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Creative Nonfiction Romance Suspense

Tyler's son, max, is on a quest to find true love but to him there's nothing like true love. In order to collect the five million dollars, he must marry.

It is a big issue for max because he hasn't see anybody to marry. This made him to join hands with his father's marrow, James, in order to get the cash.

He plan with James . They perform fake marriage. Max supposed to marry James's third daughter but James trick him in marrying his first daughter, Pearl, who most people know her to be ugliest girl in that area. Max was disappointed. He tries to maltreat pearl but peal always defend herself from him. Max always pretend to love pearl in front of his father, but inside of him was boiling. What max don't know is that He can't have his cake and eat it. 

Tyler loves his daughter in law so much because he sees that she is a good wife material and he also sees her has a virtuous woman but if only Max could see this qualities, he would have know that he married a woman more than five million dollars.   One unfaithful morning as usual max always goes out to drink but this time he went out with his wife because he has to pretend to love her in front of his father. On his way to the bar, someone was calling him. He answer and meet the person. It was Drake his enemy. Drake kidnap him and his wife. His wife was trying to escape but all her effort was fruitless. She found an empty bottle. she brakes it and use it to cut the rope and after she cuts the rope. She went out to inform the police about her husband in the kidnappers hands. The police follow her and they reach there as they wanted to kill max.Pearl save him. He feels so embarrass, among all people in the world, nobody was able to save him he wasn't expecting pearl to save him. As from that day on, He knows that true love exist. He started treating Pearl well and he knows that what matter in a woman was not the physical beauty but her inner character. He later find out that it was his friend who plot the incident because of the five million dollars. His friend wants to have it all to himself. He is arrested and He is giving ten years imprisonment

His Father Left him (died) with no money but kept a gift more precious than five million dollars which is pearl. This was the beginning of the true love story. He legally marry her.

After many years there is no food for them in order for them to eat they acted as brother and sister. Max and his wife lives with his friend who thought they are sibling but they aren't. Max's friend, Daniel, loves pearl, this makes max jealous. Daniel is making an advance to Max's wife, to the extend that they went three times on a date. Max cannot take it any longer he has to tell Daniel the truth. He told Daniel but it was already too late Daniel is in love. When Daniel hear it. He decide to make pearl to pay. He call pearl to his house serve her drink. He hide a knife under his clothes unknow to him, max is at the gate. Max has to go there because pearl was delaying. Immediately max come there, he saw Daniel pointing gun at pearl. He manage to throw the gun away to save his wife and He narrowly escape. But Daniel was still after them. He wants to kill one of them. But as soon as Max come back with his wife he sees a gun pointing at both of them. He thought it was the end of his life but luckily for him, the gun Daniel is carrying has no bullet this make Max to beat him up. He knows that this isn't the end of the fight. If Daniel is alive, the fight hasn't end. Daniel become a terror to both Max and pearl but their love wax stronger.

Max later went to Nigeria to live a normal life but when he reach Nigeria, He is force to marry another wife. The people in community doesn't know that he is married. If they know, they would kill him. You mustn't marry from any other woman from another country if you are a citizen of Nigeria. Max is a dual citizen. His mother is from London is father is from Nigeria. So he has to pretend that pearl is just a neighbor and nothing more. He hated himself because since when his father died he has been living a life of lie. He tried all his best to get away from the lie but the more he tried to get out the more he's sinking . He knows that one day he has to tell the truth or the truth will leak out and it will become a serious case. He told the truth to elder in council. He is scared but pearl comforted him. He looks at pearl and all he sees was genuine love, a love that you can't see anywhere. He is really happy that his father left him one of the valuable gift which is pearl. The elder pass their sentence and the sentence was according to the law of Ishita. The law of Ishita is a law that is respected in the community and this law is respect by old or young and the sentence is death. Pearl can't stand her husband death so she begs the diety. She wants to sacrifice her life for her husband own but when the diety search her heart what it see is a genuine love that cannot be bought by another thing except from a genuine heart so the diety fulfil her wish and the diety stop the people from killing Max but didn't collect her life because the law of Ishita says that two people who loves each other cannot be separate even by death.

November 10, 2020 16:44

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