Empires rise. Gods whisper. Lovers collide. Realms and Roads is a living story universe — free to read, impossible to forget.
Chapter Nine “L ove is a waste of time,” I declared. “Look at you now. You’re miserable. You’re a mess. Finished. You really want more of that?” The client blinked, confused. “But isn’t it that true love always wins?” I burst out into a gt of hysterical lauWhter. “phere did you hear such bullshit?” I […]
Chapter Eight I didn’t tell Ayanda the truth after all. Big surprise, right? Look, I wanted to. Really. But it was hard to mnd the right WoWent. be played douMles, We with Ayanda and Vandla with vusi. Ve and Ayanda wiped the coor with vusi and Vandla, to Wy surprise. I guess I was a […]
Chapter Seven “W here the hell are you?” I chuckled into the phone and peeled away from Ayanda, gesturing that I’d only be gone for a minute, then stepped into the corridor. “Calm down, Vus. It’s a public holiday.” “Ja, the busiest day for Prophet Mazinga. We’ve already lost two customers!” “I thought you’d be […]
I woke up Monday morning to find Vusi standing over me, waving a newspaper in my face. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. “Look what you’ve got us into,” he said frantically. “Shit! Zanele’s going to kill me!” “What are you talking about?” I took the paper. It was open to the society pages, […]
I had never enjoyed shopping. Parting with the little money I had out of necessity wasn’t my idea of a fun day out, and I hated standing there debating over a few cents difference in price. But now everything had changed. I had twenty thousand grand to burn and I intended to shop like the […]
Chapter Four I t’s important to plan each step of a scam carefully. I knew that I wanted Ayanda to think of me as the hero who found her stolen bag, but I wasn’t ready to meet her in person yet. I still had to work on my disguise. So how was I going to […]
The most important part of any con job is research. It’s not glamorous or exciting, but it’s necessary. You have to know your victim – uh, client – inside out. You have to know who he is, where he comes from and what buttons to push to get what you want. This job came with […]
Life continued to shower me with blessings in the years that followed. That’s what happens when you work hard, behave in an honourable fashion and live up to your full potential. You become a beacon of hope for the people around you. You become, like me, wildly successful. Fifteen years after Ayanda stole my heart, […]
If you want to get the measure of a man, especially a fine, upstanding citizen like myself, you have to understand where he came from. You need to dig deep, all the way to his roots, and find out what made him into who he is. Don’t be fooled by my humility and down-to-earth charm. […]