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

Chapter 353

Chapter 352: That Feeling, That Look

His fingers unconsciously tightened around Nnenna’s wrist.

These words made Nnenna pause.

Until now, she had been swept up in the chaos, the fear, the relief, but now, the questions began creeping in.

Yes, Somto hadn’t appeared for months. He hadn’t come for the funeral. He hadn’t even sent a message. And to everyone watching, that absence felt like abandonment.

But…

He had said something just now. Something about being in the middle of something he couldn’t walk away from. Something dangerous. And, more importantly, he had said that he knew who was behind their father’s death.

That one detail changed everything.

Nnenna turned to Abuchi, whose shoulders were still stiff with emotion. But even he, somewhere deep down, had to admit one thing:

Yes, back then they needed him, but not nearly as much as they needed him just this very morning.

Because if Somto hadn’t arrived when he did… they would all be dead.

No matter how hurt they were by his absence, they couldn’t ignore what had just happened.

He didn’t send soldiers. He didn’t delay. He came himself.

And judging by the sheer power he walked in with, and how fast he had gotten there from wherever he had been, it was obvious.

He had dropped everything.

Was that not family?

buried beneath

Somto had chosen them.

that wasn’t a good

what they were going through would’ve been better than silence. Abuchi’s jaw

and heated, when Nnenna

worked like

his lips already parted with fury, but the calm

her voice like water quenching flames. “He might not have come back then… maybe he really had something too serious to leave behind. Or maybe he just couldn’t face it. He was his

stayed on his shoulder. Her tone didn’t

it wasn’t just grief, but our lives and our

Her words echoed in

course he was. A brother should be there for his family, through loss, through mourning. They needed more

But…

sent soldiers. He hadn’t

through the night, from who knows where, abandoning whatever important mission he was on, just to

That wasn’t nothing.

That was everything.

frustration loosening ever so slightly. He was still serious,

when it mattered most,” he murmured, more

Nnenna nodded.

let out a

crept in. He realized that his fury hadn’t really been about Somto at all.

without warning.

were things he had wanted to say. Questions he had hoped to

had just become an easy target for all that bottled

said

taken the emotional outburst to heart. Family pain

the castle, never

aid kit, offering it hesitantly. Somto took

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