On hearing this, Valu gave me a wink before curving the corner of her mouth into a smile. She ran a hand through her long hair straightening it with two of her long finger nails as the other hand straightened her already tight crop top giving her a more pleasant look than before. After all this, she gave the police officer who was standing pointing with his index finger at the wide opened door by now a dirty side glance and swayed her hips out.

I on the other hand was hesitant. It was like I was frozen and the blood in my veins clumped making it hard for me to move. My eyes were blinking severally as if pepper had been splashed into them moments earlier. It wasn't that I was scared, don't understand my reactions wrongly. The truth is that my heart was ready and willing to face him and so was my other self but my body wasn't.

What if he is here to make Valu hate me and refuse to tell me the truth? What if all he wants is to laugh and make merry to his victory Infront of my eye? What will happen if Valu believes him and his accusations against me? These questions came and went unanswered.

"Hey woman!" The police rotated angryly taking off his police cap, "don't you want to get out of your new home?"

I shook my head and tried to help myself up but I couldn't. My body was too heavy and tired. I heard Valu produce her previous gaffows as she walked and stood Infront of me reaching for my hand. I raised mine to reach for hers but it dropped before they could meet.

"Woman! You are wasting my time. Up!" The police rotated making Valu turn to him with her face painted with anger.

"Thank goodness you were never created a woman!" Valu growled making his face flush.

The inside of me was happy, extremely happy but why was she siding with me? A few moments earlier, she was behaving like a creepy woman in a cliffhanged horror movie but now, she's behaving like an angel sent to protect a dying soul. What's going on? Let me assume she was meant to be there according to my future.

" I've been patient with you man!" Valu's voice brought me back, " try another thing and you shall see the other side of my rotten apple. I suggest you go tell him to come or go back to where he came from since Shannon here isn't feeling well". She exclaimed.

Wait, did she just say Shannon? How did she know my name? Maybe Clane told her but they aren't together.

The police man left locking the door with a padlock leaving us looking at each other with no word. I felt like asking Valu why she was here but pushed the thought away. She might understand it wrongly. Wait I had asked her a question earlier and I think I have to repeat.

I leaned on my hand as I tried to sit on the floor properly. I used the other hand to wipe my face that was sweaty at the moment leaving me wondering why I was sweating anyway. Just a wipe and I felt the smell of pup! What the fuck! I can't imagine I've been sitting in someone's waste all this while. I sniffed in then out before speaking.

"Do you mean we are to release ourselves over here?" I asked leaving the other question for some other time. How could she do such a thing! Maybe she wasn't the one

"Yea but I can't do it here! I've been here with this young lady who puped on her self on seeing my appearance that's why the place is messy. Wait did you wipe it? Oh no! Look at your face," she said pointing at my face, " you have smeared it all on your face", she said this in a giggle making me hate being in such a place.

I just don't know when and how my case would be heard, who the witnesses would be and all that. I was already tired being in such a sucking place. It was irritating me already but for Valu, it seemed to be a comfortable place. Has she been here for a long time. She handed me an old Cloth to wipe myself but the smell couldn't stop. I needed water.

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"I recall you were asking something about Glenda but stopped when the police spoke. What was it all about? Do you know her?" Valu asked once I was done with Washing my face.

"I was asking whether you two are sisters. For knowing her yes I do but..." I stopped when I remembered I was accused of killing her. Where has she been all this while and who did that to her? Oh yes! Clane did it but why?

" Hey!" Valu snapped making my eyes travel to her. "You were talking about something but went mute suddenly, is something wrong?"

Her question made me think and rethink. What if she kills me if I do tell her? Wait how will she do that yet she doesn't know the real me?

"A... Am fine. Eve... Everything is okay", I stuttered.

She nodded but her face said otherwise. She seemed confused but couldn't pour her heart out. What was going on in her head. Her face went down as a strand of her hair fell to her face but she pushed it at the back of her ear.

"It's ok, to be frank, Glenda is my sister and she has been doing much for me. It's with her that I came to know you two got married. She's the one who made sure I wasn't hanged for a crime I didn't do", She stopped on this which left me wondering the kind of crime she committed to deserve death. Were the witnesses false or what happened? Did the judge give her a direct sentence or a hidden one?

"Once before I accepted to get married to Clane, I had a lover who claimed to love me like shitt. He made me know what love was and how someone felt to be in love. He made sure I got what I wanted and this was like a painted heaven on earth. Never did he pray for my sadness and this made me the throne of his heart. I never thought a time would come when all these would become shades of broken memories. I got pregnant at one point, had an operation during childbearing which destroyed my womb completely thus I couldn't bear children anymore but he stii kept on my side.

There's this day I called him around 8:00Am but he couldn't pick. I tried for the second time but before I could speak, a female voice went through the phone claiming to be his wife. When I asked her where the young man was, she answered rudely making me loose my temper and reigned abuses on her.

I came to realise later that she was married to him and they already had two kids. I couldn't blame the young woman though it was hurting. My life was shattered, the dream of becoming his wife scattered and my world came to a stand still. I prayed for death but it seemed death was scared of my situation. I cursed him entirely for wasting my time and exhausting my heart. I was damaged already and couldn't do a thing. The heart that once loved him wished for revenge and that's when Clane came in.

He promised to give me everything which I agreed only to secure my heart a place and settle for a proper and organised revenge. I became a source of beauty and fame to my loving husband. He became fond of me and forgot about our revenge on my so called boyfriend.

After a year I decided to do it myself. I investigated and found out that my so called lover was his employee and that they had been working together all this while only to bring me down and revenge on my dad. I never bothered to confront him but he came to know about it and decided to work with me instead.

He used to give me hard tasks to do including committing murder which I did like a faithful and loyal servant. Trouble started when I was instructed to kill one Mr. Giftone Kami but I refused. He was the only person who knew how the closet thing started and that's the same thing my sister had been working on till now. I don't understand how his body was found in our bedroom but I'm here because I was accused of murdering him.

His family never showed up except for his sister who cried and begged the judge to order for my slaughter or hanging. My sister begged and asked for time for her to find evidence and that's what she's doing at the moment", She finished her tale and and looked at my eyes that were filled with tears at the moment.

Giftone Kami! My dad? I felt like holding her neck and strangling her to death but remembered I was being accused of murdering her sister. To add on that, she knew nothing about me being his daughter or how he came to die. I couldn't imagine my dad died in the hands of the devil. How could aunty Mavuna keep such information from us. She has been hiding if from us only to blame my mum for a crime she knew nothing about?

You fucking dad is the reason behind this two names. Clanes response to the stranger's demand popped in.

I felt like asking her how Glenda was connected to my dad's death but couldn't. The anger in me had risen to a boiling point and my eyes were blinking severely.

I will accept all this but I must revenge. A sweet and yummy revenge!

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Can you try and guess what the sweet revenge would be and how Valu would react after finding out about her sister's death?

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