Rent A Bae

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>He's an award-winning actor so pulling off this charade should be easy right? Except he didn't count on his pretend girl being... her.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Arinze Kalu</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The continuation of the Kalu name lay on my shoulders.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At least that's what my grandmother claims. And she's on a mission to ensure it won't die there.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I wasn't planning on visiting Nigeria anytime soon so I'd been doing a pretty good job of tap dancing around her threats to find me a wife.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After a scandal that almost engulfed me at the beginning of my career I'm determined to take my time choosing a partner.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Between establishing my company filming press and traveling for my new movie I simply don't have that time.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now my sister is getting married and I'll be face to face with my grandmother. If things had worked out with the caramel goddess I met on New Year's Eve I probably would've been good. Since it didn't my cousins suggest I rent a bae.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Jasmine Bowman</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My life is a bad horror film and I'm ready to change the channel.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Between my job where I'm overworked underpaid and skipped over for promotion and my tired played-out situation with my boyfriend something had to give.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Let's not forget Mr. Butterscotch who I met on New Year's Eve. I could've bet money there was a vibe but I guess not. I tell myself I don't need him anyway. I need my mind to get the memo because my more immediate priority is to stop being a disappointment to the Bowman name. I'm getting back into the director's seat of my life. The cost however isn't cheap. I need money and my best friend has the craziest idea.</span></p>