He let go of me after a while and left me shaking. My back was burning, and I ran to the tap and let the water run down my body. I couldn’t believe Sipho would do that to me. This was not my Sipho.

He left and drove off, and I couldn’t believe he would leave me in so much pain. I went inside the shack and slept with pain and tears.

I was fast asleep when I felt a hand lifting my night dress. I moved.

“Babe. I am sorry, I don’t know what happened. I just … I love you Noma, you are my future wife. I can’t imagine my life without you. Please forgive me,” Sipho begged.

“Why? Why did you do that to me?”

“Babe, I lost a taxi a month ago. I couldn’t tell you that I was running out of cash, but I am making a plan. I’ve been coming home late because of stress. I couldn’t live with myself knowing that I couldn’t support you financially.”

“You’re not answering me. I want to know why you choked me?”

“Babe can we leave that and …” Before finishing his statement, he started touching me inappropriately with his other strong hand, taking my panties off. The other one was choking me.

“Can you please stop, Sipho. I don’t want to do …”

“Shhh … Let me handle you babe.”

I couldn’t fight him, so I cried as he raped me repeatedly with his heavy body on top of me.

“Yes! Babe, does it feel good?” Sipho asked.

“No Sipho you need to stop, you are hurting me …”

“Shhh babe, I am about to ohhh …”

He was now smiling, forcing me to look at him. I hated him so much. I couldn’t believe that the man I used to love would do something like that to me. He choked me and raped me on the same day. He promised to love, protect and care for me, but right now he was swallowing all those promises.

He got up and got dressed while I was deep in my thoughts and in so much pain, pain that I couldn’t describe.

“I’ll be back. Tomorrow morning, I want to find you here. That was great sex bae. Mncwaa.”

He laughed and whistled while leaving. As soon as he left, I packed my clothes and promised myself that, first thing in the morning, I would go to my parents’ house. As soon as the chickens started crowing, I was made my way out. On my way out, I heard a voice calling me, and I knew it was him.

“Hey Noma, where are you going? Noma!”

I started running as fast as I could, and I didn’t even look back. As I was running, I heard people shouting.

“Sis look out! There’s a car behind you!”

Bang! I was knocked out.

Tell us: Do you think Noma is safe from Sipho?