Thread by @GbengaWemimo

It began as a harmless banter
He was married
She was single
He was the Acting Head of Public Relations in his company
He had assumed he was going to be given the role based on his performance
Suddenly he received a memo that the company had employed a Head of Public Relations and

He had to answer to her
He told himself the organization didn’t want to give the youth a chance
He assumed they recruited someone older and more he experienced
He was doing a fantastic job and he knew it
A few days later, his boss resumed and he was shocked
His boss was a lady

A lady who was five years younger than him
He didn’t know what to think
Was it a “We need more female in this organization” thing or a measure of how the management saw him?
He had no problem answering to the lady but he had a problem with nepotism
He was not sure she was brought

In because she was more competent than he was
He felt she must be related to someone or sleeping with someone
He wanted to resign but a friend counsel led him not to
“Wait a while...
See how things pan out....”
His friend admonished him
He listened and started working with her

She was a mathematics prodigy
She was also a computer programming prodigy
She was not a Public Relations material
The more he got to know her the more he felt something was fishy
One day he asked her if she was in a relationship, she shook her head
He smiled
He told her he was

Married but things didn’t work out
He and his wife were divorced
They had a daughter
She told him she had never been in a relationship
He said “No wonder”
She felt his words had a deeper meaning and asked him what he meant
He said she was uptight, socially awkward and impulsive

She said it was a price she had to pay for the gift of her mind
He shrugged and left the matter alone
The following day, around noon, she walked into his office and said “Please don’t take this the wrong way but can you kiss me?”
He looked at her as if she had gone crazy
She said

“I am sorry. It came out the wrong way” and left his office
He watched her leave and smiled
An hour later she was back
This time he kissed her
He had also been thinking about it since she made the request
“It was just a kiss anyway”
The kiss lasted for a few seconds, as expected

It was awkward
But neither of them pulled away
They kissed again
This time deeper and more confidently
It was a better kiss, by the time they came up for air, they both wanted more
She locked the door of his office and they had a kiss with all hands on deck
When they were done

She looked at him and said “I like this and I want to do more than kiss but I think I am losing my mind right now. I am definitely not thinking straight but can we have sex?
If we don’t do it today, it is probably never going to happen
He nodded
He told her to dress up
He drove

to a hotel and did the booking
He gave her a call
She joined him and they did it all day
That was how they started having casual sex
Nobody in the office knew
They met at some odd places and sometimes pulled some stunts in their respective offices
There was no “ownership” issue

He was free to live his life as he wanted and she was free to live her life as she wanted
Neither of them told anybody what they were doing with each other
Nobody suspected a thing
Then his ex-wife decided she wanted to give the marriage a chance
That was what he also wanted all

along
He wanted to be with his family
The divorce was orchestrated by his wife’s parents because of an event that happened between them and his own parents
He and his wife were not even at the occasion but he was told that his mother said something unflattering about his wife’s

Mother and his wife’s mother heard it
The next he knew his wife had been ordered back home and they were separated
When he was told what happened, he begged his mother to apologize
His mother refused and the separation led to divorce
He and his wife were victims and he had prayed

fervently that his wife would break free of her parent’s control and come back to him
But that was before the casual sex thing
He suddenly realized the marriage was too emotionally draining and stressful
His wife noticed his lack of enthusiasm with alarm
She knew there was a

Third party in the picture
She tried as much as possible to find out who the third party was to no avail
On the surface it seemed as if she was wrong but her instincts kept telling her his lack of interest was because his head was being turned by someone else
After three months

Of back and forth
She went on her knees in prayer
She had learnt her lessons and had resolved to do better in her marriage
What she needed was a chance and her husband seemed determined not to give her one
She asked the Holy Spirit to intervene
On the 20th of December, 2020. She

was told that the National Identity Number staff members were at a location close to her husband’s office
She went there
Her husband’s boss (She didn’t know this) was also there
Because the day was a Sunday, the crowd was not much but they were still about fifty
They got talking

Her husband’s boss took a liking to her daughter and that got them talking
She told her husband’s boss that she was divorced
She said she wanted to reconcile with her husband after dealing with her baggage but her husband had been unenthusiastic about it
She usually minded her

business
She couldn’t explain what happened that day
They talked for about three hours
The following day, her husband’s boss called off the casual sex thing they had
Five days later, her husband agreed to take his wife and daughter back

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