CHAPTER 19 TAMIKA's POV

“Oh my...” Julia gasped in amazement, as she walked in through the front door. “You've been living in a mini paradise for the past couple of days.”

“If that's how you want to put it...” I said, patiently walking her into the house that I was so proud of. Again, a part of me was wishing that all of this wasn't a lie. But then, I silenced that part of me by remembering the reason why I was doing all that in the first place.

“Seems like all of this was just a perfect means to get you to move from the wrong man to the right one for you. I can almost see a script for this story.” Julia's cinematic mind was kicking in already, and that made me feel even more guilty than I had felt at first.

The lies were just too perfect.

“It's so nice seeing you again, Julia...” I took the conversation away from anything that had to do with the story, and that had my heart racing uncomfortably. Besides that, I wanted to end the meeting as quickly as I could, as I wouldn't want a collision between her an