Inside, she wanted to scream—that she once had a life, that she once had love, that she once had a son.
But what was the point?
No one cared about a story too old to trend.
Sarah moved through each day like wind over broken glass. She wasn’t bitter. Just tired.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, a very different life was unfolding.
Chief Agu Okike was on the cover of every business magazine that month. The tech giant of Nigeria. From orphan to billionaire. Africa’s own Steve Jobs.
At thirty-nine, Agu had built Novate Systems from a tiny room in Nsukka into one of Africa’s largest tech empires—software, AI, cybersecurity. If it ran on code, he had touched it.
His mansion in Independence Layout was guarded by eight men. His fleet of cars was custom-made. His assistants—four of them—were trained to handle crises that never even reached the news.
But beyond the glittering boardrooms and glowing headlines was a man still haunted by one question he could never shake:
Who is my mother?
Agu had grown up in All Saints Orphanage in Enugu. They told him his mother died in an accident when he was a baby. No relatives. No trace.
The only name he had was Sarah Naji, written on a worn piece of cloth he had been wrapped in as an infant.
Every year on his birthday, he lit a candle in her memory.
Every Mother’s Day, he donated millions to elderly homes, built clinics for widows, and personally paid for women’s surgeries.
He once told his board members during a live interview, “If I ever find my mother, she will never have to lift a finger again. She’ll live like royalty.”
Yet despite the jets, the accolades, and the global awards, something was missing.
In the deepest corners of his heart, he longed for something money could never buy:
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