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Drunk lies

Author: Kaya
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ZAIRE

"Sir, just one question sir! Please, sir!"

"What's the actual reason you are agreesing to collab with the Iris group? Even after that huge public scandal?"

"Mr Langston, is it because of Ms Selene Hudson? Was that the reason?"

"Is there still any bad blood between you and Mr Prescott?"

The questions were bold and the answers to them will be even bolder. But some things should be better left unsaid. They did not need to know that even before the dispute, the bad blood or the scandal, there was a friendship. A friendship that was lost just like that, in an instance.

Just because Travis Prescott never trusted Zaire Langston Hughes the way he thought.

Zaire stepped into his house at last. It had been a long day and the press only drained the life out of him. The things they said were intrusive, they got to him sometimes. And today was one of those days when those words made him walk down the memory lane.

He sighed as he placed himself on the armchair, squeezing his temples and clos
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