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Chapter Forty Two

Author: Love Egbejale
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-21 02:30:43

Edwina

As soon as Matthias drove off, I turned and hurried back toward the hospital. My feet were moving faster than my thoughts, heart fluttering—not from nerves, but from something else. Something warmer. Hope.

It was strange how light I felt. Like something had finally cracked open in the darkness. A job. A real one. Not scraps. Not handouts. Not some false promise dangled and then ripped away.

I could already see the look on Dad’s face when I’d tell him. Not that it would fix everything, but it would mean one less unpaid bill. One less worry to stack on top of the others.

Maybe... just maybe, tomorrow won’t feel like surviving. Maybe it’ll feel like moving forward.

I spotted Justice sitting on a bench near the emergency exit. He looked like hell—clothes wrinkled, face drawn, like he hadn’t slept in a week. But there was something about the way his eyes lifted when he saw me. Alert. Like part of him still refused to quit, even if the rest of him was breaking.

I told him. About the
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