chapter 70
Author: Precious Onyema
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It was 11:35 and Darwin was still in bed.

I was in the room with him but I wasn't on the bed, I was sitting in the chair that was set in front of the window.

He had arrived very early in the morning. I had woken up to see his arms wrapped around me. Something I really really loved. I loved it so much that it drew tears from my eyes. But I couldn't help but feel insecure, what if he leaves me, what if Mandeline comes back and he fancies her again and then he feels he loves her and not me. But love doesn't work that way and Darwin doesn't tell lies.

He loves me and I love him, and I have to learn to trust him, I have to bring down my walls and let him in.

It wouldn't be so hard... Would it?

He also has to tell me anything, he has to trust me too. Unless the both of us would be wasting our time together.

Are we together? Are we a couple or a pair… what the actual fuck are we.

Although I wouldn't say we were intimate with eachother, we haven't had sex with eachother in
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