LOGINIn the bustling city of Lagos, Nigeria, where dreams clash with harsh realities, Seline's journey unfolds. Born into a humble family, she carries the weight of responsibility on her young shoulders, driven by a burning desire to uplift her loved ones from the clutches of poverty. With her diploma in hand, Seline sets out on a quest for a job that will allow her to support her family and bring them a glimmer of hope. But life's unexpected twists and turns often defy our plans. As fate weaves its intricate tapestry, Seline's path intersects with that of Sweet, a charismatic and affluent celebrity known for his reckless playboy ways. Their encounter sets in motion a whirlwind of emotions and challenges. Seline finds herself drawn to Sweet's magnetic charisma, but she knows that getting involved with him could lead to heartbreak and derail her dreams. Yet, as the saying goes, the heart wants what it wants. Caught between her aspirations and the allure of Sweet's charm, Seline wrestles with the complexities of her emotions. Will she choose to guard her heart and remain focused on her goals, or will she succumb to the seductive power of love and desire?
View More“We’ll get back to you”
This is the fifth time she has heard this statement in the past three weeks of job hunting.
….“What is the essence of going to the university when all you get as a reward was unemployment and frustrating application processes,” she thought while walking on the street with a folder containing my credentials securely held to her side.
The typical life of a Nigerian graduate was frustrating she thought as she kept walking, but got lost in her thoughts that she didn’t notice the black Toyota Prado that was coming out from a building. At the sound of the 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘬, she snapped out of her thoughts and, quickly crossed to the other side of the road and boarded my next bus home, she was so done with this frustrating job hunt.
"Conductor gives me change nah!" a woman at the back of the bus called out.
She was quiet throughout the whole ride dreading the nightmare she called home, from her mum who pick a fight with her at the slightest chance to get an excuse to scream at the top of her voice to gain the pity and attention of the neighbors, to her siblings who are always on her neck for this or that.
A typical Nigerian home, where the responsibility of taking care of the home is inscribed on the first child whether male or female like the mark of the beast from the day of birth.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲.
𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡.
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠.
Sweet brought it up over breakfast, of all places, sliding a small velvet pouch across the counter with the same nonchalance he might have used to pass her the salt."What's this?" Seline asked, eyeing it with immediate suspicion, memories of every previous "small gesture" that had turned out to be anything but small still fresh enough to make her wary."Open it and find out."Inside was a single key, plain and unremarkable, nothing like the dramatic reveal her imagination had briefly, wildly conjured in the half-second before she'd actually looked."A key," she said slowly."To here. This house." He watched her carefully, some of his usual ease dimming into something more uncertain. "I'm not saying it to be dramatic, or to rush anything. I just ...... you're here most nights anyway, Seline. You keep half your things in my closet already. I thought it might be nice i
They stayed like that a long while, the tension of the week slowly dissolving into something softer, the two of them tangled together on the couch with the lights dimmed low and the television playing to no one in particular, some old film neither of them was actually watching. Seline felt the last of Aunty Folake's voice finally quiet in her chest, replaced by something warmer, steadier — the simple, uncomplicated comfort of being exactly where she wanted to be, with someone who had spent the entire evening simply listening rather than trying to fix her."Thank you," she said softly, tracing idle patterns against his chest through the thin fabric of his shirt. "For actually listening instead of just trying to solve it, or telling me I was overreacting.""I'm learning," Sweet said, pressing a kiss to the top of her head. "Slowly, but I'm learning. You've had a lot of patience with me these past months, teaching me how to a
It had been three weeks since the christening, and Seline still found herself replaying Aunty Folake's voice at odd moments, waiting for a bus, mixing reagents at the lab, lying awake beside Sweet at night, the words arriving uninvited in the middle of otherwise ordinary tasks. She hadn't meant to still be carrying it. She'd handled the moment well, hadn't she? Held her ground, said the right things, watched the woman retreat with less certainty than she'd arrived with. Sweet's mother had called it a triumph. Sweet himself had called her braver than half the family combined. And yet the words kept surfacing anyway, small and persistent, like a stone in a shoe she couldn't quite locate."You're doing the thing again," Sweet said, watching her from across the kitchen counter, where she'd been stirring the same cup of tea for a solid two minutes without drinking any of it."What thing?""The thing where your fa
The proposal came through Ronke, delivered in the careful, measured tone she used for things she suspected wouldn't land well. "AKZ wants to expand the campaign," she said, laptop open on the kitchen counter, Marcus hovering nearby with the particular anxious energy he'd carried more often lately. "They're impressed with the response to the shoot, and with the coverage from Seline's own interview about the lab. They'd like to bring her on as an official campaign ambassador. Paid position, not just an appearance. A real role."Seline felt something tighten in her chest immediately. "Doing what, exactly?""A few appearances alongside Sweet, some social content, maybe a short interview series about balancing career and public life," Ronke said. "It's a significant offer, financially. And reputationally, it would position you as more than just 'Sweet's girlfriend' in the public eye, someone with her own brand presence.""I already have my own thing," Seline said. "It's called my actual jo
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He looked at himself once again at the rearview mirror once again; his eyes were bloodshot red, he was literally high and he knew it, but it was his only solution to giving a good performance.The paparazzi has already crowded his car so he needed to put on sunshades and pull up his hoodie and wit
Seline! Seline!! Seline!!!She jerked up from the bed at the sound of her morning alarm (her mother’s voice) frowning at the reality of her life, it was just 5 am for heaven’s sake, but She has got to get her younger siblings ready for school and prepare to face what the day has for her.“Kachi com






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