THE TRANSFER

CHAPTER NINE-TOSIN'S REGRET

Tosin stood by the prison window, watching nothing in particular. The yard beyond the glass held no meaning for him just motion without purpose, he had learned what numbers never taught him, that proximity is not innocence, and that love does not mitigate damage once consequences have been set in motion.

He replayed the logic of his life the way he once audited transactions searching for the moment the balance shifted. He had believed restraint would protect him, that saying little and leaving no trace could preserve order. Instead, it had left him exposed to assumptions that did not require proof to harden into truth. Some transfers could be reversed with a keystroke and authorization. Others, once executed, were permanent. There was no reversal for proximity mistaken as intent, for trust borrowed and misused, for affection that had crossed a line and refused to return.

Outside those walls, a banking scandal had already rewritten his name. Headlines spoke of numbers, of fraud, What they did not capture was the quieter violence beneath it all the forbidden romance that unfolded without spectacle, and the husband whose silence delivered the final reckoning. Kunle had not shouted, he had simply withdrawn, and in that withdrawal, the truth had been allowed to surface on its own.

The Transfer is a layered tale of romance, betrayal, and restraint, set in a world where discovery arrives without noise and consequences announce themselves only after the truth has settled. It is a story about what happens when desire collides with discipline, when silence outlives confession, and when the weight of what follows proves heavier than the act itself. Some stories end with punishment. This one ends with permanence where loss cannot be appealed, and understanding comes too late to change anything at all.