Novel Title: Avaritia (DollarSigns)
Chapter 8
Donald smiled faintly and he said, “Confusion? Cunning? Olinda, you are the one causing confusion here. How could you be so unreasonable? I’m a married man with kids but you lured my wife into selling me off to you like I’m an object or something. How could you come up with such a stupid deal in the first place? You are also cunning, Olinda. Do you think I don’t know you have won my sister over with expensive gifts? Let me tell you the truth; I can never be yours. I know where my heart belongs to. Yes, Chloe doesn’t deserve my love but I still love her and my children. The reason I agreed to marry you was to make my wife suffer and to teach her an important lesson. Don’t you ever tell me what to do, okay? I’m no longer interested in embarking on this trip. Goodbye”, Donald protested and walked away.
Olinda held her heart as it felt like her heart was breaking. “Margaret, your brother can not do this to me. I love him from the first day I set my eyes on him. Margaret, I love your brother. Tell him to come back, so we could embark on our trip. How could he change his mind when we are at the airport already?” Olinda said in tears.
Margaret managed to take Olinda home before she loses her mind completely at the airport.
A few weeks later, Olinda who couldn’t bear her pain and embarrassment was busy crafting a plan to get Donald back for good. “The only way, Donald will be mine is when Chloe and her children are dead. He still adores his family despite everything I did to turn him against Chloe. I even bought his sister over, but still, I lost”, Olinda thought.
Olinda phoned the thugs, “Make Chloe and her children disappear from the face of the Earth, no traces, do a clean job”, Olinda ordered.
That evening, the armed thugs broke into Chloe’s house determined to delete them from the face of the earth. Fortunately for Chloe and her children were not at home. They had gone to the church for a night vigil. The church had become Chloe’s favorite place ever since Donald married Olinda.
The thugs called Olinda, “Madame, Chloe is not at home with her children. So our plan for today has flopped.”
This was the bad news for Olinda that she almost died of heartbreak. “What? How come? I will tell you about the next move. Thank you.”
The next day, Olinda visited a spiritualist, who recognized her immediately. “Olinda! Where have you been? You remembered me today.” The young man said while Olinda smiled faintly and said, “ Guru, you are always on my mind”, Olinda replied.
“What brought you to my shrine this hot afternoon?” The spiritualist inquired
“Guru, a lady wants to snatch my husband. I want you to take the lady off my path, make her disappear”, Olinda replied.
The spiritualist was mute for a while and later said, “who is this lady? How did you know that she wants to snatch your husband?”
“Guru, I’m not a child. I know when someone is a threat to me, please make her and her children disappear”, Olinda replied.
“Do you have a photograph of this lady and her children?” The spiritualist asked and Olinda nodded yes.
One morning, Olinda was crying, “I’m on fire, my body is burning, please help, I’m dying, I will confess”, Olinda said in tears rubbing herself the whole body.
Her cry alerted Donald and his sister. Margaret and Donald stared at her in confusion.
“I wanted to kill Chloe and her children. Donald, I wanted to have you to myself. I went to a spiritualist and the man gave me an enchantment and told me to call Chloe’s name, three times and strike her picture with a knife seven times. But, it backfired on me, please help me”, Olinda confessed.
Donald and his sister didn’t utter a word, they couldn’t believe their ears.
“Olinda is even worst than Chloe. Imagine she wants to kill innocent children, my own flesh and blood”, Margaret thought.
Margaret and Donald went in to pack their things and left. When Donald got home, Chloe rushed into his arms. “I know you will never leave me and your children. You love us so much, not because I deserve your love but because you are a good man and your kind is rare”, Chloe said in tears, while Donald consoled her and told her everything even Olinda’s confession.
Chloe was shocked by the chronicles. “What did I do to her? I will return the US$300,000 she gave to me. I don’t want her money.
“Please do”, Donald nodded.
The next day, Chloe and Donald arrived at Olinda’s house. Fortunately for them, Olinda’s father was there. The old man was embarrassed when he learned about the atrocities her daughter had committed.
“It’s all my fault. I mounted so much pressure on Olinda to bring a man home. I’m sorry for everything my daughter had to wronged you. Please, you both should find a place in your heart to forgive her”, Olinda’s father pleaded.
“Olinda is still my husband’s second wife. I have forgiven Olinda because I was at fault too. If I was not obsessed with money, wouldn’t have accepted such a deal. I have learned my lesson a hard way and henceforth I will be contented with whatever I have. Please Sir, here are the three US$300,000 Olinda had paid me. I don’t want this money. It has brought me so much pain and sorrow”, Chloe said calmly.
Olinda’s Father apologized and said, “it’s not the money that brought you pain and sorrow, but it was your obsession to have money. Keep the money, it’s yours. Here is also a cheque for one hundred thousand dollars”.
For what sir?”, Donald threw in immediately.
“It’s for your troubles. My daughter really troubled you both. Please forgive her. My lawyer will annul your marriage with Olinda, Donald”. Olinda’s father added and Donald smiled.
To Donald’s utmost surprise, Chloe rejected the cheque and left the bag containing the three hundred thousand dollars beside Olinda’s father. The Old man was also flabbergasted.
“I don’t want money, all I want right now is my family. I’m glad that my husband returned to me. I’m happy that their marriage will be annulled. Thank you sir for being fair and truthful. May God bless you, Sir. How is Olinda now?”, Chloe asked.
“Don’t worry my daughter, she will be fine. All she needs to feel better is your forgiveness”, Olinda’s father replied.
“I have forgiven her. She is healed”, Chloe uttered immediately.
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