How had he seen through her so well? She thought.

“Go ahead, it would be like ripping off a bandage. You can’t hide forever, you know and you have nothing to be guilty about. If there is someone who should be afraid, so much so that they wouldn’t be able to show their faces for days or months on end? It should be those callous people who fucked you up!”

Tanya looked at him with tears misting her eyes. It’s been a while since someone had defended her so or taken her side.

“Please don’t cry.” Ayodele thought as she kept looking at him with those mesmerizing eyes that made...