He dumped his blind wife at the mall – but then she met the billionaire governor’s son. She didn’t expect what would happen next….

Michael Adebayo, said one of the officers standing up. You are under arrest for embezzlement, fraud and identity theft. As the handcuffs clicked around his wrists, Michael’s mind raced.

How had they found out? He had been so careful. You have the right to remain silent, the officer continued, but Michael wasn’t listening. He was thinking about Linda, about their plans, about the new life he was supposed to start today.

Please, he begged Mr. Okafor. There must be some mistake. I would never.

Mr. Okafor looked at him with disgust. We have bank records, forged documents, witness statements. You stole over 3 million naira from this company Michael.

And you used your disabled wife’s identity to do it. How did you find out? Michael whispered. Mr. Okafor smiled grimly.

Let’s just say you picked the wrong woman to mess with. Grace has friends in high places now. As Michael was led away in handcuffs, past his shocked co-workers, past the gossiping security guards, past the lady who shook her head in disappointment, he finally understood that his carefully constructed world was crashing down around him.

But this was just the beginning. David Johnson was far from finished with Michael Adebayo. The arrest was only the first move in a much larger game of chess, and Michael was about to discover just how powerful an enemy he had made.

In her small flat in Acacia, Grace sat listening to the news on the radio, not knowing that her husband’s arrest was about to be the lead story on every Lagos news channel. Her phone rang. Was David.

Grace, he said gently. It’s done. Michael has been arrested.

You’re safe now. Grace started crying again but this time they were tears of relief. Thank you, she whispered.

Thank you so much. Grace, David said, his voice soft with an emotion he couldn’t name, this is just the beginning. I promise you by the time I’m finished, Michael will regret the day he ever hurt you.

Linda Chioma stared at the news report on her phone screen, her perfectly manicured hand trembling as she read the headline, Crown Insurance Employee Arrested for N3 Million Fraud. Below the headline was Michael’s photo. The same Michael who had promised her a new life, a new apartment and freedom from her ordinary job as a bank teller.

She was sitting in the expensive hotel room that Michael had paid for, surrounded by shopping bags filled with clothes and jewelry he had bought her just yesterday. Now everything made sense. The sudden wealth, the expensive gifts, the confidence with which he spent money she thought came from his successful business ventures.

But let me tell you how Linda had become the other woman in this story and why her world was about to come crashing down just as hard as Michael’s. Linda had grown up in a middle-class family in Surrelier. Her parents were teachers who had struggled to pay her school fees and give her a decent education.

When she graduated from university with a degree in banking and finance, she thought her life would be different from her parents’ constant financial struggles. But working as a bank teller in Lagos was harder than she expected. The salary was small, the customers were often rude, and she watched rich people come in every day to make transactions worth more than she earned in a year.

Linda began to dream of a different life, designer clothes, a nice car, her own apartment, maybe even traveling abroad. When Michael walked into her bank six months ago, he seemed like the answer to her prayers. He was well-dressed, confident, and he flirted with her in a way that made her feel special.

He told her he was an executive at an insurance company, that he was unhappily married to a woman who didn’t understand him, and that he was planning to leave his wife soon. Linda, you’re too beautiful and smart to be stuck behind that teller window, he had whispered during one of their early dates. I can give you a better life.

Just be patient with me while I sort out my situation at home. Linda knew it was wrong to date a married man, but Michael was so convincing. He painted his wife Grace as a burden who held him back from his true potential.

He never mentioned that Grace was blind, he just said she was dependent, and couldn’t take care of herself. Once I leave her, we can be together properly, Michael had promised. I just need to make sure she’s okay financially.

I’m not a heartless man Linda. I believe in doing the right thing. Linda had believed him because she wanted to.

The gifts, the expensive dates, the promises of a future together, it all seemed so real. Michael had even shown her pictures of the apartment he claimed to be buying for them in Leckie, complete with a swimming pool and ocean view. Yesterday when Michael had told her he was finally free of his burden, Linda had been overjoyed.

They had celebrated with champagne and expensive sushi, making plans for their new life together. Now, sitting in the hotel room that had been paid for with stolen money, Linda felt sick to her stomach. She had been living a lie, wearing stolen clothes, eating food paid for with money taken from Michael’s blind wife.

Her phone rang. It was her friend Blessing who also worked at the bank. Linda, did you see the news? Isn’t that your boyfriend who got arrested? Linda’s voice was barely a whisper.

Yes it’s him. Girl they’re saying he stole millions of Naira. And he was using his disabled wife’s identity to commit fraud.

Linda, please tell me you didn’t know about this. Linda started crying. I didn’t know Blessing.

I swear I didn’t know. He told me his wife was just, he never said she was blind. He never said he was stealing.

Linda you need to be careful. If the police think you were involved you could be in serious trouble too. After hanging up, Linda sat on the bed staring at all the expensive things around her.

Every item represented a lie, a theft, a betrayal of an innocent woman. She thought about Grace, sitting at home not knowing that her husband was spending her money on another woman. Linda had always considered herself a good person.

Yes she had made the mistake of dating a married man, but she had convinced herself that Michael’s marriage was already over. She had never intended to hurt an innocent woman, especially not a disabled one. She picked up her phone and did something that surprised even her.

She searched for Grace’s number. Meanwhile, Grace was at David’s office in Victoria Island, sitting across from his massive mahogany desk as lawyers explained the legal proceedings that would clear her name and recover some of the money Michael had stolen. David watched Grace carefully as the lawyers spoke.

Despite everything she had been through, she listened quietly, asked thoughtful questions, and maintained a dignity that impressed everyone in the room. She wasn’t looking for revenge or trying to get more than what was rightfully hers. She just wanted her life back.

Grace, said Mr. Fashola, we’ve frozen all of Michael’s accounts and seized his assets. We should be able to recover most of the money he stole from you. But I have to warn you, this case will be in the newspapers.

People will know your story. Grace nodded. I understand.

I just want to make sure no other woman goes through what I went through. David felt his chest tighten with emotion. Even after being betrayed and abandoned, Grace’s first thought was protecting other women from the same fate.

There’s something else, Mr. Fashola continued. Michael’s girlfriend Linda Chioma, has been trying to reach you. She wants to speak with you.

Grace was quiet for a long moment. What does she want to say? She claims she didn’t know about the fraud and she wants to apologize. She also says she has information that might help your case.

David frowned. Grace, you don’t have to talk to her. This woman was part of why Michael abandoned you.

But Grace surprised them all. I want to hear what she has to say. Maybe she’s another one of Michael’s victims.

Two hours later, Linda walked nervously into David’s office. She had expected to meet Grace alone. But when she saw the expensive office, the team of lawyers and David himself, she realized how much trouble Michael, and possibly she, was in.

Grace was sitting in a chair near the window, her white cane resting against her knee. Even though she couldn’t see Linda, she seemed to sense her presence. You must be Linda, Grace said quietly.

Linda had prepared a speech but when she saw Grace, really saw her, all her words disappeared. This wasn’t the weak, burdensome wife Michael had described. This was a dignified, beautiful woman who had been betrayed by the man she loved.

I’m so sorry, Linda whispered tears streaming down her face. I’m so sorry for what I did to you. Grace was quiet for a moment.

Did you know he was stealing money? No, I swear I didn’t know. He told me he was successful, that he was planning to leave you anyway. He never told me you were blind.

He made it sound like your marriage was already over. Did you know he abandoned me at the mall? Linda’s heart broke. No, he told me he had left you at your sister’s house.

He said you agreed to the separation. David had been watching this exchange with growing amazement. Grace was handling this situation with more grace and wisdom than most people could manage.

She wasn’t screaming or crying or demanding revenge. She was seeking truth. Linda, Grace said finally, do you love him? Linda was shocked by the question.

I, I thought I did. But the man I love doesn’t exist, does he? The real Michael is someone who would steal from his blind wife and abandon her at a shopping mall. Grace nodded slowly.

Then you’re another one of his victims. Linda broke down completely. Grace, I have bags full of clothes and jewelry that he bought me with stolen money.

I want to give it all back. I want to help you get justice. That’s when Linda revealed something that would change everything.

She had been recording some of her conversations with Michael on her phone, including one where he bragged about manipulating Grace into signing documents and using her disability status to get benefits. As David listened to the recordings, his jaw tightened with anger. But he also felt a growing admiration for Grace, who was showing forgiveness and compassion to the woman who had helped destroy her marriage.

Linda, Grace said gently, I forgive you. But I need you to help me make sure Michael never does this to another woman. Linda nodded through her tears.

I’ll do whatever it takes. As Linda left the office, David turned to Grace with something close to awe in his voice. Grace, I’ve never met anyone like you.

After everything you’ve been through, how can you forgive so easily? Grace smiled sadly. Hatred is a poison you drink hoping someone else will die. I refuse to let Michael poison my heart the way he poisoned my marriage.

David felt something shift in his chest, a feeling he had never experienced before. He was falling in love with Grace’s spirit, her strength, her incredible capacity for forgiveness. But he had no idea that Grace was feeling something similar.

For the first time since her marriage began falling apart, she felt protected, valued, and truly seen by someone who understood her worth. Neither of them knew they were about to face their biggest test yet. Y’all I am crying real tears right now.

Did you see the grace, literally grace, that this woman showed to Linda? Most people would have been screaming, fighting, calling names, but our Grace forgave the other woman and recognized that she was a victim too. And can we talk about David? This man is watching Grace handle this situation with such dignity and class, and you can see he’s falling hard. But Linda coming clean with those recordings? Michael’s own words are about to bury him deeper than he ever imagined.

If Grace’s forgiveness just touched your soul, smash that like button. Comment below and tell me, could you forgive the other woman the way Grace did? And honey, you need to subscribe right now because next chapter is going to show you what happens when Michael realizes he’s lost everything, his freedom, his money, his girlfriend, and now he’s about to face the full power of the governor’s son. Trust me what David has planned next will leave you speechless.

Michael sat in the cramped police cell in panty, his designer shirt now wrinkled and stained, his confident smile replaced by the hollow stare of a broken man. The other inmates avoided him. Word had spread quickly that he was the insurance man who stole from his blind wife, and even hardened criminals had no respect for that kind of coward.

But the worst was yet to come. At that very moment, David Johnson was putting the final touches on a plan that would ensure Michael never forgot the consequences of his cruelty. Let me tell you what had happened in the three days since Michael’s arrest, and why his nightmare was only just beginning.

The story had exploded across Lagos like wildfire. Heartless husband abandons blind wife at mall, screamed the headlines of every newspaper. Social media was buzzing with outrage.

The video from the mall security cameras, showing Michael sneaking out while Grace waited faithfully had gone viral. But it wasn’t just the abandonment that had Lagos talking. The full extent of Michael’s crimes was being revealed piece by piece.

3 million Naira stolen from his company. Credit cards opened in Grace’s name. Disability benefits stolen and spent on his girlfriend.

Bank loans secured with forged documents using Grace’s signature. Nigerians were furious. The hashtag hashtag justice for Grace was trending, with thousands of people sharing their own stories of betrayal and calling for Michael to face the full weight of the law.

But David wasn’t satisfied with just public outrage. He wanted Michael to face consequences that would last a lifetime. On Tuesday morning, David sat in his father’s office in the government house in Alousa, Ikeja…