chapter 1

"Jason?" Mia called the moment she got into the house but she didn't get any response. She wondered if nobody was home but then she heard noise coming from upstairs which meant two things: either Jason was ignoring her or the TV was too loud. But then she remembered that he hadn't installed a TV in his room. She made her way slowly up the stairs.

"Jason," she called out again, but still she got no response.

As Mia drew closer to Jason's room, the noise grew louder and it was clear enough for her to make out what was happening. Her heart pounded faster in her chest as she stood in front of the door. Her fingers were trembling as she put them on the door's knob. She didn't have the courage to open the door. So she turned back around and walked away, Her face soaked with tears.

She walked back down to the living room and sat there with her face in her hands. The air around her was taut and tight and it felt like being in Jason's house was constricting her airflow. She grabbed her purse and was about to leave when she heard someone call her name. She turned around to see who it was and saw Jason with a towel draped around his waist.

"Mia, you didn't tell me that you were coming." He said as he approached her.

Mia eyed him with disgust. "Have you been cheating on me?!" Mia yelled at him.

"You're crying!" Jason said, ignoring her question, he stretched his hand to wipe the tears from her cheeks but she slapped his hand angrily away.

"Tell me, you bastard. Have you been cheating on me?" She intoned, her voice teary.

Jason pinched the bridge of his nose before he responded. "I'm sorry..."

"So you've been sleeping with someone else?" Mia cut him off.

"Yes, I did." He said. "I did sleep with someone else."

Mia stood frozen in disbelief as the words echoed in her mind. She hadn't expected him to admit it outrightly.

The sting of betrayal cut through her like a knife, leaving her heart shattered into a million pieces. She had never imagined that her boyfriend, Jason, would betray her in such a cruel and callous manner.

Another bout of tears streamed down Mia's cheeks as she watched Jason's expression, a mix of guilt and regret, morph into a mask of indifference. Anger boiled within her, but beneath it lay a deep well of hurt and sorrow.

"I can't believe you would do this to me," Mia whispered, her voice trembling with emotion.

Jason's response was hollow, his apology ringing empty in Mia's ears. "I'm sorry, Mia. It was a mistake. It meant nothing."

But to Mia, those words offered little solace. The trust she had placed in Jason had been shattered, and the pain of his betrayal cut deeper than any physical wound.

Without another word, Mia turned and fled from Jason's apartment, her heart heavy with sorrow and rage. She stumbled blindly through the streets, her mind consumed by thoughts of revenge.

It was then that Mia made a vow to herself: she would make Jason and the woman he had betrayed her with pay for their betrayal. She would show them the same pain and heartache they had inflicted upon her.

The burning desire for revenge was all that clouded Mia's head. She wiped her tears as she took off her dress which was soaked with tears. Dumping the cloth into her laundry basket, She headed for the bathroom.

She let the water cascade down her body as she burst into another round of tears. She struggled to hold back her tears but the thought of Jason admitting to what he had done only propelled the tears.

She turned the shower's knob anticlockwise and headed out. She dried herself when she heard her phone starting to buzz. She looked at the phone and read the messages from the notification screen. It was Jason texting her.

She blocked his number straight up. She didn't want to have anything to do with that cheating bastard.

In the days that followed, Mia couldn't sleep right, all that clouded her thoughts was how to take revenge on Jason. She thought she could get over him but she couldn't, rather she drank herself to stupor. One night, as she was scrolling through the internet, a notification popped up on the screen, she tapped on it and realized that it was Jason's social media profile. He had used the picture of the girl he had cheated on Mia with as his display picture.

Mia felt rage boil inside of her. She turned off the phone and held it in her hand until the phone's screen almost cracked.

"I'm going to make that bastard pay for the pain and shame he's caused me." Hate seethed through every word as she spoke.

Mia began doing her findings, she knew that her mind wouldn't be at peace if she didn't take revenge. She began to stalk Jason and monitor his every move. She found out he was going to be out of the country for two weeks. She figured it was time to make her move.

She got her keys and rushed out of the house. When she got into the streets, she flagged down a taxi and instructed the driver on where to take her to. The vehicle stopped in front of a white mansion. She rolled down the window and looked at the picture she had gotten from the internet of Jason's father's house. It was exactly the same. She alighted the car and was about to make her way to the house when the driver called her back.

"Hey ma'am, you haven't paid me yet." He said as he stretched his hand out.

Mia turned back immediately. She slapped her forehead slightly as she opened her purse, brought out a dollar note, and handed it to me.

"I'm sorry about that." She apologized. "you can keep the change."

The man eyed her closely before kickstarting the engine and driving away.