Chapter three.

Alice decided to enjoy her time in the mansion as the wealthy daughter-in-law of madame Janet. It was going to be for three years and so she would make the most out of it. Madame Janet had already included her in receiving monthly allowance along side Kelvin. She had even given Alice her very first allowance for that month the day before her wedding. It was a huge sum of money that had shocked Alice. She was still in the dilemma of what to spend the money on. Her parents were not as wealthy as her in-laws and she had never seen such an amount of money before. She just sent her parents a little amount from it and kept the rest safe in her bank account, which, Madame Janet had opened for her immediately after her engagement to Kelvin.

Alice watched how Kelvin spent his own allowance in just the three days she had been there as well as the few times they spent together before their wedding. He would buy recklessly, anything that he wanted. And recently she saw how be lavished a handful of the money on his girlfriend, Anita. Alice would hear his phone conversation with her and would deduce that she had demanded for money in hundreds of thousands and Kelvin would instantly send her from his allowance. She would shake her head at his foolishness and wonder if living that extravagantly and carelessly would help him preserve his fortune after his grandmother would have willed everything to him. Well, she thought again, the wealth of grandma Janet was infinite. Alice was sure that Kelvin would never be able to finish it in his life time and that was why he had the laxity to spend recklessly.

Alice had nothing to spend the money on, she was already eating fine in the house and she had a car given to her with a driver assigned. She was comfortable and so she just decided to keep the money safe in her account.

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Soon, the need to use from the money came after Kelvin had given her the documents containing the agreement of giving her half of his inheritance. Alice was wise. She knew that Kelvin would never want her to get half of his money and he could fake the documents for her to sign them. She told him she would sign them later and give them to him which he agreed to with the thought that she would never understand the document's content.

Alice had to confirm the contents of the agreement as she could not understand what she was reading. The next morning, she had her driver take her to one of the best law firms in the city. When she got there she requested to see an excellent lawyer who confirmed to her that the summary of the contents in the paper was that she would get nothing at the end of the day. Alice was not surprised. She simply asked the lawyer to draft another that would state that she gets half of Kelvin Sanders' inheritance and she paid him his fee. She got back to the mansion and found him in the balcony of their room, chatting online with a cup of tea and a plate of snacks on the table before him. Angrily, she walked to him and yanked the phone from his hand. He looked up at her instantly, irritated at her actions.

"You think you're smart, huh?" She asked him.

"What are you talking about? What the hell is wrong with you?" He asked her.

"You think you can fool me because I'm a villager, right? Well, you thought wrong. That fake papers you gave me to sign has been destroyed by me..." Kelvin was shocked to hear her call it fake. He was surprised and was at that moment dumbfounded.

Alice continued, "I am having another document made and this time it is real. You will sign it when it's ready or you lose everything" she said and flung his phone on the floor, not minding if it got damaged and then she stormed out of the balcony.

Kelvin was still surprised. He wondered how she got to know that the documents were not what she had asked for. He had thought, on his girlfriend, Anita's suggestion that she was an illiterate and would never be able to understand the content of the documents if the words were intelligently twisted and professionally written. Alice had once again proved to be indeed a smart woman and that had him wondering.

He picked his phone from the floor where Alice had thrown it and dialled Anita's number. He wanted to tell her what had happened and to get advice on what next to do.

"Hey baby" Anita replied from the other end of the line.

"She found out" Kelvin quickly said.

"Who?" Anita asked.

"Alice of course. She found out that the documents were fake and she is having another document made as we speak. I don't know what to do babe. I can't hand over half of my inheritance to a villager. It's too much" He lamented.

"That bitch. How on earth did she find out?" Anita asked.

"I have no idea. She is a dumb villager that is not supposed to understand what was written in those papers." Kelvin sighed.

"Calm down babe. Can you come over? Let's think of what to do next" Anita said.

"Alright. I'll be with you soon" he said and hung up.

Then hurriedly left the house for Anita's.

Alice who was already on the bed watched him leave and knew exactly where he was going and she kissed her teeth.

There was nothing he or his girlfriend would do to stop her. It was Kelvin's greatest mistake that he had to use her like that just because he thought her to be uneducated and a villager and naive. He would learn to never take advantage of someone's innocence ever again in his life.