"What a shameless woman!" Thomas blurted out.
He realised that he had lost his cool, so he planted a plastic smile on his face as he continued. "How can you have the face to even come here after everything you did?"
Reyona tilted her head aside as if she were seriously thinking about his words.
Then she said, "Well, you mean, how can I dare to come to the house I bought with my own hard-earned money? Or you are asking about how I dared to find out about the fact that you had been cheating on me before we got married and even had three children with your mistress?"
Shocked murmurs went through the crew as they looked at each other.
The media team could see that the same thing was ongoing online, as people started asking that Thomas defend himself and expose her as the liar and cheater that she was.
Reyona was not done, though.
As Thomas was about to talk, she raised her hand towards him and said, "Oh, hold on. It must be because I dared to discover that you have been stealing from me for years so that you could go away with your mistress and children. Or it must be...."
"Cut! Cut!! Cut!!! Stop it!" Thomas yelled at the top of his voice as he jumped up, waving his hands wildly at the cameras.
When the crew didn't move fast enough, he went towards one of the cameras and yelled at the director. "I say, stop it now!"
"We are live! We can't…"
Thomas pulled the boom arm off its stand and struck it hard against the Leica APO-Telyt-R 1:5. 6/1600mm.
The collective gasp that went through the crew as they saw the expensive camera crash to the ground didn't stop Thomas.
Seeing that Thomas had done himself in more than she had intended.
Reyona said, "Well, I guess that wraps up the interview."
She stood up to leave, but Thomas rounded on her.
"You! Where the hell do you think you are going?! You bitch! You ruin everything!"
He tossed the boom arm aside, crashing into another camera.
He strode towards Reyona and raised his hand in a fist.
Reyona stood stoically as he pulled his arm back.
Before she could pull a fast one on him and knee him in the groin, the manager yelled in a painstaking voice.
"You are still live, you motherfucker!"
That got to Thomas.
"Wha...? What?" He looked aside to see the side-angle camera still trained on him.
Reyona smiled and daintily stepped over the overturned equipment on her way out.
Well.
*********
"Rey, you badass!"
Toria's squeal made Reyona move her phone away from her ear before her eardrum would leak out.
She smiled as she heard her sister's excited chatter in the background, so she gingerly moved the phone back to her ear.
"... is everywhere already. Oh my God, you really showed that bastard. Damn! You handled that well, Rey. Where had all that been hiding?"
Toria let out a satisfied cackle that reminded Reyona of when her sister had mistakenly put glue in a girl's shampoo.
Reyona's smile bloomed as she said, "Girl. I think you need to calm down before you hyperventilate."
"Calm down? Oh, you must be kidding me," Toria answered. "Where are you? We need to celebrate. This day just keeps getting better and better."
"I am on the road, currently breaking the law as I am speaking to you while driving," she said as she looked behind her to be sure she was not about to get pulled over for sure.
"You deserve to break every rule there is today, Rey. You have earned it!"
Reyona laughed "No, thank you. I am not interested in getting locked up right after I sort of clear my name."
"Oh, you did more than that. You kicked ass!" Toria screeched.
"And I think you are going to reward me for it by turning me deaf for life. I need to do something. I will be at the office soon. It is high time you stopped wearing those ridiculous slippers in my office. I am sure my employees are traumatised for life."
"Wait, what? You mean…"
Reyona quickly disconnected before Toria would start bombarding her with questions while asking for all the details she could get.
She rolled her shoulders to relieve the kink she felt in her back.
Yes, it was high time she stopped acting like a wuss.
There was nothing she could do about the fact that her private matters had now become public affairs, so it was time to face the music and dance to it in her way.
She was tempted to put on the radio or at least check her phone to see what had got Toria so excited, but she ignored the urge.
Instead, she put on her favourite playlist.
As Starqueen's sonorous voice filled her car, Reyona sang along to the catchy tune.
This particular song matched her mood; it was a song about letting go of old attachments.
I can't believe I am saying goodbye!
After all that we shared!
I….
For the first time in a long time, Reyona was not bothered by the lyrics of the song.
It felt liberating.
It felt freeing.
************
She called him before getting to his office.
Still, Reyona was surprised that Gibson was waiting for her in the lobby.
"This way, ma'am," he said as he led her to his office.
Reyona followed him and sat comfortably in the comfy chair in his office.
The man seemed to have redecorated since the last time that Reyona was there.
"Life goes on," she thought.
No matter what is happening in your world, life goes on.
People move on.
The world goes on.
"It is time for you to brutally cut all ties and move on too," her subconscious whispered to her.
Reyona totally agreed with that.
She had chosen caution, and look where that got her.
Now was the time to go all in.