My husband's phone rang at 2am and the name on the screen was 'Mummy Abuja'

I did not touch the phone. I just looked at the screen until it went dark, then I looked at his face. Six years of marriage and I was calculating in my head like an auditor. The next morning I asked him who Mummy Abuja was and he said it was his aunty from Nyanya.

I am HR. I read people for a living. The way he answered too fast, the way he did not ask me why I was asking. So I did my own investigation. Small small. A receipt in his car from a hotel in Wuse 2. A second SIM he thought I did not know about. The woman is not his aunty. She is a widow in Gwarinpa and he has been paying her rent since last year. ₦450,000 every year. From our joint account that we opened for our daughter's school fees.

I have not confronted him. I am still weighing it. Because the moment I open my mouth, everything changes, and my daughter is watching me. Some nights I sit in the parlour after everybody has slept and I just look at the wall. Wallahi, I did not sign up for this kind of arithmetic.