It was all over the news. The beginning of a sex scandal. Although it was pretty obvious, she was a slut, this was still her personal life, something so private. The world still refused to mind its own business, especially when it came to secrets, things that were not supposed to come out. She didn’t even know what to say to her own husband. The world had already revealed everything to him.

“Damn it!” she moaned, wishing that she could blow it all away but everyone was still blown away by her dirty secret.

She should’ve known better and have avoided all of this, but decided let the cookie out of the cookie jar. She took a weekend getaway in a form of an affair with her own boss, David. This was supposed to be a temporarily love affair, a fling. An informal distraction away from her own reality. It was supposed to help her enjoy her last days before her wedding to her fiancé.

“David did you do this to me? Did you leak that thing?” she asked her lover, her boss David via her mobile phone.

David froze for a couple of seconds before replying to her, “No Mary! I would never do that to you, I would never do that to us,” he said.

Mary’s privacy was invaded through a video recording of her and David having sex, this was a sex tape both Mary and her lover David recorded in a hotel room they booked for themselves two months ago. This was months before Mary’s wedding day with her husband Tshepo. Both Mary and her lover David kept a copy of the sex tape and promised each other that they would keep it between themselves. Unfortunately, Mary became a bit sloppy and forgot one of her luggage bags where she kept her copy of the sex tape in the hotel room and she never even bothered to go back and look for the bag. She is now paying a heavy price for her clumsiness.

The dirty laundry was out there for the whole world to see and the smell it created was only the beginning of the worst to come. They were both high profile figures in society and their names could not get any bigger than this. As distasteful as such news was, nobody could stop feeding on it, it was all about the bad things celebrities did and nobody was done reading about it yet.

“Would you stop calling me please! I said no comment damn it,” she said hanging up on one of the many journalists who kept on calling her for a comment.

Mary’s husband felt like an actor in a love triangle drama and his actions were that of a man who recently found out that his wife had been cheating on him. He saw something his own wife did that he was not supposed to see and this felt as if something was burning his eyes.

“How could she betray me like this? After all I did for her,” he thought, speaking to himself looking for answers only his own wife could give him.

“I will destroy her for this,” he continued, as the anger he felt inside him started to manifest in his mind.

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