𝐄𝐱 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞'𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞

52. Shameless Afra

Summer in the back of your car
Singin' Drake in the dark
I've been reminiscing 'bout our love
I can't help but think about you
and the way that it was
I wish I could let go of us

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Tahera was absent from the lab the day after like she said. Afra was relieved because she'd thought Tahera would make her appearance.

However, she knew she couldn't let her guard down as, similar to her, Tahera had a design of her own, she would make her appearance eventually.

Afra had to be ready because she needed to succeed before she could allow Tahera to even have the chance to do so.

She had found the perfect stooge to do her bidding. It was why Afra purposely pushed Rosa's buttons on the phone yesterday. She would attack Tahera through Rosa.

Afra smiled smugly at the ingenuity of her plan. Tahera, you might be extremely talented but what use is talent if you're dead! Death will come for you soon enough.

The ingenuity of her plan lay in the fact that she would not implicate herself. Other than Afra, no one knew that underneath Rosa's kind and gracious behavior hid a vindictive and mentally unstable personality.

Afra believed this is because Rosa was used to getting everything she wanted since she was young. If someone stood in the way of her target, she would lash out in ways that were often borderline insane.

Afra was revealed to this side of Rosa many years ago. She still had shivers thinking about it.

At that time, they were all at schooling age. They had a classmate that had a crush on Taahir and the girl's family had close ties to the Rahman's, so the girl had plenty of opportunities to get close to Taahir.

Rosa befriended the girl to gain her trust. During their class' camping trip, Rosa finally carried out her devilish plan.

If not for the fact that Afra happened to wake up that night to use the toilet, she wouldn't have known Rosa has such a twisted personality.

She saw Rosa sneak to the girl's camping tent with a cage in tow. To her abject horror, the cage housed a poisonous viper which Rosa later let loose in the girl's tent.

The girl screamed in absolute pain after the snake bit her, waking the whole camp up. To this day, Afra could still hear the scream reverberating in her ears.

While everyone rushed out of their respective tents, Rosa sauntered calmly back to her own tent; a satisfied smirk on her face.

Shrouded by cover of the night, the smirk sent chills down Afra's spine. The whole scene extinguished Afra's interest in Taahir. She was just an orphan then, there was no way she could compete with Rosa. Furthermore, losing her life over a man was definitely not worth it.

The camping site was miles away from the city so the girl died from the poison. Rosa lived her life like usual even after claiming a life, and she was only a teen then. A teenage girl that could kill without even batting an eye...

Afra admitted that she wouldn't be able to go to such extreme but years had passed since then. She had felt out Rosa's character, the girl was clever but also very objective-based; she could be easily manipulated. That was why Afra kept being Rosa's friend, one reason was to keep a tab on her and another was to manipulate the narrow-sighted yet ruthless Rosa should the need arise.