“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
It had been quite an easygoing day until I got that call from the last set of people I wanted to hear from. The buzzing of the phone made me feel an urgency that would die off immediately I saw the name ‘Tara’s mom’ written boldly on the screen of my phone.I didn't want to speak to them even for a single second as I was trying to gather enough confidence and momentum to make my comeback as glorious as I could make it.“You have a call…” Julia said as she noticed me continually ignoring the buzzing of my phone which had been trailing me like a stalker ever since we left for a lunch break. “Why don't you want to take it?”It was hard to imagine what exactly she had to say to me. I wouldn't want to take a chance with my mental health at that point as I was trying to resurface again to the public.“You're ignoring it…? That call sounds pretty urgent with the way the caller keeps calling again and again. Might be an SOS… who knows?”I wished it was, so I could turn on flight mode and igno
"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