17/09/2026
THE HOUSE I BUILT FOR US — EPISODE 2
Ada slowly turned around.
The hand on her shoulder belonged to her mother.
“Mama?” Ada whispered. “What is happening here?”
Her mother avoided her eyes and pulled her away from the gate.
“Please, Ada, don’t create a scene,” she said quietly. “The guests are already here.”
Ada stared at her in disbelief.
“You knew about this wedding?”
Her mother sighed. “Chidi needed a wife who was physically present. You stayed abroad for six years. Amaka was here helping him and taking care of the house.”
“The house?” Ada shouted. “You mean the house I paid for?”
The music gradually stopped. Guests began gathering around them.
Ada looked towards her sister.
“Amaka, I paid your school fees. I paid your rent. I trusted you to check on Chidi whenever I couldn’t reach him. Is this how you repay me?”
Amaka lowered her eyes.
“I didn’t plan for it to happen,” she replied. “We became close. Chidi said your career was more important to you than marriage.”
Ada laughed bitterly.
“My career? I was working day and night to build a future for both of us!”
Chidi stepped forward.
“You sent the money willingly,” he said. “Nobody forced you. Besides, the land and the house are registered in my name.”
Those words silenced everyone.
Ada remembered the overtime shifts, the sleepless nights and the holidays she had spent alone because she was saving money for their home.
More than ₦120 million—gone.
Her mother touched her arm again.
“You are doing well abroad,” she whispered. “You can always make the money back. Please allow your sister to enjoy her wedding day.”
Ada pulled her arm away.
“So all of you knew?”
No one answered.
Her uncles looked at the ground. Her cousins moved away. Even her father remained seated beneath the canopy, unable to look at her.
That was when Ada understood the truth.
The entire family had helped Chidi and Amaka hide the relationship from her.
Ada wiped the tears from her face and picked up her suitcase.
Chidi smiled, believing she had accepted defeat.
But instead of leaving, Ada walked towards the house.
“Where are you going?” he demanded.
“To see the property documents.”
Chidi blocked the entrance.
“This is my house. You have no right to enter.”
Before Ada could respond, a black car stopped outside the compound.
A grey-haired man wearing a dark suit stepped out, carrying a large brown envelope.
Ada immediately recognised him.
It was Barrister Okafor—the lawyer who had handled the land purchase six years earlier.
Chidi’s face suddenly changed.
The lawyer walked through the crowd and handed the envelope to Ada.
“I came as soon as you called,” he said.
Chidi laughed nervously. “Whatever she told you, this property belongs to me. My name is on every document.”
Barrister Okafor removed the original property deed from the envelope and looked directly at him.
“Your name is on the documents,” he replied. “But you may want to read the final page.”
Chidi grabbed the deed.
As he read the last paragraph, his hands began to shake.
Amaka rushed towards him.
“What does it say?”
Chidi looked at Ada with fear in his eyes.
The house he believed belonged to him had never truly been his.
And Ada had just discovered something else hidden inside the documents—something that could send Chidi to prison.
To be continued in Episode 3…
This is a fictional story.
