The Wife and the Mistress

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It’s been six years since Anna was sent to prison and as everyday went by, she regretted ever attacking Mary at her home that day. Anna’s husband, Derrick had left his phone on the couch to go get a drink in the fridge at the kitchen when a text popped up on his screen.

“Today was really stressful, hope you got home safe.” Anna read the text which had a smiling emoji with it.

Before Derrick could come out of the kitchen with his drink, she had already left the house and by the time she got back, she had bloods on her hand. Derrick had immediately called 911 the moment Anna told him what she had done to Mary, Derrick’s coworker who had sent him that text.

It didn’t take long before the police came to arrest Anna as they said the case was one of attempted murder, Anna had hit Mary so hard that if the ambulance hadn’t arrived the time it did, she probably would have have lost her life.

Derrick and Anna quarreled alot and most times, Anna always attacked him. He knew she had anger issue but never did he think she would go over to that extent to do what she did.

Anna was arraigned before a judge and was sent to twenty-five years in prison without parole, that was when Derrick made up his mind. All through his three years of being married to Anna, never had he cheated on her. The text from Mary had been a way of Mary showing that she cared after both of of them had the most hectic day at work that day. He wasn’t having an affair and he would have explained it to Anna if only she had waited for another five seconds before stepping out of the house for her solo mission.

Six months in prison, Derrick finally decided it was time his lawyer gave the divorce papers to Anna. The thought of divorcing her was always somewhere at the back of his mind, it was as if he was waiting for a sign to carry on with it and Anna gave him that sign.

About a year later and Derrick was saying his vows to Mary. They had both bounded at the hospital after he had visited her multiple times and spent every moment of free time he had with her. At first it wasn’t easy as Mary wanted nothing to do with him or his psychotic wife but after Derrick explained everything to her and told her about his plans to divorce Anna, she had finally allowed him come close to her.


“Derrick, do you take this woman to be your wife, to live together in (holy) matrimony, to love her, to honor her, to comfort her, and to keep her in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, for as long as you both shall live?"

“I do.”

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Anna had attacked Mary when she had nothing to do with her husband, well now she does have something to do with her husband and there’s nothing Anna can do about it.


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