Seventeen years ago, Mr. Leo Adams married Mrs. Zoe Elliott, and she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl with brown, sparkling eyes named Olima Adams. However, after Olima was born, Mrs. Zoe had complications. Mrs. Zoe cried, wanting to give her husband more children, but her husband assured her that his love for her would not change. Two years later, Mr. Leo spoke to his wife about his intention to marry a second wife who could bear him a son. Since Olima was a girl, he wanted a son to continue bearing his name and inherit his properties. Mrs. Zoe became concerned about another woman coming into her matrimonial home and potentially turning her husband's heart against her. So, she spoke to her best friend, Gina Edwards, and asked her to marry her husband. Gina and Zoe had been best friends since childhood, having attended the same college and grown up in the same town. Mrs. Zoe, a light-skinned 25-year-old woman, pleaded with her best friend, Gina Edwards, to agree to marry Mr. L
Mrs. Gina Adams woke up in her bedroom as it was the first room given to her when she initially got married to Mr. Leo Adams, and two months before he sent her away to live in the boys-quarters apartment. She sat up on the bed and stretched as she stared at the room clock time and saw it was already 7 am. She carefully dropped her legs down from the bed and felt like the madam of the house again. "Hmm.. how time flies." She murmured and wore her slippers as she adjusted her white nightgown properly. She stood up from the bed and walked out from her bedroom as she went downstairs. Mrs. Gina Adams is a 39-year-old lady. She knew that it's school resumption day, and her 14-year-old daughter named Mia Adams is going back to school. Mrs. Gina carefully went downstairs to the living room and paused as she stared around the living room couches and the center table. She saw that the living room has already been mopped clean. A satisfactory smile curved up her lips, and just then Olima
Olima paused at the kitchen door, as she didn't want to give up on trying to beg her stepmother. She had graduated as the best in her school, and if she had known, she could have accepted the school scholarship program that was offered to her then. But she thought her father had better plans for her. She turned and begged Mrs. Gina again, “Please Ma, I really need to write the university entrance examination, to gain admission into any university.” Mrs. Gina growled, “And who will sponsor your school fees, Olima? Did you forget how your loving father cast me and Mia away? Well, in case you've forgotten, let me remind you that the money that I'm using to feed you now, It is the money that I'm supposed to use in paying the previous old maids that I've sent away. As there's no money in this house, and I cannot take my business money to sponsor your educational fees into any university. Why am I even explaining all this to you? Just get out of my sight now! Before I break your head
Olima nervously replied, “No, ma. I've checked the kitchen cupboards and there's no foodstuff there.” Mia frowned as she was hungry, and she asked, “Why didn't you talk since in the afternoon?.” Olima stared from Mia to her mother in shock as she was helping Mia to do her assignments from school since. Mia was acting nice and friendly with her, but once Mia sees that her mother had arrived home. Mia would change and start acting rudely like her mother's toxic behavior too. Mrs. Gina sighed, “Hmm, and you sit down here since with Mia and watching the television. Didn't you know that you were supposed to come to my shop at the marketplace to ask for money to refill the house with food stuffs and the things that you will be needing in preparing our dinners for tonight, or did you expect us to starve with you this night?" Mrs. Gina glares at Olima in a cold voice. Olima fearfully replied, “No ma.” Mrs. Gina's eyes narrowed at Olima and she opened her purse and brought out some new ca
Olima finally found a taxi and she entered into the back seat and told the taxi driver her destination, “To the Emerson estate.” The taxi driver replied, “Okay.” He started the car and drove ahead as Olima was the only one seated in the cab and arriving at the Emerson Housing Estate gate entrance. The taxi stopped while Olima paid for her ride before she alighted from the taxi and rushed into the estate gate, running home speedily. The estate security men stared at Olima and wondered what was chasing her again with her running home as they knew her. One of the estate men said, “She's a gorgeous young lady, and mostly running errands after her parents were gone.” The others kept quiet and continued with their job as there were four security men there. Olima finally arrived home in front of her late father's mansion gate and she banged heavily on the gate while calling out to Nathan. Nathaniel quickly approached the gate from within, pulled the small gate open, and asked her, “Wh
Nathan dragged Olima outside of the mansion, and she sobbed and begged him, "Please sir, don't throw me out. I don't have anywhere to go to, Please Nathan." Olima cried, and Nathan replied, "I'm sorry, small madam, but I cannot help you now. You have to leave this house." Nathan was also worried as he didn't know what Olima had done. He had seen her return home and run back speedily into the house, and now she was sobbing heavily, and Mrs. Gina ordered him to throw her outside. Olima begged, "Please don't throw me out. This is my father's house. I don't have anywhere else to go to, please." Nathan let go of Olima's hands and raked his short black hair in frustration. He is a dark-skinned man and was of average height too. Mrs. Gina stepped out of the mansion and questioned, "Nathan! Is that witch still outside there?" Nathan stared at Olima in fret and pulled the gate open as he replied, "No, madam. I have sent her outside." Nathan wasn't yet ready to lose his job; he opened t
Justin stared at Jesse's face in the strip club parking lot, and after contemplating for a while, he said, "Remember the pretty lady that we saw when we were leaving the estate?". Jesse smiled and replied, "You mean the one who ran away from you when you approached her?". Justin glared at Jesse, but Jesse laughed and apologized - "Forgive me, boss." "Justin! How many times do I need to remind you, Jesse, to stop calling me boss?" Justin questioned angrily as he never liked it when Jesse tried to maintain the master-servant relationship between them. "I'm sorry, Justin, but you know that your father will be angry with me if he finds out that I am being friends with you and calling you by your name," Jesse apologized. "I know, and that's why I want you to call me by my name, especially when we are not at home and in public places like this. To reduce others' eyes on me," Justin said. "Okay, Justin," Jesse replied, and Justin sighed frustratedly and said, "I just seem to like that y
Jesse's eyes also widened in shock as he saw Olima's face and knew that she was the same young lady that Justin was asking about earlier when they were still at the club, but now she looks so battered than when he earlier saw her before. Jesse couldn't believe that she was the one and Justin was seriously worrying himself about her too. Olima was still unable to speak about who had hurt her as she cried and begged Justin, "Please, sir... help me get to the estate gate?" Justin asked her, "Why?" He held her left hand closely as he didn't want her to run away from him again, but his phone continued ringing out in his black suit trouser side pocket. Jesse's phone also rang out too, and Justin knew that his parents were the ones calling him. Even though they acted blindly towards him sometimes, his mother still always called him to know where he was and if he was alright. Justin said, "Wait first..." He immediately took out his phone from his trouser side pocket, and at the same tim