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.

look, like he had just realized someone was watching

he had spotted

frozen, gripping the photos,

lied to me.’

her if

cared about things like

told her, she would

wasn’t

This was about trust.

lied

For years.

very beginning

fingers curled around the edges of the

else had he lied

lies had he told

secrets had she accepted as truth, never once

unmoving,

down on her, numbing her to everything

the pictures slid from her trembling hands, scattering onto

stall, Nnenna had

passed,

Then she heard it.

Soft sobs.

hand through

It worked.

and left, her job here

inside the stall, Nurse

She was breaking.

minutes, the tears fell

left to give, her shoulders still shook, silent, empty tremors of

at her face,

still be in the office.’ Her hands clenched

see for myself.’ A man she had called her fiancé for

she had trusted

but

Not yet.

benefit of the doubt,

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

Finding Reuben.

drove like a

an hour was cut

and didn’t care about the

thing that mattered was getting

in front of the towering

No parking.

No hesitation.

the door open, stepping out with nothing not even

reception as she marched to the front desk,

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