He Fell For A Klepto
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*Three Days Later*
Unknown pov
Mariana looked around the pa-ssage cautiously before entering into a room. A maid was alre-ady in the dusty room looking so anxious. As soon as she saw Mariana, she heaved a sigh of relief and handed over a small transparent bottle filled with blue liquid.
Mariana shook the bottle and asked,“Is this the stuff?” The maid nodded. “How does it work?,” she asked again. The maid looked around before replying quietly.
“You just have to add small quantity of this liquid to her food or her drink. It will give her severe stomach pain for days that she won’t be able to move at all.”
Mariana sm-irked wickedly and asked again,“ Won’t it give the food or drink another taste?” The maid shook her head negatively,“No miss, it’s tasteless and it’s doesn’t change the color of whatever you are adding it to. Also It won’t kill if you used as I instructed.”
The maid then brou-ght another bottle and said,“ Young miss, I brou-ght the antidote in case anything goes wrong.” She tried to give the antidote to Mariana.
“No, keep the antidote. I don’t nee-d it. You can leave now,” Mariana replied and dismissed the maid before looking at the bottle happily. Then she set to work…
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Soon Mariana was seen carrying a tray containing two gla-sses of banana flavored drink knowing it’s Ivy’s favorite. Do you want to know a secret?
Mariana didn’t follow the maid’s instruction. She emptied the entire bottle of the poison into the drink she wants to give Ivy.
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Ivy
I was sitting down at the center of the garden re-ading a ro-mantic novel on my phone when Marie c@m£ to me. Immediately, I noticed her I ignored her thinking she’s about to try to annoy me once again. And I’m seriously not in the mood right now
But to my greatest surprise, she dropped a tray of jui-ce on the table. How did she know I was thirsty? I looked at the jui-ce and realized it’s my favorite fruit flavor. Okay, I’m confused. What’s the occasion cause Marie doesn’t do something good without a reason? I looked at her eyeing her suspiciously.
“Marie, what is this jui-ce for? What are you planning this time around?,” I asked.
She smiled and sat next to me,“Why do you always seem to think I have a bad motive? I just want to make up for my past mistake and apologise for being mean to you. Since you will be getting married soon and I don’t want us to dep@rt with a grudge between us.”
I rolled my eyes at her long speech. What does she take me for? “Okay, I’ve heard you,” I replied and she said,“Yayy, let celebr@te our new friendship with this jui-ce .” Does she think I’m a fool?
She immediately picked the jui-ce on the right side and gave me the one on the left side. Just as she was about to start drinking, I stopped her,“Marie this jui-ce won’t taste good without cookies to support them. Would you plea-se get the chocolate cookies in the kitchen?”
She for-ced a smile and we both dropped our gla-sses of jui-ce back to it’s position. She smiled again, looked at the jui-ce and left. As soon as she left, I looked at the drink and smiled as an idea cli-cked in my head. I chuckled mischievously.
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Mariana
I smiled to myself as I took the plate of cookies back to the garden. Ivy thinks she’s smart but I’m smarter than her. I know she s-ent me to get the cookies because she’s still suspicious about the jui-ce.
I know she would have exchanged the jui-ce by now because I’ve seen similar things happen on tv before. Ivy is so dumb. As I dropped the plate of cookies, I studied her expression. She’s smiling more happily and freely than when I left the garden which is suspicious. Now I know she exchanged the jui-ce.
Just as she was about to take hers, I stopped her,“Ivy I know you are suspicious of your jui-ce. To prove that I didn’t poison it or try anything funny. You can drink mine and I’ll drink yours.” She nodded and took the jui-ce in front of me while I took hers. We both finished it at the same time. I even li-cked my mouth and smiled discreetly. Ivy is such a fool.
She still ended up drinking the poisoned one even though she exchanged it. Suddenly, she began to laugh. I looked at her wondering if that’s the side effects of the poison.
“I know what you were thinking Marie. I never exchanged the jui-ce when you left. I had a feeling you were going to think I exchanged so I just left them the way you gave me earlier. This proved that you indeed put something in the jui-ce,” Ivy dropped the bombshell and I looked at her shocked.
Immediately, I stood up, di-pped my hand into my throat trying to vomit what I’ve just drank. But no matter how much I gagged , the stupid jui-ce refuse to come up. Ivy stood up and gave me a haughty smile and said,“If you will excuse me. I have to go check out my wedding dress.” Then she turned around and left.
I looked at her hatefully and started feeling slight pain in my stomach. Gosh! I nee-d to find that maid and get the antidote.
I can’t believe I fell for my own tra-p. I’ll deal with that bit-ch later. With that thought and a slightly aching stomach, I hurried towards the mansion…
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Brian
I walked into the designer company wearily. I forgot to go that day due to… Y’all know why
I was pretty shocked to find miss feisty kitten there. I looked at my disheveled appearance and felt slightly guilty remembering the hot steamy s-x I’ve been having in my office and the one I just had before coming over right now.
Hey, you can’t blame me cause the secretary seems to be getting more se-duc-tive everyday. And I can’t resist tasting her everyday.
But instantly I shook the thoughts away. I smiled at her and greeted her. She didn’t even replied, just scrutinized my appearance and narrowed her eyes. “Why does it seem like someone just had lots of fun?”
Her words ma-king my heart nearly leap out of my che-st in fear. God, why am I even scared of her finding out? I didn’t even get the chance to reply when she continued,“Whatever…I don’t care anyway.”
I rolled my eyes inwardly. ‘If you don’t care, why ask?’, I thought as looked at her. A lady c@m£ out and said,“Miss come to the room and try your gown to see if it fits.”
Ivy nodded and was about to follow her when I stopped them by holding her hand. She turned to look at me.
“Ivy, I can come in with you if you want. Who knows, your hand may not be able to reach the zi-pper of the gown? I can be of great help,” I added a flir-ty smile to make my statement more charming. The attendant blu-shed while Ivy glared at me.
“Sir, save that for the wedding night,” the attendant said timidly blu-shing before pu-lling Ivy to go in with her. Ivy stopped before they could enter and c@m£ back to where I was standing.
I sm-irked thinking I’ve alre-ady charmed the feisty kitten. But instead of pu-lling me into the dressing room with her like I thought, she stepped on my shoe very ha-rd and ran into the room. I immediately held my leg in pain. Thank God she was wearing flats and not high heels or else my legs were gone. But still it hurts alot.
I was still holding my leg in pain when my own designer c@m£ out. As we were leaving the waiting area, I turned to look at the room my feisty kitten just entered. I smiled… She’s my feisty kitten
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Mariana
I la-id down on my be-d rolling in pain as I held my stomach. What the fu-ck is ma-king those guards take so much time in bringing that maid here. As my stomach grumbled again, I shivered in fear.
I feel like I’m gonna die. Why didn’t I just follow that stupid maid instructions instead of emptying all the poison into the jui-ce.
“Miss, the maid has alre-ady gone home. She has finished with her duties for today,”the guards said as they c@m£ into my room. “Then go and find her. You have to bring her back now immediately,” I tried to shout but it only c@m£ out quietly due to the pain I’m feeling.
They bowed and left the room. “I heard you were feeling sick Marie. Why would you fall sick all of a sudden,” someone said coming into the room.
Oh no! It’s mother. What do I tell her now? I can’t possibly tell her that bit-ch outsmarted me.
🌠He Fell For A Klepto 🌠
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Mariana 🌹
“Mother, I ate something that upset my stomach badly. That’s why,” I said quietly trying to hide how much pain I’m feeling. Mother laughed quietly and c@m£ to sit on the be-d beside me. She pat my hair slowly and brou-ght out a small bottle that looks very familiar to me.
I g-asped in pain as my eyes wi-de-ned,“Mom what are…you…how…when…” I couldn’t form a complete s-entence as I wondered how the bottle of antidote got to be in her hands.
“Marie, I’ve always told you never to un-derestimate your enemy. I caught the maid who told me all you planned to do. I collected the antidote cause I alre-ady knew this was going to happen,” mom answered and handed over the bottle of antidote to me.
I immediately took it and gulped it all. Well, I alre-ady took all the poison so there’s no harm in taking all the antidote. “Never un-derestimate Ivy again. She’s smarter than you think,” mom retorted.
I couldn’t reply cause I had to go to the toilet and vomit all I’ve taken. As soon as I was done, mom helped me back to the room. I la-id down and after few minutes I began to feel much better than before.
“Next time, don’t act so rash. I alre-ady have lots of plans that’s going to work this time around,” mom said and moved closer before whispering the plans into my ears. As soon as she finished, I laughed but then I frowned again.
“Mom,why do we have to wait till the wedding day. Can’t we start now?,” I asked. Mom shook her head and said,“I told you don’t act so rash. We nee-d to be patient. But right now, I have to go and inform your dad about something. He’s gonna a-ssist us alot with the master plan.”
“Mom, won’t the Faye family be angry when they eventually find out?,” I asked a little bit worried.
“Leave it all to me. We will be killing two birds with just one stone,” mom replied and smiled at me. Before she turned around and left.
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Unknown pov 🏵️
Mariana’s mom walked into the master be-droom in the mansion and dismissed all the servants. Tony was sitting on a couch apparently thinking of something seriously. He didn’t even look up from the file until his wife called him over and over again.
He sighed and asked,“Tonia what’s it this time around?” Tonia sat beside him and looked into the file. She noticed it’s about Ivy’s thera-py result. She sm-irked discreetly. Tony didn’t notice as he said,“Her thera-py results state that there’s no positive improvement in her kleptomania. How am I supposed to marry her off with this shameful behavior.”
“That’s exactly why I am here. Why don’t you let Mariana marry Brian instead of Ivy? So Ivy can stay at home and continue her treatment,” Tonia said quietly stro-king Tony’s b©dy.
“But your daughter doesn’t want to marry him and I don’t want to for-ce her. Moreover what do I tell the Faye family since they have seen Ivy and approved of her.”
“I talked to Mariana alre-ady and she’s agreed to marry Brian so her sister can stay at home and continue her treatment. Don’t worry about the Faye’s, I’ll take care of them,” Tonia said slyly.
Tony looked at her and smiled happily feeling relieved. “I’m so happy you are my wife Tonia and our daughter is so un-derstanding. I don’t what I would have done without you two. All Ivy brings me is trouble and heartache. Thanks for coming into my life.”
He hu-gged Tonia. Sadly, he couldn’t see the wicked smile and expression on her face.
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Ivy🌹
As I walked out of the dressing room, I looked around for the troublesome pla-yboy but he’s nowhere to be seen. I heaved a sigh of relief.
As I was about to walk out when an attendant stopped me and handed over a bag. Confused, I looked at her about to ask her a question when she said,“Ma, the cloth inside the bag is for your sister. She was supposed to come today for the fitting of the dress but she didn’t come. Let her try it and s-end it back if it nee-ds any adjustments.”
She bowed and left. I held the bag ti-ghtly and smiled remembering what happened today at home. Then I walked out of the company…
[Unknown note: As she walked out, Brian c@m£ out of his dressing room and went to hers to look for her. He even went to the garage but she was gone. He looked disappointed not finding her….❤️]
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Mariana 🌹
I was checking my Instagram account when Ivy walked into my room. She didn’t even knock…So rude… I looked up at her as she dropped a bag.
“Your dress is in it. You have to wear the cloth like that since you didn’t come for the fitting and the designers are fully booked. They will be too busy to re-adjust your cloth for you,” ivy said. I just looked at her and didn’t say anything.
Inwardly, I smiled. I won’t be nee-ding that fu-cking dress anymore. Receiving no response, Ivy walked out probably confused about my lack of response by now.
She won’t expect what we are going to do to her.
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¡¡¡Fast-forward¡¡¡
*******A day before the wedding******
Ivy🌹
I don’t get why I’m still feeling uneasy. I’m just so worried. Mariana hasn’t tried anything since that day and I should be relieved but I can’t stop worrying that she’s planning something bigger than that…
Tbc❤️
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