This is the
continuation of Josephine’s story started penultimate week. She was flown
abroad to serve Alfred and his wife Rose until something tragic happened and
she had to come back to the country and was based in Lagos because she vowed
never to return to Ikeduru her home town.
When Alfred hit Auntie Rose his wife hard, held her throat up
and threw her forcefully on the tiled floor, she landed on her head and
remained still. He lied that she tripped. But Josephine who was peeping at them
through the door knob of the guest room where she was staying saw all that
happened. She was the one he called to help him carry his wife into his car and
she was rushed to the hospital. “I was jittery and packed my stuff and ran to
Angela, one of Auntie’s Rose friends. I told her what happened and she too was
shocked. She agreed to harbor me pending the time Auntie Rose would be
discharged from the hospital. She was the one that told me that Uncle Alfred
used to have seasonal madness.