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CELINE POV-When we entered the cafeteria, Sabrina instantly pointed to the table where she had left her meal.“We don’t always sit there,” Bianca commented. “We always sit there...?” she pointed to the place where we always sit, but someone is already sitting there.“See? You’re probably not a bitch who’s going to kick out people eating there, are you?” Sabrina smiles, but it’s obvious she just wants to tease Bianca. “Bye.”Before Sabrina left, I noticed her eye roll I wish Bianca didn’t see.“Did you see that? She rolled her eyes at me,” Bianca said, annoyed.“Let’s go?” I invited Bianca. “We might run out of food.”I pulled Bianca to the queue before she appealed even more along with she gave Sabrina a grim look.“You know I’m not a bitchy type of person, Celine. But my bitchy person comes out with your sister.” Bianca said, as we lined up for the food.“Be patient with Sabrina. That’s really her attitude, but it looks like she’s changed.”“Looks like she’s changed? You’re not sur
CELINE POV-“Tristan…”When I approached him, he quickly closed his laptop.“Did I disturb you?” I asked, sitting across from him.“Not at all. Are the children asleep?”I nodded.“What do you want to talk about, by the way?”I handed Tristan the picture of me and Starr and the moment he saw this picture, a smile flashed on his lips.I couldn’t give Lance this picture earlier because he didn’t appear to be back at the hotel, and I believed that might indicate I should discuss this issue with Tristan initially.I told Tristan a while ago that after I put Skye and Sunny to bed, if he can stay here first, because I have something to tell him. I don’t want my children to hear about Starr first.“She’s really pretty. Starr is really pretty. You both look pretty in this picture. I remember when I took this photo, I was full of joy and happiness. I hope wherever she is, she is happy.”Tristan stared at the picture for a few seconds before he looked at me. He smiled and seseemed to waitor wha
CELINE POV-“Good morning, sis!”As soon as I entered the hotel, I was immediately greeted by Sabrina. She is wearing corporate attire, and every detail from her makeup to her hair is perfect.“I have a client meeting today, so I can’t join you for lunch, but at least I won’t see that witch’s face.”“Hey, don’t call Bianca anything.”“Whatever her name is, I’m not interested in knowing about her.”I held my breath. “I hope you two get along well. Bianca is a nice person.”“Excuse me, my dear sister Celine?” she raised one eyebrow at me. Her eyebrow was so high that it arched like a mountain shape. “Are you saying I’m not a nice person?”“You are just being a nice person, but Bianca has been a nice person for a long time.” I said playfully.She opened her mouth, then gasped. “Oh, my gosh! You just insulted me?”“No, it’s not that you’re not a nice person–”“No,” she cut me off. “Never compare me to that witch. It’s insulting to my entire humanity.”“Hey, I told you don’t call Bianca a
CELINE POV-At the same time as I lost my breath, tears fell from my eyes.“I don’t understand why you’re bringing all this back? Don’t you remember? You already said goodbye to me. You threw me away and worse, I begged you not to return me to my parents, but what did you do? Even in that matter, you did not listen to me and you still returned me to my parents. You treated me as if I were worthless garbage.”His gaze descended and his face relaxed at the same time.“Starr...” he mumbled.I followed what he was looking at. I noticed the picture I carried that must have fallen from my pants pocket.As I sensed Lance’s hold on me weakening, I took advantage of the moment to escape his grip, promptly picked up the picture, and concealed it in my pocket.“I didn’t mean to...”I didn’t even glance at him. I went straight to the housekeeping cart. “Let me explain.”I looked at him closely as he held the cart. “No need,” I answered sarcastically. “I don’t need an explanation. It’s very clea
SABRINA POV - “Where’s Celine?” he coldly asked, as if that slap was nothing to him. I didn’t even question if he was conscious of Celine’s presence. What’s the point of him being the owner of this hotel after all? “For what? Hurt her?” I asked sarcastically. “After you ordered our parents to hurt her, now you will be the one to hurt her?” I found out from my parents that day why they were still insisting on returning Celine to the jerk man in front of me and they told me that this jerk man ordered them to return Celine to him no matter what they did they did it to Celine before. At first, I doubted my parents and thought they were deceitful, a common practice for them. But, after Celine’s recent statement, I realized for the first time theyy telling truth. “What are you saying I ordered your parents to hurt Celine?” “You asked them to return Celine to you. Do you have any idea what they did to her just to marry you?” I immediately wiped the tears that fell down my ch
SABRINA POV-After I finished talking to my last client, I stretched my hand. Fortunately, even though I was late, I was able to come up with a good excuse, so they still accepted my offer. Otherwise, I might have been fired from my job. I also intend to resign but not now. I haven’t passed the board exam yet.I suddenly think about my sister. How is Celine doing? She must have rested, and I hope she is doing well. After what I heard earlier, I thought there was still hope for Lance and Celine to get back together, but it looks like I would prefer her to be with Tristan or be a single mother. I look at the time on my phone that I haven’t taken out of my grip since I returned to the hotel. It’s already 15:30. My snout lengthened. If I go back to the hotel, I won’t be able to catch up with Celine. She always leaves before 16:00 or exactly 16:00. I’ll probably just go to the mall to buy my skin care essentials and also look for a book that I can use for the review. I also need to focu
CELINE POV-The night after the incident between Lance and me, I filed for one week’s leave.After what happened, I couldn’t face him yet and the anger I feel towards him might increase.I don’t want to get to where I get consumed by anger and do bad things.When I filed for leave, I didn’t think about what might happen or what Lance would do. I didn’t want to see him even for one week straight.I haven’t been to work for four days, nothing Lance is bothering me. Bianca also told me he hasn’t noticed Lance at the hotel for four days.I took this opportunity to go to the Stellar restaurant with Sunny.As I entered Stellar, the employees greeted me. Some people were surprised, perhaps because I came today and maybe because of Sunny.“Ma’am, do you have a son with Sir Tristan?” asked Olivia, one of Stellar’s new crew, in shock.I smiled at them and went directly to Tristan’s office.“Mummy, I miss Skye.” Sunny utter with pouting lips as I put her down on the sofa.Tristan took Skye to L
CELINE POV - Reaching my home from the apartment, I felt a weight lifted from my shoulders. Even though I don’t have heart disease, I feel like I’m going to have a heart attack because of the nervousness earlier when I lost sight of Sunny. I looked for her all over the office when I didn’t see her. I searched the entire restaurant for her. On the point I didn’t really see her, I was supposed to go to the CCTV room, but I saw her outside the door, running inside. Sunny left the office because she didn’t see me. As she exited the office, she noticed a person resembling me, and when she believed she had spotted me, she pursued it until she left the restaurant, discovering it wasn’t me. I questioned her several times to make sure if nothing bad happened to her. She always answered nothing. “Sweetheart, did nothing really happen to you when you went outside?” I asked Sunny again. “No, mummy.” She answered every time I asked her. “Next time, if the situation is like that, never leav
CELINE SALVATORE POV-“Daddy, you did wrong. You did wrong too, Skye.”“What’s wrong?” Lance and Skye asked at the same time.Our children’s voices, as well as Lance’s voice, were the ones that woke me up.I hadn’t even opened my eyes yet. I could sense Lance was the one who started the trouble between the three of them.I yawned before opening my eyes.Lance and Skye were facing Sunny, while Sunny was looking at her reflection in the hand mirror she was holding. From what I could see, they tried to braid Sunny’s hair in two but Sunny’s hair only got messier.Lance had a book next to him. It was a book about hairstyles for women.“Skye and I followed the instructions here.” He said while looking at the book he was holding. Skye nodded agree his father, also looking at the book.Lance looked at Sunny and his gaze passed over me. “Celine.”Our children turned to me then they came to me to give me a hug. Lance also came to us and wrapped the three of us in his arms.The warmth of my ch
CELINE SALVATORE POV-“I’m so wrathful about what you did. I’m slowly getting used to being without you, and the next thing I know, I might lose my love for you without listening to your explanation, or maybe I won’t lose my love for you–but it’s getting to where I’ll get used to not having you until I don’t care about you anymore. Why didn’t you tell me what happened to you, that you were comatose, and about your rehabilitation?”“Who told you those things?”“I want to know everything. I want to understand, because if you regret the times you weren’t with us, I would do even more. But the anger in my mind still prevailed because I knew nothing.”Lance closed the photo album before speaking. “Butler Arthur and Conrad, they betrayed me.”“What? Why?” That was the last thing I could think could happen.“I don’t know and my half-brother mentioned nothing either, that our father is Butler Arthur’s brother. I didn’t even know Conrad was Butler, Arthur’s son. They wanted to overthrow me, t
CELINE SALVATORE POV-The third floor and the private room full of Lance’s toy collection were the only places we went. After that, we went to the dining room.I noticed that the long table was new, but the memory of the last time I went to the dining room still came back.The chairs were heavy for our children, so Lance helped them sit down. I sat next to Sunny, while Lance sat next to Skye on the other side.“So much food!” Sunny said in amazement. “Can I eat all of this?” she asked.“Yes, Ma’am,” Benjamin replied as he was about to take a vegetable dish. “You can eat all the food that is on the table. I made sure each dish was not harmful to you.”Skye and Sunny clapped together.There are many forbidden foods for Sunny that Skye goes along with, so it seems that there are also many forbidden foods for Skye because she understands Sunny’s feelings first.“I want that! That too!”Skye and Sunny couldn’t hide their excitement that they could eat more dishes, while they pointed to th
CELINE SALVATORE POV-I can’t believe this will ever happen. I don’t know how to let go of my love for Lance, but there have been so many times I’ve come to the point of almost giving up that he’ll come back and be with us.I broke away from the hug. Smiling, I wiped both of his cheeks while his ocean blue eyes looked into my hazel brown eyes.I stopped wiping when Lance grabbed both of my hands and gave a quick kiss. “Thank you, Celine, for giving me a chance repeatedly. This time I’ll never waste it.”“I know.” I replied softly, while holding back my tears.I looked at Skye and Sunny, who were innocently looking at us. I could see the wonder on their faces why Lance was still crying.“Skye, Sunny, can you give daddy a super hug, so he’ll be happier?”It was a new and thrilled feeling that I could tell our children that Lance was their daddy and that they could call him daddy.Without hesitation, our children quickly approached him and gave a tight hug while showering him with kisse
THIRD PERSON POV-As soon as Lance woke up, the first thing came to his mind was his recurring dream where Celine left him. He let out a sigh, trying to get that dream out of his mind, until he became aware he couldn’t hear Celine’s voice, that he played before falling asleep.The two things were working, which made him wonder why they were both off. He dismissed that puzzle after realizing nine hours had passed since the scheduled time he should have risen.He impetuously moved. He was about to run to the bathroom, but he was again surprised to find his suitcase missing.“I’ll just buy some new clothes.” Lance uttered to himself.He went out first and hurried downstairs.“BENJAMIN!” He called out loudly to the person who was in charge of his mansion whenever he was not there.Lance called Benjamin several times. He even went to the kitchen, but before he could enter, Benjamin was already in front of him.“I told you to wake me up at nine in the morning.”“Ah, Sir Lance, about that–”
CELINE POV-I held Skye's and Sunny’s hands and headed for the main door. I was about to ring the doorbell, but it suddenly opened from the inside.“Madame Celine!” Benjamin cheerfully greeted me, the mansion’s head cook who had also taught me to cook before. It was nice to see him still here. “Welcome back!” he tearfully muttered.“Thank you, Benjamin.”He gazed downwards at my children. “What are they doing here?” Benjamin looked back at me. “I mean, Sir Lance is planning to go to Italy two hours from now.”“What will he do there?” I asked. Perhaps he had other business scheduled.“To visit you. He plans to spend two days there to see you.”“Mummy, where are we?” Skye asked.Benjamin’s eyes widened. “I’m sorry. I’m so excited to see you, Madame. Come in first.”“Mummy used to live here, sweethearts.” I answered Skye’s question before we entered.Once we entered, I observed almost nothing had changed except for a wall with pictures of me, Skye, and Sunny hanging on the wall.“Mummy,
CELINE POV-It wasn’t even fifteen minutes before Hendrix returned to the mansion.Giovanni can’t accompany us and they don’t want my children and I to leave alone, we’ll have Hendrix drive us back to New York. Also, Hendrix himself showed up to take us to New York hours ago before he took me here to the mansion.Hendrix carried Skye while I carried Sunny. They both fell asleep again as I changed their clothes.“Say hello to Hannah for me,” Giovanni whispered to me as he hugged me.“If she asks you.” I laughed and whispered back to Giovanni.“Andrea.” He sullenly called me by my real name.I looked at our parents. I smiled at them. I’m so lucky to have parents like them, a family like them. Without their intervention, the fear of confronting Lance would have kept me frozen.“Be careful. We will go to New York next on our grandchildren’s birthday.” Mommy pronounce.“Hendrix, take care of our daughter and grandchildren.” Daddy reminded him.“Yes, Sir.” Hendrix responded.Daddy returned
CELINE POV-I easily got Sunny to sleep, especially Skye. Skye’s eyes were tired from crying.Looking at my child sleeping after talking to Skye, I couldn’t rest. I couldn’t sleep well until I was sure my children weren’t burdened with heavy feelings.What if there were more things Skye and Sunny weren’t telling me? Things that were heavy on their hearts and minds.I slowly got up and kissed my children on the foreheads then left the room.My parents were waiting for me in the living room to talk to me. I was sure it was about their grandchildren. Like me, they couldn’t sleep well until they knew what they heard earlier.Once I went downstairs, I saw Giovanni waiting with our parents.“Did you talk to Skye?” Mommy asked as I sat down.Along with my nod, I took a deep breath. “He was referring to Lance. He has known for a long time.”“How?” Giovanni asked.“In their eyes. They have the same eyes, and when Skye saw how much they looked alike, he suspected Lance was their real father.”“
CELINE POV- The dinner that Hendrix and I were supposed to have didn’t happen, and I didn’t even go to see Lance, instead Hendrix drove me to the mansion. He didn’t let me drive, even though I insisted I could drive. I think it’s a good thing he forced me to drive to the mansion. The entire trip, I was thinking about nothing but what he said about Lance.I wanted to think about what Hendrix said to me.“Celine?”When I heard Hendrix’s voice, I noticed we were already outside the main door. He was already outside and the passenger door was open.I unbuckled my seatbelt, then got out of the car and closed the door.“Thank you.”“No worries. Think about what I told you. I’m here until tomorrow night.”I nodded. “I’ll think about it. I’ll call you right away if I change my mind.”There was a small smile on his lips at the last words I said.“I’m leaving.”I nodded, not knowing what to say.I followed Hendrix’s car with my eyes until it headed towards the main gate and exited.I remained