Story By Adebayo Hikmot
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Adebayo Hikmot

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The Billionaire’s Vengeful Bride
Updated at Mar 2, 2026, 04:57
Ava Sinclair's perfect life shattered on her wedding day. Betrayed by her fiancé Ethan, who ran off with her scheming stepsister Lila after embezzling from her family's company, Ava watched her father's empire crumble and her little sister Mia's life-saving treatments hang in the balance. Humiliated, penniless, and burning with rage, she vowed revenge on everyone who destroyed her.Desperate for power and resources, Ava answers a cryptic ad: a ruthless billionaire CEO, Damien Blackwood, needs a wife for one year to secure his inheritance. The compensation? Ten million dollars, unlimited influence, and the tools to strike back.She signs the contract without hesitation — a fake marriage, no emotions, no strings.But Damien is no stranger. Years ago, his empire quietly orchestrated the downfall of the Sinclair Group in a "business" move that left her family in ruins. Now, as his wife, Ava lives in his luxurious world, plotting to dismantle him from the inside while enduring his cold commands and possessive glares.The lines blur fast. Damien's icy facade cracks, revealing guilt, hidden acts of kindness, and a tormenting attraction he can't deny. Ava's hatred wars with undeniable desire — every forced proximity, every heated argument, every stolen touch pulls her deeper.When shocking truths surface — Damien's secret regret, anonymous help he gave her family, and a bigger threat from corporate enemies — Ava must decide: destroy the man she's falling for, or let revenge consume them both?One year. One contract. One chance at vengeance... or love.Will Ava claim her payback, or will the billionaire's heart be the ultimate prize she never expected?
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Moon in the Go-slow
Updated at Feb 26, 2026, 00:52
In the relentless heat and chaos of modern Lagos, Aisha Adebayo is a sharp, fiercely independent woman in her late 20s fighting to build a career in fintech. She wakes up every day to generators coughing, bucket baths, and the endless go-slow that defines life in the megacity. Fate has never been kind to her—until one ordinary (yet disastrous) morning on her way to a make-or-break pitch meeting, the mate bond slams into her like a trailer in Oshodi traffic.Kola, a powerful, scarred werewolf enforcer from a hidden pack that quietly controls parts of the city's night economy, feels it too. Their eyes lock across stalled vehicles, and the ancient pull—scent, instinct, unbreakable thread—ignites. Aisha wants nothing to do with destiny, fated mates, or anything that smells like loss of control. But the bond won't let her go. Dreams turn feral, her body aches with unexplained heat, and every full moon draws closer to forcing her first shift.What begins as denial spirals into surrender: a desperate midnight kiss on the Third Mainland Bridge, a painful yet intimate first transformation in a hidden Ikoyi safe house, and the slow burn of falling in love while learning to be wolf. But acceptance comes with a price. Kola’s pack—led by his formidable alpha mother, Mama Folake—demands proof Aisha belongs. Three brutal ritual challenges in the Lekki Conservation grove test her body, mind, and heart, revealing a buried family secret: her grandmother was once pack, banished for refusing a forced mating, and the latent blood has slept in Aisha all her life.As Aisha claims her place among the wolves, a splinter rogue faction led by the bitter Tunde sees her integration as weakness. They strike close—firebombing her mother’s Surulere home, attempting to kidnap her from her office. Territory wars over ports and night markets threaten to erupt. Aisha must decide: cling to her human life and career, or fully embrace the wild power inside her and fight beside Kola to protect everything she loves.Set against the vivid, sweaty pulse of Lagos—danfos honking, hawkers shouting, jollof steaming, Fuji drifting from speakers, harmattan dust in the air—Moon in the Go-Slow is a story of chosen love in a fated bond, reclaiming heritage, family healing, and finding home in the city that never sleeps.
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The War Between Us
Updated at Feb 12, 2026, 13:25
They were born into a rivalry.They chose the war.Zara Okonkwo returns to Lagos with a law degree, a sharpened mind, and a single purpose — dismantle the Afolayan empire from the inside. For twenty years, she has lived in the shadow of a scandal that destroyed her father and shattered her family’s name. The Afolayans rose while the Okonkwos fell.Now she wants balance.She did not expect Adebayo Afolayan.Cold. Strategic. Untouchable. The heir to a political dynasty built on power and secrets. He recognizes her the moment she steps into his building — and hires her anyway.What begins as calculated proximity turns into something far more dangerous.Because beneath the boardroom battles and public speeches lies a darker truth: a third force is manipulating both families… and the next political rally may end in blood.Forced into an uneasy alliance, Zara and Adebayo must decide what matters more — revenge or survival.But in a war built on legacy, loyalty, and betrayal, love is the most dangerous weapon of all.And neither of them fights to lose.
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