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CHAPTER NlNE

Author: Samuel Chikwado
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-04-28 20:10:00

I walked into my apartment, more dazed in my head with the excess of the night. The conference, the humiliation in public and all was a haze. The one thing that I could sense was the tightness in my chest, the suffocating weight of defeat bearing down on me. My kingdom is going to be in shambles if care isn't taken .

I walked into the living area, I stood still in shock.

Serena.

She was sitting at the table, her eyes bright but guarded. Food already out on the table, a wispy cloud of steam hovering over the plates, and yet I couldn't help but wonder how I'd gotten it all wrong. How I'd pushed her away when all she ever did was love me, even in the chaos.

I stood there for a moment, my throat constricted, too shocked to talk. She looked at me, as if waiting for me to come out of it.

Finally, she spoke.

"Are you going to come and sit with me, or are you going to just stand there and stare at me like you've seen a ghost?"

I didn't shift, just stood there stiff, stuck in between losing
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