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CHAPTER 25: LOVE OR LUST?
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Author: Sam Freddy
CHAPTER 25: LOVE OR LUST?
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After being robbed of their personal belongings, Yomi and Idara hastily returned to Yomi's car, as they had no other choice as to where to go.
They were both wet and cold, due to being exposed in the rain for too long.
Yomi currently had mixed feelings: gratitude and anger. Gratitude to God because the robbers didn't harm them, and anger because he'd been robbed of his hard-earned money and phone.
Fortunately, Yomi had two bank accounts: his business account and his own personal account. The credit card he'd been with during the robbery was for his personal account, and the money he'd saved in that account was over three hundred thousand Naira; the same money he'd been planning to use part of in setting up Candice's new apartm
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