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

Chapter 545: I’ve Been Hiding Something... From Everyone

The way they kept her safe, the secrets they guarded so closely. But now, with her suddenly thrust into the open, everything was changing.

The plan had already deviated the moment she made her public appearance at the sweet sixteen grand ball. Every step she took toward the truth was another step toward danger.

The assassins in Lionora, the constant attacks he had to fend off, the dangers she didn’t even know about. It was all building, and he could feel it pressing in on him.

Somto closed his eyes for a moment, fighting the surge of guilt and frustration that clawed at him. He couldn’t tell her everything, not now. If she knew too much, she would be in more danger than she already was. The stakes were too high.

Somto stood there, his heart heavy with the weight of a decade’s worth of secrets, each one pressing harder than the last. He had thought he was just going to convince Arthur. Thought that today, he could finally get through to his best friend. Get him to let go of the past. But now, it was clear: Nnenna needed convincing too.

And suddenly, he felt tired. More than tired, really.

He felt like he was running on fumes, and for the first time, he wasn’t sure he could keep pretending. If only he could just say everything, everything he had locked away for so long, then maybe it wouldn’t have to be this way. He wouldn’t have to carry this burden alone anymore.

But the cost of speaking those words, of unburdening himself, was so high. And the idea of dragging Nnenna into this tangled mess, of finally letting her in on what had been kept from her all these years, made his stomach twist.

"Nnenna," Somto called her name, his voice quieter this time. It was almost as if the very act of saying it opened a door to something he wasn’t sure he was ready to face.

The words he had been suppressing for so long were on the tip of his tongue, ready to roll out and unravel everything. He could feel it, the moment was coming, and he couldn’t stop it. He didn’t want to stop it anymore.

watched with narrowed eyes. There was something in Somto’s hesitation, in the way his posture had

in the hospital, when she woke up, Arthur had known something wasn’t right. He had known Somto was

never fit, and now, seeing the way Somto looked at Nnenna, he couldn’t shake the feeling that whatever it was, it had everything

this time his voice trembling, just slightly, as he took

was close, closer than he had ever been to telling the truth. But the weight of it, the potential fallout, it was too much.

his thoughts, soft but steady. Her eyes, filled with questions,

hard. The silence between them was suffocating, but it was necessary, wasn’t it? He

could feel the truth burning inside of him, and in that moment, he wasn’t sure

and expectant, but there was something in his eyes, something softer. His suspicion deepened, but so did

them. The tangled web of

but there was a weight in

tension thickening the air. Somto

his voice low, but steady now. The words weren’t easy, but they were coming, and there

stiffened. Arthur’s eyes sharpened even further. The air around them crackled with the intensity

Nnenna, then at Arthur. "Everything you

the walls he had spent