CELINE POV-Since Skye has recovered from the fever, we decided to let go to kindergarten first. We arrived at school earlier because Tristan and I had a discussion with Skye’ and Sunny’s teacher regarding Skye’s situation.“I’m sorry to hear about that. I will make sure we don’t give any reason to trigger Skye’s situation. I will also redouble the focus on Skye and Sunny, Ma’am and Sir.” The teacher said while we were talking to her outside the classroom.“Thank you so much, Teacher Agnes.” I sincerely thank her.I gaze at Skye and Sunny, who were now happily playing and talking with their fellow children.Despite the teacher’s assurance of watching over my children, I still couldn’t eliminate the fear of what might happen to them while I was away. What if Sunny’s illness will attack her suddenly? What if Skye suddenly remembers about the monster he was talking about and I’m not with them when that happens?“I’ll will call both of you right away if there’s even a little of trouble
CELINE POV-“What!?” I snorted. “What do you mean, new job?”I saw Lance tighten his grip on the papers he was holding before he let go and placed them on the table.Lance tightened his jaw while maintaining his gaze on me. “Do you think I don’t know what you’re f*cking doing, Celine? You were absent from no d*mn excuse for consecutive f*cking days. For f*cking what? Go f*cking awol and get fired from your f*cking job on g*dd*mn purpose?”Why didn’t I consider Lance was not that foolish to assume that thing?“I warned f*cking you Celine. You are simply devising a g*dd*mm*t plan to keep your distance from me, I have a plan ready, so you won’t be out of my sight.” Lance said firmly and angrily, but calmly.“You can’t do this.”“If you believe I’m breaching the contract, you are free to d*mn terminate your contract. Inform me immediately if you intend to terminate the contract, so I can figure out where we should go on our first date.” he said in his cold baritone voice. He shows no em
CELINE POV - After I changed my clothes because my shift was over, I took the things from my locker and left the attendant room. I then began to feel tired all over my body. Looks like I need a massage at the end of this week. My body changed with the new job given to me. Even though I use my whole body to work as a cook and receptionist when I’m at Stellar restaurant, the housekeeper’s job is still different. Both are tiring but the tiredness differs from my body. “Celine!” I looked at Bianca as she hurriedly walked towards me. “What happened? Why were you cleaning the hallways a while ago and wearing a different uniform?” “I’m in the housekeeping department.” I answered almost in a whisper, not because I was ashamed of my work, but because I was tired. If I arrived at the apartment, my main desire was to relax with my kids and have food delivered for us to eat. “What!?” Bianca’s voice was a bit high pitched. “Is that possible? How did that happen?” “It’s a long story. I
CELINE POV-Even though I slept well for over eight hours, I could feel the pain in my whole body, but I needed to get up earlier to cook Skye and Sunny for breakfast and they would eat for school.It’s already 05:30 am. My intention was to wake up before five in the morning, but it seemed like I also had to train myself to wake up earlier so that I would not be in a hurry, like now. Before leaving the room, I kissed Skye and Sunny’s forehead then left my room.As I was going to the kitchen, I was surprised when I saw the food covers on the table. Even though I was tired last night, I was sure I left nothing here at the table.When I was near the table, I saw a sticky note. I took it and read it.‘I came here earlier to cook breakfast. I didn’t wake you up because I saw you were fast asleep. I bought you pain relief patches, but make sure you don’t use it for over 12 hours. Please call me if you’re awake. I love you. - Tristan Carter.’I smiled after reading Tristan’s note and then
LANCE POV - I shook my head while looking at Celine’s beautiful face. Sure enough, after sitting on the couch and less than five minutes later, she fell asleep. “You still haven’t changed.” I whispered. I slowly and carefully arranged Celine’s place. I laid her on the couch. Perhaps by the time she wakes up, she will ponder something if I move her to the guest room or my room. I rushed to get a blanket from my room but subsequently I noticed how clean and tidy my room was. When I opened the cabinet, my clothes were neatly folded and hung. I didn’t realize that Celine was skilled in this kind of thing. There are many things about what Celine can do I am unaware of, and I repeatedly find myself fall by her. After I got a blanket, I returned to Celine and then I put it on her body. I sat on the floor to gape at her beautiful face and see it closer. Staring at Celine in a peaceful place like this is priceless. If only I could spend a billion dollars so that I could be with Celine a
CELINE POV-I quickly opened my eyes as I remembered I had taken a nap while in Lance’s penthouse suite.I was about to get up but couldn’t when I saw Lance’s blue eyes staring into mine.Did I dream, or was Lance just a hallucination in front of me? I am sure he wasn’t here before I accidentally took a nap? I hope the whole day hasn’t passed?“You just take a nap, Celine.” Lance said, as if he read the questions in my mind. “You’re still the same as before.” Lance added, laughing.I mentally frowned in surprise. What does Lance know about me, and what does he know about me?I was supposed to get up, but during the time I moved, I noticed Lance didn’t move from his position. If when I got up, my face might hit his face if he didn’t move away from me.“I’m going to get up.” I told him. He seemed to have no intention of moving, anyway.“Aren’t you going to stay here first?”“If you look around, I’m done with my work.”Lance looked around, so I took this chance to swiftly get up and sta
CELINE POV - It’s still imprinted on my heart and mind how I cried every night before that I couldn’t breathe because of so much crying. How he hurt me repeatedly. Especially during the times when I was ready to do everything to save our marriage and stay together, but what he did is he didn’t destroy me but, he also drained me. Before I completely let go of our marriage, I endured many times even though it was so painful and crazy to love him. When I fell in love with him, I thought I saw the person I would spend the rest of my life with. I didn't care everything, even to our unborn child, but what did he do? He married another woman in a snap. Maybe when Lance needed me, he just needed me but he didn’t want to be with me. That could be the reason he got married hastily and disregarded our three years of marriage. And I don’t want to go through the painful sensation when I fell in love with Lance. I can’t let myself go. I can’t lose myself again because I have children I
CELINE POV-Lance grabbed my other arm at the same time as he pressed me against the metal wall with his darkened eyes.“What are you–”I tried to remove his grip but before I could raise one of my hands, he quickly moved his grip on my wrist hand and stuck it to the wall. Lance did the same to my other hand.He slowly brought his face closer to mine and at the same time pressed one of my hands in his grip, enough not to hurt me and enough not to let go of the grip. Lance’s other hand gradually rose to my palm until he reached my palm and forced our hand to intertwine.“Your hands are cold,” he whispered in his throaty voice with a mellifluous voice.I swallowed hard upon seeing Lance’s face up close again. His sharp nose with a mole above the hole in the right side, which was about the size of the dot of a new pencil sharp.I nearly buried my head in the wall to avoid his face being so close to mine that I could perceive his heavy breathing.My eyes seemed to have a life of their o
CELINE’S P O V-“What I’m going to say is important,” she adds.“What else?” there was bitterness in my tone.“For your sake, your family’s sake.”“Tell me what you want to say now.”“No. It’s better if I tell you in person.”“No.” I also refused. “I won’t meet you until you tell me what you want to say.” I insisted. “You broke my trust in you, so I can’t trust you this time.”Judging by her voice on the other line, she seemed desperate to talk to me. But if she deceived me for five years, she was capable of doing it again.I wasn’t mad at Bianca for having an affair with Lucian. I was mad at her for ignoring our friendship and my trust in her.“About…”I looked at my phone screen and saw she ended the call. Out of nowhere, worry overcame me.I attempted to phone her number, but my attempt failed. Was it possible she had something important to say? If so, what about it? If she knew about Lucian’s condition and that’s what she should tell me, there’s no need, because I already know
LANCE HART POV-I put down the folder containing the documents I had to approve, but after a few minutes of reading it I couldn’t focus. Over three hours had passed since Celine left. Five minutes had passed when she called me to tell me to remove the body guards I had sent. After that, she said she would call me again in an hour. I can’t rest until my own eyes see Celine is doing well, also I miss her so much.I stood up to get a black coffee. Just as I faced the table again, I recoiled after I saw Skye sitting on the sofa. Upon approaching him, my eyes bulged when I saw he was holding Starr’s picture. As I often did, I looked at their pictures; among the many on the table, Skye focused on Starr’s lone picture.Celine will scold me if she finds out Skye saw Starr’s picture. We were planning to tell our children about Starr before we got married, but we planned to tell them together.I sat down next to Skye and put my coffee cup on the table. “Skye, why did you wake up?” I attempted
CELINE SALVATORE POV-I wore a sleeveless sexy backless white dress high waist slim a-line short dress, paired with three inch black ankle strap heels. For the make up I did I kept it simple, for my short hair is loose.After checking myself I came out of the walking closet. I straiht to the mini living room where Lance was watching a children’s cartoon with our children.“What do you all think?” I asked them.Lance turned off the tv first then he looked at me, followed by our children.“Mummy, you’re beautiful!” Sunny, lauded.“You look amazing, mummy.” Skye, acclaimed. “You look gorgeous as always.” Lance, extolled.“Are you all sure? Look again.” I turned around once to show them the entirety of what I was wearing.“What the f*ck, why is the back of your dress like that?!” Lance exclaimed as he stood up.I glared at him for swearing in front of our children.“Mummy, what is, what the fa... fa…” Sunny asked curiously but had difficulty saying the word she wanted to know.“That’s a
SABRINA RODRIGUEZ POV-I smiled after Celine sent a picture to our group chat. Joy welled up inside me at the thought of their happiness. I keep telling myself that she deserves her happy family. Despite all the problems and hardship they have gone through she and Sir Lance still love each other very much.I put down my phone and I drank the twentieth shot of whiskey.“Please have one more shot of whiskey.”I think the spirit of alcohol had kicked into my body. My head was aching from the loud music and the surrounding people, plus the various smells mixed with the smell of alcohol and cigarettes. Why did I even think of going to this bar?Since I’m finishing the project I’m doing for a client who will build a mansion for their growing family, I take a whole day off. I shopped almost everything I wanted I remained unsatisfied, so I went to the nearest bar I saw. “Thank you.” I told the bartender as he handed me a shot of whiskey.I drank the whiskey straight again and paid. I should
CELINE SALVATORE POV-Lance fulfilled what he said, after the grace period of three days he would finish all the work and, could take care of the wedding preparation. Today is our fifth day of preparation.We hired a wedding planner that Christine suggested to us. Her recommendation felt like a sure thing, given my experience with her previous wedding planning success. The wedding planner also suggested our photographer.This evening, we got back from Italy because we had a dress measurement.In Italy we found a designer who will sew wedding gowns, suits and bridesmaids’ dresses. I took the bridesmaids’ measurements one by one three days ago,. For the final touch, one week before the wedding, the tailor and designer themself will come to New York for last fitting for all of us.We have accomplished a lot in the five days of wedding planning. We might move the wedding to an earlier date.“I’m leaving.” I let him know after I took the bag from our room and returned to the living room.“
CELINE SALVATORE POV-I put back my gaze at the secretary. “Thank you.”I stood up and left in front of the secretary.I took a breath and it seemed heavy to know about that thing. It was clearly a work discussion, but the thought lingered–I quickly dismissed it from my mind.I shouldn’t waste time thinking about other things. Lance loves me, he loves our children, we love him–it is the important thing and above all I trust him.I was about to get in the car but I saw the man get out of the car and come towards me.“Can we talk?” Lucian asked as he approached me.I sight at the time on the watch I was wearing. “Sure.”——————————Lucian take me in a private restaurant, where he rented the entire restaurant for the entire time.I invited him to a coffee shop, but he refused. He said what he had to say was a private matter.When we arrived at the restaurant and sat down, the waitress served us food, after that, Lucian told them to leave us.“I’m sorry, Lucian. I didn’t plan on staying lo
CELINE SALVATORE POV-“What do you want for dinner?” I asked Lance after I cleared away the container. “I’ll cook dinner.”“About that.” He held my hand, his other hand caressing my knuckles. “I’m not sure what time I’ll be home. I still have a lot of work to finish, so I can finish everything by tomorrow.”He sounded sorry, as if the sin he had committed was too big.“It’s okay, don’t worry.” I said with a smile to ease his burden. “Just, please, take care of your health.” I said, almost begging. “On our wedding day, I don’t want our friends to drag you down the altar so our wedding can go ahead.” I joked.“I won't.” He said, laughing, then hugged me tightly, just enough so that my body wouldn’t be trapped in his arms. “Thank you for giving me strength. I don’t even need to drink energy drinks anymore.”I hugged him back.For a moment, the surroundings became silent as we still hugged each other.“Celine.”“Hmm?”“Can we have one round?”I pulled away from the hug. When I looked at h
FREYA POV-After I finished fixing myself, I put the final touch on my makeup, my red lipstick as red as blood. I checked my phone first. I tightened my grip on it seeing that until now, after two days, Lance announced his engagement to the whole world. They all kept talking about all this. Our wedding back then, it maybe, was grand because I pressured him into every detail but to announce to the whole world he didn’t do it. He hasn’t said who he’s going to marry yet but I’m sure it’s his pathetic ex-wife he’s going to marry.I called that stupid thing, but he still didn’t answer my call. In my annoyance, I threw my phone somewhere in my hotel room. That stupid. I cooperated with him back then because he promised he could find a way to keep Celine and Lance away. I even sacrificed my smooth face and skin. The beating me back then in the old building was our plan. No one kidnapped me. It was all a plan to make Lance believe someone else hurt me. After beating me and got hurt, I shoul
CELINE SALVATORE POV-“As soon as possible?” I asked, with a hint of doubt.“Why don’t you seem sure?” There was concern in his voice. “Didn’t you change your mind?” There was fear in his voice.“Of course not. I just don’t know if your schedule can handle it if we get married so soon.” I spelled out.The worry on his face quickly disappeared after I explained it to him.“When would you like us to get married?”“Before our kids go back to school, so they won’t be confused about which surname to use and can use your surname.”“When is the new school year for our kids?”“Two months from now.”“Two months?!” I was the one who was worried by his question. “W-Why?”“I thought I would have to wait just less than a month to marry you.” I lost my concern. I thought he was the one who changed his mind now. I wish to give back my surname to you. If possible, we will get married next week.”“That’s a short amount of time for preparation.” I explain with a beaming face. “On a serious note, when