My day went like milk going rancid as the thoughts of the call I had with Phil were still stuck in my head. I had shot myself up in my office without saying a word for the past couple of minutes as I wondered just how I was going to get myself out of that mess.As I cowered in my silent fear, my phone buzzed, causing me to nearly jump out of my skin. I was almost melting right there in my seat as I saw Phil's name written boldly on the screen. It was a text from him and I didn't want to open it at all.But then, I feared that he could be trying to do something drastic without me being aware of it. With my hands shaking with fright, I reached for the phone on the table and opened his text.“You bastard…” I was almost flinging the phone away the moment I saw it had been a video message of the both of us— the one he had threatened to send to Dolph. He was taking things far as that would ruin my entire modeling career. I was fuming in my seat as I wasn't sure just how I was going to surv

I had thought it over and I had decided I would agree to meet Phil at the place he had specified. I felt like I was playing right into his hands with every move I was making, but I had no option but to comply with every word of his warnings which was still ringing loud and clear in my ears at that point.“If you refuse to comply with any instruction I give you, then your career will come to a quite abrupt end like you never existed…” Those cold words kept me going against the way my ego wanted me to go and that made it hard for me to get myself together. I was a literal mess as I sat at the table in the café where he had asked me to wait.My phone buzzed and that had me almost falling off my seat. Phil knew just how to play those wicked mind games, that left me paralyzed with fear. But then, I looked at the screen of my phone to see that it had been Randy calling me. I breathed a sigh of relief and then some deep breaths afterward to regain my composure before speaking to him.“Hey…

I was enjoying the feeling of taking the fight right to where Helen was. The puzzled look on her face was simply priceless, and it had me wanting to relive that moment over and over.“Wow…” Helen finally said something as I was almost becoming scared that age would call off the whole meeting. That moment was becoming even more uncomfortable with each passing second and it had me thinking all sorts of things.Without any forewarning, Helen let out a slight chortle which led to another chortle which was a bit louder, then into a full-blown laughter. She laughed so hard and that had me confused.I waited for her to stop the laughter, but then, she didn't want to stop as she went on in a way that made it clear that it was going to take quite a while. “What's so funny…?” I asked, hoping that would get her to stop, but she erupted in even more vigorous laughter which now had me confused. “You…” she could barely speak through the laughter. “You're so…” she had her finger pointing at me as

The day had been quite a rollercoaster ride for me as I had been through the most demanding moments of my life at that point. Helen had proven to be a challenge that I would have to overcome if I would ever make a peaceful reappearance on air. I could only hope that Dolph's prescription would work out perfectly for my current predicament as I walked in through the front door. Dolph was seated on his usual spot on the sofa and that made it easier. The look on his face said a thousand and one words all at once and that made it quite hard for me to approach him. I was almost thinking it was his disappointment in me that made him look like that. That made me feel like tiptoeing into the house or coming in through the back. “You're back later than I expected, Tamika.” He was staring at his phone, which was something that he hardly ever did. It was beginning to give me a lot of concern as I was trying to get a clearer picture of what was happening.“Yeah… I went to see Julia to speak ab

“What's going on?” Ellery asked as she was uncomfortable with the prolonged silence that had taken over the phone call conversation. I was silent as I was still trying to figure out what exactly he meant with all that talk on a sudden call.The fact that Dale dared to call me to tell me that had me feeling quite salty. But then, I wondered why he was thinking I was in search of revenge. More importantly, I wondered why how he had found out that I was even having anything to do with Dolph at the moment.I guessed he hadn't changed from the nosy fellow he had been since the time I knew his brother. I was going to get to the bottom of whatever it was that was going on between him and his brother.“Hello… Helen?” Dale asked, as my silence was becoming above normal. “Are you still there? Don't tell me I scared you already with my words. You're Helen Duran after all and you're supposed to—”“What are you talking about, Dale?” I asked, still trying to work my way around what his intentions