CHAPTER 19: HER OBSESSION 2

The mother frowned as she listened to the story, why did she feel as if this story was going to put her into a tight spot?

Before she could even voice out her concern, her daughter continued her story, “Hope ran away from home and the first thing she did when she reached city B was to call the young man, she had set her eyes on.

Jim was a gentleman so he accepted Hope, he knew how tough her life was so he didn’t mind giving a helping hand. What he never expected was him falling for this girl who was down to earth with everything that she did.

Hope wasn’t a top score kind of student but she was very hardworking, after escaping her family, she enrolled in a college since her marks weren’t enough to get her into a university and she didn’t like the thought of repeating her third grade once more.

Hope took a dressmaking course that was more practical and easier to learn. She had been making clothes since she was young so making them professionally wasn’t a big deal.

Hope used all tricks she knew on Jim and finally made him fall for her. the couple was very harmonious but the relationship was a secret and even though Hope didn’t like this at all, she still gritted her teeth and accepted what she had been given.

This secret relationship lasted for one year before Jim came to tell her the sad and heartbreaking news. Jim was getting married to the girl his family picked for him and even though he loves Hope, he couldn’t go against his own family.

He promised to help her in times of need and gave her a breakup fee. Hope was devastated, the news shattered her and devoured her so much that her hatred for

Jim and mostly the woman who was marrying Jim was greater.

Hope was poor and didn’t have anything to her name so going up against Jim and this fiancée was not possible. Hope decided to put all her energy and rage into her studies.

If one day she becomes someone and capable, won't she be able to get the man she wanted and trampled on those people who looked down on her simply because she was poor?

Hope did exactly as she wanted, graduated with great marks, and began to work very hard, climbing ladders and doing something by the side for herself as she hated working for others.

Jim was married for roughly five years when Hope met Jim again. Hope refused to let Jim go just like that, so after doing a trick or two, Jim landed in Hope’s bed for a very long time and for many days.

Jim had feelings for Hope and seeing her after so many years when she was all mature and more beautiful, he couldn’t help himself but fall for Hope again. After spending three months with Hope, Jim’s wife was pregnant and Jim decided to break up with Hope once more as he couldn’t keep on cheating on his wife with Hope.

Hope didn’t take it well but after seeing that Jim was not coming back to her, she decided to let go. And years passed, so many things changed and Hope who used to be a nobody finally became her own boss and her name was well known.

Hope had a daughter called Clara whom she loved so much and would pamper and spoiled like a little ancestor.

One-day Hope met Jim and at that time, Clara was ten years old and it’s been

nearly eleven years since the two met each other face to face. Jim was grieving as he had recently lost his wife.

She was in a car accident which took her life, so he wasn’t feeling well. meeting Hope with a daughter that was ten years old, Jim’s life stone finally reignited once more as he was sure that Clara was his own daughter.

After doing some DNA tests, the results came out as expected and he wanted his child but Hope wasn’t having it and, in the end, Jim decided to marry Hope and bring her to his home.

He had loved Hope in the beginning so marrying her would be like fulfilling that dream he couldn’t back then. This is how Hope became the second wife of Jim one year after his first wife’s death.

So, many people talked bad about her but Hope was strong in everything that she did. Hope loved Jim so much and was the perfect mother any child could ever ask for but this was only what happened in front of Jim.

When Jim wasn’t there, Don and Sia, Jim’s two children from the first wife were mistreated so much that even servants were treated better than them. Clara who was spoiled from a young age found it even more unbearable to have someone else competing for her mother and her father she had no idea of attention.

She wanted everything to herself, so she made sure she got it like that. Clara was barbaric, she acted so bad, made so many enemies and no one truly liked her but she didn’t care.

Clara never believed for once that she was wrong as she was raised to take everything that belongs to her. Clara and her mother were tyrants that tormented so many people and never thought that one day they will receive their retribution.

One day everything changed, things began to go wrong. Hope’s business started getting into trouble and she wasn’t a fool to not see that someone was targeting her but the culprit was still nowhere to be found.

Hope began to receive threatening calls, texts, emails and that wasn’t the only thing that happened. Clara wasn’t having it good, she began to use drugs, got addicted to it and one day she got arrested as the police caught her at a drug party.

And this is when things really started getting serious,” the little girl sighed as she said this.

She was tearing up inside, she was so angry just thinking of what was going to come after this. As she was busy tormenting herself, the mother who had been listening seriously was looking at her child with eyes that were eager to hear more.

“Are you not going to continue?” the mother asked in a frustrated voice.

The girl was shocked by this question and quickly told her mother with anguish clearly visible on her face, “I wish I could continue but the host didn’t narrate anything more than that, so I am still waiting.”