DEVIOUS PLAN UNFOLDS

CHAPTER THREE

“What are you talking about? My mother would never do that” Henry stopped her.

“Do you really believe that she would not?” Sophia scoffed.

She was right, Henry thought. This was exactly something his mother could do and he had no idea why he was defending her.

“How did that happen?” He asked.

His mother had always expressed her dislike for Sophia but he never knew that she had a hand in her disappearance. He always thought she had collected her money and left just as his mother had said.

“The night you invited me over for dinner and announced that you wanted us to get married. Your mother asked to see me the next day and when I arrived at the salon, she made sure to warn me to steer clear of you.” Sophia sniffled again before she continued.

“She said she had her plans for your marriage and there was no way she was going to allow me ruin it and then she tried to bribe me with money but I refused. She then… she threatened to have me killed!”

“You should have come to me about this” He told her. “You should have told me immediately”

“I tried to tell you but you went on that business trip and I was… I was threatened by a masked man and I was too scared, Henry.”

“A masked man?” He asked, confusion dotting his forehead even more

“I was walking home one day and I was kidnapped… dragged away and I was asked to leave the country and never return. I was so scared, I tried to call you that night and I could not reach you and so I ran. It was stupid of me to not have waited but I could not… I was scared I was going to be killed”

“I came back and my mother informed me that you left. She said you asked her to loan you some money and she did not know you were going to run away with it. She showed me a fucking video of you both talking and then…” Henry muttered, his voice trailing away.

And then his mother had asked him to marry Elodie immediately.

He should have known that this was all a part of her ploy.

“I would never do that, Henry” Sophia argued, putting her hand in Henry’s. “I loved you… I still…” she sighed.

“Before I could reach you, you had gotten married and I maintained my distance” She finally said.

“So why are you back now? After a year?” he asked

“Because I love you, Henry and I have never been able to get you out of my mind since that night and because I believe you should know the truth about why I left. It doesn’t matter that you do not love me anymore”

“Don’t say that” Henry muttered, tortured.

“I am not about to destroy your marriage with your wife. I just want to apologize for leaving you, for destroying us and everything we talked about.”

“I understand and I still care about you, Sophia” He told her

“Then that is enough for me, I do not need anything else.” She smiled, fluttering her lashes at him.

They ordered for more bottles of champagne and then hit the dance floor whilst laughing about a lot of things. Henry felt the jolt of his cellphone in his pocket but ignored it. He knew it was Elodie calling him, no doubt to harass him about his whereabouts while she claimed she cared about him. For all he knew she was part of his mother’s devious plans and if she could just disappear from his life then he would be the happiest person on God’s green earth.

“I am so drunk” Sophia giggled, reaching to wrap her arms around Henry.

She did not think it would have been so easy to spin this tale and she had thought somehow he wasn’t going to believe a word she had said. Henry was ever so gullible and when his mother had approached her to leave him, offering such huge amount of money, she had not hesitated neither had she looked back.

She had tried to invest the money in some beauty scheme and it had crashed leaving her penniless which is why she was back.

Why have the milk when you could get the whole cow?

She was here for Henry and it did not matter that he had married that waste of a rich snob, Elodie. She was going to have him and this was just step one of her elaborate plan, not even his mother would be able to stop her.

“Do you want to go somewhere?” She winked at him.

Henry smiled, he was also drunk and there was no way he could drive back home in this state neither did he want to go home.

“Sure” He agreed.

They both walked out of the bar and straight to a hotel which wasn’t far from the bar and one Sophia had booked ahead.

She held unto Henry as they walked into the room she had booked, dropping him unto the bed.

“I should hit the showers” She announced while he grunted in acceptance.

She hurriedly removed the lingerie she had stuffed in her bag and put it on, cleaning off her makeup and then letting her hair fall.

She stared at herself in the mirror critically before turned around and exited the bathroom.

“Henry?” She called out.

She heard nothing, not one peep.

“You have got to be kidding me” Sophia grunted.

Henry laid sprawled on the bed, sleeping.

“Fucking fool” She snapped as she reached him.

He was going to ruin everything!

There was only one course of action, she thought.

She reached for his pants, snapping the zipper open and pulling until it was completely removed from his body and then she reached for his shirt, undoing the button and removing it deftly while he slept. When she was done, she then reached for the lingerie she had on, tearing the sides so it looked like he was in a hurry to get her out of it and then Sophia climbed the other side of the bed and laid gently beside him.

She smiled, closing her eyes, the next step of her plan complete.