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Thelma.

"Dad, I was busy, so I did not take out my phone throughout my stay in the company and while I was driving back home too. Tomorrow I will go to see our family doctor, as Mum and I had discussed. I will call Mum now when I finally return back upstairs to my bedroom and after our dinner," I said.

"You shouldn't keep your mother waiting, Thelma. You know that she worries so much about you. Anyway, let us start eating our dinner and bless the meal, Thelma," Dad said to me. He sounded calmer and friendlier, solely because he wanted me to marry his friend's son.

I blessed the meal, and soon we started eating our dinners silently.

After my dining session with my elder brother and my father ended, I stood up from the chair that I sat on. I avoided meeting Steven's gaze, and I finally went back upstairs to my bedroom.

"Wow, that was so close," I gasped in relief as I finally walked into the bedroom. Steven had glared at me with a threatening look, to take off the towel.

I quickly