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Penulis: Ms. Chiamaka
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Savannah

The hospital room was quiet except for the faint hum of the air conditioner and the soft beeping of the machine beside Noah’s bed. I’d been sitting in the same stiff chair for what felt like hours, my body aching from how rigid I’d been, but I couldn’t bring myself to move.

He was propped up slightly, his face pale against the pillow, a thin band of gauze wrapped across his temple. Every now and then, his eyes would flick to me, but he didn’t say much. I didn’t either. The air between us felt heavy, too thick with all the things we weren’t saying.

I kept telling myself I was only here to make sure he was okay, that once I knew he was safe, I’d leave. But my feet never moved toward the door.

But then suddenly, his phone buzzed on the table beside him. We both looked at it at the same time, and the name on the screen made my chest tighten. It was Camille.

Noah reached for it but hesitated halfway, his hand hovering like he wasn’t sure if answering was a good idea.

“Go ahead,” I
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  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   Camille’s Secret

    NoahWhen I heard those words from Camille, I didn’t know how to feel or act. I just knew one thing, and that was that I had to leave that place immediately. I didn’t even know where my feet were taking me. I just had to get out. Out of that room, away from the sound of Camille’s crying, out of my own head before I did something stupid like punch a wall and end up looking like those dudes online who brag about “emotional damage” but can’t even hold a pen after.So I walked and kept walking with no real direction in mind. I walked through the hallways, past people who probably gave me side-eyes, and down into the courtyard where the noise of the school kind of blurred. My chest felt tight, like every word Camille said was still stuck in my lungs.The baby wasn’t mine. Just saying it in my head still sounded like a bad Netflix drama. I was the fool. The guy raising another man’s child in his imagination, stressing over diapers I hadn’t even bought yet.The more I tried not to think abou

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   Got To Be Good

    SavannahThe next morning, something suddenly occurred to me. I hadn’t seen Noah the whole morning at school, and honestly, I was glad for it. After everything that happened with Leo and the dealers, my head was already on overload. But later that afternoon, I caught a glimpse of him across the parking lot. He looked furious, like he was yelling at someone over the phone. I didn’t mean to eavesdrop. I was just… there. Watching from a distance. And the moment he kicked the trash can, I knew something heavy was about to go down.I thought about going to meet him to ask what was wrong, or at least to tell him about Leo. But I knew he’d just reject me or think I was trying to trick him, and honestly, I did not have the time for that, so I just sat still.Noah I swear, when I first walked into Camille’s room, it felt like one of those scenes where the background music cuts out and you are just left with silence. Heavy silence. She was sitting there on her bed, scrolling her phone like not

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   Blame On Me

    SavannahLeo was kidnapped. The thought of it still sounded strange in my ear. In a way, you could say it was almost funny. I couldn’t imagine how we’d gotten here, but somehow I still knew one thing was certain. It was all my fault. There had been this tiny voice ringing those words repeatedly in my head since the moment I heard about that.‘It was your fault. It was your fault, Savannah. You could have stayed away, but now you roped someone else into your mess, and if something should happen to him, it’ll be your fault still.’The second I realized Leo was in their hands, something in me turned. I didn’t know what it was at first. It was like a pit gnawing in my stomach. Or a painful knot. But then that feeling went away almost immediately. Whatever fear I had before, it was gone. I didn’t care about hiding anymore. I didn’t care about pretending my life was normal. My friends were already too deep in this, whether I liked it or not. And if I was going to save him, I needed all of

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The War

    SavannahThe next morning, the campus buzzed like any other day. There was laughter in the courtyard, sneakers squeaking against concrete, and people worrying about exams. To anyone watching, I was just another student weaving through the noise. But under that calm mask, my blood was already racing.This wasn’t just another day. Today was the day I stopped reacting and started striking. Today I took back control by going for the head of command. I had the intel. My goons had been watching carefully, following the dealers who had circled us like vultures. And finally, we had a weak spot, a money drop going down just a block off campus, far enough from school security, but close enough for me to reach quickly if things went south.Devon grinned when he gave me the report. I could tell he was just as excited about this as I was. Dani had argued that it was too risky. Even Dani had pulled me aside and whispered that maybe this was too much, that we were pushing too hard. But I couldn’t st

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   The Pressure Cooker

    SavannahI never thought the two worlds I straddled would start choking me from both sides, but that’s exactly what it felt like. School and the streets weren’t just colliding anymore; they were wearing me down, piece by piece, until I could barely breathe.On campus, it was the same routine: books, essays, group projects, professors with no clue how heavy my nights had become. My phone buzzed constantly with coded messages, numbers, and locations, and each one was a reminder that while everyone else worried about grades and internships, I was out here fighting a war against men twice my age who thought they owned Noah, and now, me.I sat in the library one afternoon, pretending to read through an economics chapter while my laptop screen blinked with an unfinished paper. My mind wasn’t on supply-and-demand graphs. It was on the name Ford, and how it slipped from my mouth that day with the dealer, and the way he looked at me after with shock and respect. It was the first time I realize

  • Hired My Ex's Sister as Wife   Walking the Tightrope

    SavannahSince that run-in with the dealer, life hadn’t slowed down for me, it had only tightened like a rope around my throat. The crazy part was, I thought I could handle it. I thought I could balance classes, keep my crew sharp, check in on Noah from a distance, and still make sure the dealers didn’t try anything slick. But the truth? Every day felt like I was walking a tightrope with no safety net.My assignments started piling up. Some professors started giving me that look that said they were one step away from calling me into their office for a lecture on “priorities.” I wasn’t failing yet, but the edges of my grades were starting to fray. Sleep was a joke. My phone buzzed at all hours, and I kept my ear to the streets, always waiting for the next update.And my friends? They were starting to notice.One afternoon, after lunch in the campus cafeteria, Clara slid into the seat across from me. She looked at me the way only Clara could, like she’d already sized me up, read the hea

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