“You mean… you mean I cannot…” he stammered, unable to finish the sentence.
The reality was finally hitting him.
If Uju had triplets with another man, and Nkechi got pregnant by the gateman, then the problem had indeed been him all along.
Uju looked at him not with hatred, not with joy at his downfall, but with pity. She felt sorry for him. Sorry that his pride had destroyed his life.
“I was never the barren one, Chuka. You were. You just did not know it because you refused to find out. You chose pride over truth. And this is where it brought you.”
With those final words, Uju took her children’s hands. She turned gracefully and walked back toward her car. Her head was held high.
As the Rolls-Royce drove away from the compound, Chuka fell to his knees in the dust.
His carefully planned ceremony had turned into his greatest shame.
Moral lesson: Never mock someone because of what life has not yet given them. You do not know the chapter God is still writing.
Treat people with kindness and respect because life has a way of turning the tables when you least expect it.
The end.
