ROMAN | 18+ | Currently on hold

A LAGOS MAFIA ROMANCE.

"Ask me for anything. Just don't ask me to stay away from you."

Folarin "Roman" Adebayo grew up in the heart of Isale Eko, where survival wasn't a lesson, it was the only language anyone spoke. He lost his parents young, learned the streets before he learned anything else, and built himself into the kind of man Lagos fears and respects in equal measure. Nobody knows his real name. Everybody knows better than to ask. He doesn't trust easily, doesn't talk to women he wants, and has spent fourteen years convincing himself that watching from a distance is safer than wanting anything out loud.

Omoyeni Celiné Akinola has none of that history. Raised in a steady, loving home, she's a final-year Civil Engineering student with a sharp mind and a loud, loyal friend group. She doesn't worship money, doesn't fear easily, and definitely doesn't know that the intimidating stranger she noticed once at a club has been watching her for months.

And she has no idea that the night she stumbles onto something she was never meant to see, she isn't just witnessing a stranger's secret. She's witnessing a betrayal that's been quietly unmaking everything Roman built, long before she ever walked into his world.

When her ordinary life collides with the one world she was never supposed to touch, Roman has no choice left but to step out of the shadows, and Omoyeni has no choice but to learn exactly who's been paying attention all along, and exactly how much it will cost both of them to find out who's been lying to him the longest.

Slow burn. Hot. Lagos to the core.