Story By Ngozi Chidinma
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Ngozi Chidinma

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WHAT HE LEFT BEHIND
Updated at Feb 19, 2026, 00:14
In high school, Elara James had it all; first love, big dreams, and a future with Noah Blackwood. Then he vanished without a word, leaving behind heartbreak… and a secret she never told him: she was pregnant.Years later, Elara is a successful event planner and devoted single mother, determined to keep the past buried. But when she’s hired to plan a charity gala for a powerful tech empire, she comes face-to-face with its CEO,Noah.Their reunion is explosive, filled with anger, unanswered questions, and a child who looks exactly like him. As secrets unravel, Elara learns Noah’s disappearance wasn’t abandonment, but a desperate sacrifice.Now they must decide: can love survive the truth and be rebuilt from the ruins of silence?
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LOVE IN THE CROSSFIRE
Updated at Apr 10, 2026, 04:38
Elara loved just one person and that was Noah Blackwood . She had planned her life with and around him. She chose him and believed he would always choose her.Until he didn’t.Five years later, Elara has built a life that no longer revolves around him. Her world is calm, controlled, and guarded. As an event planner, she lands the biggest contract of her career which is to plan a major corporate signing for the powerful Blackwood Empire.It was meant to be just another business meeting.Instead, she walked into the man that ruined the meaning of love to her.Noah is not the boy who once promised her the world. He’s colder now. Distant. Harder to read. And he’s convinced Elara sold their love for money years ago and he has hated her for it.Elara, on the other hand, believes he abandoned her without a word.Now they’re forced to work together, pretending they don’t know each other. Their past and feelings refused to stay hidden and the truth neither of them knows slowly begins to surface.They both think they know what happened.But love didn’t destroy them.Someone else did.
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HIS QUIET DESIRE
Updated at Dec 29, 2025, 02:02
She is silent yet present and alive. With every stroke of her brush and splash of color, her paintings reveal truths she cannot say out loud. Her studio is one place she can be herself, where the world cannot rush her, judge her or demand more than she is willing to give but he suddenly steps into the picture—composed and in control, a trait she is not willing to risk her freedom for but finds herself wanting to. He is a hotelier, powerful, confident and accustomed to excellence and control and yet he can’t recognize which he is more connected to— Her Art or Her Silence. Drawn to her quiet intensity, he commissions her work for his new luxury hotel with the sole aim of making the walls speak but steps into a world where words are scarce but desire is loud. As their professional connection deepens, so does the tension between them—a slow-burning, magnetic pull neither can ignore.Their first meeting is unprofessional and chaotic.Between him almost running her over because she ran into the road blindly and leaves without saying a word, he concludes she is crazy. Then they meet again and he realizes. She communicates with her notebook, every word deliberate. He listens, patient yet commanding, intrigued by both her talent and her presence. Her art speaks to him in ways words cannot. He sees beyond her silence, glimpsing vulnerability, strength, and a depth he has never encountered. She notices him as well—his confidence, his vision, the rare moments of gentleness beneath the polished exterior. Every visit, every meeting pulls them closer .In a world filled with color, light, and noise they discover that sometimes the deepest love is the one that cannot be spoken, only felt.
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