All Chapters of More Than Pleasures Steamy Diaries: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

His discharge came faster than anyone expected.It started with a routine Friday morning checkup, just like all the others. A few strong reports. A quiet nod from the doctor. A clipboard full of signed forms.And just like that, Juda had only twenty-four hours left in the hospital.The exact same location he used to dislike, now he wasn't so sure he was ready to walk away from it.Something about the space felt off that night. The air felt heavier and quieter, like it knew something was going to take place.Joy came in later than usual. No tea in her hand. No clipboard. No cheerful small talk.Just her, quietly dragging a chair over and setting it beside his bed.“You’ll be out tomorrow,” she said, like she was reading a fact off a screen.“Yeah,” he replied. “Weird, right?”“Feels sudden.”“Feels unfair,” he said, smiling faintly. “I was just starting to like being annoying again.”She smiled, but her eyes didn't show it. They sat quietly, and for once, it wasn't easy.Finally, Juda b

He tapped on their old thread, thumb hovering over the screen before scrolling up. Then he saw it, a message she’d sent him a few days ago:“Healing isn’t a performance. You don’t have to report progress to be seen.”At the time, those words had felt like freedom. Like she understood him.But now, they sounded different. Now they felt like something people say when they’re slowly, gently stepping back. When they’re already halfway gone.He hovered over the keyboard for a full minute. Typed, deleted. Typed again.Finally, he sent:No updates today. Just missing the quiet you used to bring with you.So he waited.And kept waiting.But no reply came that night.The silence didn’t sting like sharp pain. It wasn’t loud or sudden.It was quieter than that. Heavier.It didn’t hurt exactly, but it echoed inside him.Not with emptiness.Just with a quiet weight. A fullness made of things he couldn’t quite name. Feelings that sat just beneath the surface, waiting for words that never came.Her m

Iyah woke up confused, feeling the sore all over her body. But as she turned herself back, seeing Keith made her gradually remember the most unbelievable thing she could ever do.She closed her eyes out of frustration, asking herself what she’d done. Feeling weary, Iyah forced herself to get up. “This is a mistake. Fuck!” She whispered with anger in her voice. Iyah continued moving herself up slowly so Keith wouldn’t wake up, but his hands are wrapped around her waist like a baby asking for a cuddle.

After seeing Keith and Lia kissed, Iyah seems to have lost her last hope.Like I care, she thought to herself after seeing Keith and Lia together.A week has passed like a snap. Iyah made herself busy at work for two weeks straight.Then Sunday came, and Iyah didn’t have any choice but to be at home alone.But the main door opened the same time she got down from spending alone time in her room the whole day.For

“I'm really sorry that I acted like a child. I was really just afraid. I didn’t know what I felt. I just don’t want to lie and hurt Lia again,” Iyah said, sitting in front of Keith’s car, feeling nauseous. It was the most stupid excuse she had come up with.“I said it’s fine, Iyah,” Keith directly said while looking ahead.“Thanks for the ride.” Then Iyah bid goodbye.After that night, Iyah was restless and bothered by what had happened. She still seems guilty of her reaction, but she just panicked.