2024-01-24 20:50:32Greg got married to Alisa eight years before he started working at the construction site. Most times when at work he always feels sad and depressed. Sometimes he even loses concentration.
The sensation is not good at all and most times Justin always notice this at work. So one day the previous engineer who supervises them back then, told everyone to bring a presentation so as to get more update on their next project. On this said date, Greg came to work ten minutes late frustrated and looking like a shadow of his formal self. Justin who has been observing Greg for a while walked straight to him and asked. "What is going on? You don't look good at all. Today is our presentation, you have to leave everything that happened at home behind and remain focused. Technically our job depends on this presentation." In reply Greg said. "I'm dying slowly, my life is shambolic. If this is what marriage is all about, no one will venture into it."Justin said to him. "Relax, when we are done with work we will go somewhere and talk. Cheer up, we need to remain focused today. Our supervisor is too rigid. We can't afford to mess things up." "Thanks a lot you have made my day". Greg replied.Justin and Greg did their presentation wholesomely and the visiting party presented both of them an award for their excellent display and this earn them a promotion and more earnings to their names."This calls for celebration Greg said to Justin." "Yes of course." Justin replied. "Let us go to that eatery in town to celebrate after wish you tell me what happened at home this morning that made you look that way."They got there, placed their orders and were served. After eating, they rest a liitle before Greg said. "My good friend I'm dying slowly because of my wife. She naggs, complain every single minute we are together. She insults me at every opportunity. If this is what marriage is all about I won't have gotten involved." Justin in response said to him. "That's not true. Marriage is sweet when you meet the right person and both of you understands each other. Just try and be patient with her. Talk things through even if at first she is not buying it, keep on trying to see if she will change for the better.""I will keep on trying but I doubt it will work. After all these years, I have sacrificed everything just to make her confortable but to no avail. I don't know what else she wants from me? If not for our kids I would have filed for a divorce a long time ago. I just don't want them growing up in a broken home." Justin replied by saying, "exactly please keep trying everything will be fine."They both left the eatery and went home. Greg to his surprise got locked outside by his wife. "You can't come in Alisa said. Go back to where you are coming from. Do you think I don't know? I sense it everyday but today you just showed your true person." He never allowed Greg to explain himself as to why he came home late.Greg had to leave and decided to go to his cousin's place to sleep. That night, on his way he was involved in an accident and was taken to the hospital. The accident almost cost Greg his life. It was the loan Justin took from a lending firm that saved his life. So that's what made Justin and Greg to be very close. They were more like brothers after that incident. So one day Justin took his friend to meet with is family for dinner and that was how Justin's wife knew about Greg.Most times especially during weekends, Greg always pleads with Justin to let his kids stay with his wife so that they can learn new things and be away from their bitter mother. At first it did not go down well with Justin because he felt allowing that to happen might put his family in harms way, considering how Greg's wife behaves. But on a second thought he agreed.Whenever Greg wants to take the kids out to meet Justin's wife, he tells his wife that he wants to take the kids to visit his cousin just to avoid trouble. And for the wife not to accuse him of infidelity. This continued until one day greg's wife Alisa trailed his husband to where he do take the kids to in other to confirm if he is actually telling the truth.So that day she got prepared and told her husband she is going to the market to buy foodstuffs. Unknown to Greg that it was a trap. She left and stayed where no one could see her pending when Greg will take the kids out. That was how she found out where Greg always takes the kids to every time he tells her they want to visit their cousin.It was an amusement park. A place where their kids often likes to go because of what they experience there. At once Alisa came out of hiding and called Greg. "Oh you thought I won't know right? The truth is finally out. I knew it. I sensed something was off because you don't usually visit your cousin this often." Immediately Greg started 'apologising to her not to make a scene. "I will explain everything later when we get home." Explain? "What do you take me for, A fool? You must tell me who this mistress is. The woman you always visit using our kids as a decoy."Excuse me" Justin's wife replied angrily. "Is she your wife? Now I understand." Alisa replied "understand what? So you have been telling my story to the world right? You will meet me at home." She went straight to Justin's wife and slap her. Both of them started exchanging words before the security guards came to stop them.This almost caused problems between Justin and his wife but they both reconciled because of how much they cared and loved each other.
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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
CHAPTER 39
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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