ADEYINKAMOSUNMOLAADE
Tiwalade Balogun has always known how to stay quiet.
Quiet in the way she dressed, hiding the parts of herself she never learned to love. Quiet in the way she moved through the world, careful not to take up too much space. Quiet in the way she felt, especially after the boy she once loved without saying a word broke her heart without even knowing.
Years later, she has learned her lesson.
Kindness is not love. Attention is not affection. And some hearts are safer when they remain untouched.
But when she moves into her best friend's house in Lagos, she comes face to face with the one person she never truly got over.
Akintunde Oguntade.
He is still kind. Still attentive. Still unaware.
And now, he is engaged.
Living under the same roof, surrounded by memories she tried to bury, Tiwalade must confront a truth she has spent years avoiding:
What happens when the heart you silenced refuses to stay quiet?