Knock! Knock! Knock!
I heard a knock on my room door on this fateful morning. "Come in"
Sandra walked in "Can I seat?" she asked politely.
Though, I was shocked, I answered "Yeah"
Her both hands were twisted together, as she played with them like a kid "Victoria, I want to apologize for everything that has been happening. I know that we drifted apart because of everything that I have been doing.
I bring in different men, and even take everything free from this house without ever saying thank you. I'm sorry" she sobbed.
I was so happy; Sandra was finally coming back to me."It's fine, Sandra" I hugged her.
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Q One fateful day, she told me to follow her out, that she wanted to give me baby treatment, but when we got to the taxi, I found it suspicious because the driver was wearing a mask and two other guys where in the taxi wearing the same mask.
I whispered to Sandra that we should get out of the taxi but she said that nothing could happen and I started screaming and hitting the glass window. Suddenly Sandra held my mouth and collected a cloth from the guy beside her and placed it on my nose and everything went blank.
I woke up and realized that I was tied on a chair in an uncompleted building. I started screaming but nobody came around so I kept quiet and remembered that I had the knife set under my trousers and my other phone was also there.
Thank God I listened to Anne when she told me to always keep the phone and weapon with me. I managed to get the knife and I cut the rope tied on my hands and took my phone. I dialed Anne's number but I suddenly heard footsteps so I placed the phone under my butt and kept the knife under my leg.
The first person I saw was Sandra; she was staring at me. I couldn't help but feel pain in my heart "You betrayal, what did I do to you to deserve this? I always cared for your wellbeing. I even took you as my sister" I yelled in tears.
"Cared? You never came to check on me for once at the orphanage. I even ran away to find you, I found your number and called but you numerous times, but you didn't pick up. You called back and I told you to guess who it was but you cut and blocked my line after you realized that it was my voice and you call me your sister?" she yelled back at me.
I suddenly remembered that there was a number that called me some years ago, and I blocked the person because I thought it was scammer. "I swear didn't know that you were the one; I thought it was a scammer" I explained.
"Cut the bullshit"
"I visited the orphanage every month but I was always denied entry. Even the last time I almost got raped and killed by the owner because of you" I sobbed.
"Really? When I met you, my intention was to have revenge on you but I couldn't find any fault and that's when I met…" she was cut off by Steve.
"Met me. Yeah, she met me, and I told her everything. Even how I raped you and how you were pleading before you ran away" he said avoiding talking about the blackmail because of his pride.
Meanwhile, Anne was listening and she ran to the police so that they could help her. She was grateful to God that he didn't talk about the blackmail. The police tracked the phone and they found their location.
Steve already gave me the beating of my life and even sworn to kill me if i didn't open the lock of my phone not knowing that the video wasn't in that phone, but i was also using that to buy time for Anne.
I really hoped that Anne arrived on time.
Sandra was in tears begging me to give them the password so that they won't kill me but I declined and signaled to her to run away because I knew that Steve was just using her, but she declined telling me that she couldn't leave me there.
The real Sandra was back. I was so happy.
After I was too weak to even talk I decided to tell him the password but he couldn't find any of the videos there. "Where are the videos, you bitch?" he asked kicking me violently.
"Ask my ass" I said as I spat out blood from my mouth.
He carried a long stick and as he was about to hit it on me, the police arrived and told him to freeze but he didn't listen and hit me on my left arm and I fell to the ground.
The police saw what happened and shot him, he fell to the ground. As Sandra saw this, she ran away and the police followed her. Anne untied me and an ambulance arrived which took both me and Anne to the hospital and I fell unconscious.
The police asked for Anne's statement but she declined with the excuse that her sister was still unconscious. After I woke up the police asked for my statement and I said that I wasn't going to talk until I saw Anne privately. The police understood and allowed Anne and I talk privately.
Anne and I decided to pretend by crying and hugging so that the police won't suspect anything. "What do I say, Anne?" I asked anxiously.
"Steve is dead" she broke the news.
"What?" I started crying for real. I still loved him, and was hurt by his death.
"Listen to me" Anne cupped my face, "There is no evidence of the blackmail. He already talked about the rape on the phone before his death. So just say that he kidnapped you because he wanted you to be his slut and you declined" she said then hugged.
I nodded and she called the Police in and I told them my statement. They asked about Sandra and I broke into tears. "Did you find her?" I asked.
"She's nowhere to be found, we've searched the whole bush" The officers said to me.
"Please if you find her let me know" I pleaded.
"Of course, please take it easy Miss. We'll be off now. Take care" the officers said as he left.
I got discharged from the hospital after a month, and the case was taken to court and I won. His wife was to pay a settlement bill of 15 million but I pleaded with the judge that 5 million naira was enough.
After we left the court, his wife sent me a message to meet her in a restaurant and I should bring Anne along. I called Anne and got dressed.
Anne and I got there together and we met her sitting alone in the sophisticated restaurant but no one was in there.
"You don't need to be scared, I booked the whole restaurant. I'm Mrs. Angel Davids" she brought her hand for a handshake.
"Nice meeting you ma'am" I took in the handshake.
"I asked us to meet because I wanted to say thank you" she said. "Why, ma'am?" I asked.
"I know what you did and I want to thank you for blackmailing him because no one had the courage to do that" she smiled.
"I don't understand ma" I pretended not to know what she was talking about. "I knew all his movements a long time ago but I didn't know what to do because he could kill me at any time. He had a particular share of my father's company because my father liked him. I wanted to take it away from him because he was misusing it, that's why I married him" she said.
She looks at me before she continued. "But my plan did not work because after we got married he started threatening me and I had to dance to his tune but what he didn't know was that the money you were asking for, I was taking it under his name because I forged his signature.
After a while, I had a meeting with the shareholders and they kicked him out of the board. But I wanted to kill him before he found out, but you did the job for me" she voiced with a smiling face.
"Wow, that's awesome" Anne said happily.
"I found more about you and discovered that you are an orphan. I would love to adopt you" she said staring at me.
"And you," she said pointing at Anne. "I know you do sell my used accessories, but I will allow you to do as you like since you didn't steal from me" she said.
"Victoria, I heard that you wanted to study abroad?" she asked.
"Yes ma'am" I said.
"I will see what I can do about it, my daughter. Let's do the adoption processes first" she said and I nodded.
EIGHT MONTHS LATER
"Mom, I will miss my flight if you don't come out" I stood at the entrance of Mrs. Davids' room. "I'm sorry, my darling" Mrs. Davids apologized.
She was finally done dressing up, and we went to the airport in a limousine.
We already finished all the adoption processes and I already gained admission in a college in Canada.
Today is marked the happiest day of my life" I said smiling to myself.
I, Victoria, am living in a big mansion with one of the richest women in the world as my mother and I'm presently going to Canada to study Mass communication.
I wrote it down in my journal with tears rolling down my cheeks.
"Darling, why are you crying? I know this looks like a dream to you, but see it as a reward to your hard work" Mrs. Davids hugged me.
I nodded "Thanks for everything, mom"
We finally got to the airport.
I hugged Anne and my mom before leaving. I knew that I was going to miss them both.
LIFE WAS INDEED A JOURNEY. YOU NEVER KNOW HOW IT WILL END. THE END