Smoke & Fire

WARNING: PLAGIARISM IS A CRIME.
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in any form without the author's prior permission.

SMOKE & FIRE is a work of fiction. Names, characters,
places, and incidents are fictitious. Any similarity
to real life is purely coincidental.

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© 2026 [KAMOHELO MATHEWS NAME]. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
First published on Wattpad 2026.

DESCRIPTION
Ten years ago, Thabo Motaung went to prison for a crime he didn't commit in the name of protecting family legacy and securing his future at Motaung's family Empire

He was nineteen.He trusted the man who raised him.He believed he would be home in six months and he was wrong.

Now, at twenty-nine, Thabo walks out of prison carrying a dead phone, a worn Seiko watch, a keycard to his family's company and ten years of questions.

His first stop is the friends house who let him crash for few days which turned into months and forever, the next day, Motaung Constructions archive wing.

What he finds there changes everything.

A file marked project 87-B
Payments that were never supposed to exist.
A woman's phone.
Two words written in the handwriting of the man who betrayed him: Rethabile, Closed!

Eliot Motaung has spent decades building an empire powerful enough to shape Johannesburg and a reputation clean enough to make people believe he deserves it.He doesn't think of himself as corrupt. He considers himself accurate.

But Eliot made one mistake.He believed the people he erased would stay erased.

Thabo is back.

And somewhere, hidden in the past, eleven seconds of video may be enough to bring an empire down.

Smoke & Fire, A South African thriller about how the truth starts digging it's self out when you thought it was infinitely burried. About how the fire starts to burn everything when you thought the smoke has cleared.

Welcome to Johannesburg, watch your step.

By: Kamohelo Mathews