was encouraged and I pushed further I, was going to get my pound of flesh at whatever cost.

So the day for hearing came; he came with a lawyer and his elder brother and I went with my two sisters. I was the first to enter the box, I did the usual vows but at the back of my mind I told myself I was going to lie if I had to and God would just have to forgive me. I just wanted out.

I narrated the situation we were under as up to were he had moved out in under an hour. When it was his turn he narrated for four hours I had to ask for a chair to sit, I have never met a man who talks as much as Elias does. He said I was an abusive woman, I was violent, I beat him up and most times I threatened to cut his balls. God forgive me but I laughed when he said that and the judge and the people in the court room looked at me. He further went on to say that I listened to my mother more than him and he had to flee for his dear life. But God is God, he can never be mocked and I thank him because the judge was wise. She could tell that Elias was lying, I was tired of the lies and unfortunately for him it was a case where he had gotten so used to lying and he began to think he was telling the truth. It was both amazing and pitiful to watch.

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