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She is alive!

Author: Ebunoluwa Ademide
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BLIND BILLIONAIRE BRIDE

(They call it madness but he calls it love)

EPISODE SEVENTY SIX

THEME: She is alive!

IDAHO, UNITED STATE OF AMERICA

AT IDAHO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

Speedy took out the content in the envelope. They were pictures of Ria Robert and it took him extra effort to keep his jaw from dropping. Ria was alive! The little blind girl was now a grown woman. A beautiful woman! And the most surprising aspect was that she could see!

But Speedy wasn't ready to admit to Frederick that the lady could be the same blind girl he knew eight years ago. "Did she resurrected from the dead?" He asked Frederick.

His pretense and silly questions were beginning to annoy Frederick Robert. "This is not Ria Robert. The one I know was blind and she died eight years ago.”

Frederick balled his fist under the table. He had thought of paying some officials in prison to torture Speedy until he tells the truth but he decided against it because doing that would expose his secr
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