CHAPTER 136
Vivian was as happy as a lark that she had gotten someone she was going to work with. She knew that pretending to support Ruth was the right way to gain Ruth's trust in the whole situation.
Akeshia felt ashamed and immediately left the stand. All her efforts to ruin Ruth at that time had bore no fruits. She decided to go out of the church in order to have sometime to herself. Vivian immediately went outside too pretending that she had to go to the washrooms.
" Akeshia! Akeshia! Akeshia! I know that your mind is about to blow off but you need not to think about alot of things right now because I am with you in this war. I do not want that lady to get married to Ryan. She has controlled my life enough" said Vivian angrily.
" Let's go back inside. I don't need an ally to accomplish all my tasks. I just need Ruth dead and her head to be delivered to me on a silver platter. That is the only way that she will never be able to disturb our lives ever again" said Akeshia who went back to the church.
Vivian followed Akeshia back to the church too. The both found out that the priest procession was still going on.
" Who else wants to speak about the bereaved? This is the last chance I am asking" asked the priest as Nelly stood.
Ruth went towards her and assisted her to go to the stand since Nelly was still weak. She therefore brought for Nelly a chair to sit then stood beside her.
" Grandma Magdalene! She was a good person who understood the value of a family. She made me to also understand the value of a family. People fought out of competition and out of enemity but she allowed her own granddaughter to fight for love. Who then are we if we speak about her in such a painful manner? I am deeply hurt by all this and have no idea of how to explain how I feel. What is the worth of us living if we do not care about the dead at all? Akeshia! Why don't you go ahead and throw her body to the dogs if you never liked her then we kill you and do the same to you? I don't want to speak much but the fact that grandma Magdalene was a very good person . Thank you" said Nelly as tears welled down her eyes.
Ruth wiped Nelly's tears using her arm and therefore assisted her to go back to her bench.
Since there was no other person who wanted to say a speech, the priest concluded that Magdalene should be taken to her graveyard where she was going to be burried. Magdalene was immediately taken to her own house where she used to live before she left to Mambo town. She was therefore burried and her tomb was cemented there after. Everybody left to their respective homes except for Ruth and Naomi accompanied by Ryan and Nelly who did not want to leave her graveyard but still mourned her.
" My grandma did not really deserve to die like this. She was not the kind of a person who could resolute into killing herself. Grandma loved and treasured life and therefore she did not deserve to suffer this kind of death" said Ruth as tears welled down her eyes.
" My mama! Even after her death people are still talking bad about her. They don't even care how her own family feels. They don't even care how Magdalene's daughter and granddaughter is feeling. All what they care about is themselves and what will become of them later on in life. I won't neither try nor defend my mother from anyone. They will have to think whatever they want to and be contented by it" said Naomi as Ruth moved closer to her and hugged her.
Both Ruth and Naomi placed flowers on top of Magdalene's tomb and left. They both went back to the mansion as Naomi insisted that that Magdalene's room should be cleaned.
" Everything as you wish mama. We will clean the room and put grandma's clothes in order as if she was alive just like the way you want to" said Ruth smiling.
" Thank you for understanding me Ruth. I am so glad that I got an understanding daughter like you. As soon as we finish cleaning this room, we will build a hut on Mama's tomb then lock the tomb with a lock. I have feeling that somebody might try to steal her away from me" said Naomi filled with lots of worries.
Ruth began to clean the room and ensured that it was tidy and therefore decided to go to Magdalene's tomb. Ruth was astonished when she saw that someone had already undug Magdalene's tomb and taken the coffin and the body as well.
Ruth ran back to the house as tears welled down her eyes. Luckily, she saw a car driving off from their mansion. She ran as fast as she could and therefore entered Naomi's car then followed the car which was carrying the coffin till she was finally able to overtake the car.
She got out of the car and was astonished to find out that it was Vivian and Lawrence since she could see them from the glinding window of the car.
This was simply because Lawrence and Vivian followed Akeshia to the closer gates simply because they still wanted to work with her. Akeshia on the other hand decided to taste their loyalty by requesting them to bring Magdalene's body to the closer gates.
" How dare you both do such a thing to my grandma? Get out of the car and deal with me human to human before you take away my grandma from me. I even fail to wonder where you both get the strength to do this. Anyway, that is least of my worries. I want my grandma" said Ruth in a commanding manner.
Both Lawrence and Vivian got out of the car.
" You have to dare us to get to your grandma. She deserves to be at the closer gates and not that cheap house that you chose to burry her in. What a wastage it was that you and your mama had done. Can you please let us leave and take whatever we have to take to the closer gates? There is no way we can allow ourselves to be defeated especially the fact that we have just started forming bonds with Akeshia and Martin" said Vivian which astonished Ruth.
" You are really right if that is what you have agreed with Akeshia but this is about what I want. I want my grandma beside me. She is not a market to buy and sell whenever you want to. She is not a toy to play with whenever you want to. She is my grandma Magdalene and therefore she deserves to live a long life more than I do but now she is gone. She is gone because one of you might had killed her" Said Ruth angrily.
" You are too far from the truth my dear friend. I cannot blame you for being right as well but I can blame you for all the misfortunes that is going on in your life right now. You are the one who brought all those misfortunes to yourself. You are the reason why your grandma Magdalene is dead and not us" shouted Vivian at Ruth which astonished Ruth.
Ruth wondered how she could be the reason for that yet she felt that that was not what she needed to think about. She needed to think about something else. She needed to think about how she was going to save her grandma from the claws of Tere or Martin. Ruth only needed to bring Magdalene back home to the graveyard which she deserved to be.
Ruth therefore decided to use her own tricks inorder to get a chance to drive the van that Magdalene was in. She decided to set a challenge for both sides.
She took a stone and started rounding it round her arms which made Vivian's and Lawrence's concetration to be on her instead of the van and that made Ruth to get a chance to enter the Van and sit on the driver's sit. She therefore drove backwards till she was able to get on track and on the other side of the highway. This soft move astonished both Vivian and Lawrence who sat on the road frustruated. Their plans had just been ruined like that.
There was no way that they would follow Ruth since she had gone with the keys of her other car. That was how much Ruth had outsmarted the both of them.
Ruth arrived at the house and found everybody waiting for her outside the house.
" Where is my mother?" Asked Naomi filled with lots of worries.
" She is here mama. She is safe and sound and she is just waiting to be burried in her wished tomb. I brought my grandma back home. I will make sure that nobody else manages to take her away from us" said Ruth.
Those were the words that she did not promise but meant. She would fight to death for anybody who tried to take Magdalene away from her tomb.
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