Chapter 64

"If the stars won't allign, I'll allign them myself." She said to herself as she got up from the bed. She was his partner after all.

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Outside the city, in a neighbouring town, a black jeep with tinted glass pulled up to a slum.

The glass of the back door was rolled down revealing the Old Man with a hat on his head.

"We're here sir." The driver announced, turning off the ignition of the car.

"Very Good." The Old Man said. His eyes scanning and observing the slum in front of him.

He had spent too much time in affluence that he had almost forgotten there was another side of life. A side that was the complete opposite of what he and the other elites enjoined.

Children in tattered and faded clothes ran all over the open space, with so much joy oozing from them.

Despite their social status, they had a genuine happiness and love that most elite could not even boast of. The irony of life. The elite we're blessed with wealth and affluence but most lacked genuine happiness and peace, whi