Chapter 48
Author: Tracy Binfoh
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Julia with a shaking hand opened the message and was delighted beyond words.

“Hi Julia, how have you been? “

She looked at the message and could not help but smile.

He finally decided to text her after all these months.

How long she has been waiting for this day?

She decides to make him worried also and wanted to ignore his messages too.

But as hard as she could she could not.

“I’m good. When are you coming back? Can I call?”

She send and waiting but even after waiting for a long like her he still ignored her message.

She decided to wait for him to text back and then would decide on what to do next.

“Julia”

Someone called out to her as she was about to walk to her car.

Looking back she saw Ben running towards her with his fan girl screaming behind him with snacks and flowers.

She rolled her eyes and was about to ignore him but he was fast enough to know what she was about to do.

He hurriedly went and blocked her way.

“What?” she asked coldly

“I just wanted to talk to you, “ he said wi
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