So guysss, heyyyyyy. It’s been a while; I haven’t posted in a while, my bad. But yay here’s my apology gift: The first chapter of my novel series. The initial name was The Dancer, but it’s going to be a Finding Sophia trilogy. Well hope you like it. Oh I am going to post all what I have so far instead of posting what I had already written long ago. This would motivate me to write more. Well here it goes:

Chapter 1-7

“Guy, why did you drag me down to this rubbish?” said Ayo angrily.

Tomiwa suddenly tightened his face in anger at Ayo’s words.

“Dance is not rubbish in any form. It is an art that only a select group of people have the ability to express, and they have graciously allowed us to behold it.”

“O boy, you smoke shisha today? Wetin be this speech you dey yan ? (What is this speech you are saying?)”

Tomiwa took a deep breath and walked away saying

“I will be back soon. Get us good seats.”

Ayo simply rolled his eyes all the while thinking about why he stuck with his “weirdo” of a friend. He went into the theatre and sat in the extreme back row, focusing on his Whatsapp chat with his best friend.

Ayo: I don tire 4 dis Tomiwa guy o. See the yeye tin wey he drag me 2. One kain dance show.

(I am tired of Tomiwa. Look at the rubbish thing he dragged me to. A type of dance show)

Tiwa: Shey na twerking competition? (Is it a twerking competition?)

Ayo: Lol I wish. Na one kind ballet abi contemporary dance. I no know sef.

Tiwa: Wo na you sabi. Enjoy am. No sha forget to buy me suya on your way back.

Ayo: See her mouth like suya.

Ayo. Gtg. Tomiwa is back & he look like sey he wan kill me.

Tiwa: LOL you don enter one chance.

Ayo kept his phone in his pocket as Tomiwa walked over towards him in anger.

“Why did you choose the seats all the way at the back?” Tomiwa yelled

“I don’t want anyone I know to recognize me here. Although from the looks of it, there are barely twenty people here.”

Tomiwa looked over at the nearly vacant room and replied

“Not many people appreciate the good things of life. Well stay alone at the back. I am going to the front, so I can enjoy the marvelous view.”

Ayo simply yawned as he watched Tomiwa walk over to the front row. He considered leaving the theatre, but that would have been a waste of his dressing and his leaving the house.

Suddenly he was startled by the voice of a female who appeared beside him.

“Hiding out in the back, huh? Ashamed to be here?”

He was about to retort rudely, but he stopped as he saw the beauty beside him. She had her natural hair in a bun on top of her head, and her clear ebony skin shone out slightly against the theatre darkness. She was endowed but not enough to make her look like a Fanta bottle. She was wearing a long brown coat that covered her inner attire but still made her look amazing.

Ayo put on his flirty smile and said

“Wow! Your voice is just as sweet as your body.”

She rolled her eyes and raised her left hand showing the ring on her index finger.

“Married ke? How old are you?”

“It’s not proper to ask a woman about her age.”

“You no fit pass 22. Ah that your husband must be one rich chief o”

She started shaking her head at his stupidity and said

“Do you even know how offensive that is?”

“Wo leave that one. I can be your side chick, you know” he said and then winked.

“You aren’t in my league bruv” she retorted coldly

“Ye! My heart. Babe, you wicked o. Abeg carry your bad belle commot.”

“I didn’t come here to start planning relationship with you. Why aren’t you sitting in the front?”

“Because dance is stupid.”

She lifted her eyebrows in shock and asked

“Then why are you here?”

“Na my G bring me here.”

“You could have refused.”

“Nah, we made arrangement. So he will drive me wherever I want to go this week.”

“Just for you to come to this dance?”

“I no understand am sef.”

“Is his girlfriend one of the dancers?”

“That one ke? Get girlfriend?”

“That’s so mean” she said and punched his arm.

He continued

“He says there’s this particular famous female dancer that is able to captivate the audience with her moves.”

“Oh Patricia.”

“Yes, that’s her name. You know her?”
“In a way.”

“Do you come here frequently?”
She laughed and responded

“Well you could say that… Anyway, just give this dance thing a try. You might like it.”

He winked and said

“Well I can go to the front if you sit beside me.”

“I wouldn’t want to be seen with you.”

“Haba kilode? Shey na fight? Strike two! Strike three and you are out.”

“Is it your pelebe body that you would use to carry me out?”

His eyes opened in shock as he shouted

“Strike three!”
Some other members of the audience looked at him weirdly, but he ignored them as he walked away from her while she kept on laughing.

Ayo walked over to his friend Tomiwa and sat beside him.

“Guy, I meet one yeye (rubbish) babe for the back. She wicked die.”

“Oh now you are ready to sit beside me?” Tomiwa said smugly.

“Abeg leave that one. That babe fine o but she dey yab me anyhow.”

“Where is she?”
“She’s at the back…” he said while turning his head back to where he had been seated, but she was no longer there. He looked around the theatre and found no sign of her.

“Maybe she decided to leave.” Tomiwa said

“Yeah…” Ayo said, feeling surprisingly sad because he didn’t even get her name or number.

“Ah the mighty AY don dey fall o”

“Shut up abeg. Your stupid dance don dey start”

Tomiwa wanted to tease him more, but he loved the dance too much to ignore it.

The first dance was to be a ballet, and the sound track “To Build a Home” by “The Cinematic Orchestra” started playing in the background as the lights revealed the different dancers in their various positions. They all had masks on and had their hairs in buns apart from the lead female whose hair cascaded down her back. Ayo’s eyes brightened slightly as he saw the way they moved ever so gracefully according the rhythm of the song. His heart moved with every turn, every leap, and every bow they made. Everyone was focused on Patricia whose every move evoked a gasp from everyone. Everyone apart from Ayo. His eyes followed the moves of the masked female who was positioned directly behind Patricia in the beginning.  Patricia was obviously the better dancer but she lacked the grace and beauty that the masked female carried through her every step. He was mesmerized by her swiftness and precision, her calmness and flow, her grace and charm. No one else could compete with her in those aspects. Through every subsequent dance they performed (all masked), he was always able to pick her out from the rest. It was as if he knew her, as if her movements were engraved in his mind.

Suddenly his heart skipped a beat as his mind raised this question

“Could it be her? Could it be Sophia?”

He gripped his armrest tighter as he watched her dance.

“It can’t be her.” He thought.

He couldn’t bear this any longer. He stood up from his seat and shouted

“SOPHIA!”

The music stopped and everyone stopped to stare at Ayo. His eyes were focused on the masked female who hadn’t moved from her lowered dance position. He walked over and climbed the stage. He slowly stretched his hand to remove her mask, but she stopped him. She sighed, lifted the mask off her face and let it fall to the ground.

He felt his body go numb as he saw clearly the person he had known for 18 years, the person that had insulted him 3 times earlier today, the person that he hadn’t recognized earlier because of the theatre’s darkness.

“Sophia…”

As rapidly as he had gone numb, he felt his body liven with shock.

“Sophia, is it really you? You came back and didn’t even think to reach out to me. After everything we had been through, you don’t think you owed me that. Explain yourself!”

The masked female simply stared blankly at him through his speech, then her face turned into that of confusion and fear.

“Oh my gosh, who is this man?” Why is he yelling at me! Someone, get him away from me! Help me” she yelled.

“Sophia!” he exclaimed in shock.

“My name isn’t Sophia. I’m Tireni, and you just ruined our dance, you jerk. Now get out!”

“You are lying!” he said in a raised voice

“I said I don’t know you! Stop yelling at me!” she said in a higher voice.

She then covered her face with her palms and started sobbing. Suddenly, the other dancers who had been watching the entire argument started yelling at Ayo. Tomiwa came to the stage and persuaded Ayo to leave the girl alone.

“I can’t believe this” he whispered and then got off the stage.

 

After some awkward moments of silence in the car with Ayo silently murmuring to himself while staring out the window, Tomiwa finally spoke up

“Dude, what was that? See how you embarrassed yourself and that girl.”

Ayo didn’t reply him.

“Ayo?”

Ayo was jolted from his train of thought and asked

“What?”

“What was that all about?”
“Nothing”

“Oh nothing? You acted like a węrę (mad person), shouting and jumping. You made that girl cry!”

“That was obviously a pretense. Sophia wouldn’t cry just like that.”

“Who’s Sophia? That girl is Tireni. I have known her for some months, and no one has ever referred to her as Sophia.”

“I can never mistake that face.”

“Where do you know Sophia from?”

“We grew up together.” He said, clearly hiding something.

“Eh maybe the Sophia you are thinking about has a similar face to this Tireni.”

“Wo guy you are just saying rubbish. Leave me alone.”

“Ah okay o. Keep on behaving crazy.”

The rest of the ride continued in silence. Even when they got home, Ayo just went to his room and locked the door.

“That had to be Sophia,” he thought. “I can’t mistake those eyes, that face, and that dance.”

He felt his eyes well up with tears at the thought of just everything. He had imagined and prayed for this day for months. The day that Sophia would come back and see him again. After a year, he had to let that dream go. Never in a million years did he think that Sophia would deny him and pretend not to even know him.

“How could she!” he shouted under his breath.

He played the incident over and over again.

“Am I really crazy? Could that really not be Sophia?”

He sat on his bed for minutes contemplating this.

Suddenly, as if a light bulb came on in his head, he remembered something that made him sure that Tireni was actually Sophia. And if it was really her, he wouldn’t let her go or run away as she always did.

He ran downstairs and found Tomiwa in the kitchen.

“Tomiwa, you said that you know “Tireni” right?” he said while lacing up his sneakers.

“Yes?” Tomiwa replied slowly

“Do you know where she stays?”

Tomiwa lifted his eyebrow in suspicion.

“Are you now a stalker?”

“Dude, this is important. Just tell me.”

Tomiwa stood there thinking for some seconds and then replied

“The dance team is currently lodged at Elegance hotel. Tireni is staying in Patricia’s room.”

“Thank you guy” Ayo said as he grabbed the car keys.

“Dude, are you sure about this? I’m telling you that’s Tireni.”

“No no no. She sighed bruh!”

“Huh?”

“When I climbed the stage and was about to take off her mask, she sighed as if she knew what the entire matter was about.”

“So you are running around based on a sigh? You are taking a huge risk with all this. Are you sure about all this?

“I have never been surer about anything else in my life. That was Sophia Oloruntobi…” He paused, deciding if he should say the next part, then said

“… my ex-fiancée”

“Your what?” was the last thing Ayo heard as he closed the front door and drove off in the Toyota car parked outside their apartment. Elegant Hotel was just 15 minutes away, but there was a minor traffic jam on the way, so he arrived there in 30 minutes.

He walked to the receptionist and said

“I want to speak to Miss Tireni. I am a fan of hers, and I would really like to see her.”

“I’m sorry, sir. We can’t direct you to her room without her permission. Would you like me to call her downstairs?”

“Umm… sure. Tell her it’s Tomiwa Gbemileke.”

“Alright, sir.”

The receptionist made a call to her room while he sat down in the lounge.

“She will be right down” the receptionist said.

“Thanks”

A few minutes later, Tireni stepped out from the stairwell which was beside the lounge. She stopped in her tracks as she saw Ayo sitting down, waiting patiently.

“You again?”

“Sophia, sorry to…”

“Stop calling me Sophia. My name is Tireni, you creep. I can’t believe you lied to the receptionist about your identity.”

At that, the receptionist lifted her eyes from her desk towards them.

“Could you at least sit down, so we can talk peacefully?”

She eyed him for some seconds and then stomped to the chair opposite him.

“Do you promise to leave me alone if I talk to you now?”

He ignored her question and said

“Why did you sigh when I wanted to take off your mask?”

Her eyes widened slightly in shock but she quickly controlled herself and said

“I didn’t sigh”

“Now, who’s the liar?” he said accusingly

“Even if I did sigh, which I didn’t, it was probably because I was sad at the fact that someone had ruined our dance number.”

“Oh look there goes another lie.”

She squeezed her face in annoyance and made a move to leave

“Wait, wait, I’m sorry.”

She reluctantly sat back down.

“What exactly do you want?”

“I’m sorry if I seem like a creep, but you just look so much like this girl I knew”

She didn’t reply. Ayo lifted his eyes and looked her straight in the eyes.

“You see, I loved this girl with all my heart. So much that I placed a ring on her finger, right where that ring of yours is.”

He averted his eyes to the ring on her finger and noted how it looked really similar to the one he gave Sophia.

“Well it is called the ring finger for a reason. I told you that I am married” she replied.

“Yes yes I know”

He raised his eyes back to hers and continued

“I loved her so much, but things happened and I lost her forever. So forgive me for being crazy and acting stupid. But I have to reach for any chance I have of finding her. She always seems to run away from me. Sometimes it’s like she doesn’t even exist anymore…”

He saw how Tireni was trying to conceal the sadness she felt at hearing his story

“Oh, don’t feel sorry for me. Something tells me that I will see her again very soon.”

He got up and started walking towards the door.

“I’m sorry for wasting your time, Tireni. I really hope we can be friends.”

He laughed briefly and said

“You know you are just like Sophia. No matter how angry she was at me, she would always listen to whatever I had to say. You had the choice to not talk to me, but you did. Thanks for that, Soph… sorry I mean Tireni.”

He smiled innocently and walked to the car parked outside. He didn’t see the tear slide down Tireni’s cheek neither did he see the cracks in her heart as she went back upstairs.

 

Ayo drove off in the car, completely sure that Tireni was, in fact, Sophia.

Meanwhile, in Elegance Hotel,

As Tireni stepped back into the room,

“What did Tomiwa want all of a sudden?” asked Patricia

“It wasn’t Tomiwa. It was the guy from that show.”

“The ode that shouted “Sophia” during the show.”

“He’s not an ode” Tireni replied sharply.

“Ah sorry sorry o.”

Patricia drew closer to where Tireni was and whispered

“Abi, are you falling in love?”

Tireni laughed

“That’s not possible b. He’s not my type.”

“Ah so you have type? Upon all your “no boy is good enough for me”.”

“Because no boy is!”

“Yeah sure sure… But wait, do you know this Sophia he is talking about?”

Tireni didn’t reply.

“Tireni! Are you living double life ni?”

“I’m not. It’s a long story. But yes I know, or rather, knew Sophia.”

“Who is she?”

“Wo drop it. I’m going to bed. We have a performance tomorrow.

“Okay sorry sorry. I’m just curious.”

Patricia continued chatting on her phone with Tomiwa while Tireni stared for a long time at the ring on her hand, thinking about the look of pain in Ayo’s eyes.

Patricia glanced over at her and whispered

“You still haven’t told me why you wear that ring if you don’t have a husband.”

Tireni simply sighed and said

“Good night, Patricia”

She went to her side of the bed, pushing all the events of the day to the back of the day. She never thought the day would come when she had to deal with all of this. Seeing Ayo brought back ugly memories, the kinds she couldn’t deal with. She had trouble sleeping that night and woke up around 5am screaming from her usual nightmares. Patricia consoled her as usual and went back to sleep while Tireni just kept on crying.

“I can’t deal with Ayo being around…”

She looked at Patricia sadly

“It means I have to leave again…after I had started to love this dance team. But for the sake of Sophia and Alexander, I need to leave. I have to.”

The next morning, Patricia woke up and turned over to see an empty bed beside her with all of Tireni’s luggage gone.

 

Tomiwa was awakened by the sound of incessant knocks on the front door. He groggily got up and was shocked to see Patricia standing in her pajamas with tears running down her cheeks.

“Patricia, what’s wrong?”

She brushed past him and yelled

“Is that rubbish friend of yours here, Ayo or whatever you called him?”

“What’s the matter Pattie? What did he do?” Tomiwa asked with his anxiety rising by the second.

“Oh I will tell you what he did. He came to our hotel in the middle of night and made Tireni all depressed. Waking up this morning, I found out that she has left.”

“Are you sure she didn’t just go to the cafeteria or something?”
Patricia looked angrily at Tomiwa

“Her luggage is gone! The hotel staff said they saw her get into a taxi with all of her luggage! Where’s Ayo!” she screamed

Ayo stormed out of his room. He had been listening from upstairs with his hands trembling. He brushed past Patricia, but she dragged him back by the arm.

“And where do you think you are going? How rude!”

Ayo ignored her and turned to Tomiwa

“Tell her to let go of my arm before I push her off me.”

Before Tomiwa could respond, Patricia tightened her grip on his arm and said

“Listen dude. I don’t care about your tough guy act.” She tightened her grip further “Now, you will tell me what you said to Tireni that made her leave or your arm would be the least of your worries.”

Tomiwa stood helplessly between them, confused about the entire situation.

Ayo tried to brush off her hand from his arm but she simply held on tighter. He could feel his anger rising at this girl stopping him from looking for Sophia.

“Let go!” he yelled

“No!”

“Are you honestly this stupid? I am trying to go and look for your friend, but you are here acting like a stupid bit…”

Tomiwa interjected there and yelled

“Hey! Mind the way you talk to her.”

Ayo simply shook his head and dragged his arm from her, this time successfully.

“Listen and listen well Patricia. Now I need your help finding her. You can choose to stay here and be stubborn or you can choose to help me. Your decision?”

Patricia was boiling with anger, but she stuffed it down for the sake of her friend.

“Let’s go” she whispered

“Thank you.”

Ayo grabbed the keys and went with Patricia to Tomiwa’s car.

“I really hope we find her.”

“So do I. I can’t lose her this time.” he said.

Tireni rolled the ring on her finger absentmindedly as she waited for her flight number to be called on the speakers. She didn’t try to interact with other people waiting for their flight. She had tossed her phone out the taxi cab on her way here. The incessant calls were bothering her, and she didn’t want to be tracked.

She just waited for her flight with her eyes focused on reading the book she held. It was the diary she always carried around. It was the only form of reassurance for her to continue living her life the way she did. Once in a while, she would look around her to make sure that no one was watching her. She couldn’t shake off the nervous feeling she was getting in the pit of her stomach. She attributed it to hunger, so she went to get some snacks at a booth not far from where she was.

After eating and easing herself in a restroom, she returned to her seat only to find a letter dropped there with a familiar red insignia. She felt her breath stop at the back of her throat and her heartrate skyrocketed. She looked left and right about her, but everyone seemed to be minding their own business dealing with crying babies, overweight luggage, and lengthy queues. With shaky hands, she lifted the paper from her seat and stared at the paper for minutes. Clearly and boldly written were the words

“Tireni, it would be at your own risk if you leave where we assigned you to. Do not leave that state.

M.K.”

Holding back tears, she quickly grabbed her hand luggage and abandoned the one that had already been taken by the airport officials. She dashed out of the airport as quickly as she had entered. As soon as she sat in the back of a taxi cab, she started weeping uncontrollably repeating “Why me?” The taxi driver simply ignored and assumed she had gotten her heart broken. He was used to picking various types of people from the airport.

Meanwhile, Patricia and Ayo were still searching everywhere for her.

“Where else could she have gone to?” Patricia asked frustrated at the situation.

“I don’t even know again. We have checked common hangouts around the area, her favorite places according to you, and the popular malls.” Said Ayo disappointedly

“Her phone isn’t even going anymore. Maybe we should try again tomorrow. It’s already 8pm, and we have been searching for hours.”

Ayo took a deep breath, contemplating it, and then said

“Let me drop you at your hotel, and I will search for her a bit longer.”

“Thank you.”

The atmosphere turned awkward again because of their fight in the morning.

“Look…Patricia…I’m sorry that I acted the way I did this morning. I was just upset and confused.”

“I don’t hold it against you… I was also acting irrational. It’s just that Tireni and I have bonded so much these past months that I see her as a sister. I just can’t believe she left without as much as a goodbye.”

Patricia wiped away some tears that had slid down her cheeks. Ayo just simply stared ahead, not sure about how to handle the situation.

“Patricia?”

“Yeah?”

“How come you didn’t call her husband about this? He probably knows where to find her.”

“Technically, she doesn’t have any husband yet. I got her to confess that she’s just engaged and not married. I have no other information about the man. She always avoids questions about him. Maybe the guy ran away, and she never got over it.”

Ayo gripped the steering wheel tighter and whispered

“Maybe it’s the other way around.”

Patricia simply raised her brow at him but didn’t say anything. When they were almost near the hotel, she said

“Thank you for helping me look for her. I know you didn’t have to, but I guess you have some connection to Tireni. I don’t want to investigate too much, so I won’t ask you about it. Just thank you.”

“You are welcome. It was my pleasure. We will find her though. I know we will.”

She simply nodded.

Ayo dropped her off at the hotel and drove off when he saw she had gotten in safely. Patricia went to her room with a burden on her heart—she was going to sleep alone tonight.

She opened her room door to see an all too familiar person sitting on the room chair with a novel in hand.

“Hi Patricia.”

“Father?”

Patricia’s father, Andrew Klington, was a 45 year old man that emanated confidence everywhere he went. He was 6 feet tall with broad square shoulders and he was dressed in his Armani suit. He was a business tycoon that barely had time for Patricia when she was growing up. Since she grew up without a mother or sibling, she spent most of her childhood in sadness. She always felt like her father didn’t really love her because her mother had died due to the stress she had gone through during labor. As soon as she established her dancing career at the age of 18, she left their empty home, and she hasn’t been back since then. She calls her father around the holidays and even that was always strained. So imagine her surprise to find him in her room, waiting patiently for her with a smile on his face.

“What are you doing here father?” she said with a distant voice closing the door behind her.

“Do I need permission to come and see my own daughter?”

She took a deep breath and turned to face him.

“What do you want exactly?”

His face tightened in annoyance, but he quickly covered it up with a smile.

“I came to spend some time with you. I took some time off work to see my little dancer.”

Patricia can’t stop the laugh that bubbles out of her. She uses a full minute to laugh before she responds.

“You? Take time off work? To spend time with me? How stupid do you think I am? I am no longer that little girl that craved for your attention and did anything to get it. So whatever your mission is for coming, I’m sorry, but my answer is no.”

Andrew took his time trying to calm himself. He knew he couldn’t start yelling at her like he used to.

“Listen Pattie…”

“It’s Patricia.”

He looked angrily at her, but she kept her cool and gave him the same angry look. She really didn’t want him here. His very presence irritated every fiber in her being, and it re-opened barely healed scars.

“Patricia, I am still your father, so why are you making this into a big deal? Aren’t you tired of acting like a spoiled little brat?”

This really struck a nerve, so she clenched her fists in anger and said with clenched teeth staring angrily at the ground.

“I agree that you are still my biological father but you are not my father in any other manner.”

She then raised her eyes to his and he noticed how much hate she carried in her eyes. She continued

“I have never for once acted like a spoiled brat, so don’t call me that!”

She bit her lip to prevent herself from saying so much more that she wanted to get out because she didn’t want to give him the satisfaction that he had affected her. As horrible as it sounds, he always seemed to thrive off her pain and suffering.

“Patricia, I didn’t come here to argue with you. I came to fix things between us.”

She wasn’t falling for that trap again.

“Fix things? Really?! That’s what you always say and maybe I would have believed you if I were 10 but not anymore. You claim to want to fix us, but the next thing I know I’m asked to go on a date with the son of one of your business associates!”

Andrew merely sighed. Patricia took another deep breath and said

“Father, I’m really tired. I have been out all day and I would like to get some rest. I’m sure you have some important business contacts to get to, so let me not hold you back.”

“Are you ordering me to leave?”

“No, I am asking you to.”

He looked away and continued using his phone for making calls and checking mails. Patricia turned around ready to storm out of her own room, but she was shocked to see Tireni open the door from the other side. She stood there in shock for some seconds while Tireni simply stared at the ground.

“Babbeeeee!”

Patricia leapt at Tireni, pulling her in for a tight hug.

“I thought you had left forever.”

“You can’t get rid of me that easily”

When Tireni lifted her eyes, she saw Andrew staring at them in a very creepy analytical way.

“Pattie, who’s the dude in our room?” Tireni whispers

“Oh that’s just my father. Let’s not talk about him. I’m just so glad you are back” Patricia said and tightened the hug.

Patricia kept tightening the hug, so Tireni exclaimed while laughing

“Pattie, are you trying to squeeze the life out of me?”

“Next time, don’t try to run away” she replied.

Tireni just kept laughing until she started feeling chest pain. Then she said

“Okay okay I’m sorry geez. I won’t”

Patricia drew back smiling and said

“Good.”

“You really scared me there” Patricia continued with a low voice

Tireni’s eyes reflected sadness as she said

“I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking clearly.”

Andrew cleared his throat, which drew their attention, and said

“I will be taking my leave now, Patricia… Nice meeting you Tireni.”

Tireni would have smiled if he hadn’t said it in such a creepy way.

“Same same”

He left the room and Patricia locked the door behind him.

“You are a life saver. He refused to leave the room!”

Tireni winked at her and said

“See maybe it was a good thing this whole thing happened”

“Where did you even go to?”

“Long story dear. Just be glad I’m back!”

“Oh please I don’t really care. I was just concerned for Ayo, that’s all.”

Tireni replied while laughing

“Yeah, keep telling yourself that. You loveee me.”

“You wish!”

They kept bickering and laughing through the night with Patricia completely forgetting to tell Ayo that Tireni was back safe and sound.

End of chapters.

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