Chapter 64: Mission Failing Chapter 64: Mission Failing But inside, he was already planning his next move.

“I should go now,” Nurse Courage said, her voice drained of all emotion.

She cast Reuben one last look before turning on her heels and heading back to her car.

Just as her fingers brushed the door handle, the front door behind her creaked open.

A sultry, feminine voice called out.

“Baby, aren’t you done here yet?” Courage froze.

Slowly, she turned back, her heart pounding in her ears.

Standing in the doorway was a young woman, barely covered by the skimpy clothes clinging to her body.

Her eyes were fixed on Reuben, oblivious to the storm she had just unleashed.

Reuben went rigid.

His hands shot up in a frantic gesture, signaling for the woman to be silent.

But it was too late.

Courage had already seen everything.

Understood everything.

Reuben’s face paled as panic gripped him.

He quickly gestured for the girl to go back inside, then, with hurried steps, hobbled toward Courage, his weight pressing on the walking stick.

“Listen to me,” he begged.

“It’s not what it looks like!

She, she’s my sister!

She came to stay with me for a while… to take care of my injuries!” His words tumbled out too fast, too forced.

Courage’s lips parted slightly as she stared at him, her mind struggling to process the sheer audacity of his lie.

His sister?

Really?

Her hands clenched into fists.

The weight of betrayal, humiliation, and heartbreak crashed down on her all at once.

that tone?”

trying,

she couldn’t hold it

SLAP!

Reuben’s cheek, the sharp sound

back, nearly losing his

her fingers

yelled, her chest rising and

quickly steadied himself, his grip tightening on the walking

darkened, his mask of

point in lying

wasn’t going to

that didn’t mean he was going to let her go, not when he still needed that 500,000 she

Fine.

wouldn’t fall for

have to

Swish!

pulled out a black pistol with a silencer from his belt

but deadly snick of the safety being disengaged sent a chill down

eyes widened

heart pounding as she looked into Reuben’s

expression he had in the last picture, the one where he had

Nnenna’s body was burning

taken hold so fast that she barely had time to register it before her consciousness

doing her rounds entered the room and immediately noticed something

out to Nnenna, shaking her lightly, but there

button and called the attending

doctor arrived, frowning as he examined

up.” He checked her vitals, but there was no clear cause for the sudden rise

His expression tightened.

Director Ikenna,”

minutes, his normally

still form as the doctor

hesitation, Ikenna

cooling measures immediately,” he

nurses hurried to follow his

placed over Nnenna’s body, designed to lower her

her neck, and between her thighs, key areas that could

IV drip, switching it to cold saline to cool

of paracetamol, hoping to bring down the

everything closely, his hands

breathing is irregular,” a nurse reported, concern

on oxygen therapy,”

providing much needed support as her body fought against whatever was happening

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