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
“Alright…” I said stepping back from the mirror and then turning to Dolph who was sitting and watching carefully. “How do I look?”“You know, this isn't the actual TV appearance.” Dolph smiled a bit as he looked at me for a while before turning to his phone again. “You look good.”“Good? Just that?” I had been expecting a little bit of something like; ‘you take my breath away’, or ‘you look dazzling’, then a little bit of ‘you will make eyeballs pop’. But no, all he could say was ‘good’.“You look good, Tamika. That's the much I can say.” Dolph didn't lift his eyes from his phone's screen as he was busy with something he didn't care to share. “Seems like you're a lot busier online these days,” I remarked as I noticed how he had been so focused to the point he barely raised his head to look at me. “Well, I've just been keeping up with the flow of events online,” Dolph said as he was still looking through the screen. “I'm sure Randy would be rehearsing a victory dance right now, not k
“The plan is really simple, with very little complexities…” Dolph said, making me curious and confident with each word he said to me at that point. “And I'm sure you're going to easily cruise over this.”But then, I couldn't get my mind off what exactly I would be doing in my first appearance on TV in a while. Would I be acting in s movie or doing a reality show?“I know you might be wondering what your first appearance is going to be like,” he said, turning to me with an expressionless face that seemed to harbor a lot of excitement behind it. “Of course, I'm wondering. I know I won't be acting in a movie or something, so what are we going to be doing on the screen?” I waited for the answer to that question which he seemed to be holding back for some reasons unexplained.“You, Tamika, are going to be in an interview.” I paused for a couple of moments as it almost felt like he hadn't meant it. But he did mean it. I was beginning to imagine what that setting was going to be like. “You