Chapter

Mokunfayo Badmus:

I stood before a flushed, angry lord that was panting like an overworked horse. I would only be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.

"M–may I come in?" I stuttered with my heart in my mouth and he seemed to snap out of some sort of daze before nodding briskly.

As I walked carefully towards the bed he laid on, I wished I had picked another time to visit, a time when I didn't have to face the aftermath of a ferocious argument between two proverbial elephants

There was no proverbial grass nearby to suffer but me.

Sigh.

I perched on the bedside stool tentatively, fidgeting with my fingers, terribly wishing for a hole to crawl into. Then I noticed him trying to adjust his position and rushed to help. His sharp intake of air announced that I was doing what I wasn't meant to do.

"I–I'm so sorry, I thought you needed help," I choked out after withdrawi