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ration from my phone; I picked it up and s

nswered the call, "what

you want to se

room twenty two. I'm w

l see you t

treat me like the other men I slept with, maybe it's because he looked good and sme

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t be a prostitute but she didn't even look like one. The imagin

s room door; I sprung out of the bed and rushed to open it, I smiled s

admiring her pretty figure that I didn't

m sorry, come in." I said when

erfume gave me set me in the mood. After closing the door, I walked to the bed sitting next to her. "

gusted at what I said. "You know

from my pocket, "here." I said handing it over to her i

he started romancing my left thigh till she could see I had an erection. S

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w my mom saw me, exactly what Toyin me made promise I wasn't going to become. I was destroying another woman's home, I was beginning to take her hus

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me then fell on the bed a

ck. You're so s

d and started t

won't you at least stay

time. I am not your gir

ed to dress up too, "at least let

for a while. "O

ho the caller was, his face showed that he didn't feel like pick

my wife." H

ng okay." He said

y for his wife for some reason, after he had told me about his

hen I looked at him, "don't ever call me again. We are done with this-this thing; I am done with this thing

face was after I said those

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mood changed all of a sudden. I knew she was right about me minding

on with her, but she never picked my calls until one d

, Sade.

ir." She

calls? It's been two weeks now." I

ried, Bright

you? My home business is n

no longer work as a prostitute, just like you should stop bei

you for the last time, please.

elieve it, but-but you can love your wife." She said, and ended the call. I didn

Maybe it was a gift that I met Sade, maybe she was sent for me to realize the things I have. It

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down my cheeks, my mouth filled with silence. I

want for me. I'm sorry." Again my lips went silent. The sky looked like it was neither

long time now, something I myself would have never believed. Some

ut, "I'm changing this time for the best, I promise you." I smiled

but then I remembered I hadn't told her one last thing, I turned back facing her g

, a route which I quickly recognized on seeing the houses around, I recognized it so well because I used to live there. As h

an when he reached my house, my mother's

the state I left my step-father in, the look on my mom's face that night,

?" Who is that? The person asked opening the gate slightly.

oing here?" I

asked. She looked much old

y hand but I quickly wi

u didn't love Toju, you didn't love m

for years and you never noticed, you never cared wh

u left with regret, pain, and sorrow." She looked at me, she was also cr

hat, m

own staring

love you Sade and I kn

y, truly being sorry. She dropped to the floor kn

al for me. I forced her

me here. I love you mom." I hugged her tight. "This is

, ple

fast as I could from her. As I wal

ight hundred thousand!" I said. I had paid Toyin's hospital bill from my own money and from borrowing from colleagues in the mart I was working as well as a proper buri

n I was in the ho

Sade. Honestly, so I can start a new life and

hat's what I've alway

back on the bed, "I should start a new life

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