Caroline, the gold digger

Look before you leap. Those were the very words Michael, Caroline’s dad said to her before she left the house that morning. As usual, she did not pay much attention to him. Throwing every caution to the wind, she went about her day without much care of what she was doing and how it was affecting others. Toward the end of the day, she saw a tall, dark, handsome young man get out of a black Lamborghini Veneno Roadster. She admired him. As she was standing there starring, their eyes met. Their chemistry was impeccable.  Driven by passion, it was more of lust, they quickly exchanged their contacts and within minutes, they had done the forbidden act. Caroline had formed the habit of sleeping around with men. It did not matter who the man was or how long they had known each other.

She returned home that evening feeling like she had conquered that day. Darien noticed that her sister was happier than usual that evening. She wanted Caroline to share her joy with her. As soon as Caroline started telling her about how she had finally got a rich young man, Darien dismissed her. Darien was not in support of what she was doing and would not tolerate any of it. Caroline, the beauty queen, did not seem to be bothered by that. She was engrossed in her own thoughts and fantasies. She went to bed early that evening. Everyone was surprised by this. It was not like her.

Two days passed by and then the much awaited call came. She hurriedly left and met with this mystery man to a motel in town. They again engaged in sex, he gave her a lot of money and then parted ways. Caroline went bragging about her new conquest to all her girlfriends. She said, “I don’t care what it takes, I am going to trap that one into marriage.” She went for shopping sprees buying all the designer labels she could of virtually every dress, shoes, handbags, perfume, name it, she bought it. Yeah, she was given a lot, a lot of money. Within a few days, all that money was finished. Feeling broke, she decided to call “Mr. Money”. Unfortunately for her, the call was not going through. She tried several times all day through and the following day but with no luck.

Finally, three weeks later, the mystery man called and without much thought, she agreed to meet him for another round of casual sex. As he did the previous time, he paid her a huge amount of money. Excited, Caroline left again without asking many questions. It had been almost two months and she did not know anything about this man. All she knew was that she was getting good money from him. Poor Caroline, that was enough for her; she did not want to know more. This time she decided to go to Hollywood. She was convinced she would meet even richer men there. She was a poor manager of finances and just within two weeks, she had consumed more than three hundred thousand dollars.

As fate would have it, luck was not on her side. She had not attracted any man despite all her beauty. She could not understand it. She always got whomever she wanted. Downcast, she returned home. She tried calling the mystery man but as before, she could not get through. Four days later as she was coming out of a beauty shop, she spotted him. He was in company of another young lady. She walked right to them and stated causing a scene. She was shouting at the top of her voice demanding to be given an explanation as to why his phone was off and why he had not contacted her for so long. The young man looked at her strangely and pretended not to have ever seen her in his life. Caroline was hurt. She felt cheap. “Mr. Money” got into his car with other lady and drove off.

Immediately, Justin approached Caroline and told her not to mind him. “I can give more than what that shameless excuse of a man can ever give you!” Caroline was not in the mood of talking to anyone. She went home and locked herself in her bedroom. Later that night her phone rang. It was “Mr. Money”. She quickly picked it up and he apologised for embarrassing her. He told her that the young lady was the daughter of one of the best clients he was pursuing. He had promised to take her for dinner and he could not risk disappointing her as that meant losing a very important business deal. After all sorts of explanations, he asked to meet her and she obliged. She freshened up and met with him at their usual spot and did the usual thing.

When they were done, Caroline told him that she wanted more. She wanted a relationship. They got talking and before long, they decided to get married. Caroline was happy. She was finally going to get to keep this rich man all to herself. She went home extremely happy. She made her announcement the following morning at the breakfast table. Everyone was shocked. They wanted to know more. The funny thing was, Caroline did not know anything about her fiancé not even his second name. “How can you get married to someone you don’t know?” her mother asked. Caroline did not pay attention to what she was being told. She did not listen nor hear what her family was telling her. All she wanted was to get married to this rich young man.

They planned their wedding and got married in two months time. On her wedding eve, she was so happy. She did not care about anything. All she wanted was money and that, she was sure was going to have in plenty. After all, she was getting married to the richest man she had ever come across. Everyone was against her marriage even her close friends warned her. Her wedding was colourful. Her honeymoon was going to be a surprise. And surprised she was. She was so surprised to find that Luke, her husband, did not make any arrangements for their honeymoon. In fact, he had not made any arrangement of where they were going to spend that night. She could not understand what was going on. She then told him to taker her home since they could not spend the night out in the cold.

That is when Caroline felt very stupid. She had never, in her entire life, thought she could ever been caught in the circumstances she was in. She almost fainted more out of shame that had now consumed her other than what she was told. What? That is the worst joke ever pulled on anyone since the beginning of man. How was she going to face her family? What will her friends say? Everyone knew she got married to Luke “Mr. Money” even after stern warning from her father and thoughtful advice from her mother. Was Caroline a gold digger? Yes she was. Did she get any gold? Well, she dug very deep; very deep that she could have collected all the gold she wanted. Unfortunately for this beauty queen, there was no gold.

Luke “Mr. Money”, did not own anything. He was a broke ass ex convict was wanted by the police. A fugitive is what he was. So where did he get all the money he was spending? Well, a con man knows how to make quick cash and they know how to spend it faster than they make it. To cut the long story short, Luke refused to give Caroline a divorce. Two months later, Caroline was implicated in crime and for being an accomplice to Luke and is now serving a seventeen year jail term.