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.

he had

he had

sat frozen, gripping the photos,

to me.’ Her

to her if he was a

cared about things

just told her, she would have

wasn’t

This was about trust.

had lied to

For years.

very beginning of

curled around the edges of the photos,

else had

many more lies had

secrets had she accepted as

sat there, unmoving, as time slipped

on her,

pictures slid from her trembling hands, scattering onto the

the stall, Nnenna had been

minutes passed, then

Then she heard it.

Soft sobs.

ran a hand through her

It worked.

that, she turned and left, her job here

the stall, Nurse Courage wasn’t just

She was breaking.

more minutes,

when she had no more left to give, her shoulders still shook, silent,

wiped at her face, then looked at the

He might still be in the office.’ Her hands clenched

for myself.’ A man she

had trusted with

almost everything, but she refused to believe

Not yet.

benefit of the doubt, until she saw

her face with a tissue, she grabbed her things and stormed out of the hospital, her mind set

Finding Reuben.

drove like a

taken an hour

ran red lights, ignored speed limits, and didn’t care about

mattered was

halt in front of the

No parking.

No hesitation.

out with nothing

marble floor of the reception as she marched to the front desk, her

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