Chapter: Epilogue Epilogue 6 months laterThe memory was bittersweet, of white gown, large halls and stained glass windows, It was similar to the present, but the similarities ended with gown and alters and halls, The present, was all together different, as I walked down the aisle to my husband, There were tears in his eyes and my smile was wide, real, uplifting as I walked down in the arm of Mr. Wright, Seeing as I had no else, I asked him and he agreed,We held the wedding in a small church cathedral when the buzz had faded and the public lost it’s interest in the Valero family.Simon wiped another bead of tears that had formed in his eyes and I felt on the verge of tears too, Thinking about where we started, how far we had come, the total difference between a husband late to the alter and one who waited patiently with tears of joy,It felt like they were two different people like, like the person I was seven years ago no longer existed. Yet I walked, with Ajax, my little ball of sunshine thro
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Chapter: Safety When I saw Tina again, she was jumping up and down on her heels,Giggling as she saw me walk towards her,‘Whatt’, I didn’t understand the unfiltered joy on her face, why she was so happy when I hadn’t even told her anything,‘You resolved it right’, when I got close she looked up at me, asked me still bouncing on her feet,‘Ye..’, I didn’t even complete the word when she threw herself into my hand, squealing in excitement,‘I knew it’, she buried her head in my neck holding tight before letting go,‘I’m so happy for you’, her hands stayed on my shoulders as she peered into my eyes,‘You look like a weight just dropped from your shoulders, caressing my cheek, her smile widened,‘Really’, I asked but I had already caught her infectious happiness grinning from ear to ear,‘Yes, you look sooo much happier’, she hugged me again, before pulling open the driver’s side of the door and sliding in,I stared, pleasantly surprised as I found out she was driving,‘Get in’, she rolled d
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Chapter: Gaining closureSimon’ s POVI couldn’t care less about the array of the Chinese delicacies in front of me, the drinks served beside them doing nothing more than irk me, as I watched my mother in silence, During Ajax’s kidnapping I had felt confused, puzzled at her change in attitude and now that the threat was gone, my confusion turned to indifference,The only feeling I could feel apart from ice cold hatred,This feeling of nothingness was also a welcome alternative to feeling my heart bitter anytime I saw her, searching my head for words that would cut her anytime we crossed paths,The silence felt palpable as my mother eyes stayed fixed on the table cloth in front of her, hand clutching her Hermes bag so tightly they turned paper white,‘Well, say something’, when the sound of my breathing began to echo in my ears, being the only sound in the room I figured I had enough,She stayed silent for seconds more and I braved my hands on the fancy table, about to rise to my feet,‘Simon’, finall
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Chapter: Promise and fulfillment After so many subtle reminders by Alicia, I finally arranged their meeting, fulfilling my promise to help.It was the morning Ajax was to start school with Lisa,He was excited chattering away from the moment we picked Lisa up,After we dropped them off at school, I typed in a different destination into the GPS system,‘Aren’t we going to work’, he turned to me, puzzled,‘Work can wait for a few hours’, I placed my seatbelt back in, leaning back and closing my eyes,‘Where’s this’, I felt his eyes on me, the engine idling away,‘Just drive’, I opened my eyes to look at him, stared at him till he turned forward and pulled back to the road,‘Tina, that is a restaurant right’, he stared at the GPS system, the destination reading Shu Garden,‘Are we going on a date?’,‘Are you taking me out?’, his voice filled with excitement, as looked at me with a wide smile,‘It is a Chinese restaurant and as much as I would like this to be a date’‘No it’s not’, I felt bad as I dashed his
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Chapter: Battle attireI started shaking my head when Simon pulled me to sit beside him,‘I know you’re going to say we’re not’‘But we were never really divorced, I never signed the papers’‘What!!’, my mouth dropped open in shock, my mind reeling from newfound information,‘So you’re Valentina Valero, you’ve always been’.‘Come in’, Simon called out,The door opened and a guy walked in, pushing in a package,‘Did you order something’, I turned towards Simon, and I’m my shock I forgot to care about the not too subtle evidences of our passionate lovemaking.‘Yeah, I almost forgot’, he pushed off the sofa, not bothering to straighten his rumpled shirt,Walking over to the delivery guy, took the package from his hands and tipped him.‘What’s that’, he placed the box on the couch ripping it open and I peered inside,‘Simon!!’, surprise exploded from my lips as he pulled out a dress, ‘It’s so beautiful’, I took it from his hand, stretching it out in front of me,It was an elegant dress of royal b
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Chapter: Diamond ring ‘I don’t like the thought of people treating me differently just because I’m with you’‘If the only reason a person will smile at me is because I’m Mrs. Valero, then I don’t want it’‘Tina, people would always treat you differently based on your status’‘They treated you terribly before but they won’t dare to now’‘I mean I was subtle about it before, but now if they so much as look at you wrongly they would find themselves out of a job’‘They know that so they have to act accordingly’‘Simon…’‘You’re supposed to console me, not make matters worse’‘And don’t you dare fire anybody’.‘Yes ma’am’‘But Tina…’‘All I’m saying is people will always change, it doesn’t matter’‘All I need you to know is…‘I would be here with you, unchanging, forever and always’.My heart expanded, with joy, almost to bursting, his words lighting fireworks in my heart, ‘All that being said…’, yet he kept talking, ‘Will you marry me’, my eyes watered then, the joy too much too hold it leake
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