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Chapter 85 - Things gets Complicated
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Cephas ran his hand through his hair hoping he wouldn't get more confused and angry. He was trying to sort his thoughts out. Multiple things went through his mind, he had no solution to any of them.

It would have been great if he knew the cause of the issues rather than sitting down in the dark studying and feeling like he was in a Maze.

These things trapped him and were already affecting his productivity.

He was in the middle of trying to figure out who was after his life and his father. He had less office work to do because he wasn’t in office. His work at tyla’s company was done except for the lunch which he had not even spoken to her about.

He had been caught with a lot of things of late that he barely even taught about the jewelry shop.

Anta and Jose walked into his home study, they knew the passcodes to everywhere in the house, that was how much trust he had in them.

He heard someone walk in but he knew it was going to be his assistants. So he wasn't bothered neither did h
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