She could not help but recall how she had started talking to the virtual Dedan. *** One week ago A heavy mist had overtaken the city that evening and the traffic was backed up from the beginning of the one-lane road she was driving on, to the roundabout ahead that opened up to a crossroad. As the station wagon in front of her Sedan stopped again, Tamara Gray banged her hands on the steering wheel. It was nearly 7:30 pm. She could not afford to be home late, especially not today. She didn’t want her fiancé’s wrath. She had thought that she would be home early and had not anticipated the fog or traffic. The traffic crawled and moved at a snail’s pace until it finally cleared at the roundabout ahead and Tamara turned right onto a less busy street with towering residential houses. The end of the street opened up to a quiet street surrounded on either side by well-off-looking residential structures that stood widely apart from each other, all low-fenced for the sake of decoration rath

As Tamara took her time admiring the picture, he sent a second picture. On the second one, he was looking casual, seated on a large couch in a spacious living room and staring into the camera intensely with his alluring green eyes. She caught her breath. He reminded her so much of her fiance, though his own eyes were light brown. Again, she felt guilt resurfacing but she quickly shoved it aside. This wasn’t cheating. She was just making friends, she told herself.You’re very attractive. She typed into the chat box and hit the send button. She had to hand it to him. He was hot.Thanks, he responded in the chat box. Now may I see yours?In a moment she responded. Then she located the picture that she had earlier chosen and sent it to him. Since he had sent two, she decided to send a second picture too. Scrolling briefly through her phone gallery, she selected a picture in which she was wearing a white dress and lying on the couch she was currently sitting on. That picture too had been

Yes, he was handsome. God, he was handsome and tall. He was pure male perfection in a black suit, his eyes the color of almonds. And yes his name was Dedan but he was not the Dedan that she had been expecting. Oh no, she thought, her eyes huge with fear because, this intimidating handsome Dedan was her fiance. Indeed, curiosity killed the cat. Good Lord, she thought, her hand flying to her pounding chest, please have mercy and save me.He towered over her in the privacy of their VIP section, his enigmatic light brown eyes slowly perusing her from head to toe, his jaw tightening with rage. She could feel her blood racing, her face already gone pale, and then she fainted in her seat.Tamara did not know how long she passed out but she didn’t think that it was for long. When she started feeling conscious, her vision resurfacing from nothingness into blackness, she could feel her brows being wiped with a soft fabric.Slowly, she allowed her eyelids to flutter open and render her consciou