Olamide stops near a big house with everyone. The house wasn’t that big but it looked no less than a bungalow. When they stand near the door, Olamide brings Rita forward. The house was decorated with flowers and a red-colored ribbon was tied at the entrance. Olamide goes to a worker nearby, takes a pair of scissors, and hands them to Rita. No one could understand what was happening. Rita asked, “What is all this, Olamide? Whose house is this?”

“Yes, where have you brought all of us?” Kunle Adeyemi (Father) asked. Everyone was confused except Tunde because he already knew everything. Gold looks at Tunde smiling and immediately understands that he knows what’s happening. She softly asks him, “You know why Olamide has brought us all here, don’t you?” Tunde slowly nods in agreement. “Then tell me too, I also want to know.” “Have some patience. Everything will be clear in just a little while.”

When Olamide says nothing, Rita repeats her question, “Why aren’t you saying anything? Where are we and whose house is this? Say something!” “Oh, Rita! You ask so many questions… Stop questioning now and take these scissors. Quickly step into your new home!” Hearing Olamide’s words, everyone is shocked. Rita herself is extremely surprised and takes two steps back.

“What are you saying, Olamide?” “I am saying the truth. This is your house. I built it with great effort, only and only for you. This is from my own earnings. It took me a lot of hard work to make it.” “But…” Aisha Adeyemi (Mother) asked with worry, “What are you saying? After marriage, are you and Rita going to live separately? Won’t you stay with us?” “Mother, I…”

But Tunde interrupted, “Oh, please stop for a moment and listen to me carefully. When Daniel (Rita’s Father) had asked Olamide to stay away from Rita, he had also given one more reason—that Olamide didn’t have his own house, his own place, his own identity. But this thought pierced Olamide’s heart like a thorn. He kept thinking about it day and night and after a lot of hard work, he finally built this house on his own, with his own earnings, on his own strength. He didn’t even know if he would ever meet Rita again but still, he built this house for her. So now that God has united them, Olamide wants Rita’s auspicious hands to do the housewarming ritual of this home.”

Listening to Tunde, everyone is not only shocked but also very happy. It was a huge achievement for Olamide to build such a big house at such a young age, that too without anyone’s support. Today, he had proved himself.

Daniel (Rita’s Father)’s eyes filled with tears. He steps forward, folds his hands in front of Olamide and says, “You are truly hardworking. I had already started believing that you would keep my daughter happy but today, standing here, I feel extremely proud of my daughter’s choice. Once again, I want to apologize to you. Please forgive me. I have wronged you a lot.” Olamide stopped him, “Oh no, no… Uncle, please don’t apologize like this. The fact that you agreed to give Rita’s hand to me is already a huge thing for me. Thank you for trusting me.”

Everyone was very happy seeing Olamide’s success. Once again, Olamide extends the scissors toward Rita but she refuses again. “I won’t do it… I don’t want to.” Everyone noticed that Rita didn’t seem happy. Olamide also became worried seeing her like that. “What happened, Rita? Don’t you like the house?” “But why should I like it? I don’t want to live here… I… No…”

Gold asked her, “What’s the matter, Rita? Speak openly.” Rita told, “The thing is… I don’t want to live in this house. Yes, I understand that Olamide built this house with a lot of hard work just for me, but I…” Gold said, “You what?” “I want to stay with all of you… in our home, together with everyone, not alone here. Olamide will go to the office, then what will I do alone at home? No, no, no… I want to stay in the mansion after marriage. Please, Olamide… not here…”

Rita was speaking with a childish expression. Olamide listened to her carefully and suddenly started laughing. No one understood why he was laughing like that, but then he explained to Rita, “Oh, silly, who told you that we will live here after marriage? I mean, if you want to stay here, we definitely can but to be honest, even I don’t want to leave my family and stay here alone… I also want to stay with them. I just wanted to know your wish. But now that you yourself don’t want to stay here alone, we will live with our family. Yes, we will visit this house from time to time.” Rita asked with excitement, “Really?” Olamide smiled, “Promise!” Olamide and Rita both smiled. Everyone present there couldn’t contain their happiness seeing them together.

Rita happily performed the housewarming ritual in her new home and completed the ceremony. While everyone was busy at Olamide’s new house, back at the mansion, Amara was alone in her room, talking to her mother.

Amara said, “And then Tunde said that he also remembers the old days when we used to go for walks in the garden together. His words clearly show that he was deeply hurt by my departure and suffered a lot.” “That’s exactly what you need to take advantage of now and make Tunde yours… Because whenever I see Gold’s name linked with Tunde, I get furious. These happiness were supposed to be yours. Tunde belongs only and only to you. But today, that girl has taken all your happiness for herself. And your father… he will never understand. He has always only seen Gold. It’s like he doesn’t even think about his own daughter.”

“By the way, Mom, does Dad have any suspicion about you?” “No, he hasn’t suspected anything yet. I’ve kept him busy with the household work. But for the past few days, he has been saying that he wants to talk to Gold. I’ve somehow managed to stop him. I don’t understand what bond he has with that Gold. Whenever you see him, it’s always Gold, Gold… That day, he even made her sit in the wedding canopy in your place and handed over all your happiness to her.”

“No problem, Mom. Even after marrying Tunde, Gold couldn’t win his love because he belongs only to me… By the way, I must say Mom, you planned this brilliantly. Thank you so much, Mom.” “Hmm… If only you had listened to me that day and hadn’t run away from home, none of this would have been necessary. But I’m your mother… I couldn’t see you in pain. So, I just used my brain a little and found a way.”

Yes, this entire plan was Beauty Okafor (Amara’s Mother)’s. She was the one who sent Amara back to the family to take Gold’s place.

Flashback:

When Amara had returned from Nikhil George’s house and was staying in a hotel, she was sitting there watching the news of Tunde’s wedding on TV. She was very confused. At that time, she couldn’t go out or face anyone. She spent an entire week like that and the money she had was also about to run out. Finally, gathering courage, Amara called her mother. When Beauty spoke to her, she was very angry at first, but then she immediately rushed to the hotel to meet Amara. Beauty scolded Amara a lot, but Amara apologized repeatedly. In the end, a mother’s heart melted. Beauty told Amara to stay hidden for a few days and she kept looking for the right opportunity.

Both of them made a plan and on the day the family was returning from Egypt, Gold had spoken to Michael Okafor (Father). Through him, Beauty found out that everyone was coming back that day. She explained the entire plan to Amara and told her to be ready.

On the day of Olamide and Rita’s engagement, when Gold and Tunde went out to buy a necklace for Rita, Beauty called Amara and informed her. Amara did exactly what Beauty had instructed. When Tunde turned his car and drove past, Amara deliberately came in front of his car and got hit. Everyone thought it was just an accident, a coincidence, but the truth was that this was all Amara’s scheme—to enter the mansion and stay there for a few days.

Beauty had also convinced Michael Okafor (Father) to go to Australia a few days before everyone returned from Egypt by giving him multiple work-related excuses. Then, she immediately took him to Australia with her. Even now, she kept making excuses to keep him there, so Amara could get more time to stay at the mansion.

When Amara saw from the balcony that everyone had returned, she quickly said goodbye to Beauty and hung up the phone. She was getting frustrated with her small efforts because she wasn’t getting the response she had expected from Tunde. So now, she wanted to do something big… but it wasn’t possible for her to do it alone.

Just then— “You want to separate Gold and Tunde, right? If you want, I can help you with that.”

This voice came from the direction of the door. Amara immediately turned around upon hearing it and was shocked to see the person standing in front of her. Now, who is this person ready to help Amara with this plan? Well, whatever it is, what big move is Amara about to make? How will this storm in Tunde and Gold’s life come to an end? The rest of the story in the next chapter…