chapter 89
Author: Precious Onyema
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I entered into my car and I drove back to my hotel.

I walked into the hotel. Before I met Mark, I couldn't afford places like this.

The hotels' room fee was above my pay grade for a month that was when I was still working at my former company.

I walked to the reception.

The receptionist was sitting behind her desk.

“Good day. I want to check in."

“Okay, room what?." She asked me.

“Room 369."

“Okay, give me a second." She said.

“Hey beautiful." I heard and my heart threw me off guard and it started to beat faster. Was that Frank. I turned to the person to see if it was Frank.

But it wasn't Frank. It was a total stranger.

I eyed him wearily and turned back to the receptionist.

“Here are your keys." She said handing me the keys.

“Thank you." I told her.

“Uhm, hi." The man said to me, I turned to look at him, but i didn't give him my attention, so I walked away from him. I was entering the elevator when I noticed he was coming into the elevator too.

The both of us st
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