Bertie got home wearing a sad look because she was really sad. She flung her office bag on the sofa in her small sitting room and crashed on the sofa.
"Finally, I listed the one I had always wanted to be with. Despite all I did, just to get what I wanted. Despite the millions, I have wasted just to get the man I wanted to be turned to no avail. Why then do I need to live, I dint only lose Philip, but also my job. Where in the earth will I start from?". who will come to my aid?". Bertie soliloquized soberly. She agonized for some minutes and suddenly she yelled.
"I have no hope other than for me to die, let me die".
Bertie stood up, went inside, and after some time came back to the living room with a bottle of the sniper, opened it, and guzzled it down her throat.
Then she began to squeeze her tummy which ached her badly, she felt death was already at the corner. She never wished to die again, she regretted using the sniper but because she was frustrated and ignorance led her to that.
"Wasn't it too late??"...
Her phone rang but she couldn't pick it up, maybe she might have been saved if she had been able. But before she crawled to where the phone was, her intestine was calling you??"Shannon asked.
"Three times" Philip replied.
They both sat in the living room with Sandra.
"Very good, can you still remember what Pastor Chris told you?".
"No mother, j wasn't concentrating that day".
"Pastor Chris Saud that you should be careful with women, you can see with you two eyes now that what he warned you about now came to pass, but God came to our aid if not, God forbid, but your new home would have been destroyed by that good for nothing girl. She's worth death".
"Ma sorry mother for not yielding to the instructions, but I promise to obey from now on".
"Hmm, okay no problem, but we have to meet Pastor to tell him what happened".
"Okay mum, fix time".
"Anytime you're ready".
"But am still very surprised how you. knew about it, and how you got the test result".
"All happened during your honeymoon, your sister who stood for you as the acting CEO came across it while searching for a document".
"Hmm, I have been enslaved by that, I couldn't do things in my way, thinking it was true".
"But why did you believe has anything transpired between you and Bertie before?"
"E-r-n, n-o-t really, it's just that".
"That wat?".
"I met her in a bar where I went to drink. She came to join me at the table, we chatted till I became drunk. That was all I knew, When I regained my consciousness, I found myself in a room under a blanket, and turning to the other side I found Bertie bedside me. My shirt wasn't more on me and my trousers too were far from me. Immediately I stood up, dressed, and sneaked out of the room is she was still fast asleep".
"I thought as much, that she can't just cook up that type of lie without concrete evidence, but thank God who revealed every secret".
"Mom, twilight is fast approaching, I have to be on my way home".
"My regards to Sheila, the beautiful wife".
"Yes, I will".
Philip stood up as he walked towards the exit door.
"Goodbye brother". Sandra budded Philip
Philip looked back.
"I thought you were busy, doing something on your phone, that's why I didn't want to disturb you".
"No brother that's not it, my regards to your wife".
"No problem".
Philip opened the door, and left, closing the door slightly behind him.
***
"Frank, come over here". Sheila beckoned on Frank who was at his work post.
"Am coming ma'am".
Frank stood up immediately. from the chair he sat, trotting to meet Sandra who was in front of the building.
"Hope no problem ma'am"
"Not at all, I just want to send you on a very quick errand before it becomes darker than this, take this money, a friend of mine is at the entrance of the estate, I'll like you to go and give her, but if you didn't find anyone, then you can come home".
"Okay ma'am, I'll be right back".
Frank received the money from Sheila and left the compound at once.
Something is fishing, Sheila is up to something I guess. Who was the friend that was at the entrance of the estate and couldn't come around to her house? Then you know She's up to something. Sheila is a very smart lady and I guess I can't even n imagine what she wants to do.