Chapter 59

• “Are you serious right now, Cole?” Funmi’s voice was raw, her words cutting through the thick tension in the room. I could see the anger in her eyes, the betrayal, the heartbreak.
• I didn’t know how to respond. I could feel the weight of everything collapsing around me, like I was standing in the middle of a storm that I had no control over.
• “I didn’t ask for this,” she continued, her voice quieter now, but the hurt in it was unmistakable. “I didn’t ask for all the lies, for you keeping secrets from me, for this twisted mess that we’re in. You said you loved me, but all you’ve done is pull me deeper into your world of deception.”