I spoke to my boyfriend that I was to see a stranger later tonight in a hotel. I was used to confiding in my boyfriend and it’s so bad he even knows the dates of my monthlies ‘cos he knows just everything about me. It wasn’t so much of a challenge to tell him that I met a guy awhile ago in one of my many outings. The challenge however was telling him that the stranger was coming to town today and I had only tonight to see him in the hotel because he was returning the next morning.

I met the stranger at a business seminar 3 months ago. He sat behind me during lecturers and we incidentally fell beside each other for lunch. He initiated a professional conversation which I found very bold. Probably because he’s not a Nigerian and he doesn’t know the law of “Don’t talk to a Stranger”. After the event, we exchanged contacts and promised to get in touch with each other to talk more often about business.

I am a finicky person by nature, and I do not leave chances. I went digging into information wherever I found anything about him. Lucky him, most result were in his favour, he was a brain in the marketing industry with plenty years of experience, very knowledgeable and he was married. I received a call some weeks later from him and I returned the call which was simply mutual.

For one moment, I didn’t want to throw the baby and the bath water away. If this guy was a successful business man, why don’t I just learn from him? I’m not saying there are no business teachers in Nigeria but an honest conversation with him on how he made it to the top shouldn’t hurt.

All these I told my Sweetheart and for the first time in my life I got a near negative response. I could taste the fear in his replies: “Why in the night? Why in the hotel room? I’m a guy; don’t you think I know what can be on his mind? Do you have to speak to him? I have someone else you can talk to”. At the end, he completed his response by being complacent. He said “Baby, I know you like me so much you won’t do anything to hurt me. Just re-assure me you love me and we will both be fine.

I understand Sweetie very well, it was a tough call for him to let his Angel slip into oblivion for some 2 hrs. Not that he didn’t trust me but he was only human and even though he didn’t say this, “He wasn’t ready to let go of what we had for 2 seconds, we enjoy every moment together”. On the other hand, I didn’t fuss much ‘cos I knew what I was going to do I had my limitations. He may not know much about gender behaviours but we females do have guiding rules which allows us to put our feet down in compromising situations.

May be if you stick around more, you may get to read the outcome of the controversial visit. And to my Sweetheart, my Angel, you will always be the one. Nothing can change that ‘cos I belong to you. Cheers!