By Yetunde Arebi

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 How far will you go to get out of a situation? The story below is narrated by a young, Public Relations executive named Cynthia who after an affair with a charming, young man went into depression for almost two year. How did it happened? Find out as she shares her story below:
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He was the sort of guy most girls dream to have as husband and I considered myself extremely lucky to have gotten him. He is everything that you will want in a man.

Added to that is the confidence and charisma that oozed from him. He was loaded to the teeth. We had met at a bachelor’s eve party of one of his friends. I had attended to help out with the food and serving being a friend to that family. Everything just clicked perfectly. I was a bit younger than him and I guessed I must have been younger than most of the girls he had been with.

So, I think he found it somehow fascinating dealing with me. It was very late before I realised that all those rumours I’d been hearing about his activities with women were true.

When I look back at everything that happened, I think he just wanted to have his fun and move on.

However, in my case, he did not know how to go about it. He called me his baby and treated me with much respect, care and love. He spoiled me silly and I was the envy of all my friends.

We had been dating for two years and I was going away for the service year when he proposed to me. I was delirious with joy. I went to serve, knowing it was just a matter of time before I became Mrs. Duke.

He would come to see me almost every other week, sometimes just calling after he might have checked into a hotel in town. In fact, we were almost as good as married.

After the Service year, our families met for the formal introduction and we were advised to pick a suitable date for the wedding. By this time, we were practically living together. I was playing the little wife while he went to work, just like married couples would do.

Sometimes, if he comes home early in the evening, he would take me out for dinner or ice cream. You know, stuff like that. He was a very romantic man.

I think perhaps I was too young. Maybe not in age but psychologically. Little did I know that all those times he would tell me he was working late, it meant that he was seeing someone else.

Or when he says he is going out of town and that I should go home so as not to be lonely, it meant he was bringing someone else home for the weekend. I would have insisted that we held the wedding almost immediately but he told me he was busy with a project and needed a lot of money to execute it.

He wanted to have his dream wedding and would rather wait for the money. Which girl would not like to have a Cinderella wedding? So, while I was praying and waiting for the completion of his project, I never knew my fiance had other plans.

You will not believe the shock of my life when one Friday night, a guy walked up to me and planted a kiss right on my lips as I stood beside my fiance. We had gone to have fun at a club in town. I had been so happy that everything was going fine between us. After struggling for what seemed like ages to free myself from this stranger’s grip, I began shouting, demanding to know what the kiss was about. Who the hell was this guy and was it supposed to be a joke? As expected, Duke shoved at him too, demanding to know what was going on.

You will not believe that right before my eyes, the guy told my fiance that I was his girlfriend. That we had been dating for over three years and had plans to get married. That we were together even the previous day at his house. Suddenly, he turned to me while I was still gaping with my mouth open, he accused me of cheating on him because he was not as rich as Duke. That with time, he will have his own money too to splash on girls like me. He said he was not surprised that I am denying him in the presence of people.

In fact, he had always suspected that I was not faithful to him but did not know that I could deny him because of money. I stated hitting him with my purse, asking him to stop and that he was lying. I have never seen this guy before that day and I cannot even recognise him if I were to see him any other day. Duke who had appeared to be in a trance finally woke up and sprang at the guy. The stranger raised his hands up in the air as if to say he was surrendering to him.

He said he would leave as he has accepted his loss, however, Duke should not believe any story I tell him. He also warned him that it was obvious that I could not be trusted and was not a good wife material, so, he had better use and dump me as well. He told him of the little scar on the right cheek of my bum insisting that we are lovers.