Chapter 61: Exposed Chapter 61: Exposed The woman entered the restroom and disappeared into a stall.

Nnenna slipped in after her, positioning herself carefully beside the stall, out of direct view.

She couldn’t risk her shadow or feet being seen from below.

Then, she waited.

The silence in the restroom was thick, charged with tension.

‘Would Nurse Courage open it?

Would she finally learn the truth?’ Nnenna wondered Inside the stall, Nurse Courage hesitated.

Something about this felt wrong.

Her fingers trembled slightly as she peeled open the envelope.

A nagging sense of dread settled in her chest, because nothing good ever came from finding an anonymous envelope on your desk minutes after you left.

Taking a deep breath, she tilted the envelope.

Photographs slipped out.

Her heart pounded as they scattered onto her lap.

At first, she looked away, unwilling to face whatever truth was staring back at her.

But avoidance wouldn’t change reality.

Better to see it now than regret it later.

Slowly, cautiously, she forced herself to look.

Her breath hitched.

The image before her sent a jolt through her system.

Reuben.

He was in a cramped janitor’s closet, sitting stiffly on a bucket.

Wearing a janitor’s uniform.

The logo on the upper right side of his vest was unmistakable, the same company name he had claimed to work for.

The first picture showed Reuben staring at his phone, completely absorbed.

The second picture was different, he looked caught off guard.

But the third one… Nurse Courage’s breath hitched.

His eyes.

A dangerous glint lurked in them, something she had never seen before.

like he had just realized

had spotted the

sat frozen, gripping the photos,

lied to me.’

matter to her if he was

cared about things like

had just told her, she would have accepted

wasn’t about his

This was about trust.

had lied to

For years.

very beginning of their

around the edges of the photos, her nails digging into the glossy

else had he lied

more lies

many secrets had she accepted as truth, never

unmoving, as

on her, numbing her to

trembling hands, scattering onto the floor like

stall, Nnenna had

minutes passed,

Then she heard it.

Soft sobs.

through her hair,

It worked.

that, she turned and left,

inside the stall, Nurse Courage wasn’t

She was breaking.

twenty more minutes,

left to give, her shoulders still shook, silent,

at her face,

the office.’ Her hands

man she

had trusted with

pictures told her almost everything, but she refused to believe them

Not yet.

the doubt,

and stormed out of

Finding Reuben.

drove like

have taken an hour was cut to thirty

ignored speed limits, and didn’t care about the tickets piling up

thing that mattered

in front

No parking.

No hesitation.

flung the door open, stepping out with nothing not even

reception as she marched to the

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