KarlTim told me to be there for Diamond even before he did what he did. I should have seen it coming, I should have known that what he was planning was unreasonable. Yet, I let him go ahead with his stupid decision and now Diamond was suffering because of me. I didn't know how to be there for her knowing fully well that I was the cause of everything wrong going on in her life right now. I felt an immense amount of guilt that I rather not feel so I pushed all the blame to Tim, showering him with threats of what I was going to do if he didn't fix this. For the 7th time in the space of last night and this morning, I dialed Tim again. When he answered on the third ring, I said, “I don't see you doing anything about it. Diamond's nudes are still circulating the internet.” “Man, this is going to be way harder than you think.” He answered. I could hear the frustration in his voice and it only infuriated me. He had the guts to be frustrated after leaking a woman's nudes online and destro
DiamondIt’s been a full whole day and about twelve hours since somebody who apparently disliked me for whatever reason decided to release my nude and sex photos to the entire world for whatever reason, and up until now, I still haven’t regained the lapse in my memory, and I still haven’t figured out who this person was. The only information I had now was that I had been lured somewhere and I had been violated. I wasn’t touched or anything, I was sure of that. I would have felt it in my body, thank goodness for that. Which brought me to the realization and the conclusion that the person only wanted to humiliate me. Which was a shame because I don’t think I have ever been that cruel to anybody to warrant such cruelty in return. I had tried to think of who this person might be. I had even been crossing names on lists. Ordinarily, the first name on my list would be Agatha but since we’ve reconciled, we seem to be in a good place right now, so that automatically checks her off the list.
LennoxI spent the whole night rethinking and probably regretting my decision to ask for a divorce. Not that it was already a decision, but it also wasn't a suggestion. With barely any sleep, I got up the next day and just did some briefings with the doctors at the hospital before heading downstairs for breakfast. Today was the day of Natlia's open day so I didn't need to go to the hospital this morning as I took the better part of the day off. I was only going to go to the hospital in the evening for my patient rounds and that was just about it. After a very quiet breakfast, I got ready and waited in the living room for Natalia and Agatha to come down so that we could head to school together. It was the tradition that after every open day, we would go see a movie and get some ice cream. It was our way of commending Natalia for a job well done at school during the term. We already knew she was going to do well as she was an excellent student. So going to see a movie was already a gi
AgathaAll through the car ride to Natalia’s school, I remained quiet while the soft music continued to play in the background and Natalia continued to work in her coloring book. I may not show it often, I may appear to be strong, but I only just hide my vulnerability through anger. I only just try to show people that I wasn’t affected by going off on everybody. I turn a blind eye to the littlest things because I say it doesn’t affect me. I try not to be remorseful because when you appear to be weak, people will take you for granted. And I didn’t want to be taken for granted. But it appears that after my many years of putting on an act, I was still as easily disposable to Lennox as I was the day I had married him. Not even years of marriage could change that. Not even our child together could change that. I was simply someone that Lennox had taken in to cover up the shame that accompanied being a mistress to a married man. It’s not in every story that the man marries his mistress and
Agatha“Where is Natalia?” My eyes searched the entire hall frantically but she was still nowhere to be found. Karl shrugged his shoulders and said, “I don’t know. Why are you asking me?” Then drinking from his punch, he walked away. I rolled my eyes at the man’s nonchalance over the fact that a child could potentially be missing. Then I hurried over to where the boys were. “Where the hell is Natalia?” I spat out and they recurled, afraid of my mannerism. At least just two. One of the boys who they identified as Braden seemed unmoved by the fierceness that came along with my question. “My mother said it’s not good to curse.” Anger flashed in my eyes. I could feel impatience coursing through my veins. “Well, your mother is a slut!” I spat out. Their eyes widened but I didn’t stay to see all of their reaction before storming away in search of the teacher I had seen with her earlier. She was talking with a couple of parents and must have seen the way I skid across the room looking
*Karl*Honestly, I was exhausted with all the long talk. But I had to sit through it because standing up and abandoning the boys wasn’t exactly an option. Not just because I made a promise to Diamond to be there for both her and the boys today, but also because I wanted to be here for them even though I found it extremely boring. Occasionally I texted and replied to both Donald and Abigail who sought my counseling with some things. But ultimately, I tried not to get into work that day. I took the day off and I didn’t want to become invested over text otherwise I might be tempted to drive down to the office to sort things out. Or schedule a long conference call with Donald to remind him yet again of the do’s and don’ts of running an agency. I could have hired somebody else, having found out that I will be working in New York for a long time. But I didn’t trust anybody to run my company the way I did. Donald has been working closely with me for as long as I can remember so he kind of wa
DiamondI was confused. I have never been this confused in my life. Okay, scratch that. The one time in my life that I had been confused beyond the entire word itself was six years ago when I found out that Lennox had been sleeping with my sister. I had been confused because I didn’t think our marriage wasn’t going smoothly at the time it all happened. Maybe smoothly was a stretch but it's not like we were having any major issues. The major issue we were dealing with was my recurrent miscarriages and as a doctor, or rather, as doctors, we ran several tests on me to try to ascertain what the problem was but none of them came back helpful. All the tests revealed that I was fine and it almost plunged me into depression. It was another kind of pain knowing that you could conceive, carry a baby, but somewhere along the line, you would lose it. This had happened to me three times, But the last miscarriage absolutely broke me because it was my longest. Aside from the physical toll it took on
KarlSo many different expressions crossed her face. I couldn't even begin to place what each of them meant, or even what each of them was. But I could summarize in three words: shock, confusion and disappointment. I understand why she would be shocked. It was me, it was Karl, Karl was always there for her, Karl always wanted to make her happy, Karl would literally do anything for her. And maybe she might not have really understood that last part. I would really do anything for her. Although I didn't and would never want to internationally hurt her. And that was something that I needed to make her see and understand. So I grabbed her hand and pulled her to the side, far away from the porch. I should have realized from yesterday when I found Diamond standing by the porch, not intentionally eavesdropping on my conversation, but she had heard me talk to Tim and had questioned me. It was easy to weasel my way out of that one because the conversation barely revealed anything and apparent