CHRISTY:“You would be joining us?” I asked in disbelief. “Why?”My heart secretly swelled in happiness. The things Everetts and I could do while we were there. And I wanted to make sure that our wedding will be consummated. It was always long overdue. When I was already prepared to give him my body, would he accept me? Will he accept the fat me?“Everette does not have to answer your question, dear,” Clara interjected as if she did not want her son to change her mind. “We will inform everyone when the cruise will be. Thank you for all your warm acceptance of the invitation especially do my son, Everetts.” Clara raised her glasses for a toss. “I am already excited that my son is going to join us,” Clara squealed.Facing Everette, I asked, “Are you sure about this? Promise. I won’t take this against you.”“You don’t have to worry about anything, kitten. I will just finish everything.”“Are you sure?” I asked again. “Everette. You don’t have–”“Don’t change my son’s decision. And don’t
CHRISTY:Too bad my husband did not love me at all, and this was one of the saddest things that happened in my relationship.“I am certain that these feelings will fade away in a matter of months. Like how it happened to my previous boyfriends,” I muttered which was a lie of course. “Bear with me, husband.”Removing these feelings? Stopping a flood was much easier than making my feelings for Everette disappear.I was certain this would not disappear at all. My feelings for him had already rooted in my chest and they wouldn’t be uprooted just like that. I needed something. A big reason why I should stop loving him. And I could not find anything at all. Everette was almost perfect, except for loving Eden until now. Everette straightened himself and shifted his attention to the window.“You are an amazing woman, kitten. I wanted to teach myself to love you. Aside from Eden, but…I don’t know. The thought of me loving someone else causes my heart to bleed.”I heaved a sigh and closed my
CHRISTY:My heart was bleeding and if only the blood could be out in a basin and be weighed it would weigh a lot. Everette never even filtered his words. The truth was...when it came to Eden, he looked like he was another person. And it fucking hurt a lot when he never considered my feelings when it comes to Eden.Why did all the men I chose to love were so complex? Could I love someone with a less messy life?“I never said that I want your love or you should reciprocate your feelings to me, Everette,” I said quietly. “I want to be clear on that.”His touch which brought peace to my chest became acidic, burning my body, and causing me a lot of pain. Still, I never bothered to break away from his touch.He heaved a sigh. “Just don’t... don’t order me to forget about her. It makes me mad. I’m getting sick of hearing it from my family and I did not want to hear it from you either, kitten. I brought you here because I thought you would understand what I felt.”You brought me here to infli
CHRISTY:May I cry now? May I scream in anger after hearing what my dear husband had just said? Awesome how Everette did not want to divorce me right away, but when it comes to Eden, he would. Without a doubt.I looked up and stared at the blue sky. How could I have missed it? It turned out, Everette was not that perfect. He had his own set of flaws which I only realized now. And everything was about Eden.“You will divorce me?” I asked, in disbelief. “Are you sure, my husband?” My voice was full of sarcasm.What was painful was that he never thought about it a couple of times. Which also meant he would rather want to lose me than Eden.In the end, I was replaceable. Always. “I will if it means shutting your mouth. My family was already giving me a hard time, kitten. I brought you here because I trusted you. But what are you doing? You’re breaking my trust, kitten.”“And because of that, you’re going to divorce me even if you already know my feelings for you? Even if I want to di
CHRISTY:Raven looked at me with a weird expression before asking, “Christina. You already have a husband, yet you’re still jealous of some random woman? Don’t tell me you still have feelings for me.”I gasped. “Jealous? Why would I?” I stared at him as if he had grown some pair of horns. “Are you freaking kidding me, Raven? Did you forget I was the one who broke up with you?”“It was me who initiated the breakup.”My forehead knotted. “It was you?” And I did not remember. Wait. What happened to my memories? Was it messed up already? I really believed it was me who broke up with him.Raven gave me a blank look. “You were the jealous type. Before. You wouldn’t even let me text my female friends.”I bet my lower lip. “Did I do that?” He broke up because I was the jealous type? Raven pocketed his hands. “You were like that and because of you, I never had another woman scared that she would be as jealous as you.”I mentally counted the last time we broke up and my eyes bulged. “You mean
CHRISTY:The car was filled with tension while I was fuming inside. Damn him! How dare he!Did my husband believe I was also happy ordering him to forget about his beloved Eden? No! I did not want to be the antagonist in his life. This was also difficult for me! Why cannot he believe that?Why would he when he clearly believed you were the only one who would benefit if he would forget about his feelings with his beloved Eden? It was not true!“Hate me all you want, Everette but I won’t stop ordering you what you should be doing,” I answered. “I don’t care if you believe I am an antagonist in your life as long as I should be doing what should be right.”“I thought you would be the first one who would understand me, kitten.”“Don’t use my feelings, husband. For six months, I have the right to dictate to you since you are my husband,” I clarified.He smirked in the mirror. Glancing at me and back on the road, he said, “You were the one who kept on reminding me that this is nothing but
CHRISTY:If my husband ever agreed to this divorce, I did not know how I could heal my heart. It would take maybe a couple of years or maybe forever to heal the wound from our breakup. “I could not give you the answer right now, kitten. Give me some time to think.”“What's there to think when you are already weary of me? My pen is always ready to sign the divorce papers.”His lips pressed into a thin line. “Why are you always in a haste to divorce me? Does it have something to do with the mayor? You love him that much?”I leaned on the seat and smiled bitterly. “Do I look like I still love Raven?” I inquired.Long silence flowed and I thought that he would never answer me, but he said, “Your happiness was genuine when you were with him. You have feelings for him and you also told me about it. Loving two people at the same time.”Oh. I did say that. But unknown to him, I was only lying to him at that time. “I was only having a good time with him,” I explained. “We never had the cha
CHRISTY:My phone rang again and without making Mom wait, answered it. “What’s going on?” I asked. “Was that a prank, Mom? Or is this some kind of joke?” My voice trembled in the end as I held my phone close to my ear.My throat went dry as I waited for my mother's reply. “A prank? Is that the result of watching nonsense videos? You think your Dad's life is some sort of joke?” Mom snapped on the other side of the line. Fuck. Oh, gahd. My heart hammered against my chest. Dad and I had no great relationship, but…he was still my parent. I…I did not want anything bad to happen to him. “Didn’t you read my text? I brought your dad to the hospital. You give me money for his hospital bill. You pay the hospital bills,” she reiterated. “Why?” I asked, trying to contain my fear. Outside, my husband had been trying to talk to me, but I no longer had the time to focus on him. Right now, my dad was more important. “Is this serious, Mom, or you are only using Dad to ask for money from me?”I
CHRISTY:Then Everette's eyes snapped open.I held my breath as I stared at his beautiful eyes."Kitten...""You're awake. Are you done pretending that you were asleep?" I asked softly, already tired of fighting with him. A year of hiding from him only made my love for him grow even stronger.My heart yearned for him, and seeing him after a year, I felt like I had become whole again.He sat while I snatched my hand away and put it on my lap."You still love me," he commented."I did not say anything like that," I denied, averting my gaze. "Yes, you did. I heard you say one, Kitten.""It was only your dream, Everette. You did sleep, right? You were dreaming earlier."Touching my chin, he forced me to look at him. My toes curled. Yes. I still loved this man. A year of not seeing him made me want to jump at him and kiss him like crazy and have lots and lots of sex as if to make up for the lost time. My hands yearned to touch his face and traced the outline of his cheeks. Everette le
CHRISTY: When you least expected someone, you would meet that someone. I thought my husband had already gone home like what Poppy had said. Did Poppy lie to me or was it only because my husband waited for me to step out? "Kitten...It's you." He looked at my face and down to my body and back to my face again. "I was right. You are only at the bakery shop. W-Why did you have to lie?" he asked, his voice trembling. His hair was already long and his mustache and stubbles had grown so much as if he was a completely different person. Despite that, he was still beautiful. The very person whom I managed to love. "I'm not. Y-You're mistaken, Mr." I pretended to fan myself. "You're drunk, Mister." "I only drank two canned beers, Kitten." He sauntered towards me, but I stepped back. "What are you doping? Like I said, I am not who you think I am." His expression turned glassy. "Kitten, please. Tell me what I did to punish you like this. What did I do wrong, Kitten? Why did you leave me
CHRISTY:"He is gone," Poppy announced after talking to my husband. I hid in the kitchen as Poppy struggled to look for some alibis and lied to my husband. I was glad I was able to watch the CCTV camera and found him approaching. If not, he would know I was here, working in Poppy's bakery shop. If Everette will find out that I was only here for the whole year, he might be mad at Poppy. The woman had no fault. In fact, she was kind enough to give me a job where I wanted it. Everette…he looked like a hermit who just came out from his hiding place. He had a rugged expression on his face, but he was still handsome.How long has it been since I last saw him face to face? More than a year already and I just wanted to run into his arms."Thank you, Poppy. You're the best," I said weakly. “Thank you for having my back.”She looked at me with a stern look. “I was not happy with what you did, okay? I was only forced to do it because I loved you. But Christy…how long will you keep on punishin
EVERETTE: It had been an nth time since I stared at my wife’s picture when we had our cruise ship. It was a candid picture of her while we both sat on the sand. A year of missing her. My wife was gone just like what I dreamed. When I entered the house, when I returned back from working on the company, her clothes were still there, but she never returned. At first, I was scared that she was kidnapped again, but there were witnesses of her going somewhere else alone. She was not kidnapped. The truth was, she was only looking for a perfect opportunity where she could go and run away. It had been what? One fucking years of her absence. No calls. No text. Not even anything. Until now, I blame myself for what happened. Maybe…if I did not work late, I would still be able to stop her from disappearing. “Why don’t you give up, Everette?” Vincent said. “If you did not find her, it only meant that she did not want to be found.” We were in the house. I asked him to come and he did witho
CHRISTY: I want the world to swallow me now. What a very perfect timing. Beatrice being able to witness me slapping her husband. I would understand if she would hate me after this. She loved her husband so much that salpping him will be the reason why he would throw a fit. I did not know how to console Beatrice or how would I be able to face her and explain what she just heard and what she had witnessed. Did I regret going to their cabin? I did not. All I was thinking was this woman who looked like she could not even hurt a fly. "Beatrice..." I mumbled. Approach her. She deserved to know what her husband said. Are you sure? The other part of my mind said. If the truth would hurt her so much, was it worth it? Left with no choice, I sauntered towards her. "How long had you been listening?" I asked directly, no loger beating around the bush. If she hated me after this, all I had to do was accept everything adn move on. There was so much bigger things that needed my attention.
CHRISTY:I did it! I was able to slap Drake! I was able to avenge Beatrice!It was not so me to hurt anyone, but after slapping Drake, I felt this weird sense of fulfillment coming from the inside of my chest. Instead of getting guilty, all I felt was the sense of fulfillment of avenging Beatrice. My palms were itching to slap him again, but once was enough. As long as I was able to send him the message that not everyone liked him was already enough.Drake glared at me, watching the imprints of my hands on his palm. It hurt even for a moment and he would no longer be able to forget me. Staring down at me, he asked, "What the fuck was that for? As far as my memories are concerned, you and I had no proper conversation. What did I do to earn a slap from you? Be thankful that you're a woman or else," he trailed off.“So what if I am a woman?” I asked. I scoffed. "You have to ask me those questions? Are you that dense?" I asked. He stared at me for a long time, his face bright red wi
CHRISTY:Beatrice looked at me as if I had grown horns. I was a bitch for suggesting it to her, but what could I do? I was not the type who would just stare at a woman who was hurting because of a man.Yeah. I know. It was the suggestion that she was totally unexpected. Or maybe she already expected it, but she could not do anything about it. Perhaps I was not the only one who had told her to divorce her husband. "Y-You want me to divorce my husband?" she asked in disbelief, using the same words I had suggested. "Do you even hear yourself?" she asked. “Divorce? How could you say that!”"I heard myself loud and clear," I said nonchalantly. “It’s time to let go of that jerk.”Tears swelled in her eyes.Beatrice always had a waterworks, and I did not like any of that. A woman’s tears were like a stab wound on me. I kneeled in front of her and said, "It's time to let go of the man who did not even love you. Do you understand? Stop hurting yourself because you deserve someone who would s
CHRISTY:"I knew women like you. You will grab every possible opportunity," she spat. “Seeing you annoys me even more. You reminded me of your Mom.”“Mom and I are two different beings, Mom,” I said politely, even if my heart was already bleeding too much. And I could not blame Clara. Mom showed her worse side. “As long as my husband won’t believe that I will cheat on him, I am fine with whatever you say, Mom.”Clara’s hand shook in anger. She was dying to hurt me. To slap me once again. “Christy is right, Mom. The only thing that you can do is accept this marriage.” Everette kissed me on my hair. Clar did not like it a bit. “Mom, let us have peace. Christy admitted it was a mistake that she left me in the altar. But don’t you think it’s already too long since that happened? Let’s move on, Mom. Please?” Everette was about to touch his Mom’s hand, but Clara slapped his hand away and looked at me with disgust.“You’re a witch. You bewitched my son!” She was about to slap me, but Everet
CHRISTY:Panic kicked in as I struggled to break free. No matter how much I attempted to shout, my voice was muffled. The person holding me won't budge at all. I kicked in. I thrashed. I shouted, but no words would come out.Everette! Please help me!What the heck was happening?"Stop squirming or I will hurt you for real," he threatened. “Do you think I will hesitate hurting a woman?”I stopped, sensing this bastard won’t hesitate to hurt me at all. My body went cold. It was the man whom Everette had fought with. Vincent was right. Sooner or later, he would come to get me. I should have listened to Vincent when he said I should be careful. Everette’s enemies would resurface. Did I listen? I did not. As he dragged me deeper into the darkness, I was losing even more hope that someone would be able to help me.It was safe to let him think that he was able to get my trust. Hot tears welled in my eyes as I thought of Everette. Would I die not being able to see my husband? If I knew