My neighbor

Paula

I follow my mother's advice and do as she told me. Throughout the week, I try to be as gentle as possible with Steve. I concoct his favorite meal for him and in bed, I am very generous. Steve has always complained about me weaning him off sex ever since we got married. Indeed, before the wedding and when he was still Martina's boyfriend, he used me as he pleased. I was a sex object for him. But once we got married, I took revenge on him. We sleep together only when I wanted to. Now that I have to seduce and coax him, I give him what he wants, so I can manipulate him. He himself does not understand and he was very surprised at my sudden change

"Hmmmmmm," Steve said, looking at me strangely, while we were lying on the bed after a good romp.

"What's up honey?" I asked lying on his chest.

There is no doubt that he is surprised by my sudden change.

"You've changed..." he said hesitantly.

"Do you think it's bad?" I asked looking up at him.

"No, not at all. On the contrary, that's how I always wanted us to be." He hastens to answer with an enthusiastic air.

"I know I haven't always been a good wife, but I promise to try harder to improve myself. You deserve it, because you are the best husband a woman could ever dream of having." I say snuggling up to him.

'Thanks bb!' he replies happily.

'But you have to promise me something..." I replied with a serious tone.

"Anything you want sweetie!" He hastened to say.

'I want you to give up on your plan to go see Martina to apologize.' I said, giving him a pleading look, but in a firm tone.

"But why do you insist on opposing this? It could be our only escape route." he asks, looking up at me. I can see the annoyance in his eyes.

"Because it's very humiliating for me my dear. You can't imagine what that will do to my self-esteem." I replied making circles with my finger on his chest.

"But we no longer have any other solution. Look at your mother, she needs care and we have no more money to give it to her. Soon we won't be able to have enough to eat, not to mention that we are drowning in debts."

'I am aware of all this. That's why I thought of a solution." I said raising my head while supporting her with my arm.

"Which ?" Steve hastens to ask, with all the curiosity in the world.

"We have to sell the house." I answered calmly.

"But you are crazy, my faith!" He exclaims, getting up in a hurry to sit down. I do the same by taking a seat next to him then I tell him in a honeyed voice

"We have no other solution darling. We can move into a smaller house and I can trade with the rest of the money. We will move to Douala or another city."

"What if Martina also buys this house?" he asks in a worried tone.

"Don't worry about it, I haven't made any noise about the sale. The interested party is from a neighboring village and believe me, his offer is more than attractive."

Martina

Eventually, I accepted Larry's marriage proposal. For three years now that Lorenzo died, he is the man I trust now. Our wedding is planned in two months. In the meantime, I must first finalize the purchase of my father's house. I arranged for Steve and Paula not to find work, either in Edéa or in the surrounding areas. And as I expected, they took the bait. It's been a week since Paula contacted a farmer in the neighboring village. It's a dad that I helped with his plantations which were on the verge of bankruptcy. He came to LEES to ask for loans for his plantations. He looked so downcast that I didn't hesitate to help him. On the contrary, I injected money into his business without asking anything in return. He was so grateful that he told me he would do anything to thank me. So I asked him to approach Paula and put the idea of ​​selling his house in his head. Once he approached her, he had the task of finding out if he could buy a house in Edéa. And that is what he did. Paula has fallen into the trap once again. After two months, the purchase of the house was very well finalized. My husband has been a great help to me. Indeed, having approached the N'sang couple, he helped me extract information from them and even more. I learned that they plan to settle in town with Paula's mother who is sick. Thanks to my man, they ended up renting one of my apartments. This man has indeed offered to help them find a chic apartment that is not very expensive. Anyone would take the bait, as renting is expensive in Douala. And as I had expected, Paula agreed to move into one of my rental apartments. The goal is to monitor them.

Paula

Eventually, we settled into a posh apartment in the city. I still can't believe they let us have it for that price. Decidedly, luck smiles on us it seems. Mr. Ango who bought our house helped us a lot. Now I'm thinking of an activity that could make me earn money. In the meantime, I tried to buy new furniture, but Steve still plays opponents

"Don't you see that this money should be saved? We are unemployed and you are thinking of buying expensive furniture!" he shouts angrily. I admit that he already annoys me a lot with his habit of moaning all the time.

"Calm down Steve! What's wrong with having fun? We've had enough trouble not to take advantage of this money a little! Besides, look in the other apartments around us. All have furniture You want us to live among rich people like beggars? Know that I won't accept that." I retorted any lift by his attitude.

"You know what, give me the rest of the money here." He said raising his hand outstretched towards me.

"Why do it?" I asked angrily.

"I'm going to secure it in a safe place. Because with you, nothing is ever safe enough. You could well squander that money in record time." He replies, glaring at me.

"Since when do you care about our finances? I've always managed this side and it's not ready to change."

"I hope for you that you are not going to squander this money with your disproportionate taste for luxury. Know that you will have to deal with me!"
He concludes by heading outside. I hope he calms down very soon, because I don't like the version he's becoming lately.