They say you never know when you are going to meet someone and your whole world comes undone in a moment. This is what happened to me literally. My name is Adanna Chinwendu Offia and I am the only child of my parents, Chief and Mrs. Offia. My parents are business moguls and I have lived all my life in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria. I had the best childhood ever as I lacked nothing. You see, my parents spoilt me. To put it in my aunt, Mrs. Amarachi Igwe’s words, I was rotten and I enjoyed every bit of it. I took after my beautiful mother, we could even pass as sisters. I was petite like her and perhaps even more beautiful. It was also hard convincing people that I was twenty-four as many always mistook me for a young teenager.

I have been celibate for as long as I can remember especially after losing my virginity to my cousin, Ebuka. He certainly didn’t deserve it and didn’t know what he was doing as I practically had to scream at him to put the damned thing inside of me. It didn’t help that I didn’t find anyone worth sleeping with all through my university education and so I kept my legs closed all through. It wasn’t so difficult being a first class student and I was eager to take over my dad’s company since he was planning to retire soon after my graduation so hooking up was definitely the last thing on my mind. A week ago, I received a call from my childhood friend, Titi Williams who called to tell me about her upcoming wedding set to go down in Lagos. Aha! I was excited as I had just gotten back into the country after completing my Master’s Programme in Canada and I had been having a longing to do something fun. This was definitely going to be a big one.

Two days before the big day, there was a rehearsal for the wedding and all the bridesmaids and the groomsmen were in attendance. We were all paired by the wedding planner and as my partner proceeded to take my arm, I couldn’t help but notice that we were the most gorgeous pair of the lot albeit the most different. He was over six feet tall in comparison to my five feet and few inches. He was also chocolate in complexion whereas I was a “yellow pawpaw”. He said nothing to me during the entire rehearsal and just as we finished and he set to go, I rushed after him and shouted, “I didn’t get your name”. How rude, I thought.

He turned slowly around and walked up to me, stopping only inches away from me. Too close for comfort.


“Dapo. Balogun Dapo,” he said looking straight into my eyes and holding the gaze for longer than necessary. I was spellbound. I couldn’t say for him but my mouth went dry and I was having problem breathing properly. He was looking at me like he could see into my very soul with the most intense brown eyes ever. I don’t know for how many seconds we stood like that but he broke the gaze eventually and walked briskly away even as I willed my body to return to normalcy and started taking deep breaths. Wow. There was something about the way he was looking at me that made me feel like a sexy woman and I felt this surge of excitement inside of me. I quickly left to prepare for the wedding which was the following day.

The wedding was indeed glorious just like a high class wedding should be. At the reception, I danced a lot with the latest couple and I really had a good time laughing and drinking with the others. I got up and headed to the ladies walking gingerly. I had taken more than my regular booze of alcohol and the last thing I wanted was to get clumsy and fall on my face at my friend’s wedding. As I finished and got out of the ladies, I rushed out and collided right into Dapo.

“Hey, hey, slow and steady,” he said as he took my hand and steadied me. “
I’m sorry.” I mumbled staring into his face dreamily.

We stood there in an awkward silence looking at each other even as I began swaying to Timi Dakolo’s Iyawo Mi which filtered in from the reception hall. Dapo cursed and Irolled my eyes at him asking him what the problem was.
“Stop moving so regretfully, you might regret it,” he said.

Without realizing it, I had moved closer to him. I laughed and pouted.
“Stop that too,” he said.
Two can play this game.

“And if I don’t?” I asked teasingly, toying with his suit’s jacket with a finger.
He swore as he dragged me roughly to a corner and pinned me to the wall with his weight. He held up my hands in one hand and used the other hand to hold the back of my neck as he descended on my lips and dealt me a kiss that made it difficult to breathe... CONTINUE READING FULL EPISODE HERE - http://celebrityvibez.com/the-chain-series-celibrated-18/