All Chapters of Dumped ,Because His Her Is Back : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

The morning arrived slow like light reluctant to touch her.Amara stood by the window of her rented flat in Green Point, fingers wrapped around a cup of lukewarm tea. The city below was still waking up vendors setting up stalls, seagulls circling the harbor, someone’s radio humming an old love song she used to hum without realizing.It had been months since she’d seen Liam. Weeks since she’d last thought she might run into him by accident.And yet, every morning, her eyes found the horizon like they were still waiting for something to return.She told herself she wasn’t waiting. Not for him. Not anymore.She’d made a home out of her silence. She worked, she wrote, she laughed when it came naturally. Some nights, she even slept without dreaming. But it was strange, the way peace could still ache. Like healing was its own kind of loneliness.The mail came late that day a small pile of envelopes slid under her door, all bills and ads except for one.No return address. Just her name wr

I didn’t expect people to show up that early.The bookstore wasn’t even officially open yet, but there was already a quiet line curling around the glass doors faces, smiles, and the kind of nervous excitement that always came with book signings.It still felt strange, seeing my name printed across the cover. “Too Deep to Erase” the title that had once lived only in my chest, now sitting neatly on rows of shelves. The irony wasn’t lost on me. I had written about love and loss, about what it means to walk away, and here I was, living proof of it all.The owner, a kind older woman named Clara, squeezed my shoulder. “You ready?”“As I’ll ever be,” I said with a small laugh that didn’t quite reach my eyes.It had been months since that night by the sea the night I’d finally stopped asking why. Life since then had been quiet, steady. I’d built something small but honest a rhythm of early mornings, blank pages, and tea that never quite got finished.Healing wasn’t a sunrise; it was a slo

Amara woke to sunlight the kind that didn’t ask for permission to enter. It slipped through the curtain and painted her face with gold, warm and kind, the way new beginnings often are. For a moment, she just lay there, listening.The city outside was alive distant chatter, a bus pulling away, a child laughing. Ordinary sounds, yet somehow they felt sacred. For the first time in a long while, the quiet didn’t echo. It breathed.She stretched, her fingers brushing the edge of her book on the bedside table. The same one she had written through nights that didn’t end easily. The one that carried every version of her the hurting, the healing, the half-afraid, the half-free.It had been weeks since the book release. The reviews had come pouring in kind, curious, sometimes too personal. But the one that meant the most wasn’t written in ink or typed in print. It was silence Liam’s silence.He hadn’t reached out, and she hadn’t expected him to. Some stories don’t need an afterword. Some g

When Amara returned to the city, it no longer felt like the same place she’d once tried to escape.Maybe it was her. Maybe it was the air. Maybe healing makes even the same walls breathe differently.The cab rolled past the café that café where everything had once come undone. The same tables, the same rain-stained windows. But instead of pain, she felt something softer nostalgia without ache.A life she’d outgrown but no longer resented.She exhaled slowly, her fingers tracing the faint outline of her reflection on the glass.“It’s strange,” she thought, “how some places stop hurting not because they change, but because you do.”Her apartment smelled faintly of lavender and dust. The plants by the window had wilted slightly, stubborn survivors that mirrored her. She smiled as she watered them, humming an unfamiliar tune.It was quiet but not empty. For the first time, silence wasn’t punishment. It was peace.She unpacked slowly, setting her seashells from Cape Coast on the shelf

It was raining again. Not the kind that demanded attention, but the kind that whispered against glass a steady rhythm that felt like memory breathing in the dark.Amara sat by her window, legs tucked beneath her, tea cooling beside her hand. The city below blurred into streaks of silver and gold, the sound of distant traffic blending with the rain’s gentle percussion.She hadn’t planned to stay up this late, but sleep had become a reluctant visitor lately. Peace, she was learning, didn’t always arrive in full. Sometimes it trickled in shy, half-formed, testing the air before settling.Her phone buzzed once on the table. A notification. She didn’t look immediately; she’d learned not to rush toward things anymore. When she finally glanced, it wasn’t a message just a social media post from a gallery in Accra.“Featured piece: ‘Untitled’ by Elias Yeboah. On view this week.”Her breath stilled. The photo was of the sea dawn light stretching across water, two figures blurred in the dis