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Episode 26
We would have been both dead if God didn’t step in through the person of Patricia. I have taken God more serious than I ever did since the incident. God is truly good and that we can both testify to…”
Veronica gasped out quietly and said to Jane
“I’m not going back to that house Jane. I can’t…I will look for where to stay after I’m out of here and plan on what to do next with my life.
That house holds too much bad memories. Stepping into it will make all the ill past that I’m trying to put behind to come rushing back. I can’t…is not only scary but also traumatizing.
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Do you know the amazing part of this whole thing is despite my foolishness God still cared. He tried to warn me through dreams but I was too distance from him to understand exactly what he was telling me in those signs and dreams.
Oh, how much I blamed God for every of my mistakes. I traded God for a man like Pete. Pete became the center of my entire being. I became boastful and careless to the extent I stop teaching in the teenage class.
I wanted to be seen each Sunday and admire for my apparel and looks. I threw conscience to the wind the moment Pete proposed… just within few weeks of meeting him. I forgot about the principles I held dearly, that even made me broke up with Martin. Pete deceived mr into believing he was a true Christian, he said his parents were both ministers before dying in an accident.
He said I and the kids mattered most in his life Jane. I believed it all. How could I? Falling deeper into sin due to what he was offering. I became pregnant and because I did not want to add more sin to the plate by aborting the child I persuaded him into marrying me in a hurry.
He never acted like already married man with teenage kids even for once. There was nothing to suspect about him. I don’t know how will I be able to stand in front of the church and teens that looked up to me with pregnancy out of wedlock.
They will come to know that I never practiced what I preached. Pete was busy stealing and bringing to me and I was enjoying every bit unknowingly. I have been thinking to myself and reminiscing over the whole ordeal and indeed I was gullible like he said.
I was in between the whole thing, in between life and death. The devil almost sent me to abyss… the bottomless pit but Christ showed up and saved me from damnation.
I have a second chance to life and that I won’t take for granted ever again…”
Jane heaped a sigh of relief again with a nod while Veronica wiped out a tear rolling down at one corner of her eyes.
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Patricia still did not believe him no matter how convincing he sound.
She asked him again that early morning as she was getting dressed to leave for the day.
“I know you said it was not you that got it but how was she able to acquire the house huh?
You know this lady for about five to six years and said she had lived in that house ever since but you never bother to ask her how she got the house or which of her relatives gave it to her.
It baffles me Jubril and I don’t know how to just overlook that…”
Pete sat up from the bed and said.
“I thought we were over this Pety, you asked me several times and I told you that I don’t know how she got it. She actually told me…I guess it used to belong to one of her relatives.
I can’t fully remember because Vero does not matter at all. My only home is here with you and the children. I only get to spend short time at Veronica’s place. I have never spent a full month or straight two weeks with her.
I have apologies severally to you over what happened and you said it was okay… why are you still taunting me? I’m sorry Pety… really sorry”
Patricia looked over to him and said it was alright.
Deep down it wasn’t. Infact things have really changed for her.
She can’t believe that Pete will put a gun to her face. Looking back at what happened at Veronica’s place makes her start having a rethink over everything.
If her husband was heartless enough to want to burn down the whole building with his own children screaming and crying for help it means he is capable of anything.
He did not only want to shoot and kill Veronica and her friend, he also wanted to set the house on fire and did not care who was in it.
Pete was more concerned in erasing his past with such a barbaric act.
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Is four days already and she had not been able to sleep with her two eyes closed.
The fear of the unknown kept her awake most part of the night.
If she later find out that Veronica’s house was bought by Pete then there will be serious trouble.
She was getting dressed to drive all the way out to see Veronica and also to meet with the doctor who called her yesterday but she didn’t pick up due to her husband was close by.
He believes that she was going to the office and she informed him that she will also be visiting s client who wants to check out a property on sale.
She will be having a very busy day and may return home late.
Pete wished her the best but Patricia was going over to the hospital and she hopes Veronica tells her the truth about the house.
She had doubted the company when they said that her husband defrauded them several millions.
How can that be when Pete never invested or had any major savings.
The bank froze his account too and all the money in it was gone.
He was locked up in prison, she took the burden of sourcing for money to bail him out. She sold her properties, almost emptied her savings just to pay atleast half of the debt so that he will be released.
So it will really be painful to find out that Pete squandered all the money on Veronica, gave her a good comfortable life, a house and probably a car too without bringing anything home only a pot full of debt thereafter.
He can’t be busy trying to impress Veronica while forgetting his main home.
If she finds out that Pete bought that house that runs in millions for Vero then a serious war will be set out.
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It only means that her husband takes her for granted.
Because he feels that she has money and always ready to care for the home makes him abandon his duty and responsibilities for her to carry.
That won’t happen and she will have to find out today.
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