It's disheartening that my sister married a monster in disguise of a good man.

I have always known my sister's husband to be a pretender and my summer holiday in their house satisfied my curiosity. While in their house, I always heard noise coming from their room but I thought they were having a nice time as husband and wife. 

I woke up one morning and went straight to get something from the kitchen, I saw my sister standing and staring into the space. I called her but she did not answer. She was in deep thought. I had to tap her before she realized that I was calling her. I asked her what the problem was. She said nothing. I noticed she was putting on glasses and I requested to know the reason behind the glasses she was putting on. She said nothing. I took the glasses off her face and noticed my sister's side eyes were filled up with bruises. I shouted and asked her who did this to her. She explained to me that after she took the children to school, she mistakenly ran into another vehicle. The driver was not patient enough to accept her apology and slapped her. Deep down within me, I knew she was lying. I have been slapped severally in life but no single slap has ever given me such bruises. I said sorry and asked her, “Hope you are saying the truth?” She nodded in affirmation. 

I called my mum and told her what happened and even let her into my suspicion. She advised me to keep checking up on her and carry out further investigations. 

Do you know what my suspicions were? I suspected my sister's husband was abusing her. My instincts and spirit have never accepted Alex from the onset. He might have fooled my sister and the rest of my family into loving and accepting him but he has never fooled me. Why? My spirit and intuition have never failed me. 

I continued hearing the noises like I do every night. One of the nights, I had to go close to their door to eavesdrop. Eavesdropping is a bad manner but I would not be blamed, all I wanted was to satisfy my curiosity. I heard Alex telling my sister to resign from her job and become a housewife. My sister refused and he started beating her. He beat her till I could not hold myself back, I knocked on the door and it took a while before they opened it. My sister pretended as if she was sleeping while her husband opened the door. He asked me what I wanted while smiling, I told him I wanted to ask my sister about something but I will leave it tomorrow since she has gone to bed. 

The next day, my sister's face was swollen as usual. I asked her and she was about to tell me another lie. I halt her and told her not to bother lying to me, I heard everything. I advised her to leave this marriage before it takes her life. 

My sister has always been a religious type. She started quoting the bible to me about divorce. I asked her a question, would she prefer to lose her life than leave the marriage? I also quoted the bible to her too. I told her that Paul stated clearly in Corinthians that marriage was not a do-or-die affair. He even advised us to remain single if we can. I let her know that she is not the first woman to leave her marriage nor will she be the last. If Jesus forgives other sins, he will forgive this one too because it is for her good. 

She started carrying profusely. She asked me what she will tell her children and what will the world think of her. I told her that her children will understand and that what the world will say should be the least of her worries. The world will always talk(both in good and in bad times) 

I let my mum know of my findings. She and my dad came the next day and took me and my sister home. They promised to come back for the children and filed a case against Alex. 

Thank God for the neighbors and some of Alex's friends that already knew how toxic Alex was.  We won the case. The court put the children under their mum's custody and requested Alex pay my sister for damages he has caused her. 

My sister thanked me and said to me “When things stabilize, I will love to open up an NGO to enable abused women to get enlightened and know how important it is for them to leave their abusive marriages”.