CHAPTER 115

Ruth changed her mind and decided to stay since she felt bad that she did not inform Faith that she was planning to leave. Faith assisted them to take their luggages back to their rooms which made Naomi and Magdalene to be filled with lots of anger but chose to hide their anger in their hearts.

Faith therefore decided to help Ruth arrange the clothes in her closet. In a jiffy, Faith heard her phone ringing. She took it and left the room which made Ruth to be filled with lots of suspicions. Ruth decided to follow her but lost trace of her once they reached outside the house.

Ruth decided to wait for her outside the house. Faith returned in a few minutes later and was astonished to find out that Ruth was seated outside the house in a swinging chair and looking at her angrily.

" Ruth! Have you finished unpacking your clothes back to the closet?" Asked Faith who had no idea that Ruth tried to follow her.

" No because I have been here waiting for you to explain to me why you have been hiding things from me. What is it that you do not want me to know?" Asked Ruth in a calm voice.

" What are you taking about Ruth" Asked Faith pretending to have no idea of what Ruth was talking about.

" Why didn't you pick your call in your room? Why did you suddenly dissapear when I tried to follow? Is there something that you are planning against me? Are you on Tere's side and giving her information of what is happening here in Mambo town?" Asked Ruth angrily.

Faith assumed her and silently entered the house. Ruth followed her closely filled with lots of anger till Faith suddenly entered her room and wanted to lock it but Ruth stopped her by preventing the door from getting locked.

" Fine! I am hiding everything away from you because I know that you will never accept my idea. Which part do you want to know? The fact that you lied to me you already saw Purist at the market or the fact that I am hiding something away from you. Am I not doing what exactly you have been doing? Why then does it bother you that I am hiding something away from you?" Faith shouted at Ruth.

This caught the attention of everyone in the whole house who immediately went to Faith's room. They kept wondering what made Faith to speak like that and yet Ruth was like a sister to her and best friend.

 " Yes! I met with Purist at the market and she does not even remember me. I unluckily lost track of her and decided to stay there at the market without luncheon hoping that my darling daughter would come back and have a conversation with me. When I came back, I found out that you were feeling well and pretending to be unwell. What did you expect me to do? Trust you and tell you everything. Till now you have not told me what you are hiding from me. Am I wrong not to trust you?" Asked Ruth in a pellucid voice.

" Can all of you leave please? I just need to have a conversation with Ruth alone. What! Is that too much to ask? " Asked Faith.

Ryan, Nelly, Magdalene and Naomi silently left the room. Faith went towards the door and locked the door. She therefore held Ruth's arm and led her to the room's couch.

" I have Haggai and Tere under my custody. That's what I have been hiding from you" Faith whispered at Ruth smiling.

" What? What do you mean by saying that you have Haggai and Tere under your custody? Is that what you have been hiding from me?" Asked Ruth filled with lots of curiosity.

" Yes and I have been planning for this ever since I came with you to Mambo town. They will think that they are in the police station but will have no idea that they are under my custody. That way, I know that Tere and Haggai would want to implicate us. They will be left with no choice than to bribe the policemen in order to help secure the fake evidence and implicate us" said Faith laughing annoyingly.

" And you are happy that you have done the right thing? That will only make you as much of criminals as they are. That is a case of kidnapping and I am absolutely sure that they will make you go to prison once they come to know about it. You have to let them go Faith" said Ruth in a commanding voice.

Faith looked at Ruth angrily as she went to peep through the window. She was astonished to see Vivian approaching the house accompanied by Lawrence. It meant that Ryan had released them. 

" There comes the devil. Vivian has just been released from Mambo cell and she is on her way here" said Faith as she turned towards Ruth.

" What? I thought that Ryan promised me that he would release Vivian only if I gave him the order to do so" shouted Ruth as she went to the living room.

She waited there till Vivian and Lawrence entered the living room. They were both drunk which astonished Ruth. She felt that she was the one to be blamed for what was happening to Vivian. She immediately went towards Vivian in order to assist her to walk to her room but Vivian pushed her away till she was about to fall. Ryan entered the living room and ran towards her then prevented her from falling. 

" You cannot pretend to be my friend and yet you are the reason for all my misery. Don't you ever come near me as long as I am living in this house" said Vivian who kept staggering till she left accompanied by Lawrence.

" I really need to return to her the position of being the case manager. It's not good for a woman to drink Ryan. I can see from her face that she is really frustruated. That position was her life and respect in the society and now I have taken it away from her. I can't do this anymore" said Ruth who left to the kitchen.

She went and took cold ice cubes then wrapped them in a piece of cotton. She therefore made two cups of lemon juice and took them to Vivian's room. She gave it to Lawrence and Vivian who were complaining that they were having a headache. She took the cold ice cubes and placed them on both Vivian's and Lawrence's forehead till they finally stopped complaining of having a rough headache.

" All you both need is to take a bath and you will be fine" said Ruth in a calm voice who wanted to leave but Vivian stopped her.

" Ruth! Why are you so good to me even after when I don't want anything to do with you?" Asked Vivian in a pellucid voice.

" Because you are family. You became my family ever since Ryan allowed me and my family to stay here" said Ruth who immediately left.

Ruth took the glasses to the kitchen and went to Faith's room. She remembered that they had an undone conversation. She found Faith watching video from her phone. It was a video of how Haggai and Tere were being beaten to finally confess that they were the ones who killed all those people in the abandoned house. Ruth immediately took the phone from Faith which made her angry.

" What do you think that you are doing?" Asked Faith angrily.

" What do you think you are doing? A slim, small headed lady like you must have left some space for thinking in her body. I thought you are twenty five years old but you behave like a six year old child. Didn't I tell you to let them go? You have to call this people now and ask them to release them. Do you understand me?" Said Ruth filled with lots of anger.

" When things work out then you should come and thank me. This is the only way we can get them to confess. After all, is that not what policemen do in a normal cell?" Asked Faith smiling.

" I don't believe that you can do something like this Faith. I am sorry but I cannot support you in this. I swear to you that I will release them once I find out where they are. I cannot allow you to suffer the same fate as theirs by going to prison. Take your phone and continue with this but I am assuring you that it won't last long" said Ruth who returned Faith's phone to her and left. 

She went to search for Martin and was astonished to find him in the kitchen cleaning the kitchen. Ruth looked at him and laughed which made Martin angry.

" What are you laughing at?" Asked Martin angrily.

Ruth did not answer Martin but silently assisted him to clean the kitchen. This made Martin as happy as a lark and gave him hopes that Ruth would give in to his love someday.

MARRIED AT SIXTEEN.