Sarah’s POvThat afternoon was a weekend when I was free from my work routine. After breakfast this morning, I went upstairs to my room and did what I wanted. In between, I was a bit lazy by lying on my bed, which always called me to be on it, and snuggling with the blanket. If I look at the cloudy weather outside, it's like it's giving me an excuse to keep hiding under the blanket. "It's fine, I don't have any urgent work either," I muttered, giving myself a reason to relax. There was nothing that really urged me to move anyway. The matter of my divorce was even just pending in the next week.What happened that day and afterward, I wanted to plan only after the verdict to be more relieved and feel free with my completely changed status. But the knock on the door that came to my ears made my body move from the middle of the bed and get off. "Yes, just a moment." My voice answered her as I walked over to the door and straightened my hair. "What's wrong?" I asked the man behind the doo
Sarah’s PoV"You want us to have a date at this place?" I chuckled in front of him. We were in front of a movie theatre crowded on weekends by couples of all ages.I don't know how many times I've seen several pairs of people holding hands while walking with happy facial expressions, looking sweet together, walking with their laughter and jokes. It's not that I'm jealous, it's just that I feel a bit strange imagining myself doing the same thing with them, but the difference is that they are living the relationship sincerely, while I'm just pretending, but it has to be convincing.I don't know how. It was too awkward for me to force myself to do all that. Moreover, I really had no experience dating anyone. With Alex? The times he took my hand while walking together were the only times when people were watching, and even then, he looked like someone who was forced to hold me. Why did I only notice that expression now? After all this time? What a fool I was."Yes, why is there a problem?
Sarah’s POVI smiled at the thought of Donna, earlier when she saw Ethan ,she complimented him on his amazing looks, but what would happen? What would she say, and what would her reaction be if she found out that Ethan was the boss at work, the man whose rumours were talked about by all the office employees, the person she considered disabled.He would have been shocked, perhaps frozen in place, speechless, or even in disbelief. "You know Donna?" I turned to the man again as I led him out of the café since we were done there."Your friend from earlier?" He pulled my hand back into his grip.I nodded my head while walking out of the cafe. "Yes, but other than that, she's also your employee at the office." I noticed that the man was silent and just listening without any meaningful expression on his face except that he was listening and watching his surroundings while I was walking as if anticipating something that might approach and intrude on me. "You didn't know that?"He nodded. "I k
Sarah’s POV"Come on." I invited him to move from there without looking directly into his eyes. My heart was still beating noisily at this moment, creating a restlessness in me that was a little difficult to overcome.The stares of the people watching us walk together with me carrying a large bouquet of flowers in my hand made it more conspicuous and stole their attention towards me, I could hear them faintly whispering about how lucky I was to be treated so special by him, and some of them stared with smiles and whispered about things I couldn't hear but from the way they looked at me, with warm smiles making me feel embarrassed and hid even more, covering my face with the bouquet I was carrying."Ethan, come quickly." I insisted by pulling his hand. The man looked at me with confusion on his face."Where are we going? Is there anything else you want to do?" He asked me as he approached.I slowly started to slow down my footsteps and kept pace with him. "Where else? Haven't we done e
Sarah’s POV"I have to tell him first." I left my room quickly to the next room to approach Ethan. I knocked on his door several times until it opened and revealed himself in the doorway."What's wrong?" He waited for me in the doorway of his half-open room. Waiting for me to tell him what I needed to do since I rarely knocked on his door."Em...." I felt a little reluctant to invite someone to come here since this was his house, even though he said that Lira could go anytime to see me. "My friend, Lira, wants to come to see how I'm doing. Is it okay if I let her come?" I looked at his expressionless face.When he nodded, I felt relieved. "Sure, she can even stay over if she wants. I don't mind at all. You're free to invite your friends, even without asking my permission first." He responded casually.I held a smile on my lips with her answer, which left me satisfied. "In that case, thank you." I pointed to my room. "Then I'm going back to my room."Ethan nodded his head and I hurried
Sarah’s POV "What else has happened since you've moved to this place? How has your relationship progressed more precisely? I'm curious." Lira nudged my arm while revealing a smile on her flat teeth, hiding behind her half-open lips.I snorted with laughter as I averted my eyes from her. The more I dodged, the closer she got to me and left me with no opening to escape from her who was now starting to tickle my stomach."Tell me I made you unable to speak." She insisted."Alright, alright." I took her hand away from me and straightened my sitting position. "What happened in this place after I moved here wasn't really much." I fixed the position of the glasses for no reason, just to make my eyes focus without having to look at Lira alone. I still didn't want to tell her about our relationship status, which was an agreement.Lira mustn't know or she'll go back to worrying about me, she'll go back to being sad because she thinks that my life hasn't changed. Although that wasn't entirely t
Sarah’s POV"What's wrong?" I kept seeing her smiling while walking with my hand. I knew that she was in a good mood, but it felt like this smile was teasing me, and I couldn't resist asking her.Lira turned to me with an even bigger smile on her face. "Isn't she very loyal to you?"So, Ethan was the reason her smile had kept appearing on her lips since getting out of the car. I averted my eyes from him. "I don't know, I don't really think about it." I didn't know what to say. I still felt unworthy of receiving these kinds of luxurious things from Ethan.I vowed not to take advantage of him because this relationship was an agreement only. I realized that I shouldn't harm him. But... that guy just kept making the boundaries set by the line fade away because of his actions. He constantly appeared, offering various things that weakened me."What do you know? Don't you realize that his attitude is very considerate of you? It's like he's showing that he wants to be your provider. Having a
Sarah’s POVAlex looked at me in disbelief. "There's no way you have that much money." Her eyelids opened perfectly. "No matter if you work, five million dollars is a lot. You can't possibly have that."This man was indeed looking down on me. Such a large sum? I can't possibly have it? Of course I have more than that amount of money in my savings, I have value. The company I work for appreciates me well. They pay me a decent amount so I can live a decent life.Maybe all this time, she thought of wealth and comfort. Little did she know that I wasn't after anything from her. I could live well without his money and just rely on my salary, but I stayed because I loved him.Because I was too stupid and expected it, it took me too long to realize that the man I loved was trash.I snorted, my eyebrows twitching angrily. "You don't know anything about me!" It was obvious.How could he know if he had never noticed me all this time? He ignored me like I was never a part of his life. What did sh