The landlord threw my father's empty coffin into the street in Ajegunle."Three days, Tomiwa! Bury your papa or pack out of my house. he shouted. My mother knelt beside the coffin crying. The whole street watched us. Shame burned my body.We needed two million naira for burial and mortuary bill. I had only twelve thousand naira left in my account.My phone rang. Unknown number."Miss Tomiwa Ajayi? Mr. Cole Benson will see you now. Benson Towers, Lekki Phase 1, 8th floor. Be here in thirty minutes."I knew that name. Cole Benson. Lekki billionaire. Forbes Under 30. Oil and real estate. Every girl in Lagos crushes on him.I borrowed my neighbor's gown and took keke to Lekki. My last two thousand naira.Benson Towers was like heaven. Glass everywhere. Cold AC. Security looked at my old slippers with disgust."Appointment?""Tomiwa Ajayi. Oga called me."He called and quickly opened the gate.On the 8th floor, a beautiful secretary said, "Oga hates waiting. Go in."I opened the door.He was there. Tall, dark, fine, beard, black suit. Typing on laptop. He did not look up."Tomiwa from Ajegunle. Twenty four. Yabatech graduate. No boyfriend. Father dead. You need two million in three days.""How you know me? Are you stalking me?""I investigated you. Sit."I sat, heart beating fast."I need a wife," he said straight.I laughed. "Oga you dey joke?"He pushed a document to me. CONTRACT MARRIAGE - 30 DAYS - 5 MILLION NAIRA."My father died. His will says if I don't marry in seven days, I lose fifty billion inheritance to my step-brother. I need a fake wife for thirty days. You need money to bury your father. Business."Five million. I could bury papa, pay house rent, save mama."Why me?" I whispered."Because you are poor and desperate. You will not disturb me after. You are not my circle. And you are not my spec, so I won't be tempted."His words cut me like knife but he was saying truth.He brought out RULES.Rule 1: Don't fall in love with me.Rule 2: Don't touch me without permission.Rule 3: No kissing, no sex. Just acting.Rule 4: After thirty days, take your money and disappear from my life."If I refuse?""Your father remains in mortuary, you and your mother sleep under bridge. Your landlord is my tenant. I already told him to give you three days."Wicked. Cold. Heartless billionaire.But father's coffin was in street.I picked pen with shaking hand. "You will pay today?""Two million today. Three million after thirty days. Divorce and go."I closed eyes. I saw mama crying. I saw papa in mortuary.I signed: TOMIWA AJAYI.He signed: COLE BENSON.He stood and walked to me. He smelled like money and power. He lifted my chin."Welcome to my world, fake wife. Don't fall in love. I never love Ajegunle girls."I looked into his cold eyes with tears and fire."Listen, Cole Benson. In these thirty days, I WILL MAKE YOU LOVE ME."He smirked. "You? Try."My phone vibrated. Alert. 2,000,000 naira from Benson Group. Credit.I gasped. Real money."Driver will take you to bury your father. Be back tomorrow 8am. We go to court to sign marriage certificate. And Tomiwa, buy better shoes. You are now Mrs. Benson."I walked out of Lekki billionaire's office as his fake wife, holding two million, crying, shaking.Tomiwa signs contract and buries her father in Ajegunle with the 2 million. She moves into Cole's Lekki mansion as fake Mrs. Benson.Cole is cold. He gives her separate room. He tells house staff "She is just for show."But Tomiwa is different. She cooks white soup and fufu in his big kitchen, she sings in Yoruba while cleaning, she prays loudly at night. The mansion that was silent for years starts having life.Day 7: They must attend his father's will reading. Cole's step-brother and wicked step-mother laugh at Tomiwa's cheap dress. Tomiwa shocks them by speaking perfect English and defending Cole with fire. Cole is impressed.That night they win the 50 billion. Cole is drunk happy. He drinks whiskey. Tomiwa drinks small wine to celebrate. One thing leads to another in his penthouse balcony... They break Rule 3. They sleep together. First time for Tomiwa.Next morning Cole is cold again: "It was a mistake. Forget it. Rule 4 still stands."Tomiwa cries but says nothing.ACT 2: THE PREGNANCY (Chapter 8-18)2 weeks later, Tomiwa is vomiting every morning. She does test in mansion toilet. POSITIVE. She is pregnant for Lekki billionaire.She wants to tell him but his ex-fiancee returns: Vanessa, half-caste Instagram baddie from London. She left Cole 2 years ago for Dubai man. Now she hears he got 50B, she wants him back.Vanessa tells Tomiwa: "You are just Ajegunle house girl hired for acting. He will never love you. Abort that bastard or I will destroy you."Tomiwa decides to hide pregnancy and finish 30 days, collect 3 million, and run.But Cole starts changing. He sees Tomiwa vomiting, he brings doctor secretly. He starts coming home early. He catches himself staring at her lips. He gets jealous when his driver smiles at her.One night, NEPA takes light. Tomiwa is scared of darknes

Morenike was 19. From Ogbomoso. Her mother died, father married new wife. New wife said "Go Lagos go hustle."Aunty Funke took her to Lagos to be house girl for Adeyemi family in Parkview Estate - richest house she ever saw.Madam Adeyemi - former beauty queen, fine but wicked. Oga Adeyemi - Kunle, 32, oil billionaire, always traveling. And Junior - 4-year-old son.Morenike work: Sweep mansion bigger than her village. Wash toilet with gold tap. Sleep in boys quarters with rats. Salary? 20k, but Aunty Funke collects 15k.One rule from Madam: "Don't ever enter Oga's room. Don't touch his things. Don't look him for eye. You be house girl, know your level."Morenike knew level. She was dark, village, wore oversized uniform.But Junior loved her. She taught him Yoruba, cooked him amala when Madam said only pasta.One night, Madam traveled to London. Oga Kunle came home drunk, 2am, wife not around. He entered kitchen looking for water - saw Morenike praying in small kitchen, wearing simple night gown, crying because Aunty Funke said she no go school again."What happened?" he asked.She cleaned tears. "Nothing sir."He saw her tribal marks, beautiful despite poverty. He, billionaire lonely because wife only loved money, felt something.He gave her handkerchief. Their fingers touched.CHAPTER 2: NEPA AND THE MISTAKESecond night Madam absent. Rain heavy, NEPA took light. Generator no start. Junior cried for fear of thunder. Morenike ran to Oga's room - "Sir, Junior dey cry."Oga followed her to boys quarters, carried Junior, slept with Junior between them on small mattress in boys quarters. That night, three of them slept like family.Morning, Oga woke first, saw Morenike sleeping - wrapper opened small, pure innocent. He never saw his wife sleep like that - always makeup.He touched her face. She woke. Eye to eye."Morenike...""Sir, I be house girl...""I know."He kissed her. Soft. She did not push - 19 years, never kissed. Her first kiss na billionaire in boys quarters with rats watching.Clothes off. No condom. He said "I go withdraw." He lied - or forgot. Inside her.After, she cried. "I don spoil! I be virgin!"Oga panicked, gave her 50k. "Don't tell Madam. Take am, forgive me."She took money but heart broken.2 months later: Morenike vomited morning. Stomach big. Madam noticed."House girl! You don get belle? Who give you belle for my house? Is it gateman?"Morenike kept quiet. Madam beat her, poured water, chased her with load to street - 5am, raining, pregnant.Oga was in Port Harcourt.Morenike went back to Ogbomoso, shame. Village people mocked: "House girl wey go Lagos go carry belle come back."She gave birth - twins! Boy and Girl. Beautiful. She named them Ire and Ireola - Goodness.She started selling akara with twins on back. 3 years suffering.CHAPTER 3: PARKVIEW REUNION3 years later, Adeyemi family needed new house girl. Old house girl (Morenike's replacement) stole. Madam complained to Aunty Funke: "Bring new girl wey get sense like Morenike."Aunty Funke called Morenike: "Come back Lagos, Madam need you. Bring twins? No, leave them village."Morenike refused. "I no be house girl again. I be mama."But Junior, now 7, was hearing name Morenike and crying: "I want Morenike! She tell me story!"Oga Kunle was in house that day, heard Junior cry, asked driver to find Morenike in Ogbomoso.Driver found her frying akara with twins - twins wey get Oga's exact face! Big eyes, same dimple!Driver called Oga video. Oga saw twins and fainted inside car.He drove 5 hours to Ogbomoso himself. Entered her father's compound - billionaire in Rolls Royce for village.Morenike saw him, covered chest.He saw twins. "Na my children?"She cried. "Na your children you threw away."He knelt in village sand, billionaire kneeling for house girl, in front of all village mockers."Morenike, I search everywhere for you. Madam told me you ran with gateman. I no know..."Village women gasped: Billionaire dey kneel?He carried twins - they already called him "Daddy" without knowing.CHAPTER 4: MADAM VS HOUSE GIRLHe brought Morenike and twins to Lagos - not to boys quarters, to main mansion. Madam Adeyemi was waiting, arms folded."So you be thief wey thief my husband? House girl wey climb Oga bed?"Morenike knelt with twins: "Madam, sorry ma."Oga stood: "Enough! Funke! You be my wife but you never give me peace. You travel every month, you leave Junior with house girl. This girl raised my son better than you. And she gave me twins when you said your womb is for beauty not babies!"Madam slapped Oga. Oga did not slap back, but called lawyer."I want divorce. I go marry Morenike. House girl to Madam."Madam laughed: "You go marry illiterate wey no sabi English?"Morenike stood, first time speaking big English - she had been learning with Junior's school books for 3 years while frying akara."Madam, I may be house girl, but I be First Class mother. I sabi raise children with love. You sabi raise only Instagram followers. Which one be better Madam?"All maids in house clapped.Divorc

Chioma Nnanna graduated First Class Economics, UNN. 23 years, no braids money, wearing one good wig. She had applied for 47 jobs.Job 48: PA to Obinna Eze. 29 years, youngest Igbo billionaire in Lagos, owner of Eze Oil & Real Estate, 6ft2, fine like sin, wicked like devil.Interview day, Eko Atlantic Tower, 22nd floor."Chioma Nnanna?" His voice froze her. He did not look up from laptop. "Your CV says first class. Why you still jobless?""Sir, economy...""Economy no be excuse for brilliant people. You late by 2 minutes.""I... danfo...""Don't danfo me. In my office, you are 10 minutes early. Rule 1."He finally looked up. Oh God. Beard trimmed, Igbo nose, eyes cold."Rule 2: Don't touch my things. Rule 3: Don't bring village mentality here. Rule 4..." he stood, walked to her, too close, perfume expensive, "Don't fall in love with me. All my PAs fall. I sack them."Chioma swallowed. "I won't fall, sir. I need money, not love."He smiled. First time. "Good. Salary 400k. You start tomorrow. And Chioma... that wig is tired. My PA must look billionaire. My driver will take you to shop now. Deduct from salary."She wanted to slap him. But 400k? She knelt mentally. "Yes sir."CHAPTER 2: BOYS QUARTERS OFFICEHer office was not office - it was small room beside his office, glass walls. He could see her always. He called her every 5 minutes."Chioma! Coffee!""Chioma! My dry cleaner!""Chioma! Why you frowning? Are you on period?"One month. She endured. He was monster boss but he paid. He bought her new wigs, new suits. "You represent me," he said. People thought she was his girlfriend. Girls in office jealous.Until Office Party. Eze Oil end of year party at Eko Hotel. Chioma wore red gown Obinna bought. He saw her and stopped talking mid-sentence to governor."You... look..." he couldn't speak.That night, governor's son tried to toast Chioma, dragged her to dark garden. "Fine girl like you dey follow Igbo billionaire? Come follow real man."Chioma struggled. Obinna appeared from nowhere, punched governor's son - one blow, nose blood. "Don't touch my PA."He carried Chioma to his car, drunk with anger. "Did he touch you?""No..."He pushed her to car back seat. His eyes were not boss eyes again. Were man eyes."Chioma, I broke Rule 4," he whispered."What rule?""Don't fall in love with my PA. I failed."He kissed her. In Eko Hotel car park, with driver outside. Chioma, virgin, 23, who vowed never to mix work and sex, kissed her Igbo billionaire boss back.That night in his Banana Island mansion, on his 10 million naira bed, Chioma Nnanna lost virginity to Obinna Eze. He was gentle first, then Igbo man fierce. "You be my own now," he said in Igbo, "Ihe m."Morning, she woke, he already dressed. Cold again."Last night was mistake. Office party, alcohol. It won't happen again. Come to work 7am. And Chioma... take this." He dropped postinor 2 on bed.Chioma's heart shattered.CHAPTER 3: TWO LINES2 months later. Chioma missed period. She thought stress. Obinna became colder, hired new fine PA trainee - Blessing from Instagram.Chioma threw up in office toilet every morning. Obinna heard."Chioma, you sick? You dey vomit like...""Like what sir?"He looked at her belly. Tight suit now tight. Realization hit like trailer.He locked office door. "Are you pregnant?"Tears. "I... I don't know..."He brought pregnancy test from his drawer - as if he expected. Two lines. Bright.Chioma cried. Obinna sat down. For first time, billionaire was scared."My mother will kill me," he said in Igbo. "She has chosen wife for me from Nnewi. Billionaire daughter. Not...""Not house girl PA from Nsukka?" Chioma completed, wiping tears."I no be house girl!"He stood. "Abort it. I give you 2 million. Go abroad. Do it quietly."Chioma slapped him. First person ever to slap Obinna Eze."I be First Class, not fool! I go born my pikin! I resign!"She removed office ID, threw on table, left with belle.5 months gone, no job, belle big, living with sister in Egbeda, selling okpa to survive. Obinna sent money - she returned it.Then one Tuesday, her sister's shop: G-Wagon blocked gutter. Obinna came out, with his mother - Lolo Eze, wrapper, red cap, big.Lolo looked at Chioma's big belle. "So na you be Chioma wey carry belle for my son? My only son?"Chioma knelt, Igbo culture.Lolo touched belle, smiled, spoke Igbo: "Nwa m, you strong. You no abort. You resemble me when I born Obinna in Aba with no money."Obinna confused, "Mama, I told you..."Lolo slapped Obinna head, "Shut up! You want abort Eze blood? For Blessing wey dey do BBL? You be idiot billionaire!"She carried Chioma's bag."From today, you no dey sell okpa. You dey enter mansion. My grandchild no go born for Egbeda.Banana Island mansion was not mansion, na museum. Chioma, 6 months pregnant, waddled inside. Maid bowed. Lolo Eze commanded."Chioma, this is your room. Obinna room is there. But you no go enter until he kneels and begs you."Obinna stood there, fine but guilty. "Mama, she be my PA...""PA wey don become mother of my grandchild

Tolu had been a house girl in Dayo Williams mansion for 2 years. She came from Mushin, 19 years old, no school certificate, just strong arms to wash, cook, clean.Dayo Williams was 27, billionaire heir, owner of 3 estates in Lekki, never looked at Tolu twice. To him she was invisible. Furniture.Until that Friday night.Dayo came home drunk. His Dubai girlfriend Chioma had just broken up with him for the 3rd time. He was shattered. He entered kitchen 1am to drink water. Tolu was there, washing plates, wearing old wrapper."Why you still awake?" he slurred."Oga, plates never finish," she whispered, scared.He looked at her - really looked for first time. She was beautiful. Fresh. Not like Lagos big girls with makeup."Come here." "Sir?" He pulled her. She wanted to shout but his lips were on hers. His hands were strong. "Oga please, I be virgin," she cried. But he was drunk and sad and she was soft.That night on kitchen floor, Tolu lost her virginity to her billionaire boss. Morning, Dayo woke up on kitchen floor naked, saw Tolu crying with blood on wrapper. "What did I do?" he panicked. Tolu ran. She packed her small Ghana Must Go that morning and left mansion. Did not collect salary. Did not look back.Dayo searched for 2 weeks, then forgot. Rich men forget house girls. But Tolu did not forget. 2 months later, pregnancy test showed TWO lines. Doctor did scan - twins! She went back to Mushin to her aunt. Her aunt beat her, "You carry Belle for big man and you run? You be mumu! Go meet am!" But Tolu was stubborn. "He will call me gold digger. He will say I thief his sperm to trap him. I go born my pikin myself."5 YEARS LATERTolu was now 24, NCE teacher in small private school in Yaba, earning 40k. Her twins Dami and Dayo Jr were 4 years old, smart, stubborn like their father. They looked exactly like Dayo - same small eyes, same stubborn chin. She told them their daddy died.Until that PTA meeting day. The school owner announced, "Our new investor is Billionaire Dayo Williams! He is coming today!" Tolu's heart stopped. Dayo Williams. Father of her sons. Coming to her class. She tried to hide in toilet but headmistress dragged her out.When Dayo entered Primary 2B with his suit and police, Dami shouted, "Mummy, this man looks like me!" Dayo removed sunglasses and saw them. Two identical boys. His face. Time stopped. "Tolu?" he whispered.Dayo Williams could not breathe. He had seen his childhood picture in his mother's house - same face as these two boys. "Everyone out," he ordered his police and headmistress. "Except Teacher Tolu and these two boys." Class empty. Only Tolu shaking, Dami and Dayo Jr confused.Dayo knelt down to twins level. "What is your name?" "Dami!" "Dayo Jr!" they shouted. Dayo looked up at Tolu, eyes red. "Why you run, Tolu? Why you hide my sons?" Tolu burst into tears. "You were drunk! You for call me liar! Say I want to trap billionaire! All house girls wey get belle for oga dem dey call them gold digger! So I run!"Dayo stood. He was shaking with anger and something else - joy? He had no child. Doctor said Chioma aborted his child years ago. Now he had two sons. He brought out phone. "We are going for DNA now. Today." "I no go do DNA!" Tolu shouted. "They are my sons!" "They are MY sons too," Dayo said coldly. He called his driver, "Bring G-Wagon to Yaba Primary School now."Within 30 minutes, Tolu, twins, and Dayo were in Lagos Island DNA lab. Tolu cried entire time while twins ate Gala in car. Result would be out in 3 days. But Dayo already knew. He knew.That night, he followed Tolu to her one-room in Yaba. He saw where his sons slept - one small mattress on floor, no AC, fan making noise. Dami had cough. Dayo Jr had rashes. Dayo's heart broke. "You are living like this with my sons?" he shouted at Tolu. "My sons, Williams heir, sleeping on floor in Yaba?" "What you want make I do? I be teacher! 40k salary!" Tolu shouted back. Dayo called his lawyer that night. "Prepare custody papers. I am taking my sons tomorrow."By 6am, G-Wagon was in front of Yaba face-me-I-face-you house. Whole compound came out. "Ah, Tolu don hammer! Billionaire don come carry am!" Two bodyguards packed their small bags - 3 clothes, 2 school uniforms, one teddy bear torn. Tolu refused to enter G-Wagon. "I no dey go!" Dayo carried Dami, bodyguard carried Dayo Jr, and he dragged Tolu's hand. "I am not asking," he said. "I am telling."Lekki mansion. Same mansion where Tolu mopped floors for 2 years. Now gate opened for her as madam. New house girl, Chiamaka, opened door, "Welcome Madam Tolu!" Tolu remembered - she used to be Chiamaka. Master bedroom. Same bed where she lost virginity? No, new bed. Bigger. "You sleep here," Dayo said. "I dey sleep for boys quarters, like before!" Tolu said. "You are not house girl again. You are mother of my children. You sleep in my room. In my bed." "I no be your wife!" "Not yet," Dayo said and locked door.First night wahala. Twins had never seen mansion. Dami poured 5-year-old wine on white

Amara thought her husband would remember their anniversary. She had cooked jollof, his favorite, and wore the white dress he loved.Jason Cole walked in at 10pm, smelling of expensive perfume that wasn't hers. He didn't look at the table. He dropped a brown envelope on her lap."What is this?" she asked, hands shaking."Divorce. Sign it."The words sliced her. "Jason, what? Why? Is it because I can't... because we haven't had a child yet? The doctor said we can try...""It's not about a child, Amara. It's about class. Look at you. You are still that Ajegunle girl I picked from the slum. My mother was right. You will never fit in my world. Vanessa is back from London. She is my level."Vanessa. His ex from university. Daughter of an oil mogul.Tears fell. "I left school for you. I supported you when you had nothing!""And I paid you back by marrying you. Now I'm paying you to leave. There's a cheque inside. 2 million naira. Take it and disappear."Amara opened the envelope. Inside was a cheque and a pregnancy test she had left in the bathroom that morning. Positive. She had been planning to surprise him tonight.She looked at his cold face. He would think she faked it for money.She tore the cheque, took only the divorce papers, and signed with tears blurring the ink."I don't want your money, Jason Cole. You will regret this."She walked out into the Lagos rain with one small bag, pregnant, divorced, and broken. She didn't know the bus she entered was going to Abuja, where her life would change forever.EPISODE 2: THE RETURN - THREE YEARS LATER Lagos Civic Center. The biggest business merger of the year. Cole Industries was about to be bought over by a mysterious new conglomerate - Stone Group.Jason, now 34, sat in his suit, nervous. If this deal failed, his company would collapse. He had lost millions after Vanessa left him for a Dubai sheikh.The doors opened. Everyone stood.A woman walked in. Red bottom heels, black tailored suit, hair sleek, diamonds that could buy a house. Confident. Cold. Untouchable.Jason's heart stopped."Amara?"She didn't even glance at him. She walked straight to the podium. Her assistant announced, "CEO of Stone Group, Mrs. A.M. Stone."A.M. Stone. Amara Maduka Stone.His ex-wife. The girl he called poor."Good morning," she said, her voice like ice. "As of 9am today, Stone Group now owns 51% of Cole Industries. Which means... I own you, Mr. Cole."The room gasped.Jason stood, shaking. "Amara, what game is this?"She finally looked at him, smiled sweetly, and it was more dangerous than a slap. "Game? You taught me this game, Jason. You said I would never be a Cole. You were right. I'm a Stone now. And you work for me."After the meeting, he cornered her in the private elevator. "You planned this? To humiliate me?""You humiliated me first," she whispered. "You threw me out like trash when I was carrying your children.""Children? What...""Yes. Twins. A boy and a girl. They are 2 years old now. They have my surname. Because their father chose Vanessa over them."Jason felt the ground shift. Twins. He had twins?"Amara, please. I didn't know...""You didn't care to know. You said I was desperate for money. So I became money itself."She stepped out of the elevator, leaving him broken.But she didn't tell him the whole truth. Her twins needed a bone marrow match. And only their father could save them.EPISODE 3: HE BEGS Jason started coming to her office every day. Security stopped him, but he waited in the lobby for 6 hours.On the third day, Amara let him in."What do you want, Jason?""I want to see my children.""They are not your children. You signed that away. Remember? Clause 12 of our divorce - 'No claim to any future offspring.'""I was stupid! Amara, I was 28 and arrogant! Vanessa left, my company almost crashed, my mother died last year... I have nothing. I realize now you were the only real thing I ever had."He fell to his knees. The great Jason Cole, on his knees in a ₦500m office.Tears he had never shed before fell.Amara's heart wavered, but she remembered the rain. The 2 million naira cheque. The way he looked at her like she was dirty."Stand up. You are embarrassing yourself.""Then punish me. Make me your driver, your cleaner, but let me see them. Please."At that moment, her phone rang. The nanny, crying. "Madam! Jayden fainted again! His nose is bleeding non-stop!"Amara's face went white. Jayden - her son - had aplastic anemia. Her daughter Amira was the carrier.She grabbed her bag. Jason grabbed her hand. "What happened? Is it the twins?"She had no choice. She looked at him, tears finally breaking. "My son. Your son. He is dying. And you are the only match."Hospital. White walls. Jayden, small and pale, looking exactly like Jason.Jason saw him and collapsed against the wall. "He... he is me."The doctor said, "We need a donor transplant immediately. Father is the best chance."Jason didn't hesitate. "Take everything. My blood, my marrow, my life.Take it!"As they preparedJason saw him and collapsecoll