29/08/2023
The House Wife
Episode 5
“This is our housemaid.” Ali tells Kassandra as soon as he entered his house with Nancy following him from behind. Before then, he had followed Nancy to her village and she introduced him to her parents so as to make things official. After then, Nancy had packed all her property and loaded them in Ali’s car and followed him to his house. Kassandra was wondering what was happening but Ali has an explanation.
“You know you have been complaining of too much work in the house. So, I decided to travel to the village last weekend to look for someone who would be helping you to do domestic work. I travelled without telling you because I wanted it to be a sweet surprise to my darling. I’m sure you will like the girl. Her name is Nancy.” Ali said, pointing to Nancy who was standing in front of Kassandra submissively.
Nancy was shocked when she heard Ali introducing her to Kassandra as the house help. Ali did not discuss this with her and this made her to feel very terrible.
“Why is he now calling me a house help? I’m her co-wife and not a housemaid.” Nancy tells herself in her heart. Her heart was pounding very fast in anger but she decided to maintain her cool so that her relationship with Kassandra, her co-wife will not start with a fight.
Kassandra was sitting in the living room, and she was drinking wine and watching Zee World as usual. Her relationship with Zee World is so deep and tight that it could take death to stop her from watching the station. The wine in her glass cup has a red colour and she used the cup to gesture as she opened her mouth talked.
“But she is pregnant. How can you bring a pregnant woman into the house to work as a maid? Didn’t you see any other person? Is she the only person in the village?” Kassandra asked.
“This one is related to me. Nancy is actually a daughter to my late uncle.” Ali said. He knew he was lying but he continued to talk anyway.
“An old man of 75 years got her pregnant and the elders in the vi