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Chapter twenty three
Nena entered her bathroom in a rush, not wanting to leave another moment to be wasted worrying about her situation on the hotel bed. She had been laying there for the past hour since she checked in . she had been too exhausted from the trip and more so, disturbed about misplacing her flash drive and all the documents it contained.
She feels she had been distracted . she feels she had been careless.. sometimes Nena gets to forget that she is only just human. She tries to take the whole world on her bare hands. She had felt that she needed a shower now and laying on the bed with these thoughts weren’t helping at all. She walked into the bath tub in the bathroom and stepped into it fully immersing herself in the pool of cold water it contained.
She dipped her whole self in it for a couple of minutes then raised her head slowly to rest on the ceramic framed bars of the tub. She left her eyes closed as she let herself dive into a little trance to distract
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