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"What are you saying?"

Alisha was surprised to hear her cousin's question. She had misheard, she was making such a hasty conclusion of her relationship with young Williams.

No, she wasn't.

"Have you fallen in love with Williams" Louis questioned again, her cousin looked away, she didn't want to admit it, she didn't want to state the obvious. "Alisha, do you really?" he pressed for an answer.

"You listen to what you say." Alisha paused and met Louis' accusing eyes. That was his psychologist for so long it was admirable his bravery for lying to the person who knows him too well for his liking. "You think I could like someone like him" but his reaction made Louis more convinced.

Both cousins fell silent.

I tried my best to keep an expression of indifference towards Louis' question, it was too hard to be able to deny it, I had liked him for years. I could turn it over like a page and tell my heart to stop beating as I watched that elegant man approach me.

Louis could not believe that Ali