Chapter Thirty Three: Plans

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( Grace Maduka)

What happened to her? " She enquired from her new ally, having seen Victoria slumped on the seat where she was tied.
" I just told you she lost the baby and you're still asking this question. She's probably lost too much blood that's why she passed out. " the other lady replied.

"Didn't I tell you that she was pregnant? I told you to be careful, now she's lost the baby!" Grace yelled

She had never planned on killing an unborn child. Her plan had been to capture Grace frame her up to have run away with her husband Jude and when the baby was due. They'd bring the baby back to Charles along with Vicky's corpse. He would be vulnerable and would see her as a hero. While her unfortunate idiot of a husband would be held responsible for Vicky's death.

She had thought everything through and proving that Vicky and Jude were lovers would have been quite easy with the way rumors spread at his work place.
She knew she couldn't do everything herself and when Esther had mentioned the other Grace two years ago she felt she needed a minion she could easily discard to help her carry out her plans.

Grace's obsession with Charles began the night he comforted her weeks after she lost her second child. Her stupid husband had been too busy and she desperately needed someone to talk to. She couldn't reach her friends and when Charles heard her plight he had driven to her house just to keep her sane.

They had talked for hours and he managed to keep her calm. There was something about his eyes that had caught her. They were so soothing to watch and their color mesmerized her. Funny when Vicky would always say she fell in love with Charles' eyes she always made fun of her. But today she had accepted that fact.

They had slept off hours after talking and when she woke up he was just standing like a lost soul staring at her.

She called him but he didn't speak instead Charles walked to her and pulled her in an embrace. She thought he was unwell and pulled out immediately even though she enjoyed the hug.

Then he surprised her and called her Vicky.

Grace almost laughed at that misconception and when she tried to tell him otherwise he kissed her. Grace knew that it was wrong kissing her friend's husband but she didn't want him to stop.

He was kissing her like Jude had never done before, he was making her forget her pain was what she kept telling her brain.

She craved this intimacy and felt like nothing else mattered. It didn't matter that Charles was always murmuring Vicky's name while he made love to her all that mattered was he was hers there and then.

She was very disappointed when Charles left in the morning embarrassed and upset about what happened.

"you should have sent me away, what I did was wrong?. I know I sleep walk but it doesn't justify this, you're my wife's friend. A married woman for God's sake! I am so sorry for taking advantage of you" Charles had proclaimed

But deep down Grace didn't regret anything, instead she felt happy. When he walked out of her house, she realized that she had fallen in love with this man.

She didn't know that Jude had seen all that happened and that was the beginning of the end of her marriage. Not that she cared about her marriage

Grace was so lost in thoughts that the words her deranged namesake was spelling out to her sounded like Arabic symbols.

When she finally snapped out of her thoughts she became aware of how dangerous her ally was. Grace had once lost a child and she knew how painful it could be. She had specifically told the other lady to keep Vicky safe but the lady decided otherwise.
She became so enraged that she decided that she would also find a way to make Grace pay.

"so what do we do to her now?" the child killer had asked

"first untie her and get her conscious, don't try any more hot water threats on her. I need to get my husband Jude into this town as soon as possible. Now that you've spoilt our plan, I have to find a way to amend it. And help her clean up the sight of blood makes me very cranky "

She watched the other Grace untie Victoria and all she felt was pity towards her friend.

Victoria was just an obstacle in the way. If only Victoria had fallen for her stupid ex husband Jude, things would have ended on a good note for her. But she chose to keep Charles for herself and she knew who Charles really belonged too. Hadn't she told Vicky of her feelings for Charles before the accident? But Vicky refused to leave Charles alone. She had even framed her and made it look like she had an affair with Jude and Nasa's husband. Still the lady had found a way to get out of all those. She had a photographic memory and could easily catch passwords on people's phones. She remembered how she had texted Nasa's husband from Vicky's phone and made sure Nasa saw it.

Grace knew that Nasa and Esther also had their fair share of intimacy with Charles because she always followed him. They could enjoy him for now" she'd always reassure herself, one day he'd be hers alone.

Nasa couldn't confront Vicky about what she saw and when Nasa confided in her, she told Nasa to tell Charles. They needed to tear the marriage apart as payback. Grace even made sure she got a screenshot of the message and deleted the message.

Everything had been going according to plan till Esther and Nasa discovered their true paternity. They all decided to go on a trip to make amends and become true sisters.

To make matters worse she had openly confessed her feelings for Charles that night when Vicky pulled a gun on them. Then when she finally woke up from her coma after miraculously surviving a gun to the head, Charles crawled back into her arms.

The thought saddened her and drove her mad. She tried luring Vicky into Jude's arms but her stupid husband couldn't pull the damn thing off.

Grace came up with this brilliant idea of hers on how to eliminate Vicky once and for all and all it took was a promise of one night of passion with Charles to convince the lunatic she worked with. The tiny problem had been Vicky's unborn child but she had no intention of harming the poor thing.

All that had changed when the lunatic decided to make Vicky lose her baby. She had to fix things and very fast.

Grace picked up her phone and dialed her ex-husband and when he shrugged her off, she mentioned Vicky and he came on board.

"Get here as soon as possible or you wouldn't have her to yourself just like you've always dreamed" she ended the call and sighed.

Turned out that she was not the only one obsessed with the Chinedu family.

If all went according to plan she would finally be happy and that sole thought brought a smile to her face. Her plan had been set in motion.
















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