“And that wraps up the first day of work for us...” I couldn’t deny how lively I was feeling as I started living like myself again. There were just too many things on my mind as I was about leaving the broadcasting house which was still bubbling from Tamika’s presence. After all of the goodbyes and other closing formalities, it was soon time to leave. I picked up my phone to dial Michael’s number, as I wanted him to come pick me up just like Dolph had come over there to pick up Tamika. I hated how it felt like I was comparing the both of them. But then, I just wanted it to happen that way. There was no other way to round up a long day of work besides, having my man coming over to pick me up from there. “Hello, Michael...” I said with the cutest voice that I could muster at that point. I was sure he had been too caught up in his work to listen to the broadcast. But I would forgive him for that if he would come over and pick me up. “How’s it going?”“Well... what do you think?” He as
“Quite a time and a place for old lovers to meet...” Phil was making it all look like some sort of unplanned coincidence but I had the strong feeling that he had followed me to that place. He seemed to have been devious enough to track my movements from the broadcasting house to that place. I wasn’t sure why, but it just had to be... somehow. I just knew him too well to believe that it was all some sort of coincidence. “What the heck do you want?” I inquired as harshly as I could as Phil wasn’t someone to be all smiles with. “Why in the world would you have to follow me from the broadcasting house to this place?”“Well, I also have a question for you. What the heck are you doing at a casino by this time?” He asked as he raised his eyebrows. “I never knew you to be the casino type for one day, but here you are, off to the casino like it’s some sort of ritual.”“You’ve been watching me all this while?” I was shocked, as I wanted to know just how much he knew about me and all the move
At that point, Phil's plan had become as clear as day and I hated the fact that I had fallen for it so easily. How couldn't I have seen something like that coming?To make it all worse, Phil exchanged stares with Michael like they both knew each other. That made it all even more unbearable. I felt like sinking into the ground while they both settled their differences. “Well, well… look who we have here… Assistant CEO, Michael…” Phil said teasingly as though he wanted to make it clear that they both had something in common. “Seems you happened to step out for lunch or something.”Michael said nothing as he stared Phil in the eyes like he had seen a sworn enemy of his. There were a lot of things that made me feel like I had made the biggest mistake of my life. I hadn't just kissed someone else, I had kissed an enemy of his and it made me feel even worse about myself. “I never knew we would have to meet under circumstances like this one we found ourselves in…” Phil wouldn't just stop s
“Alright calm down a bit, Julia…” I said, trying my best to get her to relax a bit so she could be able to explain herself more perfectly. “Take a deep breath…”I listened to the sound of her breathing in and out continually. It was bad that something of that sort was happening on a day that was meant to be a day of celebration for both of us as we were back in business after a long time of being away. “Alright Julie… talk to me…” I said as I was satisfied with her breathing exercise. “Tell me what's going on right now…” “It's Michael…” she was sounding like I was sounding during my first heartbreak. There was no other way to explain the absurd sobbing I was hearing at that point. “He just…”“What happened?” I asked, hoping nothing had gone seriously wrong in their relationship. I never thought Michael to be the cheating type and it would have me surprised if I heard that he had done something of that sort. “Are you going to tell me what happened or not?”“All right…” her voice beca
“Can't you go any faster!” I yelled at the driver who seemed to be startled by my urgent and desperate orders. Desperation was quite an understatement for what was happening to me as I was seated in the back seat of that car which was headed straight for where Dolph's accident had happened. There were no words to describe the pain that was welling up in my heart at that point as I wondered why all of that would be happening on that day which was meant to be all celebrations. First, it was Julia and Michael. Now, I was on the verge of losing Dolph. It was quite hard for me to understand all that was going on at that point. It was almost feeling like the dark cloud over me hadn't left just yet. “Faster!” I yelled at the driver of the car as he went on and on. There were a lot of things that made me feel like I wouldn't see Dolph ever again. The last I remembered of him was when he had left the house after he had dropped me off at home. He smiled at me while telling me he was about
“Will you marry me?” the look in Dolph's eyes had never been as sincere as they were looking at that point where the whole crowd cheered him loudly. “Dolph…” I was still yet to understand or grasp the fullness of all that had happened in the last couple of moments as that was simply like the most suspense-filled moments of my life, and it had all been a… prank… leading up to a proposal. I just couldn't believe it as I was still there on my knees, staring at him with that ring in his hand like he had been waiting all of his life to do that. There were just so many things going through my head. “Tamika…” he called out to me yet again as I had been out of my body for a couple of moments. “Are you all right, Tamika?” The smile on his face was fading as he noticed my lack of a response. I knelt there, quiet and wondering just how my life would have been without Dolph in it. That had been how far my imagination had stretched in such little time. “Tamika… what's the problem? You are sca
“Great…” I muttered as it was clear that Randy wasn't picking up my calls anymore. “What a wimp…” I had said that over and over and I wished that he was right there to hear me tell him to his face that he was a wimp. How could he have backed down after he had come so far in his pursuit of his lover?I took up my phone, hoping to see something that would lighten up my mood just a bit, as there was nothing and no one there for me right at that point. “Oh please…” I let out in disgust as I had been staring at my screen for the past couple of moments. There were just too many things that made me feel like I was wasting my time online. The whole internet was buzzing with news of Dolph and his newly found love whom he had just proposed to, and I just didn't like any of it. For some reason, I found myself wishing that the car crash he had faked had happened for real. At that point, everything seemed to be going their way. It felt horrible to know that all I could do was sit and watch eve
“I still can't believe that I pulled it off…” I felt awesome narrating my ordeal to Michael. “For a couple of moments, I was thinking that I had been in an actual car crash.”“Oh wow…” he said with a sigh. I had begun the narration with an unspeakable enthusiasm, but my enthusiasm was soon dropping as I was getting disappointingly low-energy responses from his end. It was beginning to get quite uncomfortable for me, as I was beginning to think of what I could have possibly done to make his mood fluctuate that much. “Michael… what's the problem?” I asked, with a readiness to listen to every single detail of the tone of his response. “You sound like you broke a finger and a big toe. What's the matter?”“There's just too much on my mind right now…” he replied vaguely as he sounded like he was desperately trying his very best not to spill all the details of the thing that made him feel the way he felt. “I had quite a day, and that makes it quite hard for me to feel any sort of…”“Are yo
"And yeah... I'm going to pay him a surprise visit..." I decided that as I was on the phone with Julia while trying to get out of bed. "That would spice things up as we would get to make out in his office...""You are naughtier than you sound on the radio..." Julia remarked as she was laughing hard over the phone with some music playing in the background. Soon enough, I was in the car on my way to the office. I was sure that Dolph was bound to be happy if he saw me showing up there. I was happy that I was going to be putting a smile on his face at that point. The air was simply cool all around me and it felt real good, much cooler than it would feel on a normal day. There were a lot of things that had me feeling like I was about to have a great day as I was about to make it all happen right there and then. I wanted to recreate the memory of the night that we had in his office on the night of the anniversary. There were just too many things that had me feeling like that moment in hi
"Hey, Dolphy..." I said as I was soon walking towards him with a walk that I made as seductive as possible. It seemed like I was about to face one of the most unimaginable moments that I would ever be in. Dolph was looking like a helpless prey in my hands at that point, as he was reeling from the effects of the drug he used to be so hung on. That moment had me wondering what exactly I would be up against in the next couple of moments as I was soon seeing the desires that were burning up in his eyes as he seemed to be sizing me up right at that moment. "What… are you doing here?" He sounded like he was out of breath like he was being eaten up slowly by a disease for which the only antidote to it was my body. There were a lot of things that had me feeling like I was about to be eaten whole. "Are you all right, Dolph...?" I asked, knowing that he was far from all right as he was looking to get his hands on me. "You don't look all right to me... you're looking like you are about to l
"Hello, Tamika's husband…" Michael reminded me of the title my mom had given me back then as I was driving to my office. It was bad that I had been called that by my mother, but then I wasn't going to tolerate that at all from Michael. "Call me that again and you're fired…" I said jokingly as I soon had the casino in view. I didn't know what it was that made everything seem much more beautiful after I had gotten married. That was my first time stepping out of the house after I had gotten married, and it was feeling quite awesome. The look of that ring on my finger was quite exhilarating each time my eyes came to where the steering was. It was almost hard for me to understand how I had been able to get it all to work out to the point where I got married to Tamika. There had been a lot of hindrances, but somehow we were able to get out of everything. "So, what's up? How's the newer couple in town holding up?" Michael asked as he was sounding like he had just woken from a long, event
"Are you sure it's that important?" I just didn't know what it was that made me feel cynical about Dolph's decision to go along with the visit to the office. He had just gotten married two days ago and there he was, suddenly trying to head back to the office when he was meant to be in bed with his wife. "It's not like important important, but I won't take long, I promise. Just need to get some files and I will be back with you, hun…" Dolph said as he went on with dressing up. He was dressing casually to the office in a bid to convince me that he wasn't going to stay long. But I still wasn't convinced by any of it. There were just too many things that had me feeling like I couldn't make it past those few moments without him by my side. It was hard for me to understand what exactly I would be doing all alone in those few moments that I would be all alone in there. "Tamika…" he said, as he put his arms around me after turning away from the mirror that time around. "You know I'll miss
I couldn't deny how lonely it felt, having to watch everything happen from the confines of my solitude which was eating me up slowly as I was almost losing it from watching the clips of Tamika's wedding online. It was quite a hard sight to behold but it ailed me greatly as I believed that all of this was meant to have happened between me and Ava. But that bastard Dolph had taken my place by her side and it was simply the hardest thing to watch. I just couldn't stand the sight of it. The jealousy had me burning up badly like I was having a fever. At first, I wanted to act cool and pretend that I was happy for her and all of that. But the pretentious act wasn't working as I had thought she wouldn't be happy with anyone else besides me. There were a lot of things that had me feeling like I was being mocked and made fun of with all those pictures and videos of them floating all through the net. It felt like she was trying to show me how capable she was to find happiness in the arms of
"But they just got married… how could you possibly be thinking of doing something that would cause them to split immediately? That's simply unfair." Amelia's words sounded like mere lip service to me as she almost sounded like she was just trying to show that she still had a conscience which was alive and breathing. Like she didn't want the same thing. "Quit acting like you were so happy with seeing that my brother had you replaced with her," I said, hitting her hard in places that I knew she wouldn't recover easily from. She was quite an egotistic one and I knew it was going to take way more than talk to get her to believe that the plan would be in her best interest as well. That would take a lot from me, but I didn't mind if that would be the case as long as she would end up agreeing to my request. It was hard for me to think of what I would be able to do at that point. "I understand, but still…" she paused a bit before restarting. "Are you going to make yourself come in betwee
It had been a refreshing moment being in the shower with Dolph, up until the moment he had made mention of the way we had met. It had me feeling awkward and it ended up ruining the entire moment for me. I wondered just how long all of that would go on. It was almost beginning to look like things would never get back to normal ever again. From that moment, I decided that I would be staying away from my phone and every external connection, as that had been mainly what had caused all of that. If I would stay away from Dale and all of his lies and frame-ups then I would surely regain the sanity I once had before have took it all away from me. "Let's just be happy…" I whispered to myself as I was about to leave the mirror which I had been staring at for the past couple of moments. I was feeling my confidence as it waned with each passing moment. It was bound to be another moment of putting up fake smiles for the cameras. It was almost like I would be airing on a show where I had to
I stood there in the shower, as I was breathing heavily as I had just dodged a major bullet from all that had just happened to me at that point. A lot was going on in my head as I was trying to figure my way out of that mess. It was hard to stay put that time around as I was realising that the effects of that drug in my system were about to cost me my marriage.That moment had me feeling impatient to go and find out what I had to do from Dr. Meyers. It almost felt like I couldn't do anything from that point onwards. It almost felt like my predicament was the most hopeless of all. There just weren't any means of identifying how I could be able to stay away from misbehaving until we had a lasting solution to that. There were no words to describe just how miserable I felt at that moment. All that our union was hanging on to at that point was Tamika's trust in me. I felt the desperate need to get her to trust me all over again, as the trust she had for me seemed to be wavering with each
It felt like my world had suddenly stopped and restarted hurriedly as I stood there staring at my screen. What was that I was looking at? It was almost impossible for me to keep a straight focus at that point, as I wanted to believe that what I was looking at was some sort of strange, unreal reality.I could bet that Dale was giggling victoriously wherever he was at the moment. There were just too many things that had me feeling like I was about to lose my mind from just watching the video. I turned off the screen at once as I was looking to keep myself from falling apart right there and then. Why was everything popping up right there and then?For the next couple of moments, I forgot that Dolph was in the room and it made me feel like I was about to lose my mind from the pressure that was coming on me slowly. The words he was saying to his mother over the phone were simply breezing past me as I was simply trying to get my mind off the video I saw. That one hit differently as I had s