They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 318

Chapter 318: You’re So Narcissistic

“I don’t need your lecture,” she said plainly. “I had my reasons.”

Karen frowned. “What reasons? Because you felt something was off? That’s not enough to risk the whole group!”

Nnenna didn’t answer right away. She looked around at the others, John, Abuchi, Ekene. None of them said a word. They didn’t need to. Their silence spoke volumes. They trusted her.

“I’ve made mistakes before,” Nnenna said softly. “But this wasn’t one of them. You don’t have to understand it. Just know I would rather be cautious than captured.”

The air in the truck was thick for a moment, tension riding the silence.

Karen wasn’t ready to drop it.

She looked around, searching for support, someone to back her up. But everyone else stayed silent. Even John, who usually had something to say, kept his gaze fixed outside the moving truck.

Karen scoffed and crossed her arms. “So we’re all just going to pretend like that long detour made sense?”

Finally, Abuchi broke the silence. “Nnenna,” he said, his tone softer than before, “I know you had your reasons. And I trust you. But… what exactly did you see back there?”

Nnenna shifted slightly, her eyes narrowing as she recalled the moment. “When I was about to turn the corner,” she said slowly, “I saw a man in a black uniform. Same style as the guards from Lionara.”

The others leaned in, listening.

“I couldn’t see his emblem, he had his back to me, talking to a cargo driver. But everything in me screamed that he was one of the ones chasing us. I didn’t want to take any chances, especially not that close to the border. So I told us to retreat.”

Karen laughed, bitter and loud. “So you weren’t even sure?”

Her voice echoed in the back of the truck.

felt something and dragged us into the woods like we were in some spy movie. What if he was just a businessman, huh? What if

Nnenna. “You just wanted to feel like a hero. Look at you ‘I saved everyone!’ You’re

clenched, but before she could reply, Abuchi

“She’s not wrong.”

in surprise.

not wrong,”

strange that started

cargo driver… he asked me a weird question,” he said

Everyone turned to him.

didn’t think anything of it,” he continued. “I thought he was just making small talk or maybe in a

wanted to know. And when I didn’t give him an answer,

exactly?”

replied, “He asked me where the rest of

a

should’ve known something was off,” he muttered, clenching his fist. “The way he said it… his tone. I was distracted. And I almost put

washing over him like a

gently, stepping closer. “Honestly, any one of us might have

arm a reassuring pat, her voice calm

very least,” she added, “we walked

didn’t know what to say at this point. Deep down, she realized

bitter in her mouth. She stayed silent, swallowing her

the journey, she

heavily on their minds. They all wondered the same thing, Would I have noticed? Would I have known to act like Nnenna

in thought. He knew he had to be sharper. Less distracted.

arrived in

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