“Gift, I promise you that I can never be disloyal to you, you have to believe me,” Zenith sounded desperate as he was kneeling in front of gift. “Of courses what did I expect of someone like you,” she groaned as she looked away from him when he grabbed her wrists and and kissed the back of her palm. “Mama, how did we get here?” He lowered his head, feeling regretful as a sigh left his lips, but he didn't stop rubbing the back of her hand with his thumb to appease. Her. How they got there? Oh! Gift knew. She knew it very much, and although she somewhat blamed herself, but she couldn't bring herself to back down. Although Zenith had apologized, she still felt embarrassed and a little hurt because of her misunderstanding. “Hmmpf,” she looked to the side, but unable to focus on the TV displayed in front of her as her mind went back to barely 30 minutes ago, after she had sent Olivia to school. It was the second day since they came back from the ship cruise, there had been more goin
He could hear the emergency bells go off in his head as his eyes widened in realization. With it came the urgent need to explain himself. “I'm sorry. I didn't mean it like that.” His words were rushed as she searched her eyes for anything that could make him feel safe, rather she smirked without the smile reaching her eyes. Unlike the normal times when he could read her emotions, when she was pissed or even trying to hide a blush, he knew it was different this time. There was nothing there. “Oh really?” She folded her arms in front of her chest. “Yes, I know that came out wrong, but that's not what I meant. I hope you don't misunderstand.” “Misunderstand? But why would I do that? After all, I'm not the one you're dressing up to go on a date with. I would only be overstepping my boundaries if I misunderstood,” another smirk that didn't reach her eyes. “I know you're angry, but I wasn't lying when I said that I don't plan on it being a real date.”“But why? You're so well dresse
“Since I can't start my physiotherapy yet and I've been resting all day, what other activities can I do with my time.” Gift groaned as she slammed her pen in the desk. “I see you've had enough of studying for the day as well,” her aide who had witnessed everything that happened between her and Zenith said as she leaned towards her. “Exactly. It's such a simple topic and I've solved lots of questions under it, but this one is really upsetting. I'm so tired,” she groaned as she proceeded to slam her books shut. “Hmm, in that case,” her aide sat back and stroked her chin in thought, “I'd suggest you go out. Not to do anything strenuous though. You can admire nature if yore a nature lover, any other familiar things that can calm your mind,” her maid suggested as she returned her gaze back to Gift who was now lost in her own thoughts. “I should hang out with Winifred then. I haven't seen her since that day,” she thought as she reached for her phone to dial Winifred's number, missing th
Gift noticed that her spirit was down again and in her attempt to liven her up, she started another conversation. “Why don't we go out instead of going home immediately. Where do you want to go?” Gift asked and Olivia raised her head. “Really?” Olivia chirped. “Yup, mom's gonna take you anywhere you want to go. a movie theatre, an amusement park? Name it!” Gift said with pride as she hit her chest, but her aide looked back just in time to remind her of the necessary health precarious to take. “That's why you can't go to the amusement park. You will be overly excited and it could affect your leg that needs all the rest in the world. Straining it would only make hinge worse,” her aide said making Gift sulk. “But I really wanted to go to the amusement park,” she pouted as she folded her arms be it was Olivia's turn to console her. To put it simply, their roles were now reversed. “Come on, don't be like that. How about we just go to a simple cafe to have some nice drinks and pastri
“Please accept it as our token of gratitude.” The manager and two of his baristas were standing by their side as the manager gave Gift a great card that had the chef hat logo of the cafe. “Token of gratitude? But we didn't really do anything. What's this by the way?” She asked as she examined the second card she was receiving that day. “It's a member of gratitude given out to our most outstanding customers of the year. We give it twice yearly after 6 months,” the manager said and Gift's eyes widened as she looked between him, her aide and Olivia seated around their table. It was starting to get dark, but she had wanted to wait till the very end of their working hours in case Zenith eventually showed up. But up until they started to clean up although they didn't have any customers to attend to, but he hadn't shown up until the very end of it. “in that case, I can't have it, If it's such a special thing, then why would you give it to us. I only invited my friends over to eat…”“Tha
Zenith was just about to leave house in search of her when the gate opened and their car pooled in. “Where have you been, you had me really worried!” He hurried to her side and shook her shoulders before pulling her into a rather rough hug, slamming their bodies with eachother. “Worried?” Gift couldn't understand his concern. “There was no need for that. How did your date go by the way?” She tried to free her head from resting on his chest as she was close enough to hear his troubled heartbeat. “I had to cancel the date. How about you. Where have you been since morning?” He glared at her aide as she got out of the car. I'm sorry that we didn't inform you of her location, but I can promise that she was safe and there no need to worry,” her aide said in order to placate him but he was still just as angry. “It's really dangerous outside and no matter what, you can't be too careful, not with what happened to Winifred. Despite my instructions to put safety first, you still stayed out
“Why didn't you tell me about it before now?” “You had to attend to important business. I understand that you're very busy and you have a lot of responsibility.” “ Lot of responsibility that includes you Winie. I have offended you enough and I really couldn't afford for this to have happened. You are my number one most important business, yet I had been acting like you were just a replacement and I'm sorry. I'm really sorry Winie.” “Antonio. Please don't be like this, I already feel guilty for hiding everything from you. I should have told you.”“No, it's not your fault. It's me who should have looked into your past during that time that we were separated. It's all my fault.”“No, remember I asked you not to look into it if anything, it's my hus- that's man's fault that this happened, so please don't blame yourself.”“Well, someone has to take responsibility for this, right?” a deep low chuckle followed and Gift who was eavesdropping in front of the hospital room felt chill down he
“Why aren't you leaving for work early? Don't you have to deal with the issue you won't talk to me about? Or do you have another fake date to attend today?” Gift who had barely eaten her meal couldn't help but take in the outfit Zenith was wearing but she didn't want to say a thing about his outfit, not when he wouldn't tell her what exactly Timothy did. “You sound pissed, it makes me sad to see you upset,” he said and she scoffed. “As if! Just answer the question, are you going for another fake date today?” She asked as she eyed him before looking away right at the moment that their eyes connected. “Yes, I'm going for a date, but it's not going to became today,” he said and she almost exploded in fury as she gripped the arm of her wheelchair tightly. “Oh, I see,” she breathed as she tried to sound normal, but her trembling breathing gave her out, “you you've decided to make it up to that woman with areal date right?” How shameless?! She thought as she started to move her chair.