Two: Welcome Home

two months later...

"Daddy, I want ice cream!" Dilan set a puppy eyes at his father for his favorite dessert. 

They just got home at the airport. It's been five years since they visit the Philippines. Eloisa decided to build a new building in Makati while Kent will be taking over her family's company, The Kings and Queens Hotel. 

Eloisa hides from Kent about what happened to Lucy. He has no idea that she was put in jail and sentenced to five years because of him.

"Just wait baby, I'll call your mommy to buy it for you. Wait here, okay?" Kent put his son in the lobby area and look for Eloisa. 

While Lucy was busy looking for her ingredients for the new dessert she started to make, she heard someone's crying. It's a little boy wearing a stripe polo t-shirt with jumper pants. His face looks familiar. He resembles her ex-lover Kent Oliver Stone. 

"Hey, why are you crying? Where are your parents? Are you lost?" She came closer to asked the little boy. 

Dilan shook his head. 

"I'm not lost. I want ice cream!" He answered her. 

Lucy holds his hands and painted a sweet smile at the child. 

" May I know your name? If you tell me, I will buy you ice cream!" She happily promises the little boy. 

Dilan's eyes sparkled to her little surprise. 

"My name is Dilan. You're so kind, miss pretty!" He looks so cute when he smiled just like Kent but Lucy was disappointed to know his name. She thought he was Austin. 

Yeah, five years passed and whoever she saw a five-year-old boy, they reminded her about her son. 

"Oh, thank you. Wait here, okay?" She said and the child nods his head. 

Lucy came back with a mango-flavored ice cream in her hands. She gracefully gives it to Dilan. 

"Here. Just wait for your mom and dad okay. Don't cry--" she stops when Dilan called his daddy and mommy. 

"Daddy! Mommy!" He shouted and Lucy slowly got up to see Dilan's parents. 

"Kent? Eloisa?" She can't believe who's she's seeing right in front of her.

She quickly looks back to see Dilan again.

"If he was their son, meaning he was Austin, my son? But he was Dilan. Where is my son Austin?" Lucy asked herself. 

She hurriedly wears her eyeglasses and took her groceries with her. She hid behind the candies stall. 

"Dilan, I'm so sorry you waited so long. Here is--" Kent noticed that his son was holding an ice cream. His face is covered with ice cream too. 

Eloisa noticed it too. She came closer to ask her son who offered ice cream to him. 

"Baby, who bought that to you?" She asked Dilan. 

Dilan looked around to find the beautiful stranger he had a chit-chat with a while ago but she suddenly disappears like a ghost. 

"She's here but ran off when I called you daddy. She's kind to me. She told me to stop crying so that she will buy me ice cream!", he said and the couple just stared at each other. 

Eloisa took Dilan and pulled him beside her. 

"Let's go. Let's talk later." She said and drag him inside the car. 

Kent got mad and took Dilan from his wife. 

"He's your son. Don't treat him like anyone!" He yelled at her inside the car. 

Dilan started crying to see his parents fighting. At his young age, he was lived with miseries. His mom always yelled at him wherever he made a small mistake. He felt like he was not his mom. His dad always taking his side. He loves his dad so much. 

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Stone Residence

"I told you to don't talk at strangers right? Why you disobeyed me!" Eloisa hit Dilan with her hands on his legs. 

He cried and called his dad but Kent walked outside to have a drink at the bar. They just got home yesterday but both of them were fighting over a child. 

Eloisa holds the child's shoulders and grips them. 

"Your dad is not here. He left us because of you. If it's not for my legacy, maybe I didn't take you from your mother. Go inside your room!" She yelled at him and he burst out into tears while running back to his room. 

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One hour ago...

Lucy PoV

So they change Austin's name into Dilan? How could they?

I miss my son. He was so sensitive and delicate the last time I saw him. If I had known that he's Austin, maybe I take him with me. 

I was right. His features were like his father. How can I not know him instantly? I feel like my chest tightened and my eyes moistened with my tears. I can still recall the time they took him from me. I wasn't there when he first said the word, mommy. I wasn't there the day when he started to practice his first baby steps. I wasn't there when he was calling to feed him his milk when he was hungry. I wasn't there when he first had his first immunization. I feel like I didn't fulfill my obligation as a mother. 

I jump in surprise when my phone vibrated. I check it and it's my husband Gale who was calling. 

"Honey, I'm still in the supermarket. Do you have a request before I pay to the counter?" I said to the other line. 

"I just miss you. Hurry and get home. I'm starving!", Gale said and kiss her on the phone. 

Lucy turned off her phone and took a deep sigh. She was thinking that if Gale was Kent's stepbrother, then he knew about Austin. 

Since they met that day and decided to accept his marriage proposal, Lucy failed to ask him about his brother. Gale had a grudge against him too so they decided to join forces to take them down. 

Gale was the one who told her to change her old name to Greta. He wants Lucy to be reborn as a strong and sophisticated woman in the business industry. He helps her to be the new Lucy who wasn't afraid of everything that comes her way. 

She was now Greta Stone. A girl who was a billionaire's wife wearing a sparkling dress, high heels, and best smile to everyone.

She immediately went inside the car. She's glad that Kent and Eloisa didn't recognize her. No one will remember Lucy Mason anymore. 

Because Lucy Mason died two months ago by Brian. Eloisa ordered him to tailed her after she came out from prison. Lucy was shot twice in Tagaytay and was buried alive. 

Greta Stone may look like Lucy but she's not her anymore. After that incident, she decided to forget all about her past and move on as the wife of Gale Stone. 

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Zeus Residence

" Honey, I'm home!" Greta walked inside a three-storied mansion where she had five maids waiting for her. 

She was like a Hollywood actress who stepped on the red carpet. The mansion looks like a palace. Giant chandeliers hang on the ceiling, expensive paintings hanging on the wall, golden chairs, and tables were well arranged in the dining room, and the massive staircase calling her to step on it. 

Lucy as Greta is now living to the fullest with her rich husband Gale. 

Gale Stone, chef cook, and a business tycoon who owns the Zeus Palace in the central place in Manila. He was the most popular businessman in all magazines and tv guesting. 

He was the one who helps Lucy got up from the dirt. He gave her new hope and new life. 

"Honey, im home!" Greta said while their maids took the bags full of groceries. 

She looked up and saw Gale coming downstairs. He was holding a glass of wine in his hands. He looks like a king in his stance and the way he gaze at Greta made her melts like an ice cream. 

"I'm glad you're here." Gale said and as he reaches her, he planted a light kiss on her forehead. 

"I bought you your favorite, egg tarts!" She surprise him and showed him two boxes of Apollo egg tarts. 

Gale's taste his lips feeling excited to the gift towards him. 

"Wow, I've been craving for this since we trip to Korea for honeymoon!" He said while putting them on the kitchen table. 

"Come, honey, eat with me!", he called Greta and she came over to joined her husband. 

She's lucky to have Gale in her life. He helps her to recover from everything that's happened to her. Now, she must act like she didn't know Lucy Mason or anything about her. 

Gale's family especially his dad and brother had no idea that he secretly married Lucy. Of course, Lucy was dead and his wife name was Greta. She only resembled to Lucy. 

Her hair is now wavy and long. Her facial expressions and attitude change too. No one dared to recognize her as Lucy who had a dry straight ebony hair, no self confidence, immature and powerless. 

" Gale, I want to confess what I saw today", she was serous about it. 

Gale quickly chewed up all the egg tarts inside his mouth and focus to listen to her. 

"What is it honey, tell me!", he told her. 

Greta sighs before telling him. 

" I think I saw Austin", she said and Gale looks confused and she don't know why.