CHAPTER THIRTEEN: NEVER BEEN STRANGERS, MORE THAN FRIENDS (2)
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FLASHBACK
Nicole could not control herself. She must be losing her mind—or maybe, even more possible, she is dreaming. But this is neither. She is not losing her mind, nor she is not dreaming. Looking at how she is with Sage right now, this is far from both. This is their reality and reality never tasted this good. She just knows that Sage’s lips will taste good.
But she fully knows that she cannot have this reality that easily. Seeing how Sage controls herself, she knows that this man will put up a fight with himself to never lose control. She wanted to laugh. This man is just too righteous for her evil plans.
She is
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: NEVER BEEN STRANGERS, MORE THAN FRIENDS (3) ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ Nicole lets out a deep breath after getting inside her apartment unit and plopping herself down her sofa. If this was a better day, she would have asked Navier to come home with her in the main house to their mother; but both of them are in really shitty condition. Just like how her conversation with Sophia went, she understands that Navier most likely needs to be alone for a while to gather himself from everything that happened. Thinking about it, she smiles proudly just by imagining how Navier acted. She can never justify the need for drugging someone, but damn it, that is not the point here. She is proud because his actions were the same as their mother’s young recklessness. It makes her happy to know that
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: TINY BABY STEPS AHEAD (1) ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ Sophia breathes in deeply before letting it all out in one go. Staring at the ingredients she had laid on her kitchen counter, she has to get moving if she wants to be done on time. She can do this and she will do this. If this was a normal situation, she would have laughed at herself for being nervous when all she needs to do is cook for Navier. Her boyfriend already tasted her cooking before and, without a doubt, he loved every bite of every dish she already served him. But this is not really a normal situation and the nervousness she is feeling is not from any of that same joyful anxiety. This is just plain anxiety.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: TINY BABY STEPS AHEAD (2)♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤Navier misses Sophia. So much. So dang much that he can literally feel some unexplainable chest pains all throughout the day just by thinking about her and all the remaining days there are before he can see her.Sophia has been busy with her academic papers, and so he was with all the things that he needed to arrange as he slowly returned to the Sy Mansion for all his works as the head of the clan. He wished he had the leisure to even see Sophia during her break times, but aside from the mere fact that he does not have the time to spare, literally; Sophia’s schedule has been at its most unstable.Every time he tries to make a call, it is either she is with her cla
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: TINY BABY STEPS AHEAD (3)♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤Romance is only supposed to be second on her list. She still has much to do before she can even cross out her number one priority on her list—but the universe really said screw her list because she was suddenly given everything, and she meant everything, she didn’t ask for… yet.This is not supposed to happen now or nowhen near now. Everything is out of schedule and totally out of her list of priorities. This is not how she pictured her romance to be. If this was a novel book, this is one of the biggest plot twists that has ever been written just to mess her whole life.She was given romance and what makes it the biggest plot twist?No, she was not given romance with Prince Charming or any nice guy she could have ever imagined. She was given romance with the total opposite of her exp
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE WOMAN ABOVE ALL (1)♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡Nicole has been pacing back and forth. No, she does not have to attend yet another long conference meeting, but rather a more intense version of that. Not company-related in any sense, but it is a meeting between the powerful members of the current Sy Clan, without Navier. That is the only thing that calms her even for a little bit. At least her younger brother is not here to suffer the same anxiety she is having.If someone sees her right now, she can already picture them looking like they have seen the impossible. She does not blame them at all. The moment she walks out of this room, she will look like she is ready to conquer the world.No, she was not trained to be like thi
CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE WOMAN ABOVE ALL (2)♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤“You’ve been a little distracted for the past weeks, Sophia. Is everything okay now? I mean, you look better compared to last week...”Sophia looks at her dear friend and co-worker Jaylene. She could not help but to laugh at the worry in her expression but felt guilty immediately. She knows that she owes Jelly a lot of explanation for everything that she is going through. She knows that she has been worried sick but held on and waited for her to be actually okay.
CHAPTER TWENTY: THE WOMAN ABOVE ALL (3)♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤ ♤Sophia is waiting for Navier. No, her boyfriend did not know that she is here and of all the things that she forgot, it really has to be her cellphone. She could have easily called Navier to make sure that he is here in the first place, but no. She really chose to be reckless right now and do the first thing that ever came to her mind… and it was simply to see Navier.“Miss Sophia?”She was startled because she honestly did not expect that someone would call her name. Facing whoever it was, she was actually relieved that it was one of the lobby’s receptionists. “H-Hello.”“Ah,
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: BY THE END OF IT ALL (1)♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡“Are you sure that this is the best way to do this, Sage?”Sage smiles—his very arrogant smile that perfectly, boldly, shows that he is a very damn well confident man—at Yuki Takahasi, his client. How can an arrogant smile not look arrogant at all? It is Sage’s very own thing. He does not need to do anything because, obviously, his arrogance comes from his greatness in his field and he is never going to hide that from anyone. Especially right now.Yuki is the very same Japanese billionaire who helped them then and has now become his client for her planned annulment with her husband. She needed a lawyer that she could trust, hence his role