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The Question She Couldn't Ask
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2026-08-13 08:00:01It was almost dark by the time Seline made it back to Sweet’s house, the day having drained itself of every ounce of certainty she’d started it with. She found him alone in the kitchen where they’d had breakfast that morning, the ruined eggs long since cleared away, a single lamp on over the counter throwing soft yellow light across a stack of papers he was pretending to read.
He looked up when she came in, and whatever he saw in her face made him set the papers down
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SELINE'S FANTASY A Mother's Call
Sweet dropped Seline home first, insisting on it despite her protests that the bus was perfectly fine, and lingered at the gate a beat too long before finally driving off, like leaving had become physically harder than it used to be. She was still smiling faintly over that, letting herself into the flat, when her phone rang with a name she hadn't expected to see again so soon.Sweet's mother."I got your number from Ayomide's phone this morning, forgive the informality," she said, before Seline could even manage a proper greeting. "I've just come off a call with Christiana. I thought you deserved to hear how it went from me directly, rather than through my son's version of it."
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The drive back from Ikoyi was quiet, but it wasn't the same brittle, watchful quiet that had filled the car on the way there. Sweet kept one hand on the wheel and didn't let go of Seline's hand with the other, not even to change gears, managing the two badly enough that she eventually took pity on him and shifted for him herself at the junctions."You didn't have to come today," he said, eyes on the road. "I know it wasn't really your family's history to sit through.""I wanted to be there," she said. "Besides, I think your mother liked having a witness. Some things are easier to say out loud when somebody new is in the room. It gives you permission to finally say them."He was quiet for a moment, and then, almost too casually, he said, "Can I tell you something? Something that has nothing to do with Rachael, or Christiana, or any of it. Something I haven't actually said out loud to anyone in about three years.""Only if you want to."He pulled the car over instead of answering right
SELINE'S FANTASY The Box
The house in Ikoyi was smaller than Seline expected; a modest bungalow tucked behind an overgrown hedge, nothing like the grand, gated compound Sweet had grown up in. Weeds pushed up through cracks in the driveway, and the paint on the shutters had faded to a soft, forgotten blue. It didn't look like it belonged to the same family at all."Nobody's lived here since Aunty Rachael," Sweet said quietly, parking the car outside the gate. "My mother kept it. Never sold it, never rented it out. I always assumed it was sentimental. I never really asked."His mother was already waiting on the small veranda when they walked up, a cardboard box resting on the plastic table beside her, its edges soft and yellowed with age. She looked smaller than Seli
SELINE'S FANTASY Face to Face
Seline didn't go home.She meant to; she'd told her mother she would, had promised it standing in the doorway with her wrist still warm from her mother's grip, but the bus rattled past her usual stop, and she stayed in her seat, watching it go, some new and unfamiliar resolve settling into her chest with each passing street. She was tired of being spoken about. Tired of being a name inside other people's phone calls, a line item in someone else's paperwork, a problem to be managed by men in kitchens who couldn't bring themselves to say the word no out loud. If two weeks was all the time she had, she wasn't going to spend the first night of it waiting quietly for someone else to decide what came next.She got off three stops later,
SELINE'S FANTASY What His Mother Knew
Seline didn't call ahead. She simply went, catching the last commercial bus back across town, King's warning and Madam Christiana's words looping over and over in her head until they blurred into a single, insistent question she needed answered before she could sleep at all that night.Sweet opened the door before she'd finished knocking, like he'd been standing just behind it, waiting."You came back," he said, something between relief and surprise in his voice."I need to ask you something, and I need you to actually think before you answer, not just say whatever gets us past the question fastest."
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Sweet stared at the screen for one long second before he answered, the kitchen suddenly feeling much smaller than it had a minute ago."Dad.""Ayomide." His father's voice came through clipped, stripped of its usual warmth, the tone he used for boardrooms and bad news. "Where are you right now?""At home. What's going on?""I've had three calls in the last hour. One from Ronke about the photographs. One from a business associate asking whether the rumors about you and some girl are going to affect our standing with AKZ. And one," his father paused, and Sweet heard the parti
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