Ella Rivers

✨ Just a girl with big dreams
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📸 Living, laughing & enjoying the little things
💌 Stay awhile.

[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

@mrWanaemi This was interesting

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

CHAPTER TWO: THE SOLDIER WHO REFUSED TO SHOOT
Captain Daniel Cross had killed eleven men.
At least, that was what his military record said.
He remembered nine.
The other two appeared in his nightmares as shadows standing at the foot of his bed.
Daniel was thirty-four, a decorated soldier, and the son of a man who had died defending Avarra's borders.
His father had taught him three rules.
Never abandon your team.
Never point a weapon at an innocent person.
And never trust a politician who sends other people's children to die.
For most of his career, Daniel had believed the military could still live by those principles.
Then came Operation Black Dawn.
His unit arrived in the northern village of Karsen shortly before sunrise.
There were no rebels waiting in the streets.
No enemy flags.
No gunfire.
Only an old woman carrying a bucket of water and a boy pushing a broken bicycle.
Daniel stepped out of the armored vehicle.
"Where are the enemy positions?" he asked.
General Voss's liaison pointed toward the village.
"Everywhere."
Daniel frowned.
"I don't see any weapons."
"That's because you're looking at the wrong people."
The order came through ten minutes later.
Clear the village.
Any person resisting evacuation would be treated as hostile.
Daniel read the message twice.
"Evacuation?" he asked his commanding officer, Lieutenant Harris.
Harris avoided his eyes.
"That's the order."
"Where are they being evacuated to?"
"Unknown."
"How much time do they have?"
"Thirty minutes."
Daniel looked toward the village.
A little boy was helping his grandmother climb the steps of their house.
Thirty minutes to abandon everything they had ever known.
Thirty minutes before soldiers arrived to decide whether their lives were worth protecting.
"Sir," Daniel said, "there are no confirmed enemy positions here."
Harris lowered his voice.
"Don't make this difficult."
Daniel stepped closer.
"Are we soldiers or executioners?"
Harris grabbed his uniform.
"You think I don't know what this is? You think I haven't spent seventeen years watching this country lie to itself?"
"Then stop following orders that will get innocent people killed."
Harris released him.
For several seconds, neither man spoke.
Finally, Harris whispered, "You have a wife, don't you?"
Daniel's expression changed.
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Everything. Because the people giving these orders don't have to live with the consequences. We do."
The evacuation began.
Soldiers moved through the village, shouting at terrified families to leave their homes.
A woman refused to abandon her disabled husband.
A soldier dragged her away.
An old man raised his walking stick and demanded to see the order authorizing the destruction of his property.
Someone struck him.
Then a gunshot rang out.
Daniel turned.
A seventeen-year-old boy lay on the ground.
He had been holding a phone.
Not a weapon.
A phone.
The soldier standing over him shouted that the boy had reached into his pocket.
Daniel dropped beside the teenager.
Blood spread beneath the boy's shirt.
His lips moved.
"Please," he whispered.
Daniel pressed his hands against the wound.
"Stay with me."
The boy's eyes searched his face.
"Am I a rebel now?"
Daniel couldn't answer.
The boy died before the medical team arrived.
Something inside Daniel broke.
He stood, turned toward the soldiers, and shouted:
"EVERYBODY LOWER YOUR WEAPONS!"
Nobody moved.
Daniel raised his rifle toward the sky and fired a single round.
"THAT IS AN ORDER!"
The village fell silent.
Then, from the northern hills, a rocket screamed across the sky.
It struck the armored vehicle at the edge of the village.
The explosion threw Daniel backward.
And the war finally began.

[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

@mrWanaemi That will be nice at list for your mutual

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

This week I go do 5k giveaway for 10 of my mutual, but I don't thing they are even interested

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

The way my mutual treat me everyday dem dey try

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

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[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

@mrWanaemi 😅🤣

[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

@mrWanaemi Please next chapter

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

TITLE: THE WAR THAT THE WORLD WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO SEE.
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CHAPTER ONE: THE PRESIDENT'S SECRET
FORTY-THREE DAYS EARLIER.
The capital city of Avarra glittered beneath the evening sun.
Gold-plated government buildings. Luxury cars. Private security. Politicians drinking expensive champagne while ordinary citizens stood in endless lines for food.
From the outside, Avarra looked like a powerful nation.
From the inside, it was rotting.
President Victor Kane had ruled the country for seventeen years.
He had won three elections, survived two assassination attempts, and crushed every political movement that threatened his power.
His supporters called him a hero.
His enemies called him a dictator.
The truth was more complicated.
And far more dangerous.
At 11:43 p.m., President Kane entered an underground room beneath the presidential palace.
Three men were waiting for him.
General Elias Voss, commander of the national army.
Minister Adrian Cole, the man responsible for national security.
And a foreign businessman named Richard Vale, whose company supplied weapons to half the countries on the continent.
On the table lay a map of Avarra's northern territories.
Beneath those territories were vast deposits of a rare mineral capable of transforming the global energy industry.
The government had denied the deposits existed.
For years, the military had quietly protected the region.
Then a rebel movement called the People's Front discovered the truth.
Now the government had a problem.
President Kane removed his gloves.
"How many know?"
Vale adjusted his glasses.
"Enough to destroy us."
"Can they prove it?"
"Not yet."
General Voss leaned over the map.
"We can eliminate the leadership before the information becomes public."
The president looked at him.
"And the villages?"
"Unfortunately, the rebels are hiding among the population."
"That wasn't my question."
Silence filled the room.
Minister Cole finally answered.
"If the northern population is displaced, we can secure the mineral fields. The international community will complain for a few weeks. Then another crisis will take its attention."
President Kane stared at the map.
Thousands of people lived in those villages.
Farmers. Teachers. Children. Families who had never seen the mineral beneath their feet.
He knew what his decision would mean.
He also knew what losing power would mean for him.
"Prepare the operation," he said.
General Voss nodded.
"What shall we call it?"
The president looked toward the sealed door.
"Operation Black Dawn."
Nobody in that room asked how many people would have to die before dawn arrived.
They already knew.

[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

Just a little reminder that beauty doesn’t always need a caption. 🤍✨

[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

Big hat, bigger energy. 💋
This ain't costume, it's culture.

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

From the streets to the world 🌍🔥 Asake no dey disappoint! Big vibes, pure energy, and nothing but greatness. 🦅🎶 Mr. Money on a different level! 💸👑

[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

@mrWanaemi War is not a good thing

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

THE NIGHT GOD WENT SILENT
AVARRA — 2:17 A.M.
The first bomb fell while a little girl was asking her father whether monsters were real.
The second destroyed their house.
By the third, the city of Veyra had disappeared beneath fire, smoke, and the screams of thousands of people who had never held a weapon in their lives.
Buildings collapsed like broken teeth. Cars burned in the streets. The night sky glowed orange, and the ground trembled beneath the weight of an invisible enemy.
A little girl named Amara stood barefoot in the middle of the road, clutching a teddy bear with one missing eye.
Her father was gone.
Her mother was buried beneath the ruins.
And somewhere above her, inside an aircraft worth more money than her entire neighborhood had seen in a hundred years, a pilot was being told that the people below were enemy combatants.
"Confirm target," the commander's voice crackled through the radio.
The pilot stared through his targeting display.
He saw movement.
He saw fire.
He saw people running.
Then his screen identified a group of civilians fleeing toward a hospital.
"Sir, I have noncombatants in the strike zone."
A pause.
"Those civilians are being used as human shields. Release the weapon."
"Sir, I repeat, I have children in the strike zone."
The voice on the radio became colder.
"Captain, do you understand the consequences of disobeying a direct order during wartime?"
The pilot swallowed.
Below him, Amara looked up at the sky.
She couldn't see the aircraft.
But she could hear it.
And for one strange moment, she stopped crying.
"Daddy said soldiers protect us," she whispered.
Then the bomb fell.
CUT TO BLACK.
A single gunshot echoes.
A man's voice speaks in the darkness.
"History will call this a war."
A pause.
"I call it murder."

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

Happy Sunday, my family! ❤️

Wishing you a beautiful Sunday filled with peace, joy, and countless blessings. As we step into a new week, may doors of favor open for you, your hard work be rewarded, and may this week bring you good news.

Thank you for being here and for your constant love and support. Have a blessed Sunday and a wonderful new week! 🤍✨
> GOOD MORNING FAMILY 🖤

[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

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[TJR @_TJRTrades]

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[Ella Rivers @justEllaRivers]

Big hat, bigger energy. 💋
This ain't costume, it's culture.

[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

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[mrWanaemi @mrWanaemi]

When life was good 🫣😪