The Witch Doctor's Wife by Tamar Myers

Author:Tamar Myers [Myers, Tamar]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-04-18T07:00:00+00:00

Second Wife had not slept well; the night had been far too cold for one thin blanket spread over three people. In fact, Second Wife had almost gotten up and sought heat amongst the bodies of her children, who shared another blanket. But it was Second Wife’s night in the marriage bed, and she was not about to forfeit a minute of it. After he’d performed his husbandly duties, Husband had lifted the blanket and invited Cripple to sleep next to him and share his body heat. And with Second Wife lying just on the other side of him!

Second Wife, who had been born and raised downriver near Charlesville, where the land was low-lying, had never experienced anything near this cold. Neither had she heard of a husband who invited a wife into his bed on a night that was not hers. And the nerve of that little woman. Did she not see the pain she caused her sister wife?

Besides, Cripple—who had been reared in Belle Vue village—was more accustomed to such cold. But if she was uncomfortably cold, she should have remained in the family bed with her sister children. After all, it is children who sprawl over their mother when asleep, unlike husbands, who roll in the other direction. Eyo, Cripple would have been much warmer in the children’s bed.

But Cripple was not known for her acts of kindness, nor for women’s intuition. The woman was selfish to the core, and needed to be cut down a notch or two before the family’s reputation was irreparably ruined. Perhaps it was already too late. For years neighbors had been making jokes about Husband, calling him Mukashi-mulume. “Woman Husband.” Didn’t he know he was the laughingstock of the village? As the old adage went, It is easier to grow a stone than to restore a reputation.

Well, there was one in the village who might be able to help. And yes, it was taking drastic measures, but the time had finally come for that, nasha?

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