Henry turned towards Gold as she walked to her car. He nudged his wife as they sat in the car watching her. "Are you really saying that Gold withdrew charges because of Collins?".
"Collins is a good friend of hers. I wonder how come Raymond didn't get jealous".
"Raymond knows his place in her heart just like you know mine". She sighed sadly. "Gold is pregnant but I am not, even though I married before she did".
He made eyes at her. "Am I complaining?" He gasped as he saw the expression on Gold's face immediately after she entered her car. Before he could get a clearer view of what was happening in her car, he saw a hand close up the side glass. The complexion of the female hand that closed the side glass was not the complexion of Gold Roland. "Someone has k! dnapped Gold and I suspect it to be Jennifer".
She gasped as she looked towards Gold's moving car. "Is that why she is driving very slowly?".
"Yes, let us follow her". He started the ignition.
"Are we going to follow her alone?".
"Call the police right now so that they will follow us from behind".
(THE PRESENT)
As soon as I parked in front of the hideout as I was directed by Jennifer, Jennifer hit my head with her elbow and I fainted.
I opened my eyes to a dark room. My body was tied with a very thick rope around me.
I couldn't move from that spot. I was hungry and very weak.
"Jennifer Roland! I am awake!!!". I cried out as beads of sweat ran down my forehead.
Suddenly, I heard footsteps from outside the room. She kicked the door open from outside and her figure appeared at the door.
She switched on the light and I could now see her clearly.
"Gold Roland! The almighty Gold Roland is trapped in my small room". She squatted beside me and touched my belly. "How is small Roland doing?". She grinned mischievously.
I searched her eyes to be able to manipulate her with her weakness.
I had to use her weak point against her so that she would be thrown off guard. "Are you aware that Collins is in the pr! son right now?".
She shrugged. "You made him go to pr! son yourself. Why telling me?".
"Collins was the one that killed the baby in your womb after he served you that black soup. The reason the doctor couldn't easily detect it was because the black soup is a survival herb but it hurts pregnant women. Only a herbalist would recognize that fact and not a doctor that has no idea about herbs and its side effects".
She gasped at me. "L!ar".
"Do the research yourself then".
Tears of anger filled her eyes. "I knew that I didn't have a family".
I touched my stomach. "I am almost a mother and I know what it feels like to expect a child and after all the expectation, the child dies even before you see him".
She fumed at me. "When did you start understanding me?".
I helped her brush the strand of her hair to the back of her ear. "It was since that day I saw you embrace that doll that you adopted as your baby the day I had sneaked into your room that night. At that moment, I understood your pain. You were close to being a mother and someone denied you that opportunity forever".
She sobbed. "Are you man! pulsating me right now?".
I wiped out tears from my eyes so that she would completely believe me. "Jennifer, these tears in my eyes right now are what a mother sheds for a woman like herself. I am also a soon-to-be mother. Actually, after I discharged Collins from prison, I manipulated him into going back to prison because I believed that hedeserveds to rot in jail! l".
"Why then did you release him in the first place?"
"Charity was the first person that defended me in that mansion. She has not even given birth yet. Charity is supposed to be a mother like me. The way she cried for her husband touched my heart. I said to myself, 'Gold, release Henry for this pitiful woman"".
"You have a soft spot for mothers?".
"Yes". I noticed that she was gradually getting convinced by my acting skills.
"If you had stuck with just your wifely duties, we would have been good friends by now".
"...but you would have killed me just the same way you had k! lled Matilda".
"I didn't k!ll her. She k! lled herself".
"Why then did you escape?".
"I escaped because I had to k!ll you. I had a mission to fulfil. TO K!LL YOU".
"Why then are you delaying k! lling me?".
"I will k!ll you, definitely!".
"Have you bathed your baby? Look at the way you left her carelessly on the floor". I pointed to the doll abandoned on the floor.
She rushed to pick up the doll and sobbed. "Oh my baby, mother abandoned you again".
"You have to bath her and clean her up. Please I need a request from you".
"You have the guts to ask for a request??".
"A glass of water is the request. I am pregnant, so I easily get tired". I held her hand in mine. "Look here, I will protect you and your baby, I promise. You won't experience what you experienced again".
She pulled off my grip. "I don't need to be protected anymore".
"No matter what, Jennifer, you are still a woman. A beautiful woman that so many men are dying for".
"No man is dying for me. Every man left me. No man wants me".
"Four CEOs asked me directly if you were still single on different occasions".
"You l! ar".
"Can you give me my phone, lemme me show you their WhatsApp messages?".
She rushed to get my phone from my bag that was lying carelessly on the floor and watched me closely as I switched on my phone.
I immediately connected my location to Raymond via WhatsApp.
Thankfully he was online.
I acted as if I was searching for old WhatsApp messages in my inbox and coughed heartily. "Please, I need water".
She snatched my phone from me. "You think I don't know that you want to call grandfather? I will get you the water but I will take your phone while I go to get you water".
I smiled to myself as I watched her walk out of the room with my phone.
WhatsApp was fast enough to make Raymond locate me even before she found out.
I knew that Jennifer didn't know about it because she was not into social media due to her temperament. She returned to the room with a plastic cup of water.
It was not a glass that she used to get me water.
Smart woman.
She knew that I intended to use the glass to cut the rope off my hands so that I would be able to fight her and escape.
I gulped the water from the plastic cup as if I was so thirsty and she gave me back my phone. "Show me the WhatsApp message".
Since Jennifer was peering into my phone that moment, I couldn't reply to Raymond's WhatsApp message that he had typed back to me but I continued scrolling through my WhatsApp inbox and finally found one chief who wanted to date Laura and was asking me about her a while ago. I showed her our conversation.
She glanced into the message. "This doesn't look like you were talking about me. He called me your friend here".
"You taught me how to use cutlery, remember?".
"Did that make me your friend?".
"Have I ever brought a friend to our mansion? But how did a chief that owns Sparkles company see her? You were the spokesman for my father-in-law the day Sparkles company visited us that day, remember?".
Meanwhile, I had invited Laura to the event that day, that was how the divorcee chief had seen her and got attracted to her but I had the turn the tables around for Jennifer to believe me.
She nodded thoughtfully. "You are right".
"Go and bath your baby. I have something to tell you after you are done". I watched her leave the room.
My bag which she had brought into the room after I had requested for my phone was still on the floor.
She forgot about it because of the doll that she was so excited to bathe. She only took my phone away as she left the room.
I waited for five minutes in case she wanted to rush back and check on me. I then crawled to my bag and brought out my nail cutter.
I rushed back to my spot and began to tear the rope with a nail cutter as carefully as I could.
I stopped short when I heard footsteps from outside the room and hid the nail cutter in my bra.
Someone came in.
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