CHAPTER ELEVEN

TAMARA
“Tommy we need to leave, we are causing a scene, he isn’t worth your time, please let’s leave, I don’t want you to get into trouble” I begged pulling on Tommy’s arm but he wasn’t moving an inch, Tommy is still staring at him with murder in his eyes.

“Come on Thomas, that was a long time ago, let bygones be bygones, you should listen to my fiancée and leave like the good little dog you are” Damien mocked, “for the love of everything that is sane, shut up Mr Kingston respectfully, Mr Kingston, he went to jail because of you so please I would appreciate it if you didn’t speak and make it worse, even better you should leave sir” I said not sparing him a second glance.

“You don’t even know what happened and you are taking his side Miss Sanders, I’m your fiancé,” Mr Kingston said I could sense a little anger in his voice not that I cared.

I would believe Tommy over him any day because Tommy is and always will be my best friend and Mr Kingston is just an intruder in my already fucked up life and nothing will make me acknowledge me.

“You must be delusional, why would I believe a man I just met and don’t like over my best friend?” I said, causing a scowl to form on Mr Kingston's face but it was gone before you could blink.

Then his angry expression was changed into a mischievous one, before he spoke up “Tamara I’m very disappointed in you, you have so many male friends, don’t make me think otherwise” He said but I couldn’t understand what he meant then Tommy spoke up in anger.

“what the fuck did you just say, I won’t let you insult her in front of me, you don’t even deserve her in the first place, Tamara is good woman and you, I can’t even find a word to describe you, calling you a devil will be an insult to the real one” Tommy yelled in a loud angry voice.

“Mr Kingston, so because I have male friends, you think I also have another type of relationship with them, you think I sleep around with my male friends” I asked knowing he said that to hurt me but I wasn’t offended one bit.

Mr Kingston said nothing staring at me with an unreadable expression, “not only are you delusional but also stupid, I will never be like you Mr Kingston, you are nothing but am incorrigible womaniser and I hate the fact that I’m getting married too you, so if you want to call someone a slut look in the mirror first” with that said I look up at Tommy whose gaze was on me, he looked proud.

“Please Tommy let’s just go, please, I’m tired of listening to him talk” I said, Tommy nodded before looking up to face Mr Kingston, “Since Tamara here thinks you aren’t worth my time, I will let this go but don’t mistake me, I won’t forget this, I will make it my life mission to protect her from you and your family, you won’t destroy her life like you destroyed mine” Tommy said as I stare at him pride clouding my eyes, he was the only one who stood by my side when I went through tough times, so watching him defend me filled me with pride.

“Tamara if you leave with this man, we are going to have a problem,” Mr Kingston said the anger in his tone was back.

“Do your worst Mr Kingston but so help me, if you go back on this deal, you will also have a problem with me, Mr Kingston and trust me, you don’t want to cross a woman with nothing to lose”.

Mr Kingston just stared at the both of us while we walked towards his car, I didn’t look back even when we got into the car. “Are you okay?” Tommy asked, putting his hand on my shoulder to comfort me.

“he will surely tell my father what happened today and I will get into trouble Tommy, what if he takes my mother’s company because I disobeyed him” I asked as different thoughts ran through my mind.

“Hey Pumpkin look at me, I know it’s my fault, I couldn’t control my emotions when I found out he was the man you told us about I’m so sorry, you went against him to defend me”

“hey look at me, never blame yourself for this, I defended you because you are my best friend and no one will mock you while I’m around, whatever they do to me, I will handle it”

“that’s the problem you don’t have to handle things like this, you don’t deserve any of this, why don’t you just leave them, you can also take your father to court to gain ownership of your mother’s company”



“I can’t do that Tommy, I have been handling it for the past twenty-two years it’s just a few insults that’s all, I can take it” I said hoping I’m able to reassure him even if my punishment will be much was but he doesn’t need to know, if he did he would probably end up in jail again for my case because he murdered my entire family.

“Tommy you never told me why you actually went to juvie, I just learnt about it today, can you tell me what really happened”

“It’s not like I didn’t want to tell you, I was just ashamed to tell you because I was I’m a bad place during high school and I did a lot of bad shit but you deserve to know”.

Flashback

In high school I was going through a lot at home so I acted up, skipping classes, getting into trouble, moving with the wrong people, so one day your husband came to our school and got into some trouble with a group in our school so I defended him and became friends or so I thought, after that I started dating Selina who I thought loved me but she only dated me to get close to Damien. A few months into our senior year we had a party at Damien’s House. By then everyone knew he was rich so he became really popular. After the party he heard some bad news and he drove his car drunk with the two of us present in the car. He crashed the car and It left Selina injured and Damien was nowhere to be seen and I was left at the scene with Selina, I tried pulling Selina, my girlfriend out of the burning car, It was couple at the nearby house that called an ambulance.

A few minutes later the ambulance came and we were both taken to the hospital.

Selina lost consciousness during the journey to the hospital, I had never been so scared in my life, back then I thought I loved her and we were going to get married but I found out later I was in love with the idea of her.

Few weeks later the cops appeared in the hospital where we were admitted and started asking me questions.

Why did I steal the car and crash it?. I was so confused I gave Damien a call who I was still pissed at for leaving us for dead in the car that he crashed while drunk.

It turns out he told the police I was the one who crashed the car because I was jealous and pissed that Selina loved him and not me. Funny thing is the lie they told the police was true in a way .

Selina really loved Damien and not me, she dated me to get to Damien. While we were dating they were sleeping with each other.

I was so fucking clueless that I didn’t see the signs, after I was released from the hospital, we went to court to fight the case but they forged the evidence and I was blamed for everything.

Selina also backed up their story because she was so in love with Damien that she would rather see me go to jail than him. I went to juvie after that and spent 2 years of my life for grand theft auto.

End of flashback...

“So now you know Tamara, I don’t want you to see me any different,” Tommy asked, not looking into my eyes, his head was downcast making me angry all of a sudden, he had no reason to be ashamed he was the victim here, not Mr Kingston.

“You make me want to hit you sometimes Tommy, why would I see you any different, you are my best friend and nothing you tell me from your past is going to change how I treat you” I said leaning I to place a kiss on his cheek.