I woke up to my own face smiling back at me from the morning news. Not even the flattering kind of smile… more like the "caught mid-blink while pretending to love your billionaire boyfriend" kind. Teddy's arm was around me, my head tilted just enough to look blissfully unaware. The headline: THE WORLD'S FAVORITE COUPLE: FOX AND MATTEO TAKE GLOBAL STAGE.
If I hadn't already lost my mind months ago, this would've done it. Every channel, every news site, every bored influencer with a WiFi connection suddenly had an opinion about my life. Some called me a Cinderella story. Others called me a corporate strategy. And one podcast host… bless her caffeine-addled heart… said I was "rebranding capitalism with cleavage."
By noon, even my grandmother in Ibadan had texted me: You look tired, b
