CHAPTER 22

**Thelma.**

"Dad, I was busy, so I did not take out my phone throughout my stay in the company and while I was driving back home too. Tomorrow, I will go to see our family doctor, as Mum and I discussed. I will call Mum now when I finally return upstairs to my bedroom after dinner," I said.

"You shouldn't keep your mother waiting, Thelma, as you know she worries so much about you. Anyway, let us start eating our dinner and bless the meal," Dad said to me. He sounded more calm and friendly, and I knew that it was solely because he wanted me to marry his friend's son.

I blessed the meal, and soon we started eating our dinner silently.

After my dinner session with my elder brother and my father ended, I stood up from the chair I had been sitting on, avoiding Steven's gaze, and I finally went back upstairs to my bedroom.

"Wow, that was so close..." I gasped in relief as I walked into my bedroom. Steven had glared at me with a threatening look, as if to say to take off the towel.

I quickly