The Brilliant Wife 8
© Ndukwe Ularinma
Henry sighed and hissed at the same time. Jerry was like a thorn in his flesh. It wasn’t his fault that all the properties were given to him and his step mother loved him. Jerry was always misbehaving with ladies and never paid attention to the family business. He had a lot of money which he used to fool around getting drunk and having many sexual affairs. Linna, his step mother wasn’t at fault for his misbehavior but his step grand mother was. She never paid attention to him. She was too free with Jerry and spoilt him anyhow she wanted. She made Jerry feel like the world was easy and women was one of the world’s most easiest thing to feel comfortable with even drugs was she who gave it to him because she told him it will make him happy. Linna always thought that her mother was taking care of him very well. Especially during the holidays when he came home behaving cultured until when grandma died he became a Thorn in The flesh by spending money and having many sexual partners. He never paid attention to the family business, and that was why Henry’s father never left anything for him because he was as good as trash. While Linna loved Henry because he was well cultured by her but she despised her mother for the way she spoilt her son and wished she never made that mistake of sending Jerry to her mother.
Linna was Henry’s inspiration when his father died and she died while saving him, he still had that guilt in his heart and when he fell for Jenny he felt Linna was alive through her because of the inspiration she also gave to him.
Remembering how he had saved Jerry from prison his heart tore. He had wished he let him face the consequences of his actions by dying but he was Linna’s only child and he didn’t want to hurt her by making her son pay for his sins.
It had happened that day, Henry was in the study discussing about how to expand the family business with Linna when armed robbers attacked their house and wanted to shoot him. He had not been aware of what was happening until he heard someone scream in his front when he discovered that he was almost shot. That was when he found out that Linna had protected him and received multiple gunshots. Further investigation was made and it was later found that Jerry planned the whole incident. He had wanted Henry down so that he could take over the family business but rather he lost his own mother in cold blood. He was about to be sentenced to death but Henry intervened and saved him but that made Jerry hate him the more.
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Staring at the revelations in front of her, Jenny squinted her eyes. She had thought her husband’s enemy was a certain business man who wanted to take him down but looking at it, it was his own brother. Jerry was also her best friend but now he was going to be her enemy. Not only did he help in killing his mother, he also poisoned his father with drugs which crippled him and made him fall down the stairs and died. He was really a despicable child and his grandmother couldn’t do anything but to fuel it because he always held her at gunpoint. He had killed her gently and made it seem natural. She had to be wary of him because now he was into black magic and he could see whatever he wanted to see, even now that she was reading his Revelations. This was really a difficult game to play and a hard battle to fight but she must emerge the winner and make Jerry suffer for all the death he has caused. Henry wasn’t the target of that gunshot incident but his mother was. Jerry needed to make sure Henry suffered emotionally and not to have any support but then he met her, Jenny and she always inspired him and he decided to make her his wife.
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In a certain hotel building, Jerry hissed and cursed. He had everything under his control but now everything went down. He had always lost to Henry when he was little. He thought nobody loved him and that was why he was sent to stay with Grandma when he was 9. Grandma was always busy so he spent most of his time with the teens around the area. They showed him how to smoke and which him began doing professionally when he was 11. When his grandma found out she had almost told Linna but he had held her at gunpoint and she changed her mind. He was later introduced to drugs when he was 13 and then to ladies when he was 15. He got a lot of money making drugs and selling them and also having sex with female prostitutes around the area.
He had always forced his grandma to keep quiet and when he was 18, he killed her gently with drugs and made it seem like she died naturally.
He went home to vent his revenge on his father, his mother and his elder stepbrother. He hated them so much and injected his father with drugs and pushed him down the stairs when he found out that all the properties were given to Henry but none to him. He never knew at that time that they knew about his behaviour about him going around misbehaving until his mother told him why and told him how she regretted having him as a son. And how she always compared Henry to him as a gentle and loving boy while he was very rude and disobedient. How he was into drugs and women, she had begged him to change but he had refused to listen to her and then that night he had ordered his men to shoot her dead and told them to say that their target was Henry so that Henry could suffer emotionally since his mother was his only source of inspiration. Then Henry met Jenny who he, Jerry also was in love with. But Jenny loved Henry and she also inspired him in the business world which made their company’s sky-rocketed and made Henry one of the most youngest successful billionaire.
He was going to get his revenge on Henry and get the properties under his name now that he knows that Jenny was no longer there to support him.
