2024-01-24 21:00:14Abraham planted a waitress at the restaurant where they were to have dinner. She drugged both her food and drink. Tactfully served her, while leaving Abraham's food unharmed. After the waitress signaled him that it's done, he quickly called her from the point where both of them were sitting shouting and yelling. "What is taking you this long? Don't you know I have guest waiting?" The effect of what she used on her drink will take 2 hours before the symptoms kicks in. Abraham is aware of that and he made sure he was time cautions.
"What took you so long?" Abraham asked the waitress again. "I'm sorry sir don't be offended. It won't happen again." "It better not." he replied.Lina eat and drank what she was served and after a lot of talking to buy time. The effect of what she drank made her dizzy. Abraham quickly took her to his car and drove off."Today I am going to have a taste of you. You thought you are smart. All these years I have been trying to be nice, no never noticed me at all." There is a saying that the beautiful ones are yet to be born. But what will you say about this damsel? Even after given birth she still looks like a girl in her early twenty's. Abraham connive with a hotel manager. He brought her in. All through the night he rapped, assaulted and made a fool out of Lina. Immediately he was satisfied, Abraham packed all his belongings and left the hotel leaving Lina there alone.The next morning Lina woke up and was shocked? Where am I? She asked herself. She stood up, saw her cloth's beside the bed with a towel wrapped around her waist. "Who could have done this to me?" She had a flash back but still can't remember the last place she was before waking up. Lina's Sister called her severally all through the night, no response until her phone went off. Lina quickly freshened up and rushed home. Her sister does not want the kids to be worried or ask questions about the whereabout of their mother. So she dressed them up and took them to school.Lina arrived home after the kids had been taken to school. "Why all these troubles? I am tired. My husband is missing. I don't even know where he his. All these won't have happened if my sweetheart is with me." She said to herself. She went straight to the leaving room, called her sister to know where they were. "I am with the kids. I took them to school." Her sister told her. Thanks a lot. I don't know what I would have done without you. The sister asked. "What happened that made you not to return home last night? I was worried about you? It's a long story, Lina said. When you return I will tell you everything that happened."She kept on pacing back and fourth in the living room trying to remember what exactly went down yesterday and who she was with? All she could think about is her husband Justin. She turned on a song by Alan Walker "Faded""Music playing"You were the shadows to my lightDid you feel us?Another star, you fade awayAfraid our aim is out of sightWanna see us alightPre - ChorusWhere are you now?Where are you now?Where are you now?Was it all in my fantasy?Where are you now?Were you only imaginary?(Chorus)Where are you now?Atlantis, under the sea, under the seaWhere are you now? Another dreamThe monster's running wild inside of me I'm fadedSo lost, I'm faded, I'm fadedSo lost I'm faded.END OF MUSIC.After the song she remembered the last person she was with which is Abraham. She decided not to go to work until the next day. "It is obvious this man assaulted me. I don't have a prove yet but he is going to pay. Whoever did this to me must rout in jail."Her sister returned home and she told her everything. She replied by saying "we must get to the root of this. Even if this will cost me the last drop of my blood."The next day she got to work and the first person she saw was Abraham. "Good morning". Abraham greeted. We did not see you at work yesterday. Hope all is well? Lina replied by telling him she's fine. Lina later asked him. "What happened to me after you took me to the restaurant? Abraham denied everything. He even told her she left the restaurant after eating telling him she needs to be with her kids. Abraham said. "I never objected because I know what you are going through at home, considering you are the only one taking care of the kids."Lina started digging deep to find out what actually happened to her. "I will definitely get to the bottom of this" she said. The next day she went to the hospital to do some checks. She wanted to be sure if no damage was inflicted on her. The medical report came out and she was fine.Later that day she immediately went to court with her lawyer to get a warrant. Her intent was to gain access to the surveillance camera at the said hotel where she was assaulted. The court granted her all her request. The investigating officer went to the hotel for findings. One of the surveillance showed Abraham carrying her into the hotel. He confessed to everything. That was how he got arrested. "Justice is served from one of the numerous issues on ground." Lina said to her sister. They remained united and stronger as they have been since they were kids. She is her only sibling, a generous and caring one at that. "This is just the first phase. Whatever life throw at us, we are ready and we will triumph in the end. Mark my word. Lina said to her sister. In reply her sister said "remember my favorite saying relax everything will be fine."
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“True progress,” she said, “is measured not by wealth, not by dominance, but by the lasting impact on communities and the lives of people. Every building, every project, every policy should reflect the values we claim to uphold. That is the standard I hold myself to and it is a standard we must all aspire to achieve.”The audience rose in applause, some moved by her vision, others by the quiet force of her personal narrative. Helena remained composed, aware that this moment was less about personal acclaim and more about shaping the future.Victor’s final appeal was denied. Exhausted and broken, he could no longer influence the world beyond the prison walls. Helena’s legal team had ensured that any lingering assets or connections he maintained would remain frozen or redirected toward restitution programs. In effect, he had been stripped of every lever of control he once wielded.For Helena, the moment was symbolic. It was not victory in the petty sense, it was closure. She no longer ne
CHAPTER 43
Helena sat in her office late into the night, the city lights sprawling beneath her like a glittering blueprint of opportunity. Outside, traffic hummed, unaware of the woman who had once been crushed under the weight of betrayal and false accusations. Now, she wielded authority not through inherited wealth or family connections, but through vision, resilience, and the meticulous precision of a mind unbroken by adversity.She had received news earlier that day: a coalition of international investors wanted to partner with her on a large-scale sustainable city project in Southeast Asia. The plan was ambitious, entirely self-contained, incorporating renewable energy, modular housing, green spaces, and state-of-the-art infrastructure. Helena read through the proposals carefully, her mind already analyzing potential challenges and risks. To the outside world, she was a visionary architect and philanthropist. To herself, she was a strategist who would not let ambition blind her to detail.H
CHAPTER 42
By early summer, Helena’s urban renewal projects had begun transforming neglected neighborhoods into thriving hubs of culture, commerce, and sustainable living. Her work attracted attention from city planners, philanthropists, and even international investors. Yet, despite the accolades, she remained disciplined, never losing focus on her ultimate goal: securing her name and legacy, ensuring that no one,not even her family,could ever again manipulate her life.Her office had grown into a small headquarters, buzzing with engineers, designers, and legal experts. Helena walked among them each morning, checking plans, asking questions, and quietly inspiring. She had learned the power of visibility, not as a weapon, but as armor. Each successful project, each partnership, was a declaration: Helena Ward existed beyond betrayal, beyond imprisonment, beyond the shadow of Victor’s schemes.Adrian occasionally visited, ostensibly to discuss technical aspects of a project, but Helena had kept hi
CHAPTER 41
Helena woke to the smell of wet earth and winter smoke drifting through the open windows of her new apartment. The city outside was alive, indifferent, and utterly oblivious to the drama that had consumed her life for the past year. She could hear the faint clatter of subway trains, the low hum of traffic, and the occasional wail of sirens. A world still spinning, despite everything Victor Ward had tried to destroy.She dressed carefully, choosing a charcoal-gray suit that carried authority without arrogance. It was her first day back in the professional world, not as a wife or a prisoner, but as herself: Helena Ward, architect, strategist, survivor. She paused in the mirror, studying her reflection. The prison had not stolen her beauty, nor her poise, but it had sharpened her. Her eyes were harder now, more focused, carrying the quiet intensity of someone who had stared down betrayal and refused to blink.The small office she rented in Manhattan was modest but functional. Sunlight st
CHAPTER 40
Snow blanketed the grounds of Blackridge Prison in pale silence, softening even the barbed wire’s menace. From her narrow window, Helena watched the flakes drift past like white ash. Every day in confinement had taught her patience, the kind architects used when sketching blueprints line by line. Only now, she was drawing something far more intricate: revenge.Riya’s plan moved forward cautiously. Helena’s former assistant, a nervous but loyal young woman named Eliza Moore, had agreed to help. She worked in the administrative wing of Ward Global’s New York office and had limited but crucial access to the company’s internal archives. Her first message reached Helena through Riya, smuggled as part of a legal document: I found the shadow account. It’s still active.Helena read the words twice, her pulse quickening. It meant that whoever framed her hadn’t cleaned up perfectly. Victor’s arrogance, she thought. He believed himself untouchable.Riya met her the following morning, exhaustion
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Just few minutes before the end of Maya's ordeal the next inmate woke up and join in the conversation. She said to I have kept to myself because I don't know whom to trust after what happened to me and I found you two trustworthy to share my story with and this is her story.The first thing people noticed about Helena Ward was her poise. The second was her silence. She had learned that quietness carried a kind of powerespecially in the world her husband, Adrian, had built from the bones of a family empire. The Wards were an old-money dynasty that pretended to be modern: sleek art collections, smart investments, and estates in three continents. But beneath the veneer was a web of grudges, loyalties bought and sold like stocks, and a family that had forgotten what it meant to speak honestly.Helena had not married into it for the money at least, that’s what she told herself. When she met Adrian, she was a young architect struggling to prove herself in a firm that dismissed her ideas. He
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