Chapter 512: No Way I’m Letting This Go

How could he look his best friend in the eye, knowing he stood in the way of a love Arthur never even got the chance to reclaim?

Both paths hurt.

Both led to heartbreak.

Somto looked down, voice low and cracked.

"What do I do?" he whispered.

He wasn’t asking Arthur. Or Carl. He was just... asking.

To Arthur, watching quietly from the side, that whisper only added to the weight he felt in his chest.

He’s furious, Arthur thought. He probably thinks I crossed a line I swore I wouldn’t. That I betrayed our brotherhood.

Carl, on the other hand, had gone completely silent. But he was observing. Reading. Thinking.

His eyes moved between them, quietly forming theories, piecing together half told stories and unsaid truths.

He didn’t fully understand it yet, but one thing was becoming clearer by the second:

Somto wasn’t just protective of Nnenna.

He was attached.

And in Carl’s mind, that attachment might be the reason Somto couldn’t imagine anyone, not even Arthur, being worthy of her.

But one thing was certain now.

Carl finally broke the silence, his voice steady and firm.

your whole heart," he said, looking straight at Arthur, "then yeah, it’s better to

tone carried no

Arthur didn’t hesitate.

with quiet conviction. "I already made that choice, the same one you’re

his gaze for a few

"Good."

that, the

stretching with a dramatic sigh. "It’s late. I need my beauty sleep

let out a breath

He reached out a hand to help Arthur up, not that Arthur needed it,

a word. His expression remained

stretching a hand toward

hesitated... then took

him up in one smooth

said quietly.

his eyes

a hand on his

don’t know where we’ll find someone better for Nnenna than Arthur..." he said with a small, bittersweet smile. "But I’m sure, somewhere out there, someone will come along who’ll treasure our girl like

was a quiet beat.

to finally relax,

loaded look Somto gave him right when he mentioned someone out there who would

theories, the one he had buried deep and tossed aside, suddenly roared back to

Does Somto... like Nnenna?

couldn’t shake the thought as the three of them walked

call on the night of Somto’s

girl he mentioned had been a minor,

he had clearly said... she

they knew in that age range, but Somto

it... Nnenna’s recent fondness toward

when she described all three of them with casual playfulness...

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