Omo Lydia

Everyone believed Chinedu's death was a tragic accident. Only one person knew it was murder."

Episode 2

Amara's hands trembled as she unfolded the letter.

The words on the paper seemed to blur before her eyes.

She took a deep breath and began to read.

"Amara, if you are reading this, then my worst fear has come true."

Her heart skipped.

"Someone close to me wants me dead."

Amara covered her mouth.

"No..." she whispered.

She continued reading.

"For weeks, I have been receiving threats. At first, I thought they were jokes. Then I realized someone was watching me."

A cold shiver ran down her spine.

"I don't know who I can trust anymore. If anything happens to me, look inside the old wooden box under our bed. The truth is there."

The letter ended abruptly.

Amara immediately dropped to her knees and looked beneath the bed.

There it was.

A dusty wooden box she had never seen before.

Her heartbeat thundered in her ears.

Slowly, she pulled it out.

Inside were photographs.

Dozens of them.

Photos of Chinedu meeting different people.

Some were taken secretly from a distance.

Then one photograph made her freeze.

It was the mysterious woman from the funeral.

Standing beside Chinedu.

Smiling.

Amara felt the room spinning.

"Who are you?" she whispered.

Suddenly—

BANG!

Someone knocked loudly on the front door.

Amara jumped.

The knock came again.

Harder.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Fear gripped her chest.

It was almost midnight.

Who could be visiting at this hour?

Slowly, she walked toward the door.

"Who is it?" she asked nervously.

No answer.

Silence.

Then a voice.

A woman's voice.

"Open the door, Amara."

Amara froze.

She recognized the voice.

It was the mysterious woman from the funeral.

The blood drained from her face.

"What do you want?" Amara asked.

The woman laughed softly.

A strange, chilling laugh.

"I came to help you."

Amara tightened her grip on the door.

"Help me with what?"

The woman's tone changed instantly.

"Your husband wasn't the person you thought he was."

Amara's eyes widened.

"What are you talking about?"

Before the woman could answer, headlights suddenly appeared outside the compound.

A black SUV drove past the house.

The mysterious woman immediately panicked.

For the first time, fear appeared on her face.

"They found me," she whispered.

"What?" Amara asked.

The woman looked around desperately.

"If you want to know who killed Chinedu, don't trust anyone."

Then she ran into the darkness.

The SUV stopped.

Two men stepped out.

Both dressed in black.

They stared directly at Amara's house.

Amara quickly switched off the lights and hid behind the curtain.

One of the men pointed toward her window.

The other nodded.

Slowly...

They began walking toward her front door.

Amara's heart nearly stopped.

Who were these men?

Why were they following the mysterious woman?

And what terrible secret had Chinedu been hiding?

Outside, the footsteps grew closer.

Then came a loud knock.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"Open the door!"

Amara stood frozen in fear.
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The old janitor said nothing when they humiliated him. That silence would soon destroy the lives of everyone who mocked him.

EPISODE 6 —

Samuel could not breathe.

His eyes stayed fixed on the document.

Again and again, he read the same line.

OWNER: SAMUEL GRANT

It made no sense.

None.

Grace grabbed the paper.

"What is it?"

Then she saw it.

Her mouth fell open.

"No way..."

Samuel slowly sat down.

Twenty years.

For twenty years he had cleaned floors, emptied trash bins, and pushed a mop through the hallways of Crestline Energy.

Yet according to this document...

He owned the company.

Or at least part of it.

But how?

Suddenly, memories came rushing back.

A meeting.

A promise.

A signature.

Something from long ago.

Something he had buried deep in his mind.

Before he could think further, his phone buzzed.

A new message appeared.

MEET ME ALONE.

MIDNIGHT.

OLD WAREHOUSE BY THE RIVER.

COME IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH.

Samuel showed Grace the message.

"It's a trap," she said immediately.

"It might be."

"Then don't go."

Samuel looked at the owner records.

Then at the laptop.

Then at the message.

"I have no choice."

Meanwhile, at Crestline Energy headquarters, Chibuzor sat alone in his office.

The board meeting was over.

The damage was done.

Half the board believed he was guilty.

The other half wasn't sure.

Richard had played his game perfectly.

Chibuzor stared at the city lights through the window.

Then someone knocked softly.

"Come in."

The door opened.

A cleaner entered.

An elderly woman.

She quietly placed a file on his desk.

Then turned to leave.

"Wait," Chibuzor called.

The woman stopped.

"You forgot something."

The woman shook her head.

"No, sir."

Then she walked away.

Chibuzor frowned.

Slowly, he opened the file.

His heart nearly stopped.

Inside were copies of secret bank transfers.

Millions of naira.

Moving through fake companies.

Exactly what he had been looking for.

At the bottom was a handwritten note.

Richard is not the boss.

Find the man behind him.

Chibuzor jumped to his feet.

He rushed into the hallway.

The cleaner was gone.

Completely gone.

As if she had never been there.

Back at Richard Lawson's office, things were falling apart.

A nervous man stood before him.

"The janitor found something."

Richard's face darkened.

"How much?"

"We don't know."

Richard slammed his fist against the desk.

"Then find out!"

The man swallowed hard.

"And Chibuzor?"

Richard smiled.

A cold smile.

"Tomorrow morning, he will have bigger problems."

The man hesitated.

"What are you planning?"

Richard leaned forward.

"By this time tomorrow, Chibuzor will be begging to keep his job."

Late that night, Samuel arrived at the old warehouse.

The building stood beside the river.

Abandoned.

Dark.

Silent.

The wind howled through broken windows.

Samuel stepped inside.

The wooden floor creaked beneath his feet.

"Hello?" he called.

No answer.

Only silence.

Then—

CLICK.

A light switched on.

Samuel turned quickly.

A man sat in a chair at the far end of the warehouse.

His face hidden in shadow.

"You came," the man said.

"I want answers."

The stranger nodded.

"So do I."

Samuel moved closer.

His heart pounding.

The stranger slowly stood up.

Then he stepped into the light.

Samuel froze.

The color drained from his face.

"No..."

It was impossible.

Absolutely impossible.

Because standing before him was Victor King.

The former owner of Crestline Energy.

The man who was supposed to be dead.

Victor smiled.

"I've been waiting twenty years to talk to you, Samuel."

Samuel took a step back.

"You died."

Victor shook his head.

"No."

Then his smile disappeared.

"I was betrayed."

Suddenly, headlights flashed through the warehouse windows.

One car.

Two cars.

Three cars.

They surrounded the building.

Victor's face changed instantly.

"We have to leave."

Samuel's heart pounded.

"Why?"

Victor looked toward the doors.

His voice dropped to a whisper.

"Because Richard just found us."

Outside, car doors slammed shut.

Heavy footsteps echoed in the darkness.

Someone was coming.

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Everyone believed Chinedu's death was a tragic accident. Only one person knew it was murder."
The rain fell heavily as mourners gathered around the small house.

Inside, 32-year-old Amara sat on the cold floor, clutching a framed photograph of her late husband, Chinedu. Her eyes were swollen from crying. She had not slept since the day he died.

"My husband... why did you leave me?" she whispered, tears streaming down her face.

Three days earlier, Chinedu had returned home from work looking exhausted. He complained of a terrible headache and accepted a drink from a visitor who claimed to be an old friend.

Less than an hour later, Chinedu began vomiting blood.

Amara rushed him to the hospital, but it was too late.

The doctors confirmed the shocking truth.

Poison.

Someone had deliberately poisoned him.

The news spread quickly through the village. Neighbors came to comfort Amara, but their whispers only deepened her pain.

"Who would want Chinedu dead?"

"He was a good man."

"He had no enemies."

As the burial ceremony continued, Amara noticed something strange.

Standing among the crowd was a woman dressed completely in black.

The woman was not crying.

She was not speaking.

She simply stared at Chinedu's coffin with a cold expression.

When their eyes met, the mysterious woman immediately turned and walked away.

Something about her sent chills down Amara's spine.

That night, after everyone had left, Amara sat alone in the bedroom she once shared with her husband.

As she opened his wardrobe, a small envelope suddenly fell from one of his shirts.

Confused, she picked it up.

Written on the front were words that made her heart stop.

"If anything happens to me, give this letter to the police."

With trembling hands, Amara slowly opened the envelope...

And what she found inside would change everything she thought she knew about her husband.
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My Brother Called Me the Family ATM in Front of Everyone. He Didn't Know It Would Cost Him Everything...

"EPISODE 25
EPISODE 25: THE FINAL NAME

My biological mother's name.

Amina Bello.

The final name in the notebook.

I felt the ground disappear beneath me.

"No."

The word escaped my lips before I could stop it.

The lawyer lowered his eyes.

Tunde looked away.

Nobody wanted to say what we were all thinking.

Could Amina Bello have been involved?

Could the woman who spent years searching for me also be connected to the secrets that destroyed my life?

My chest tightened.

"I need to see that notebook."

---

Three hours later, we arrived at the police station.

Ada was alive.

Weak.

Exhausted.

But alive.

The moment she saw me, tears filled her eyes.

"Amara."

I wanted to be angry.

I wanted to scream.

But after everything that had happened, I was simply relieved.

She was alive.

Then Ada handed me the notebook.

My hands trembled.

Slowly, I opened it.

Page after page contained names.

Dates.

Bank transfers.

Property records.

Secret meetings.

Everything.

Every person involved in hiding the inheritance.

Every person who benefited.

Every person who kept silent.

Then I reached the final page.

The page containing Amina Bello's name.

My heart pounded.

Beside her name was a short note.

Just one sentence.

I read it aloud.

The room went silent.

Then tears filled my eyes.

Because the note didn't say she helped steal anything.

It said:

"Refused to participate."

I froze.

The lawyer froze.

Tunde froze.

Everyone froze.

Then I kept reading.

And finally, the truth emerged.

Twenty-nine years ago, Amina Bello discovered the plan.

The plan to seize Chief Okojie's assets.

The plan to manipulate the inheritance.

The plan to cut certain people out completely.

She refused.

She fought against it.

And because of that...

She became a target.

The notebook revealed everything.

The threats.

The intimidation.

The attacks.

The reason she disappeared from my life.

The reason Chief Okojie hid me.

The reason he spent years protecting me.

Not because he wanted to keep me from my mother.

Because he wanted to keep me alive.

Tears rolled down my cheeks.

For years, I believed I had been abandoned.

But the truth was much worse.

My mother had been forced away.

Then I turned the page.

And finally saw the last entry in the notebook.

The name of the mastermind.

The person behind everything.

The person who manipulated everyone else.

The person who fueled the family war.

The person responsible for the missing inheritance.

The person connected to Chief Okojie's death.

I stared at the name.

And my heart stopped.

It wasn't my father.

It wasn't my mother.

It wasn't Chinedu.

It wasn't Tunde.

It wasn't Ada.

It was Tunde's missing brother.

Kelvin.

The man nobody had seen for years.

The man hiding in the shadows.

The man from the video.

The real mastermind.

The room became silent.

Then Ada whispered:

"They arrested him this morning."

I blinked.

"What?"

The lawyer nodded.

"He was trying to leave the country."

For the first time in months...

I felt something I hadn't felt in a very long time.

Relief.

Real relief.

The nightmare was finally ending.

---

Six months later.

The court cases were over.

The stolen properties were recovered.

The inheritance was restored.

Not all of it.

But enough.

More importantly, the truth was finally public.

My father publicly admitted what he had done.

My mother apologized.

Not because she was caught.

Because she was genuinely sorry.

Chinedu spent months trying to rebuild his life without depending on others.

And for the first time ever...

I stopped being the family's ATM.

I became simply Amara.

A woman with boundaries.

A woman who knew her worth.

A woman who finally understood that love and obligation are not the same thing.

One afternoon, I sat across from Amina Bello.

My mother.

My real mother.

We talked for hours.

Not about money.

Not about inheritance.

Not about betrayal.

Just about the years we lost.

Years we could never recover.

But years we no longer had to mourn.

Because we finally had something we never had before.

A future.

As we stood to leave, Amina smiled through her tears.

Then she asked:

"Do you regret searching for the truth?"

I thought about everything.

The lies.

The pain.

The betrayal.

The danger.

The people I lost.

The people I found.

Then I smiled.

And gave the only answer that felt right.

"No."

Because sometimes...

The truth breaks your heart.

But the lies break your life.

THE END.
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The old janitor said nothing when they humiliated him. That silence would soon destroy the lives of everyone who mocked him."

EPISODE 5

The room became silent.

Samuel could not take his eyes off the screen.

Grace stood beside him, breathing heavily.

"This can't be possible," she whispered.

The video continued playing.

Around the table sat several powerful men from Crestline Energy.

Richard Lawson was there.

Much younger.

Less confident.

Less powerful.

But the man sitting beside him was the real shock.

Samuel knew that face.

Everyone did.

It was Victor King.

The former owner of Crestline Energy.

The man who was declared dead twenty years ago after a helicopter crash.

Yet there he was.

Alive.

Smiling.

Talking.

Planning.

Samuel paused the video.

His hands were shaking.

"This video was recorded eighteen years ago," he said.

Grace looked confused.

"If he died twenty years ago, how is he in this meeting?"

Samuel didn't answer.

Because he was asking himself the same question.

Suddenly, another voice came from the video.

A voice that made Samuel freeze.

He quickly pressed play again.

The camera angle shifted slightly.

A young man entered the room carrying documents.

The moment Samuel saw him, his eyes widened.

"No..."

Grace looked at him.

"What is it?"

Samuel pointed at the screen.

The young man wasn't Richard.

It wasn't Victor King.

It was someone else.

Someone Samuel knew very well.

Someone currently working inside Crestline Energy.

Someone everybody trusted.

The video ended before his face became completely clear.

Samuel slammed the laptop shut.

Whoever created that recording had intentionally cut off the ending.

The most important part was missing.

Meanwhile, inside the boardroom, Chibuzor felt every eye staring at him.

Richard slowly stood up.

His face looked disappointed.

Like a father correcting a child.

But Chibuzor knew it was an act.

A dangerous act.

"The evidence speaks for itself," Richard said.

Several board members nodded.

One woman shook her head sadly.

"I never expected this from you, Chibuzor."

Chibuzor's chest tightened.

He was being judged before he could defend himself.

"I didn't sign those documents," he said firmly.

Richard laughed.

"Then who did?"

The room went silent.

Chibuzor had no answer.

Not yet.

Richard placed another file on the table.

"Maybe this will refresh your memory."

Chibuzor opened it.

His blood ran cold.

Inside were photographs.

Photographs of him entering the finance department late at night.

Photographs of him reviewing company records.

Photographs taken secretly.

Someone had been watching him.

For days.

Maybe weeks.

The trap was much bigger than he thought.

Back at Samuel's house, Grace received a text message.

The moment she read it, her face turned pale.

Samuel noticed immediately.

"What happened?"

Grace slowly handed him the phone.

The message contained only one sentence.

WE FOUND YOU.

Samuel looked outside.

The street was empty.

No people.

No cars.

Nothing.

Then he noticed something strange.

Across the road stood a man.

Completely still.

Watching the house.

The man wore a black cap.

His face could barely be seen.

But he wasn't moving.

Not even a little.

Just staring.

Watching.

Waiting.

Grace stepped back from the window.

"Who is he?"

Samuel didn't know.

But deep down, he felt something terrible was coming.

Then his phone rang.

An unknown number.

Samuel answered.

A familiar voice spoke.

The voice was calm.

Cold.

Dangerous.

"Mr. Grant..."

Samuel's face hardened.

It was Richard Lawson.

"I hear you've been asking questions."

Samuel remained silent.

Richard chuckled softly.

"You should stop."

"And if I don't?" Samuel asked.

There was a pause.

Then Richard spoke again.

"If you continue, people you care about will suffer."

The line went dead.

Grace looked terrified.

But Samuel wasn't looking at the phone anymore.

He was looking at the document hidden in his pocket.

The one he found earlier.

The one with the owner records.

Because just moments before Richard called...

Samuel had finally read the last page.

And the name listed as the true owner of Crestline Energy wasn't Richard Lawson.

It wasn't Victor King.

It wasn't anyone on the board.

The name on that document was...

Samuel Grant.
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The old janitor said nothing when they humiliated him. That silence would soon destroy the lives of everyone who mocked him."

EPISODE 4 — THE NAME ON THE PAPER

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"OPEN THE DOOR!"

Samuel stood frozen.

His eyes moved from the document in his hand to the front door.

Whoever was outside sounded angry.

Very angry.

For a moment, he didn't move.

Then the voice came again.

"Mr. Grant! Open the door!"

Samuel frowned.

The person knew his real name.

Slowly, he folded the document and slipped it into his pocket.

Then he walked to the door.

The knocking continued.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Samuel unlocked the door and opened it slightly.

A young woman stood outside.

She looked exhausted.

Rainwater dripped from her hair.

Her eyes were red as if she had been crying.

The moment she saw Samuel, relief flooded her face.

"Thank God I found you," she said.

Samuel stared at her.

"Who are you?"

The woman swallowed hard.

"My name is Grace Okeke."

Samuel's face remained calm.

"I don't know you."

"You knew my father."

That got his attention.

Samuel's eyes narrowed.

"My father worked with you years ago," Grace continued. "Before he died, he told me if anything ever happened, I should find Samuel Grant."

Samuel felt his heart skip.

Nobody had mentioned that name in years.

"Why are you here?" he asked quietly.

Grace looked around nervously.

"They are watching me."

Samuel immediately stepped outside.

"What do you mean?"

She opened her handbag and handed him a flash drive.

"I found this hidden among my father's things."

Samuel looked at it.

His stomach tightened.

It was identical to the one he already had.

"My father said if anyone ever discovered what was inside, lives would be in danger."

Before Samuel could reply, headlights suddenly appeared at the end of the street.

A black SUV.

The vehicle slowed down.

Then stopped.

Both Samuel and Grace became silent.

The windows were tinted dark.

Nobody could see inside.

The engine remained running.

Waiting.

Watching.

Grace grabbed Samuel's arm.

"That's the car."

"What car?"

"The same car that has been following me for three days."

Samuel's pulse quickened.

The SUV remained motionless.

Then slowly, it drove away.

Neither of them spoke until it disappeared.

Back at Crestline Energy, Chibuzor sat in his office staring at the forged documents.

His own signature had been used.

Someone was setting him up.

But why?

His phone suddenly rang.

The caller ID showed Richard Lawson.

Chibuzor hesitated before answering.

"Good morning, sir."

"Come to the boardroom immediately."

The line went dead.

No explanation.

No greeting.

Nothing.

A bad feeling settled in Chibuzor's stomach.

Ten minutes later, he entered the boardroom.

Every board member was present.

Richard sat at the head of the table.

A thick file rested in front of him.

The room felt tense.

Very tense.

Richard looked up.

"Chibuzor, sit down."

Chibuzor obeyed.

Then Richard pushed the file across the table.

"Would you care to explain this?"

Chibuzor opened it.

The color drained from his face.

Inside were copies of the same fake transactions he had discovered earlier.

Only now, every document carried his name.

Every signature belonged to him.

Every payment appeared to have been approved by him.

A board member gasped.

Another shook his head in disappointment.

Chibuzor looked around the room.

"What is this?"

Richard leaned back.

"You tell us."

The room fell silent.

For the first time, Chibuzor realized the trap had already been set.

And he was standing right in the middle of it.

Meanwhile, at Samuel's house, Grace inserted the second flash drive into a laptop.

A folder appeared.

Only one video file.

Nothing else.

Samuel clicked PLAY.

The screen flickered.

An old recording appeared.

The image was blurry.

But the faces were clear.

Samuel froze.

Grace covered her mouth.

Because sitting around a table in the video were several powerful people from Crestline Energy.

Including Richard Lawson.

But there was one more man in the room.

A man nobody expected.

A man whose face made Samuel's blood run cold.

Because according to official records...

That man had died twenty years ago.

The old janitor said nothing when they humiliated him. That silence would soon destroy the lives of everyone who mocked him."

THE JANITOR THEY MOCKED

EPISODE 3 — THE SHADOW IN THE HOUSE

Someone was inside Samuel's house.

The old janitor had no idea.

He sat at his dining table, staring at the documents on the flash drive.

His eyes moved from one file to another.

The more he read, the more dangerous the truth became.

Millions of naira were missing.

Not one million.

Not five million.

Hundreds of millions.

And every trail led back to Richard Lawson.

Samuel took a deep breath.

"This is worse than I thought," he whispered.

Suddenly—

CREAK!

A floorboard moved.

Samuel froze.

The sound came from the hallway.

His heart began to pound.

Slowly, he stood up.

The house became silent.

Too silent.

"Who's there?" he called.

No answer.

Samuel reached for the flashlight beside the table.

Step.

Step.

Step.

He walked toward the hallway.

The sound had stopped.

The darkness seemed thicker.

The air felt cold.

Then he noticed something.

His bedroom door was open.

He always kept it closed.

Always.

A strange feeling settled in his stomach.

Someone had been there.

Samuel moved closer.

His hands tightened around the flashlight.

Then he pushed the door open.

The room was empty.

Nobody.

But something was wrong.

Very wrong.

His drawer was open.

Papers were scattered across the floor.

Someone had searched the room.

A chill ran down his spine.

They were looking for something.

Or someone.

Then he noticed a small piece of paper on his bed.

His heart nearly stopped.

Written on it were six words:

"Stop digging or pay the price."

Samuel stared at the message.

For the first time, fear entered his eyes.

Whoever was behind this knew where he lived.

Meanwhile, at Crestline Energy headquarters, Chibuzor could not stop thinking about Green Horizon Development.

The company did not exist.

Yet someone had sent five million dollars to it.

That morning, he quietly entered the finance archives.

Rows of old files filled the room.

Dust covered many of them.

Nobody came there anymore.

He searched for Sunrise Project.

After several minutes, he found the file.

His hands trembled as he opened it.

Everything looked normal.

Invoices.

Contracts.

Reports.

Then something caught his eye.

A signature.

His own signature.

Chibuzor's face turned pale.

He stared at it.

Again.

And again.

Impossible.

He had never signed those documents.

Never.

Someone had copied his signature.

Someone inside the company was setting him up.

At that same moment, Richard Lawson sat alone in his office.

A man dressed in black stood before him.

"Did you find it?" Richard asked.

The man shook his head.

"No."

Richard slammed his fist on the desk.

"Then keep looking!"

The man nodded.

"What about the janitor?"

Richard's eyes narrowed.

"Watch him."

The room became quiet.

Then Richard smiled.

A dangerous smile.

"The old fool has no idea what he's dealing with."

But Richard was wrong.

Because across town, Samuel had just found another file hidden inside the flash drive.

A file he had missed before.

Its title was simple.

OWNER RECORDS.

Samuel clicked it.

The document opened.

The color drained from his face.

For several seconds, he could not breathe.

The paper contained the biggest secret in Crestline Energy.

A secret hidden for twenty years.

A secret that connected directly to him.

Suddenly—

BANG!

Someone hit his front door.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

Hard.

Samuel jumped.

The knocking grew louder.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

Then a voice shouted from outside:

"OPEN THE DOOR!"

Samuel slowly looked down at the document in his hand.

Then back toward the door.

And what he saw written on that paper made him realize one terrifying truth.

Richard Lawson was not the biggest liar in Crestline Energy.

Someone even more powerful was hiding in the shadows.
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My Brother Called Me the Family ATM in Front of Everyone. He Didn't Know It Would Cost Him Everything...

"EPISODE 24

Slowly...

Very slowly...

Everyone turned toward Tunde.

The room became deadly silent.

My heart was pounding so hard I could barely hear anything else.

Tunde stared at the frozen image on the screen.

Then he looked at us.

One by one.

At me.

At the lawyer.

At the bank manager.

Nobody spoke.

Nobody moved.

Because everyone was thinking the same thing.

Was Tunde the killer?

My voice trembled.

"Tunde..."

He didn't answer.

"Tunde, tell me that isn't you."

For a moment, he simply stared at the screen.

Then something unexpected happened.

He laughed.

Not because he found it funny.

It was the laugh of a man who had finally understood something.

A terrible something.

Then he whispered:

"I knew it."

The lawyer frowned.

"Knew what?"

Tunde pointed at the screen.

"Pause the video."

I looked at him.

"What?"

"Pause it."

My hands shook as I clicked pause.

The image froze.

The figure was still leaning over Chief Okojie.

The face partially visible.

At first glance, it looked exactly like Tunde.

Same eyes.

Same jawline.

Same build.

Then Tunde zoomed in.

Closer.

Closer.

Closer.

Suddenly, I saw it.

A scar.

A small scar above the eyebrow.

My stomach dropped.

Tunde didn't have a scar.

Never had.

The room exploded.

The lawyer stood up.

"What?"

Tunde pointed at the screen.

"That's not me."

My pulse quickened.

Then who was it?

Tunde swallowed hard.

For the first time, genuine fear appeared in his eyes.

Then he answered.

"My brother."

The air left my lungs.

Brother?

The room fell silent again.

Nobody had ever mentioned a brother.

Not once.

Then Tunde closed his eyes.

"I prayed this day would never come."

My chest tightened.

"What are you talking about?"

He looked at me.

Pain filled his face.

"My father had two sons."

The realization hit me instantly.

Tunde.

And another son.

Another hidden member of the family.

Then Tunde continued.

"My brother disappeared years ago."

The lawyer frowned.

"Disappeared?"

Tunde nodded.

"After Chief Okojie died."

My pulse exploded.

Then suddenly every piece of the puzzle started moving.

The inheritance.

The missing money.

The threats.

The fire.

The anonymous messages.

Someone had been working in the shadows the entire time.

Someone we had never considered.

Then Tunde whispered:

"My brother believed Chief Okojie cheated our family."

The room became still.

"He spent years obsessed with revenge."

A chill ran down my spine.

Then I asked the question everyone was thinking.

"Where is he now?"

Tunde looked away.

And that answer terrified me more than anything.

Because it meant he didn't know.

Or maybe he did.

And didn't want to say.

Then suddenly the lawyer's phone rang.

Everyone jumped.

Unknown number.

The lawyer answered.

"Hello?"

His face immediately changed.

"What?"

My pulse quickened.

The lawyer listened for a few more seconds.

Then slowly lowered the phone.

His hands were shaking.

"What happened?" I asked.

The lawyer looked directly at me.

And whispered:

"They found Ada."

My heart stopped.

Ada.

My best friend.

The friend who disappeared after warning me.

The friend everyone thought might be dead.

I stepped forward.

"Where is she?"

The lawyer swallowed hard.

Then answered.

"Police found her this morning."

Relief flooded through me.

Thank God.

She was alive.

But then I noticed the expression on his face.

The fear.

The shock.

The dread.

And I knew there was more.

Much more.

"What is it?"

The lawyer hesitated.

Then finally spoke.

"Ada was carrying a notebook."

My pulse hammered.

The black notebook from the safety deposit box?

"No."

The lawyer nodded.

"Yes."

The room spun.

Then he delivered the sentence that changed everything.

"The notebook contains every name."

Every name?

"What names?"

The lawyer looked directly into my eyes.

"The names of everyone involved."

The room went silent.

Then he added:

"And the last name on the list..."

His voice cracked.

"...is your biological mother's."

My heart nearly stopped.

Amina Bello.

The woman who had spent twenty-nine years searching for me.

The woman I had just spoken to.

The woman I believed was innocent.

Slowly, fear crept into my chest.

Because for the first time, a terrifying question entered my mind.

What if my mother wasn't a victim?

What if she was part of it all along?
Family, as we continue this Story, let’s Iike the Story, please, 🙏😔, I don’t coIIect anything from anyone unlike some person, it’s just the Éngagement and Iikes that encourages me.

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