Was it weird? Hell yeah, it was. But then, I just had to drive with Julia to Randy's place as that was the only way I could locate Tamika.The ride had been utterly quiet so far as she hadn't begun directing me to where that bastard lived. I just couldn't wait till I got my hands on him. I was going to make him pay for putting us through all that trouble. “Hello…” Julia had me feeling weird with the way she said that to me. It felt like she was trying to say, ‘I’m right here, don't just act like you don't see me.’I had zoned out into my thoughts to the point where I had almost thought myself to be all alone in the car and she had just brought me back to reality with that.“Sorry… I was just too caught up in my thoughts…” I apologized still with my eyes on the road. “You're Julia, right?” I instantly felt weird for asking such an irrelevant question in an attempt to spark a conversation. “Of course, I'm Julia. Why else would I be in the car if I wasn't.” She laughed as she said that
“Your Showtime's over…” Dolph stood there, facing off with Randy as I hid behind Dolph from the effects of the possible explosion that was about to take place there and then. “What are you doing in my house?” Randy questioned as he stood to his feet to square up to Dolph who seemed ready to go physical on Randy even though he was all suited up. “I interrupted your little shoot…” Dolph said as he stared him deep in the eye. “You think I didn't see your buddy holding the camera back there? Well, think again.”“What?” I suddenly let out as I couldn't believe that even in his moments of sincerity, Randy was also up to a lot of mischief underneath his sleeves. “You were filming all of this the whole time?” I was scared as I was slowly coming to realize what that meant. Everything had been caught on camera… even that forced kiss as well. It made me feel foolish how I had fallen for the same truck over and over again. “Tamika… it's not what you think…” Randy let out as he sounded less ag
I was silent as I entered the house. I had been expecting such a confrontation with Tamika, but I hadn't expected her to bring the fight to my doorstep that early. Now she has ruined things with Amelia and I. Amelia had seen me while I had been on my knees, and that was the most demeaning moment of it all. I was almost unable to raise my head to hers to say a single word.Tamika had brought Dolph along again to have me humiliated, and that was unforgivable. It was clear that she would never give in to the proposal I had given her. She probably wasn't considering it for a moment.“Are you going to tell me anything about what just happened?” Amelia asked as she came down the stairs, fully dressed and ready to leave. She seemed to be still shaken up by the rapid sequence of events that had just happened. At first, I felt like I didn't owe any explanation to a woman whom I had just met yesterday, even though I had suddenly become emotionally attached to her. But then, I felt like I had
“That bastard!” I let out as I saw what was on Julia's screen. “How could he…?” I felt foolish for playing right into his hands and that had me wondering just how he could have come up with something that devious.“It looks so real… so authentic… everyone will be thinking it's really…” Julia just couldn't speak any more at that point as she was trying her best to keep calm. “Tamika, what the heck is going on?”I was quiet for a couple of moments as I read the caption he had put on the two awkward photos. “And she said yes to me…” I was disgusted by the caption as much as the pictures themselves.The first picture was one of him going down on one knee, then followed by a picture of the both of us in the forced kiss, which he had somehow edited and made to look like we both had been in the act like passionate lovers who just couldn't get enough of each other.“Tamika… this sneaky bastard is so determined to ruin everything you have with Dolph. How could you have even thought of going to
It felt a bit weird not returning to Dolph's home in one of his cars. It had me feeling quite incomplete and a bit out of place. But then, I was there and that was all that mattered.“You've got this, Mika,” Julia said to me as I was about to step out of the car. “I'm sure your love will be strong enough to see you both through this little challenge. Nothing will be strong enough to stop your happiness.”I wished the love that she spoke of was really in existence. But it wasn't. It was all union-hinged on a contract I had signed to keep Dolph from unveiling that sex tape of the both of us.It was the worst feeling knowing that two men were having two different sex tapes of me. It was a defeating thought that dealt a heavy blow to my self-esteem. But somehow I had to act normal like there was nothing wrong. “Thank you, Julia…” I said as I was about to get out of the car. I took a deep breath as I walked to the gate that opened almost immediately. It almost felt like Dolph had been exp
“What do you mean by that?” I questioned my spy in Dolph's camp, as I wouldn't take it lightly if he turned out to be giving me false information. But at the same time, I was still running through the worst-case scenarios in my head as I hoped none of them were happening at the moment.“I happened to overhear a conversation between Dolph and his assistant, Michael. They were talking about having discovered the culprits of the extortion in the accounts department of the casino. They had them arrested.” Those words had my hair standing up immediately. It turned out those crafty bastards were way more crafty than I had been expecting them to be. How could they have nailed them?“Hello…” my mole called out to me. “Mr. Martin? Are you still there?” “Yes…” I replied in annoyance as I had gotten bad news which had overshadowed the good one I had just gotten about Dolph's trophy wife. “I'm still here. Do you have any idea how much they know and how far they have gone in their investigation
I had asked for it and I had surely gotten it. There I stood, feeling rejected. That was a feeling that Tamika Fisher had never felt in a while, but then, I tried my best to hide the pain it had brought me. I had never been so sure if anything like I had been of Dolph's feelings for me, but he chose to burst my bubble. Perhaps, he had been right about me thinking highly of myself more than was expected. I was a narcissist, and that was it.“Very well then…” I said as I absorbed the cruel reality of my situation. I turned to head up into my room, and again I was hoping his mother hadn't been somewhere listening to us. At that point, I was getting myself to take in the fact that those next two years of the contract would be like, stuck in a loveless union with this cold-hearted man was going to be quite a challenge.But then, I had been taking up challenges ever since my parents threw me out on the streets. It was nothing new to me being up against constraints like the one I was about
“And yeah… she's back home…” Julia topped off her highly dramatic narration with the most unexpected ending. She had been narrating as though the situation had gotten even worse than it was.“Quite a narration you've got right there. You might want to go do a little broadcasting. I guess you were the brains behind the talkative that Tamika Fisher turned out to be.” I teased on the phone as I was comfortably seated in the back seat of my car, on a drive to the station to see the culprits. It was hard to get my mind off them at that point.“Yeah right… I'll try out someday.” Julia mused. “But then, no matter what you do, don't believe anything you see online about Tamika getting married to Randy. It's all a hoax by that bastard to confuse everyone.”“What'd he do? Hasn't he been humiliated enough?” I wondered into the phone's mouthpiece. “You haven't heard…?” Julia asked in surprise.“Well…” I said, peeking over the windshield to know how close I was to the station. “I haven't had the