There was always the calm before the storm.
You could feel it in the air, and you could almost taste it. I first felt an inkling that something was about to happen. when I woke up to find seven missed calls from Clara, and two missed calls from David. That immediately told me that something was wrong, but before I could call either of them back, I saw a text message from David, which was one simple line:
‘Stay off the internet.‘
That immediately sent a chill down my spine, and I started to wonder if something terrible had happened. Could it be something related to Marcus? My parents? What could possibly have happened that would make them think I needed to stay off the internet completely?
Against my better judgement, I knew I had to check it out. So I hopped onto Twitter and scrolled to the search page. Since my timeline was curated based on my location and my particular interests (which had mostly been updates about me and Marcus recently), the first news article I saw went through me like a bullet:
GOLD DIGGER OR DEVOTED WIFE: THE UGLY TRUTH BEHIND OLIVIA REYNARD’S SHAM MARRIAGE
My heart immediately started to slam against my chest when I saw that the article was written by Jared Brown, a hotheaded and arrogant journalist who always found a way to dig up information about people that was previously unknown. It used to be fun when it was about other people, and I was always surprised by how he seemed to uncover information about celebrities that would have otherwise never seen the light of day. But now that I was the main subject of his story, and I knew that it was going to be brutal.
I should have walked away then. I should have just kept scrolling, and ignored all the likes and retweets that the post was getting. But something about it just didn’t sit right with me. I wanted to know who he had spoken to. I wanted to understand what someone who knew me and Marcus would say about our marriage. If I was going to get the full picture, then I needed to know what the other side was saying
So, against my better judgement, I clicked on the post.
And I immediately wished I hadn’t:
OLIVIA CARSON: AMERICA’S LUCKIEST LADY
“In the wake of Marcus Reynard and Olivia Reynard’s recent divorce story, an anonymous source who is close to the former couple has shared some scandalous inside information about the details that were previously kept behind closed doors, and the side that America never got to see about their favourite celebrity couple.
The source, who chose to keep their identity hidden due to the ongoing court case between the tech billionaire and his estranged wife, shared details about how their marriage might not have been one of love and affection like everyone previously thought, but was in fact a calculated move by a woman seeking to create a new life for herself in the spotlight.
