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2024-10-29 19:42:56Ntsika was seating in the palace garden deep in thoughts, he was thinking of ways to get his Mpande, he also wondered if he would ever love some else besides Mpande. Someone who would understand him, one that his beast submits to, but then again, he has been searching and every woman he meets brings out the beast in him, even his ex-wife did and that is why he treated her that way.
He did not even know why he married her in the first place because it was not worth it. Mpande was the only woman who brought joy to his life and her smile warmed his heart. When she would call him Ntsikayomuzi wo Manzini when he used to call her in the morning that always made him smile. People always saw him as trouble maker but what they did not understand was one doesn’t find true love so ea
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