Page 22 of Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming
Commenter 1
I completely agree, Capri! It’s nice to see that the marrying outside your race to a much younger woman gene skipped Ranson.
Commenter 2
That’s what I’m talking about. He got his self a Black queen and she making moves and being a boss.
Commenter 3
This is the type of shit we need to see with these rich dudes. Get with a real grown ass woman that has her own bag instead of these young girls they can manipulate.
Commenter 4
I am so glad he ain’t with a white girl like his bitch ass daddy.
Commenter 5
She ain’t white, she’s Latina.
Commenter 4
Whatever, she ain’t Black and she’s way too fucking young for his old decrepit ass.
Commenter 5
I’m not arguing, and I completely agree. I’m just saying if we’re throwing shade, sis, let’s get the details right, lol! But that man had three Black queens and threw them all away, and now he’s on wife number what, eight or something, and they keep getting less melanated and younger. The shit’s gross.
Commenter 4
No worries, boo. And you’re right as rain. Wife number eight is same age as his daughter! That shit is fucked up.
Parker’s current wife, who is actually referred to as “number eight” by the media, is a thirty-two-year-old he met at a gala and married in a surprise ceremony three months later. Parker is sixty-five.
Yikes!Okay, so maybe I’m not getting fired.
Ranson confirms her suspicions. “This saved us some time. The ladies commenting are the same demo that watched Michaela and Hunter’s wedding and the celebrations leading up to it.”
It’s a shame Michaela Hamilton doesn’t want to go into the family business because she would take Hamilton Media into the fucking stratosphere. It was her idea to have the weeks leading up to her wedding be filmed, and to air it on Hamilton Media’s streaming service as a reality mini-series. It was a huge hit! Andnow that’s she’s expecting her first baby, the cameras will be back on her and Hunter, showing the couple as they tackle their first year as parents. Michaela was tired of hiding and wanted to create her own narrative without the likes ofTRNNinterfering. She and Kimber were always unfairly maligned by news outlets, much more so than their brothers. That can be chalked up to good old misogyny. It got so bad that, years ago, she left the country, which is how she met her husband, Hunter Lawrence, award-winning film composer and the son of director Claude Laurent and actress Ann Marie Laurent.
Ranson continues, “Michaela allowing our father access to her big day made Hamilton Media a lot of money. With the public praising us and going after my father, he wouldn’t dare do anything to hurt Lee’s business. These ladies and others like them would just see it as him trying to get back at Momma Dola.”
“And the last thing he should be doing right now is going after a Black woman,” Roger adds.
Thank God for Black women!
“So, what’s the plan?” Lyric asks.
“You and I are officially a couple, sweetheart,” Ranson answers in that deliciously husky voice of his.
Gulp.
“The articlefromTRNNis just regurgitated bullshit. The original article is from theMelanated Queenwebsite. Geneviève Synclaire wrote a thoughtful piece. Here, listen to this,” Bridget reads from her phone.
“This new relationship between Mr. Hamilton and Ms. Fuqua carries with it a lot of weight. Whether he realizes it or not, Mr. Hamilton is dismissing the idea that young rich men are nothing more than one-note, sex-addicted bachelors. For that, look no further than his brother Braxton Hamilton.”
“Ouch,” Aimee says.
Bridget shrugs. “I mean, the nigga has a whole volume of sex tapes, so she’s not wrong.”
