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Lekan Adeyemi is thirty years old, a successful investment banker, and doing everything right - including dating Ayomide Coker, twenty-six years old, HR Manager at an oil and gas firm, the daughter of his father's business partner and the kind of woman everyone expects him to marry.
Imade Osazee is eighteen, a law student at the University of Lagos, his next-door neighbor, younger sister's best friend, the girl he has pampered since she reached out to him at 5 months old.
She has been in love with him since she was sixteen. He has been trying not to notice her since she stepped out of a boutique changing room in a champagne-gold dress after her eighteenth birthday, and changed something in him. What starts as a congratulatory letter after her Miss UNILAG pageant win becomes a correspondence neither of them can stop or name. And what cannot be named eventually has to be said - to each other, to their families, to a world that had very different plans for both of them.
Ayomide Coker watches a love story unfold right before her eyes, but she is determined for her relationship with Lekan Adeyemi to work, as he is the man she intends to marry. She asks him to set boundaries between him and the girl she feels is a threat, which he does till he can't.
This is not just a simple love story. It is a story of the clash between personal desire and familial expectations. It is the story of two people who realise that their love story started long before they even knew it. A story of two people who always find a way back to each other despite the circumstances that separate them. A battle between two women who decide that they have to get what they desire the most, by any means necessary.