C9 The Kidnap

Mrs Agnes was not satisfied with what he said to Grace and for the very first time stood up against her husband in public which she never did.

"No, it is not enough, I have always been suspecting her from the beginning," Mrs Agnes said turning to Mr Travis.

"I have never thought you'd ever raise a characterless daughter such as this one," Mrs Agnes muttered, pointing her finger to Mr Travis as tears ran down his eyes.

"I never expected an easy job but I think mom is overreacting as if she'd been waiting for this day for a long time," Alfred whispers only to the hearing of Cynthia who had walked closer to her in the cause of the misunderstanding.

"I bet she was," Cynthia whispers.

"What do you mean?" Alfred asked confused about the statement she made.

"Surprise!" She muttered. "Mom was away of our plan, in fact, the mastermind. She said I shouldn't tell you she agreed to help us so you wouldn't tell your silly friend," she responded.

"It seemed mom naturally heats Grace," Alfred uttered staring at Grace whose gaze was steadily at him. He was unable to look into her eyes knowing how much he has hurt her in one night.

Though he wanted her gone, he also did not want to make her cry. Naturally, Alfred cannot withstand tears but his pride makes him look heartless.

"Swears, mom was exhausted of her, dad would give her whatever she wants, named and unnamed, as far as he feels Grace needed that, he would get it for her at my count, Grace has many cars than your mom just that she doesn't go anywhere with it," she said laughing quietly as Alfred joined her.

"You are disrespecting my husband Agnes, do not dare talk to him that way next time, keep your insults to yourself and talk back at your husband the way you want but do not dare talk any more nonsense about my husband nor my daughter.

Mr Jerome and My husband have shared a bond long before you came into his life, you are ruining their friendship and not building it. If my husband wanted to marry Grace out, do you think it will be to this man?” Mrs Travis barked walking close to Grace and giving her a warm hug.

“Yes, for the same reason, after you and your husband married Grace to his family, you further came to my family to destroy or should I say extort from us since we have the money you don’t, ” Mrs Agnes muttered as the crowd nodded.

"Grace, why did you lie to us, we have been taking care of you since you came into this house and we weren't even away you had planned to make a fool of us, what did you want from us? Money? Heredity? Name it Grace! Aren't you ashamed of yourself, I loved you with all my heart and only to find out I am being used by you!" Alfred said faking out tears.

Grace turned to look at him, knowing he was in fact the mastermind of the whole thing but couldn't say anymore, she did not want to implicate the matter more than how it has already been. She despite being held still was crying bitterly.

"Parry, it is now or never, Grace is getting ruined by them and if we do not do anything now, the whole world will count on Grace to be characterless,” Roselyn muttered to her husband.

"I am sorry dear, I do not want to complicate the matter by showing off myself neither do I want to ruin my friendship, I just hope for the best for the first son of the Duke family.

Do not interfere, wife, I do not have the ability to talk or fight at the moment so do well to stay out of their business,” Parry whispers as Roselyn sighs.

"I thought this man came with you?" Roselyn said ignoring what her husband said to her, she was only trying her best to make Grace feel okay and spoil their plans.

The entire crowd turned to stare at Roselyn as she directed the question to Cynthia who stood beside Alfred.

"Me?" Cynthia responded as if she wasn’t away Roselyn was directing the question to her.

"Yes, you Cynthia I saw you walking with the man," Roselyn said.

"Oh my God, what the fuck is wrong with Perry's wife?" Alfred said without moving his lips.

Cynthia felt exposed at the moment but also found a great idea in her question. Roselyn's question only gave her a chance to say something about the matter.

She smiled staring into Roslyn’s eyes knowing that Roslyn knew something but that was none of her business as she could not do anything with what she knew.

"Yes, he came in with me!" Cynthia responded as the whole crowd turned to her. Grace felt a little relief as it seemed the truth was going to get exposed.

"I met the poor guy outside the gate, and he told me his predicament and also told me the guards wouldn't let him in so I helped him come in. I just wanted him to make up with his wife but I had no idea he was going to do it in the middle of the party why would Grace hide such vital information from us?" Cynthia added looking into Roselyn’s eyes.

Roselyn felt defeated and knew her husband would comment on what just happened as she tries her best to keep it cool.

"Now what?" Parry asked." How did you help Grace now? Instead of helping Grace, you only made way for Cynthia to say more bad things about her.

I have walked with this family for a long time and you should know by now how tricky and manipulative Cynthia can be.

"I told you, trusting that guy is what you should never do," Cynthia whispers to the hearing of Alfred only.

Though she had the chance to complete the matter the more, she was angry they even had to call her name in the matter.

"Ma'am, give me the permission to take my wife with me then I will get out of your party without causing any further scene.

All I want is my wife to come with me and nothing more,” Mendel said as everyone continued staring.

"What did you just say?” Mr Travis asked Mendel who stood speechless. Mr Travis in anger gave him a punch to the face as he fell to the ground.

He proceeded to punch him more but was held by men in the building so he wouldn’t cause any further scene in the presence of the camera which had captured the celebration with live broadcasting.

Mr Travis walks back to his wife shouldering her. She was really embarrassed by how Mendel had talked about them.

“Let go dear,” Mr Travis suggested to his wife as she nodded, joining him out as they headed for their car.

“You’ve got two options, Grace, it is either you join your parent home or you join your husband as there is no space in this building for you,” Amanda who was vexed hearing this said.

John who did not buy any of this idea pushed his wife to close her mouth and not get herself involved in Alfred’s dirty graph.

"Keep quiet babe, this matter is none of your business," John added as it seemed impossible to stop his wife from talking by using sign language.

"Why? It's the business of everyone here, and she is right what are you still doing here?" Alfred responded as John stared at him with anger in his eyes.

"This party is over and everyone should go to their houses, I do not wish to have any further argument in my house,” Mr Jerome instructed embarrassed of how things turned out.

“I would love to wish the press do not publish that but I know some people were alive so I want to wish you all take this scene to be false and nothing more. And you,” Mr Jerome added, turning to Mendel who knelt staring at him.

"Leave right now, I mean what I just said," Mr Jerome said as Mendel stood up walking out of the mansion accompanied by a few persons.

A few minutes after his departure, a gunshot was heard outside the mansion and left everyone in a dilemma.

The sound of the gun was really close and everyone inside had to lie flat to prevent a stray bullet from hitting them.

Some security who were inside tried to communicate with the others who stayed outside to know what was really going on.

Luke who is the chief of security walked in from the door as everyone stood up in the confidence that everything is fine.

"Sorry for the gunshot, we saw a kidnap taking place so we tried helping but the kidnapper was very fast," he said.

Luke helped some dignitaries get into their car as the party was announced over but yet, but no one in the building asked who was kidnapped.

All they were concerned about was their safety.