Her Ultimate Revenge

A secret

Tiana's pov

"You?" Evan and I chorused at the same time. It has been long since I saw him last. He is my husband's rival even though he is like a friend to me. But for my husband's sake, I kept away from him, not wanting him to doubt my loyalty towards him at all.

But while I was busy making sure he trusted me, he was breaking my trust.

"Long time no see, how have you been?" Evan asked and I smiled. Age had treated him well and I can't even believe he is already in his late thirties.

"I'm good, you?" I returned, watching as his eyes traced my outfit from hair to toe. He should be surprised as I'm wearing my maid outfit. I didn't get time to change it as Penelope was shouting at me to get her things in the supermarket fast.

Penelope is now showing her true colors nowadays, she has begun to yell at any slight mistake, making her maids afraid. Some are even planning on quitting their job.

"What are you wearing? I don't understand." He asked, still looking at my clothes while clutching his car keys.

I looked around at our busy surroundings and shook my head slightly, not to his question but to my carelessness. How can I stand right in front of a popular busy supermarket with my husband's rival? What if I was seen?

"Can we go somewhere else? I can't afford to be seen with you." I said, leading him towards the back of the supermarket. It was usually silent there and hardly do people passed by.

"Wait!" Evan exclaimed, his eyes widening after I had explained what had happened to me. "You mean Ethan did all these to you?"

I actually explained all that happened on purpose, I was even thinking of going to his company in disguise but I was lucky to meet him. He is Ethan's rival as I said earlier and he can be a great ally for my revenge.

"Yes, even more."

"But I don't understand, you made Ethan who he is today but this is how he repays you? That bastard!" Evan sighed looking me all over again.

"He was lying to me, he told me she was his cousin but she turned out to be his sick wife and I was just a stand-in and blood bank to him. I'm still with him because of my family." I lamented.

"But that help was long ago, right? And you have done even greater things for him. Now he is treating you badly and you shouldn't tolerate it even if he saved you from the brink of death."

I laid my hand on his shoulder and tapped it lightly. "I have a deal for you." His eyes became alert. He hasn't changed a bit; always alert when there is an important deal. "It's one you cannot refuse."

"I'm all ears,"

"I want to join hands with you," I said, looking into his eyes for any signs of emotion but found none. He is doing a good job of compressing his emotions. "I want revenge, I want to make him experience the pain of betrayal."

"My company is not for those who want to revenge against someone, it is for skilled and useful ones." He said plainly, not bothering to look me in the eye.

"Then, I will make you win the coming competition." He turned to me with a 'what did you say' look.

"I own the company and I know every secret in it. I make it and I can destroy it."

"Now," he paused. "That's getting interesting. But, are you sure you wanna destroy it? I remember back in the days when you could put everything in line just to save your company."

I crawled up, hugging my legs while my face lay between my thighs. "I have no other choice. They betrayed me and broke my trust. I...I."

He put his arm around me and pulled me closer. "I understand. My company is open to you."

***At the Thompson's mansion...

After washing and drying Ethan's clothes, I walked into his room to deliver them when I saw Penelope, ransacking Ethan's room. Everywhere: closet, wardrobe, under the sofa etc. I didn't alert her but instead, I stood outside, watching her every move.

I took out my phone and started recording everything. I can't let this action pass me by without having solid evidence. This might be useful someday.

She kept searching with a frown on her face until her hand touched something under his shoe rack and it sounded like a metal. I watched as she smiled triumphantly as if she had just found a gold bar. She brought the thing to her lips and kissed it like a maniac she was.

"What is that?" I asked myself with a very low voice that even a person close to me wouldn't have heard what I said correctly.

Penelope, holding the key she just found, walked over to Ethan's safe and opened it and I couldn't contain my shock. I wanted to scream but I quickly blocked my mouth with my hand while a slow whimper escaped.

Penelope seemed to have heard the whimper, she turned around sharply but I was faster than her. I quickly hid behind the wall. She took three steps in my direction and stopped and I could hear her heels retreating.

"Maybe it's a mouse." She shrugged and turned her utmost attention back to the safe.

The safe was bursting with money; dollars to be precise. And besides that, he also has multiple gold bars.

Gold bars aren't allowed in the company so how can not one but multiple of them be in Ethan's safe? No wonder he never wants me close to anywhere around the safe. He had always guarded the safe like an egg.

Then, I pushed all the doubts I was having, completely believing in him that there couldn't be anything illegal there.

So it was all also a lie? How many lies have I been fed by this devil in a human body?

Penelope was also happy with what she saw, she took out some bundles of cash and smuggled them into her dress.

Wow! She could have asked her husband for the money instead of taking it herself. There is nothing Ethan can't do for her or is there?

Having been satisfied with what I saw, I quietly began to walk away after ticking my phone safely in my gown, but luck wasn't on my side. After I had taken four steps, j stumbled on something and I fell making a lot of noise.

Penelope must have been alarmed by that because the next minute, she was standing before me, fuming in anger as if she had known I was watching her the whole time.

"Are you peeking at me? When did this house become yours that you can just walk anywhere you like? Answer me!" She thundered, hovering over me like a hawk.

I scurried to my feet, "I'm sorry ma'am but I wasn't peeking at you, I wanted to come deliver these clothes when I stumbled on something. I wasn't peeking."

"Liar," she roared, stomping her foot on the floor like an angry bear. "What have you seen?"

"Nothing ma," I stuttered, making it look like I was fearful of her.

She bent over and kneeled opposite me, she grabbed my neck, choking me. I wanted to push her off but that will only burst my cover. I have to pretend to be the weak and helpless Tiana I was.

"Trust me, if you don't keep your goddamn mouth shut, I will kill you and feed your corpse to the sharks."

She strangled me more making me cough continuously and I was sure I was going to pass out in her hand.