Destiny Omerenma
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1 year ago
✍THE BETRAYAL📖📚
The weather outside was nice, the large trees in the compound helped to pursue any form of heat, Mr Okoro had just finished taking his bath and came outside to receive some fresh air, as he was waiting for his food. The memories of his children came flooding through his mind. His second son Chike who has been in the city for over six years now serving his master, his last child and only daughter obianuju who is in her final year in secondary school, and then his first son, obinna who was jobless and doing nothing but walking about in the village. He was really disappointed in his first son and has always advised him all to no avail, but he was really happy for the progress of his second son.
Chike who was in the city serving his master, Mr Ikem as an apprentice, became his masters favourite, amongst everybody who has worked under his master, Chike was the only one who had stayed the longest, indeed he found favour in the sight of his master, his master trusted him so much that he became his driver, his gateman, his cook, his gardener, and even handled most of his masters business, Mr Ikem was one of the most notable business man in the city, he had lot of companies and shares in other companies. He was indeed a great business man, all his children schooled abroad, with the amount of wealth Mr Ikem had, it was hard for him to trust any of his workers. But he trusted chike because of how faithful he was, in fact, Chike was loved by his masters entire family.
On this particular day, Chike was washing his masters wife’s car, when he was called that his master was in the hospital, he had been In an accident while coming back from the airport on a business trip, Chike quickly told his master’s wife and they drove to the hospital, when they got to the hospital, Mr Ikem was not able to muster up any words, he just smiled and held Chike’s hand, Chike cried bitterly but there was nothing they could do. Few days later, Mr Ikem was in coma, in which he kicked the bucket from there, indeed it was a painful moment for Chike. Mr Ikem’s lawyer called Chike after some weeks and announced to him that his master has willed half of his property to him, Chike was short of words and was very happy, God had just blessed him greatly, and thus Chike became a very rich young man.
After his masters burial, his masters wife relocated to abroad where her children was, while Chike decided to visit his family in the village for the first time after six years. His family were very happy to see him, and when they heard the news they were in awe, Chike’s father jumped In excitement, his sister and mother were so happy for him, he brought a lot of things for them, and when he asked of his brother, his father explained the whole issue to him, on hearing everything, Chike was sad, and decided to take his brother with him back to the city, his sister also wanted to go with him but he promised her that after she was done with her WAEC, she would come stay with him in the city to further her education.
Chike and obinna arrived at the city after some days, Chike started to train his brother on how to run the business and even promised him that after his training, he would give him a branch of the company to handle. Business was going smoothly, indeed Chike was thriving in his business, One day, chike went to the bank to do some huge business transactions, when a beautiful lady caught his attention, after series of conversation, he got to know her name was Linda and ended up getting her number, as time went by they got acquainted to each other and Chike became attracted to Linda, after some months of knowing each other, they both started dating.
Obianuju was done with her WAEC, and finally came to the city to stay with her brother and further her education, meanwhile Linda was also visiting Chike from time to time, during one of her visits she saw Obinna, one thing led to another and they became close, soon they started having an affair, obinna being ungrateful could not resent the fact that she was his brothers fiancée, but went ahead to have an affair with her under his brothers nose, obianuju being a smart girl, started noticing all this things and tried to tell her brother, but he put on deaf ears saying Linda and obinna can never do a thing like that, soon Linda became pregnant for obinna, when she told obinna he refused saying he wasn’t responsible, but Linda told him that chike had not slept with her since they started dating, obinna even went ahead to convince her to do a DNA test, in which she did and it proved that obinna was the father, all this while, obianuju have been monitoring every single step they took, and was aware of everything, she even sneaked into obinna's room and took the DNA results where it was hidden, Linda and obinna’s next plan was to drug chike and make him sleep with Linda, accepting the child as his. But Linda wasn’t successful because obianuju had switched the drink, so it had no effect on Chike. Obianuju still kept on trying to warn her elder brother but he always scolded her.
Soon Chike proposed to Linda and they started planning their wedding, meanwhile Linda and obinna planned to leave the country after they finished their last evil plotting. Chike had given his brother ten million naira to import some goods for the company’s use, unknown to chike, what obinna and Linda had in store for him. After obinna was sent to import the goods he had forged a fake kidnapping requesting twenty million naira from his younger brother, chike being kind and free hearted, had to send the money just to make sure his brother is not hurt. Obianuju who knew about all this all along, had recorded every single thing that Linda and her elder brother, obinna had planned. A month to the wedding of chike and Linda, chike had invited his father and mother to his house towards the preparation of the wedding, he had even sent some invitation cards to his friends and to some people in his village, it was indeed a happy time for the whole family, which called for celebration. Everyone was seated at the dining table eating when obianuju started her drama that day she was bent on exposing Linda and obinna and revealing thier whole secrets to her brother, when she brought up the matter, chike angrily slapped her telling her that Linda is his wife to be, and no matter what she does, it would never change his mind not to marry her, even obianuju’s father and mother were angry at her whereas obinna and Linda just smiled cunningly. Obianuju refused to take the fall, she brought out all the evidence she had gathered and showed it to the family, leaving everybody in total shock, obinna and Linda tried defending themselves saying it was all a black mail by obianuju, chike couldn’t control his tears, he felt betrayed and dead inside, his good will had almost cost him his life, after everything he had done for his elder brother, all he got was betrayal, Mr okoro and his wife were highly disappointed in their first son the father even angrily termed him greedy and a useless man, who had allow the attractiveness of a woman fool him, Chike immediately called the police to arrest Linda and obinna, also stripping them of every wealth in their possession, afterwards he apologised to obianuju for not trusting her, and even promised her that she would further her education abroad. Indeed Linda was the gold digger and obinna was THE BETRAYAL .
If it were you, would you have forgiven obinna and Linda?.
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