Mistress of Secrets (finale)

................The next day, Justice came back home from work but not with the children. His wife had texted him that he should drop them off at their aunts place and that they needed to talk.
He hoped it wasn’t what he was thinking.
He couldn’t lose a family he had worked so hard to have. He just couldn’t.
He entered and saw her sitting in one of the chairs waiting for him. For the first time, she looked sane and normal. She was dressed in one of her green dresses, her hair was tied up with a matching ribbon and her chin was jutted up in determination. The room was quiet and the A.C hummed softly in the background.
“Katherine.”
“Sit down please.” She said pointing towards the chair opposite her. He stepped onto the soft rug dropped his key beside her phone on the centre table and proceeded to do as she asked.
“Promise me you wouldn’t lie to me.”
He started to lean forward.
“Promise me!”
“Okay, ok.” He said lifting his hands as he shifted pensively in his chair.
“I promise I will not lie to you.”
“How long have we being married?”
“Fourteen—fifteen years”
“In all those years have I ever been a bad wife to you?”
“You have being perfect my dear, you know that.”
“Do you love me?”
“Katherine, with all my heart, and you know that.”
She wiped at a tear on her cheek.
“Who is the father of my children?”

Oh no no no no!
“Katherine, baby. Honey.” He said leaving his seat as he came towards her.
“Please don’t touch me.” She gritted out.
So he knelt in front of her.
“I am their father.”
With all the pain and hatred she had in her, she slapped him hard across the face. His face whipped to the side as he waited for his ears to stop ringing. Panting hard, she rose and side stepped him.
“You have being lying to me throughout our marriage; I refuse to continue to be insulted this way. I am leaving your house.”
That got past his ringing ear to be processed by his brain. He rushed up after her.
“Wait.” He called but she hadn’t moved, she was still standing there glaring at him.
“Please sit down.” She did.
“All I did was for us. So we could be happy together.”
“What did you do?”
“How much did Cha Cha tell you?”
“So you are still planning on lying to me?”
“No, of course not.”
“I want to hear everything.”
For a long time he didn’t say anything, then he stood up, and went back to his seat.
“I knew I couldn’t have children long before I married you. It was due to an accident I had in my teenage days. I couldn’t tell you because you had many suitors back then and I was afraid of losing you.”
“What?”
“So for the first four years of our marriage I was responsible for our childlessness.”
“All that drugs I took, all the prayer houses I went…” she said in surprise.
“To think the source of my problem was busy holding my hand through it all.”
“I didn’t count on you becoming so desperate. I thought if I didn’t mind, you wouldn’t also mind that much. But you wanted a child and you were desperate about it too. So one day I met a guy at the basket ball court I frequented and we got talking.”
He looked up at his wife then.
“Cha Cha had no right to have told you.” He said desperately.
“You weren’t supposed to ever know.” He muttered.
“I am listening.” She said eyes wide with pain and unshed tears.
“I made you get that app in your phone, and I was able to track when you were most fertile.” He was quiet for a long time murmuring how she wasn’t ever supposed to know.
“Then I drugged you and invited him over.” He said in a small voice, never meeting her eyes.
Katherine slid off the chair and wept in her hands.
“To think I was so happy when I found out I was pregnant.” She said amidst gasps.
“I am so sorry.”
Then she stopped to gape at him.
“I have three children.” She announced as if she just realized it.
“They have separate fathers?”
“No, no of course not I would never do that to you.” He came to wrap his arms around her.
“Don’t touch me you snake! How could you do this to me? You handed my body over to another man, a stranger you met at a basketball court.”
“I am sorry Katherine. I ensured he was clean, all the time he came over; he was always tested before coming.”
“All the times he came over, my God what did I ever do wrong. No sane man does this to his wife.”
“I am sorry. I so sorry, but I did it for us. It is just like going to a sperm bank.”
“Without my consent, my husband gave my body out to a stranger. I don’t even know you.”
“I am your husband and if not because of that crazy woman no one would have known, we were happy Kate.”
Arms wrapped about her, she kept rocking back and forth. Then she asked.
“Who is the man?”
“You don’t need to know, I am the father of our kids.”
She nodded.
“What if he comes back for them?”
“He can’t.”
“Of course he can. And then we will become the laughing stock of this town. My friends, my family, everyone will know. Everyone will know what you did.”
“Babe, don’t worry about it. He won’t bother us. I took care of it”
“You took care of it how?”
She asked looking directly into his eyes. But he looked away.
“Don’t worry about it. He wont bother us.” He repeated, the anguish in his eyes starting to have a touch of hope. Perhaps she would understand and forgive him.
“That is not a satisfactory answer, I cant stay here and be humiliated with you, you can keep the children, because if Cha Cha knows and you didn’t tell her, then he did. Pretty soon others will know too.”
“Please don’t leave me.” He rushed to say, taking her hands.
“I will take care of her like I took care of him and find out who told her and take care of them too.”
“I want to know what you mean.”
“Don’t worry about it.”
She made to move past him.
“Okay.” He said desperately. Then he studied her for a long time and cupped her face.
“I trust you, I want to show you that I trust you, that is why I am telling you this. But you must promise me you wont tell anyone. You must promise me you will be strong, stronger than your usual self.”
Katherine nodded, tears sliding down her cheeks.
“I went to his house, and we had a few drinks, I slipped something in his drink and when he fell asleep, I set his house on fire, but I made it look like an accident so no one will ever know.”
“Oh my God, You killed him?” she whispered in shock.
“Yes honey, he was trying to blackmail me, always asking for money. I had to kill him. We already had two boys and a girl, we didn’t need him anymore.”
Her legs couldn’t hold her, she dropped to the chair. He knelt before her.
“You have to be strong, you need to get close to Cha Cha, try to find out how she got to know then we can take care of her and whoever told her. We are family Kate, we need to take care of each other. Do you understand?”
“I do now.”
He nodded, seeming relieved. His eyes glinted with evil. She had never seen this side of him.
“You must be careful, that woman is very smart. We need to know who told her.”
“But I already know.”
He looked up sharply.
“You do?”
“Yes. It was the police.”
Just then uniformed men stepped out from every other room, surrounding them.
Justice stared at them for a long time, not comprehending what was happening.
“What is happening?”
“You are under arrest Sir, for the Murder of one Mr. Frederick Otegar. You have the right to remain silent for anything you say will and may be used against you in the court of Law.”
“Katherine.”
“You were willing to continue killing, weren’t you?”
“It was for us.”
“No it was for you and you alone. You married me without telling me about your problem, because you wanted to make yourself happy, you drugged me, your wife, brought a stranger to violate me, your own wife so you can have a child. Only God knows how many times, how many times you drugged me. And when you got what you wanted you went ahead to kill the man. And you are even willing to continue killing.”
She wiped at her eyes for the millionth time.
“Your confession was recorded. Cha cha not only told me you were not the father of my children but also that the police had contacted her and that they were trying to get you to confess to the murder. Apparantly, Mr. Frederick had mentioned what he had done to his sister, who saw you with him on the day of his death.”
“Move!” The policemen shoved him.
“I pray you rot in jail.”
Cha Cha stepped into the room after the policemen had filed out.
“You still feel I shouldn’t have told you?”
“Yes, but I am glad he was unmasked. Who would have thought I was married to a monster. I didn’t know you worked with the police.”
“I don’t…okay so maybe once in awhile they come to me for help.”
“I wouldn’t have believed any other person.”
Cha Cha turned to leave then paused.
“You will be fine?”
“Eventually, I would have to tell my children the truth someday.”
“Good, Secrets can be very dangerous.”
“Says the Mistress of secrets”
And Cha Cha walked out of the house with a satisfied smile on her face, one secret was out, on to the next one.
Behind her, her wolf like dog growled and bared its teeth at any one who dared to look at her.

Question: Do you think ChaCha should have just keep her mouth shout, after all what do don't know can't kill or hurt you and Katherine would still be leaving with the love of her life and her children. Or do you think Cha Cha did the right by allowing Katherine know the truth about her husband and even got him arrested.

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*Always Remember You Can Preach a Better Gospel With The Way You Leave Your Life Than With Your Lips.