Call Me Adam

by Kelechi Umu

Adeboye Adebisi has never put a foot wrong. He was a good boy who became a good man and for as long as anyone can remember, Boye has been the kind of man mothers pray their daughters will marry. A devoted Christian. A respected professional. A faithful husband. A quiet man who has spent a lifetime doing everything right. Then his wife actions announces his carefully built life were only tussocks in a marsh. After more than a decade together, Boye Adeboye discovers that the three children he has raised and loved as his own were never biologically his. Humiliated but unwilling to destroy the only family he has ever known, he asks only for a quiet divorce. Cynthia has no intention of giving him one. She has never been known to let go of anything valuable, and she has leverage. Because she knows the one secret capable of destroying the country's most admired gentleman. When Cynthia begins feeding whispers about how her husband is impotent, full of secrets, and hiding far darker truths than anyone suspects, his carefully constructed life begins to unravel beneath the relentless mixture of lies and half-truths. As his sterling reputation gives way to suspicion and public sympathy dissolves to judgement, Cynthia receives a reintroduction to the man she’d married and begins to realise she might have stirred a storm so powerful it may destroy them both.