Chapter 83
✨Where He Finally Listens.✨ Nasir Pov Nasir did not sleep at his mother’s house that night. He tried. He lay on the bed staring at the ceiling, hands clenched at his sides, her absence louder than any argument they had ever had. Every instinct in him screamed to go to her, to pull her into his arms, to fix what he had broken—but he knew now that fixing didn’t mean forcing. It meant facing himself first. By dawn, he was already dressed. The drive back to the house felt longer than it ever had. His thoughts looped relentlessly—her quiet, her turned back, the way she’d said you left without raising her voice. That sentence had hollowed him out. When he reached the door, he hesitated. For the first time in his life, Nasir was afraid of being refused. He knocked anyway. Flora opened
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