Still, After Everything

At fourteen, Kamsi Obi meets Jayden Adeolu on the wrong foot and spends two years of boarding school pretending she doesn't notice him.

She fails spectacularly.

They are young and brilliant and something unnamed grows between them - until university pulls them apart, Jayden goes quiet, and three years of silence close the chapter she never got to finish.

Now she is twenty-five, senior architecture lead at a Lagos tech firm, and the life she built without him is exactly the life she wanted.

Then Jayden walks through her office door.

Not as the boy from the veranda. As her new team member.

He says he has changed. He says he is sorry. He says some things are worth the distance.

Kamsi has heard promises before.

But she has never been good at lying to herself.

And she never stopped.

*#slowburn #secondchance #nigerianliterature #boardingschool #romance #lagoslife*