Power. Secrets. Prestige. And one deadly obsession.
Yes, every one had secrets....not had, but has, including you! Everyone wants power, the ability to rule without being questioned, to dominate every single soul and make them fall at your feet for just sensing your presence.
For over a century, Crestmore Academy, known as The Queen's Crest, reigned as an exclusive all-girls institution. A finishing school for royalty, heiresses, political daughters, and blue-blood elites from across Africa. Girls didn't just graduate with perfect scores, they graduated with power. Groomed to be future presidents, CEOs, and silent puppeteers behind their husbands, the students of Crestmore lived by one rule: Control or be controlled.
But everything changed the moment Adrian Chukwuma Ikenna Maduako walked in.
The son of Nigeria's Vice President, Adrian didn't just have wealth. he had influence, power, secrets and a lot unveiling to do. Handsome, enigmatic, and dangerously calm, he became the first boy ever admitted into Crestmore when the government pressured elite schools to go co-ed. His admission was history. But it was also chaos, dramatic and adventurous.
In the sapphire-painted walls of Class Sapphire, where legacy ruled and friendships were built on contracts, Adrian became the storm in an already fractured world. Girls whispered his name, teachers watched him too closely, and two of Crestmore's ruling queens declared war.
Two girls. One boy. No rules.
Amara Okonkwo, Crestmore's boldest queen, wore her family's oil dynasty like a crown. With skin the color of polished obsidian and a voice that made prefects stutter, Amara had fought her way to the top. charming the school board, silencing her enemies, and making sure her last name meant everything.
Toni Wuraola, the school's quiet strategist, descended from Yoruba royal blood. She wasn't loud, but her silence moved mountains. Her mother owned half the media in Nigeria, and Toni had grown up being watched. But Crestmore had taught her a different game: the power of being underestimated.
At first, their rivalry had been polite. Controlled. Like politics. A silent rivalry that wasn't heard or seen but felt.
Then Adrian arrived.
He disrupted the balance, not by trying, but by simply existing. Amara liked to win. Toni liked to own. But Adrian? Adrian liked secrets and everyone had one. Including himself. And he was there for the secrets, to unveil or build it.
But Adrian wasn't there to fall in love.
He had a plan. A big one that'd destroy the four walls of Crestmore Academy.
Behind his good-boy smile was a deeper story. He wasn't just the Vice President's son, he was a pawn, possibly even a sacrifice. What no one knew was that Adrian's admission into Crestmore was no coincidence. It was the first move in a twisted scheme that ran all the way to the country's top leaders. And hidden beneath Crestmore's glorious traditions was a secret society that made the school's hierarchy look like a child's game.
They called it The Providence Project.
An invitation-only brotherhood, yes, brotherhood in a school full of women. Founded by Crestmore's male founders long before the school turned all-girls, the Providence Project had evolved in secrecy. Its goals were ambiguous. Its rituals were dangerous. And its members? They were everywhere. Hidden among staff, embedded in student leadership, even among the alumni who pulled strings in the political sphere.
Adrian's goal wasn't just to survive Crestmore. It was to infiltrate Providence, uncover the truth about his mother's death, and burn the institution from within. But the deeper he went, the more dangerous it became, especially when he discovered someone else had the same goal.
And she was already inside.
Murder changes everything.
Everything takes a deadly turn when a girl is found dead in the music hall. the most secure building on campus. Her name was Ina, a scholarship student with no legacy and no protection. Her death is ruled an accident. No one questioned her death, instead they feared who was next in line following Ina.
But Amara doesn't buy it.
Toni already knows it wasn't.
And Adrian? He saw the body.
Secrets begin to unravel. Reputations crack. Alliances shift. The school shook. Political goals were crumbled. Even among prefects, suspicion blooms. And in a school where status used to guarantee safety, everyone becomes a suspect.
One thing is certain: The Providence Project has been awakened. And it doesn't forgive trespassers.
Love becomes a weapon.
Caught in a toxic triangle of attraction, power, and betrayal, Adrian finds himself torn between the two queens, both of whom want him for very different reasons.
Amara wants control. To tame him. To protect her pride and her name.
Toni wants truth. To use him. To reach something—or someone—she can't face alone.
But Adrian wants neither.
He wants freedom.
He wants revenge.
He wants to survive.
Because somewhere in Crestmore, someone knows what happened the night his mother died. Someone is feeding information to Providence. And someone wants him silenced before graduation.
With every prefect meeting, dorm party, and school debate, Adrian inches closer to the truth and the edge. Because at Crestmore, no one fights clean. Gossip is currency. Friendships are calculated. Enemies wear perfume and diamonds.
And when the final crown breaks, only the blood will tell the truth.
Author's Note.
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