Must Read: Two Realms (Romance Thriller) - Season 1 - Episode 25

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Must Read: Two Realms (Romance Thriller) - Season 1 - Episode 25

The lampshade’s dull yellow darkened the white bedspread. Ezinne drew nearer to Richard and counted his chest hairs, giving him more of her braid to stroke.


“How many children should we be looking at?” He did a smile that survived the yellow light.

She knew it wouldn’t take long before the question came up, but never so soon. No reply had ever crossed her head. “As many as you want.”

She rested head on his chest and listened carefully to its beats, closed eyes, and let his hand go through her braid. It hurt. It hurt because it wouldn’t last. It wouldn’t go through her hair forever. He was already speaking about children, unaffordable luxuries. He had asked, and would keep asking. Nine months would pass, and another nine might pass, and he would keep on asking, and would one day grow tired of asking. Until that day comes, she should be his wife, and he, her husband.