《Double cross》全部章節：第 41 章 - 第 45 章

For thirty minutes, the sitting room was a tomb. The only sounds were the soft clink of silverware that no one was using and the heavy, ragged breathing of three people whose lives had just collided in the worst possible way. Samuel and Bella sat frozen, their gazes averted, while Mariam felt the weight of the silence pressing against her chest like a physical blow.Finally, she couldn't take it anymore."Bella? Samuel?" Mariam’s voice cracked the stillness. When they finally looked at her—one with confusion, the other with a simmering, wounded rage—she cleared her throat. "None of us have been true to ourselves. We call ourselves friends, but we’ve not been true to ourselves."She turned to Bella, her eyes pleading. "Bella, I am so sorry. I never intended to hide my relationship from you. When Samuel first asked me out, you told me you didn't love him—that you had no feelings for him. So I thought... I thought it was okay.""When was this?" Bella’s voice was like ice."The first time

The air in the uncompleted building was thick with the scent of dust and raw, unfiltered desire. I stood in the shadows, my breath hitching as I watched them. Ajayi’s legs were spread wide, her fingers moving with a frantic, rhythmic intensity as she touched herself. Every moan that escaped her lips felt like a needle against my skin.Kingsley stood over her, his hand moving rhythmically, his eyes dark with a hunger that made my pulse race. "Faster, baby," he commanded, his voice a low, gravelly rumble that vibrated in my chest. "Come for me now. Let Daddy give you some sugar."I felt a wave of heat wash over me. Just the sound of his voice, the sheer authority in his command, made me ache. I reached down, my fingers trembling as I pulled at my clothes, my body slick with anticipation. I watched him approach her, watching as he took hold of her. He spanked her—a sharp, stinging crack that echoed against the bare walls—and twisted her nipples until she let out a soft, broken moan."Cal

The exams were finally behind us, a suffocating weight lifted from my shoulders just as the sweltering holiday heat began to settle in. I could hardly breathe for the joy of it—not just because the term was over, but because my life had finally, impossibly, begun to tilt toward the light.I watched my parents these past few days, still reeling from their meeting with Chief. I had expected resistance, or at least a flurry of questions, but they had accepted his offer with a silence that was both a relief and a revelation. Money, it seemed, possessed a gravity of its own. Chief had offered them a sprawling house, a sanctuary that brought them back to town and restored a dignity we hadn't known in years. It was funny, in a sharp, aching way, how easily my parents’ principles had folded. They didn’t utter a single word of protest. I saw Samuel now with a freedom that felt like a dream, marveling at how wealth could buy the very people who had raised me.With only a month left until my eng