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Chapter 32: Unpleasant.
Omotayo.
"Tayo, are you seeing what I'm seeing." Ini asks as soon as she runs towards where I stood with Bayo.
"What's happening Ini? What exactly are you seeing and why is Tayo not saying anything?" Bayo asks an already furious Ini and although I could hear and understand them, I still could not speak up.
"Guys, una dey see who I dey see abi na my eye dey deceive me?" Angela asks immediately she walked up to us and something about them asking made me feel even worse. Lord knew, I wished so dearly that seeing him was only a part of my imagination but the fact that they see him too and that he's actually here with his stupid wife right behind him made me wish the ground could just open up and swallow me whole.
(Are you guys seeing who I'm seeing or are my eyes deceiving me?)
"Can one of you just answer me already? What the hell is happening here?" Bayo ask
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