The second Wife

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Ngozi wept as the village youths escorted her to the evil forest. She pleaded and begged them to forgive her but even she knew there was nothing the youths could do to save her, they were just a group of young people following orders. Ngozi bowed her head in shame as the youths sang the song of shame for her, she knew every other person in the village who saw her were shaking their heads in disappointment at her.

The lyrics of the song the youth were singing told everyone what she had done and why she was being banished into the evil forest.

“They weren’t suppose to eat it, the food wasn’t meant for them” Ngozi repeated to herself as she remembered the shocking thing she saw when she walked into her kitchen that afternoon after waking up from a nap.

Ngozi, the second wife of Mazi has always been jealous of Mazi’s first wife Angela and her son, even though they had both been nothing but sweet to her. She hated the fact that she had given birth to two daughters and no male child. It wasn’t any news that the one who gives birth to a male child gets the most respect from their husband and Ngozi had wanted all of that for herself and that was why she had done what she did.

Ngozi had traveled to a faraway village to go collect a potent poison from a very powerful native doctor. The poison was so powerful that it kills it victims three minutes after consumption and yet when test are carried out on the deceased body, it would look like he or she had been sick for months, eliminating any form of suspicion that the person was poisoned.

She had immediately prepared a meal the moment she got back home and had decided to rest a bit while waiting for the son of her co-wife to return back from school so that she could execute her plans. But Ngozi’s little rest had turned into a deep sleep and by the time she woke up, both of her kids were laying on the floor dead, one look and she knew what had killed them.

Unable to bare her loss, Ngozi had screamed like a mad woman and that had brought the attention of other people into her home. She had immediately told them what had happened all in hopes that maybe someone might have a cure but the poison was a very powerful one and had no cure.

Ngozi had later been taken to the king who had ordered that she be taken to the evil forest where she will either be eaten by wild animals or die of starvation. It was a life for a life. Ngozi had killed her kids and would pay with her own life.