Heartbreaker Rules: Five

Photo: Tosin Junaid© ¤¤¤ Gboyega bolted from his chair and covered the distance between them in only a few strides. It could not be his destiny to keep chasing her in this tedious cycle. Okiki did not flinch when Gboyega covered her hands with his. He said, "I'm sorry" and she nodded. She let him …

Heartbreaker Rules: Four

Photo: Tosin Junaid© ••••••••••••••• There was this funny feeling Okiki got in that moment she counted one to eight even though she was an avenger. First, it was a warm fuzziness like white Easter bunnies padding softly in the pit of her stomach. Until it became a circus in there and her heart was beating …

Heartbreaker Rules: Three

Photo: Tosin Junaid© ¤¤¤ It was true that Gboyega was away at the New York Business Summit with his father when Okiki submitted her application at Oyekanmi & Elliot on Friday. Even so, he had thoroughly prepared himself for the moment she stepped into his office that Monday morning. It was Oyinlola that broke the …

Heartbreaker Rules: Two

Photo: Tosin Junaid© ••• Gboyega took in her facial features quickly with his lazy, brown eyes. Dark, ebony skin. Harsh, prominent cheekbones and thick, long eyelashes that fanned her cheeks. Nothing he had not seen before! So he looked away. But why were her eyes closed? And was that not desperation he had heard in …