“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

“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

“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

“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

"What the…" I muttered as I tried my best to keep my language in check at the point that I was on the verge of losing it. The impatience that boiled in my blood along with the words from her secretary. "What do you mean she's not talking to anyone today?""I'm sorry sir, but you would have to wait for a couple of moments before you can meet Miss Duran." The secretary was bent on frustrating me that very day. "I apologize for whatever inconvenience this would cause you.""Don't apologize. Let me in to see Helen. She's aware of my coming. I booked an appointment with her, under the name Dolph Martin." I felt like I had said that a thousand times in those long minutes I had been waiting. "What other proof do you want me to give you?""You're making this harder than it's meant to be, Mr. Martin." Helen's secretary had some of the audacity that she had and she was putting it all on display at that point. "You would have to wait an hour more until she can decide whether she would have you o