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 someone

he had spotted the

sat frozen, gripping the photos, her mind

to me.’

matter to her if he

cared about things

her, she would have accepted

this wasn’t about his

This was about trust.

lied

For years.

the very beginning of

the edges of the photos, her

else had

many more lies had he

had she accepted as truth, never once

there, unmoving, as

betrayal pressed down on

from her trembling hands, scattering onto the floor like fallen

Nnenna had

minutes passed,

Then she heard it.

Soft sobs.

a hand through her hair,

It worked.

and left, her

stall, Nurse Courage wasn’t

She was breaking.

minutes,

her

her face,

might still be in the office.’

to see for myself.’ A man she

she had trusted

told her almost everything, but she refused to believe

Not yet.

of the doubt, until she saw for

tissue, she grabbed her things and stormed out of the

Finding Reuben.

drove like a woman

an hour was cut to

red lights, ignored speed limits, and didn’t care about the tickets piling up in her

that mattered

a halt in front of the towering company

No parking.

No hesitation.

the door open, stepping out with nothing not

clicked against the marble floor of the reception as she

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