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FLIRTATIOUS Part 14

FLIRTATIOUS Part 14

©️Opeyemi Akintunde I found it very hard sleeping that night. Her words were haunting me. Was it possible she was my soulmate? Was it possible she married wrongly and I was the best man for her. I lost my sleep thinking about her. I kept going over her picture in my head…MY heart was swelling…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 13

FLIRTATIOUS Part 13

©️Opeyemi Akintunde ” Why the clandestine meeting?” I asked her when I saw her at the Blue Carnival ” I thought you would be more comfortable with this arrangement. My husband doesn’t know where I am. I just told him I needed to take a stroll , I am not sure he heard me, he…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 12

FLIRTATIOUS Part 12

©️Opeyemi Akintunde The baby was anemic and the ” Low Budget” maternity hospital was short of blood in their blood bank, Leni too had lost some blood during the delivery, hence she couldn’t donate. They ran a test on me and I had a low haemoglobin level as well. The doctor asked for the father…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 11

FLIRTATIOUS Part 11

©️Opeyemi Akintunde Shalewa became family and a positive impact on us. She drew us to church, made us believe strongly in God. Mrs Abrahamson did what I expected of her; she reported us to the orphanage and the orphanage put up our names on the ” AFTER ALL WE DID” wall. That way we became…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 10

FLIRTATIOUS Part 10

©️Opeyemi Akintunde We rushed back home like people on a mission. Leni kept asking why the rush, and I told her it was best we got home on time. Leni trusted me, so after a while she stopped questioning me. ” Now that we are home, are you going to say what exactly is happening?…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 9

FLIRTATIOUS Part 9

©️Opeyemi Akintunde The fair skinned girl gave a beautiful uncertain smile. I could pick from her face that there was definitely more to the girlfriend story. Leni took a good look at the girl and I could tell Leni knew she had lost the battle. The girl; Shalewa was beautiful! ” She is from the…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 8

FLIRTATIOUS Part 8

©️Opeyemi Akintunde Talk about a “LOT” personality destroying one’s chances when they are permitted to journey with one; Just like Abraham shouldn’t have taken Lot with him on the journey to God’s promised Land, I shouldn’t have let Leni go with me. Thankfully, my female Sponsor came in to save the situation. We rushed Marcus…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 7

FLIRTATIOUS Part 7

©️Opeyemi Akintunde For the records, Leni and I are not actually related by blood. We met at the orphanage where we both grew up. Leni and I cared about each other so deeply in the house that everyone thought we would someday get married, but it never crossed our minds because we only saw ourselves…

FLIRTATIOUS Past 6

FLIRTATIOUS Past 6

©️Opeyemi Akintunde “Flirting is wrong on all levels… ” Leni said to me when I asked her If flirting was wrong. Mrs Anthony didn’t send for me again throughout that day and I was left wondering what she was up to. As a way of relieving myself of the mental stress of questioning myself about…

FLIRTATIOUS Part 5

FLIRTATIOUS Part 5

©️Opeyemi Akintunde “Ma, it’s not my duty to take you around for the tour. I am just to make necesary arrangements for you” I said to her. After I had been assigned to her, she had called the concierge office asking me to meet her at the reception. On getting there, she sat elegantly in…

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