The Devil’s Angel

ape this disastrous scenario. Her mind was reeling. Why was her mind reeling? She wanted to tell herself that this was not a big deal and to stop overreacting. But no matter how she looked at

s girlfriend along with him towards the elevator. Tiana took three deep breaths and glanced briefly at her computer. The girl's name was Ruby. Even her name was pretty. "Tiana, what was that just now?" A female voice asked from behind her. She turned swiftly and to her horror, came face to face with the head receptionist. "Nothing much. Just somebody that I used to know" Tiana replied, thanking the stars that her voice sounded firm. The least thing she wanted was to get in trouble with the head receptionist of all people, she was not sure if she could put up with it today. "No personal conversation during work hours" she said sternly, took one last look around as if searching for Tina and then walked away, her heels making a clack-clack sound on the marble tiles. What the hell just happened? Can my life even get any more worse? Tiana could not say genuinely that she was shocked at Mike's brazenness but still. Still... Had their relationship been a joke to him? Had it only been real to her? Maybe this was the closure she had so desperately sought for. The confirmation that she had meant little more than a passing moment to Mike and now, it was time to move on. *** "So, girllll. You mean to tell me that Mike got himself some rich hot babe? What is she, a fool?". It was Becca, of course. Her shrill voice filtered into Tiana's ears from the speaker and just like that, everything that had transpired earlier just seemed like nothing. "Yo. Joke's on me for thinking he was never gonna meet anyone better than me" Tiana said in between mouthfuls of chocolate chip muffins. Becca paused for a moment before yelling in her characteristic protective mama bear way, "And who says she's better than you are? Cause she's rich and pretty? So what? Are you poor and ugly? I mean you're pretty, smart and sexy as fuck, if I wasn't straight, I would be in your DM's every fucking night! So, he cheated on you? His loss!" Tiana laughed. She could never tire of Becca praising her relentlessly. "Shush, Bec. I know all that. I was just kind of hoping he would end up with someone that'll make him regret being a jerk to me. I know, I know it's petty of me" she said. She did not like to think of Mike or the pain he caused her but anytime that she did, she had comforted herself by believing that he would only end up meeting people that would cause him pains. "Girl, remember when I dumped Ken in high school because he smiled at a girl I didn't like?" Becca asked, with a hint of laughter in her voice. Tiana choked on her muffins and clapped her hands at the memory. "And you went ahead to flatten all four of his tires so he wouldn't be able to driv