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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I remain thankful to God for making me who and what I am today the prayer, and support of my director. Mrs. Duru Ann Onyinyechi and my family members cannot be over emphasized. I am highly indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Nwaji Nsii for squeezing out time from their busy schedule to guide and encourage me. This work could not have seen the light of the day if not for the prayer patronage and encouragement of Nigeria children who are my inspiration and role model. I thank Barnabas Eyongson Emmanuel for also being there for me. I also thank my beloved brother Nwaji Prestige and my sister Nwaji Sonia whose word of advice, encouragement and patronage has always been my strength, may God bless you all.   DEDICATION To my parent, Mr. and Mrs. Nwaji Nsii, for their untiring support. To God I dedicate this book to the glory of his name.   TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter1 The wisdom part Chapter2 Forbidden food Chapter3 Love at the first sight Chapter4 The excellent decision Chapter5 Too late   CHAPTER ONE The wisdom part That morning Mr. Obi was leaving to Lagos for the new Benin City to process his business schedule. He had got up to prepare for the journey but never knew it was that early. “Five thirty five” he called his wife Adamma and she answered and he asked her, where are my two daughters and she called out to them Bene, Chidimma, your father is calling both of you and they rushed down to the spot. When they came in, his father said to Chidimma, I am going to work now, do you need any money. She replied “Daddy I am not interested in going to school again” And his father said to her wife “woman did you hear what your daughter is saying?” Her mother replied if she say that she will not go to school again allow her, his father said, so you are the one that is spoiling this child? Her mother answered and said I’m not spoiling her. His father ask Bene what about you and she replied “Our teacher told us to bring some money, how much? The father asked. “She answered with a smile on her face and said five hundred naira, his father opened his wallet and brought out one thousand naira and gave her”. When Bene got to school, they teacher asked her some questions she got it and all the students clapped for her. Then, the teacher asked the other girl named Chidimma some question and she failed it. So, the teacher gave her some strokes of the cane and she wept bitterly. When she got home her mother came out just to see her crying. “Ewo! Ewo!! Ewo!! My daughter why are you crying? Who beat you? Childimma answered and said I couldn’t answer a question in class and her mother replied “Is that the reason why your teacher would beat you up like this? She asked rhetorically, let go and meet that your foolish teacher. So, when they got to their school, her mother started shouting at the top of her voice as if she owned the school. “Foolish teacher or whatever you called yourself why did you beat my daughter? She asked angrily, madam calm down said the teacher in a humbled-like approach. I will not calm down, she quickly said let me warn you for the last time never you lay your dirty hand on my daughter again or else you will see the other side of me. “And you Bene, so you are here and this nonsense happened and you did not say anything and this nincompoop that called herself a teacher laid her hands on your sister, alright you will come back home. After the school has dismissed Bene was thinking on how to go home because she knew that her mother is going to deal with her immediately she comes back. “So she planned on what to do but it did not work out for her”. When she got home after a long thought, she greeted her mother who paid deaf ear to her greetings, her mother quickly shouted with a scolding voice “Bene come back here [with cane on her hand]” have you forgotten what I told you early today in your school. So, Bene at that point had started crying already. Just then their father arrived from work and saw Bene crying, then he said to her, “my daughter why are you crying? She answered and said, “My mummy is angry with me, threaten to deal with me because our teacher flogged Chidimma simply because she could not answer a question in the class. So at that point her father met his wife at the living room asking her why she is threating Bene for on known caused. Mr. Obi instructed his wife never to try it again. A few days later Adamma called her beautiful daughter Chidimma, and told her that since you are not going to school again you have to start hawking some things for me like fruits (apple, mango and guava) in the market. On her way to market a man saw her and he told her that she is beautiful and he would like to marry her. The man requested for her name and address, she gave it to him without hesitation. When she got back home she told her mother that there was a man that asked for her name and address, her mother was very happy about that. A few hours later the man came to her house, Mrs. Adamma, Chidim

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I am sorry, Alexa; I just had to do it. It was at this point that it dawned on me that I was poisoned by the only person I trusted on earth. I fell flat to the ground and I was crawling with my tummy, trying to reach the door. I felt a warm sensation down my legs and when I looked back, I saw blood flowing out of me. At this point, I couldn't tell if my babies were gone. Life was never rosy for Alexa. She agreed to marry Lex for five years but after the contract was signed, life became a living hell for her. She was poisoned by the person she trusted the most. Will she lose her triplet or her life? Here lie love, hate, and sacrifices to be made for the people she loves.

Amy didn't expect that her husband whom she had loved and trusted earnestly for many years would be cheating on her by having sex with his secretary. When she confronted him, he and his secretary mocked and ridiculed her, they called her barren to her face, afterall, she had not conceived for the past three years that she had been married to her husband, Callan. Terribly Heartbroken, she filed for divorce and left to the club, she picked a random gigolo, had a hot one night stand with him, paid him and dissapeared to a small city. She came back to the country six years later with three identical cute boys and three identical cute girls of the same age. She settled and got a job but soon find out that her CEO was the gigolo she had sex with six years back at the club. Will she be able to hide her six little cuties from her CEO, who happens to be the most powerful man in NorthHill and beleived to be infertile? Can Amy and the most powerful man in NorthHill get along considering the social gap between them.