Pastor’s Second Wife- Part Eighteen

Part Eighteen

A Story by Ayodele Adeoye

I got home feeling even more weak and pallid. I hadn’t had anything to eat since morning neither did I even have time for Shina. The devil definitely must have rented a 3 bedroom apartment in my head to manipulate and torment me. I felt so depressed and disillusioned…

“Sister Mercy, where have you been?” Elder Omojola asked me immediately I got home. He looked tensed. Shina had been crying since morning.

I didn’t know whether to divulge the outcome of my laboratory test to him or keep it. “Keeping it for what?” I thought.

I told Elder Omojola that I was pregnant again for Deji and that that was the reason for my sickness. I was sure he was wondering how it happened and probably didn’t know how to ask me how I knew it was Deji. The proposed DNA test to ascertain Shina’s real father was slated for Saturday and even before then, here I was claiming to be pregnant for the same man. He looked puzzled and I felt the rage in him, as if he wanted to pounce on me. He nodded repeatedly as he tapped my shoulders.

“My daughter, it’s well,” he said as he stood up to leave.

I asked him to sit back down because I had another important confession to make. Elder Omojola’s apprehensive mood was vicious. He was already getting tired of all this dirty melodrama.

“What is it again Mercy? He asked angrily.

 “Daddy, it’s about Sister Stella.”

“Who’s Sister Stella, he asked. Obviously, he had forgotten who Sister Stella was. I took my time to remind him of who Stella was and carefully narrated to him everything that happened between her and Deji that made her elope. He couldn’t contain his shock as his jaw dropped in utter disappointment at Deji.

Very early in the morning, Stella arrived with her twins. She was shocked to see me with a kid and in Elder Omojola’s house. Elder Omojola had known everything about her unholy affair with Deji, and mine as well, so he wasn’t so surprised to see her. I didn’t know what or how to face Stella as I buried my face in shame. She looked perplexed as well… Elder Omojola sat us down and explained everything to Stella.

God would bless that man for me. He is indeed an Elder and a father who doesn’t judge or crucify one for her sins. Stella cried so much after she learnt that her best friend was now married to the estranged father of her kids. Obviously, she felt very bad and depressed.

It was really a festival of tears and consolation that morning. As we were crying and still finding a way to pacify the situation, someone knocked on the door. Guess who! The devil himself… Deji! He was in Elder Omojola’s house.

Deji rushed in but was shocked when he saw me and even more surprised when he saw Stella. He came to confess everything to Elder Omojola, how he compromised the DNA test result just to evade the Church’s Executive Council’s punishment.

“Sir, I couldn’t stand the humiliation. I am the father of Sister Mercy’s baby,” he finally confessed. “Please help me explain to the G.O and the Church’s Executive Council that it was Satan that pushed me,” he begged Elder Omojola.

“The G.O is your father and you will have to explain to him yourself, I believe he loves you,” he bluntly told him. To Deji’s greatest surprise, Elder Omojola informed him that the twins that Sister Stella was carrying were his kids. Of course, he knew he got her pregnant. That was the Genesis of this whole evil love triangle.

Deji fell on the floor crying and begging both of us… he didn’t even know who to face. In front of him were three cute children, all from different women but his wife. Elder Omojola wadded in and pleaded with us to forgive him, and then urged us to let go. Right there, he picked up his phone and put a call through to the G.O.

“Daddy, I have to see you this morning sir…” After his call, he carried us and drove to Deji’s house, asked his wife to join us in the car, and then we drove straight to the G.O’s house.

All of us arrived at the G.O’s house; it was a crowd of visitors. While we were all seated, Elder Omojola went on his knees before the G.O and signalled Deji to join him to kneel down too.

“Sir, Pastor Olumodeji is your son and your son has offended you. He’s here to tell you his offences and to ask for your forgiveness.” He pleaded on behalf of Deji.

“I am listening,” the G.O said as he put on his glasses. Elder Omojola beckoned on Deji to speak up. He started with a long sob.

“Sir, I am sorry for all my lies, I am the father of Sister Mercy’s baby, and eeeehm eeeeh, Sister Stella’s twins,” he startled.

Everywhere went cold; tears began to drop from everyone’s eyes. Everyone was surprised to have seen Sister Stella reappear with kids and even more surprised to hear that the same Pastor Deji was responsible. Tears were uncontrollably gushing down.

“Why? Why? Why?” The G.O began to ask Deji in disappointment. “I trusted you so much. Why? Why did you allow Satan to take advantage of you to do this?” For almost an hour, it was all about ‘why’ from the G.O. Deji was forced to resign as a pastor. He was also discovered to have embezzled church funds to the tune of N10.7 million. His gratuity and entitlements were shared between Stella, Mummy Pastor, and I. I took my own share of the gratuity, rented a small apartment and also started a business. I couldn’t continue in that church again because of the damage caused by my action. When Deji resigned, almost half of the members of the church left. Today, the church is a shadow of itself. A church that previously held two services every Sunday now struggles with 100 members. Right now, Deji is very sick and has partial stroke. Mummy Pastor later conceived and gave birth to a baby girl.

Don’t pity me because I have settled with God and He has forgiven me. My advices to women reading my story are:

1. Don’t collaborate to cover sin.

2. Don’t ever think any pastor is immune to temptation.

3. Don’t keep quiet for too long when things are going wrong.

Someone asserted: “I agree with 1 Timothy 5:20: Rebuke all those who commit sin so others would refrain. This is the mistake the church has been making. Our reputation keeps getting tarnished. The devil uses that to blind the Church and uses unbelievers to point out the wrongs in the church; that is why unbelievers call us hypocrites. Expose them as soon as possible and those who are thinking of doing the same will run. People will respect the church more and fear God.”