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
SABRINA POV - “You know, mommy, I have one thing that daddy inherited from you.” I told them gently. “Of course, you are our beautiful daughter.” “You know what that is? Being bad.” A smile spread across my lips, then I released my grip on her hand. “If I feel scared every time I remember Celine’s screams and cries, how can Celine feel? Surely what happened to her was more traumatic.” “What are you talking about?” asked daddy. “I’m just saying you have to pay for everything you did to Celine. I will never tell her you are both here. With everything that happened to her, she still has a kind heart, which is annoying because people like you surely abuse that. If Celine finds out about your condition, I swear I will not be the one to tell her about this matter.” I clap once. “Okay, if she ever asks about you, maybe... I might tell the truth about your situation. Just maybe.” “Afterwards, we treat you like a princess. Will you do this to us?” Mommy said firmly. I laughed silently
CELINE POV - Upon arriving at Stellar restaurant, I went straight to the bathroom. While I was in the cubicle and peeing, I heard someone sniffling outside. I thought the woman just had a cold but not long after; I heard her crying. After I finished peeing and flushing the toilet, I immediately came out of the cubicle and saw Ashley wiping her face. “I didn’t know you were here, Ma’am.” I smiled at her. I washed and dried my hands. “Wait,” I interrupted her, as she was about to hurry out of the bathroom. “Y-Yes, Ma’am?” Her eyes, nose, and cheeks were red. I go near her. “Do you want a hug?” Ashley nodded, holding back tears. As I hugged her, I heard her cry again. I just rubbed her back. “I don’t know what to do. I’m tired of waiting, but I can’t let him go.” She said between her sobs she could barely speak. The person she loved was definitely the reason she was crying. Ashley pulled away after a few moments. “Sorry, Ma’am, if I said my problem and brought it to work.”
LANCE POV - I continued to wait outside the restaurant until it closed and I still followed Celine. As I drove and followed her, many thoughts ran through my mind that maybe the girl she called Sunny just called her mommy because she was just considered as a second mother and, now Celine would take her to the child’s real parents—however, that wasn’t what happened. Celine’s stop at her apartment with the child was unmistakable to me. I followed them with my eyes until they happily entered the apartment. I waited for a few more hours to observe if anyone else would come to pick up the kid who might be her actual parents, but by the time I was already twelve midnight, no one else had arrived. “Fuck. Sh*t.” I drove the car to my private hangar where my private jets were. While driving, I called Conrad’s phone number, which was on the third ring, and he answered it. “Let’s meet at my f*cking hangar. Right away.” “Now, Sir?” “Yes. Also, send five people to guard outside Celine’s a
CELINE POV - The next day when I entered the Stellar restaurant, I silently sighed as I saw Ashley wiping the table even though it wasn’t her job. I heard her colleagues at work were happy with her improvement in her work. “Good morning, Ma’am!” The staff greeted me when they noticed me. “Good morning.” I greeted them back, then headed straight to the office. As I sat at my desk, I smiled as I remembered I had a lot of work completed yesterday. I will double check all of this. Then if I have time, I can still help in the kitchen. I missed being in the kitchen and helping cook. I felt my phone vibrate from my sling bag I had placed on the table and when I looked at who sent me a message, it was Sabrina and I smiled when I saw her name. She sent me a text message saying, ‘See you later. I’m excited to see you and bond with my nephew!’ I replied to Sabrina, ‘See you. Let me know one hour before you leave.’ It’s Friday now and Sabrina wants me and Sunny to bond over the weeken
CELINE POV - “What’s going on here?” I interrogate the CCTV operator in frustration. “We’re working on the CCTV’s Ma’am. The CCTV broke just this twelve noon, and we didn’t notice right away.” Teacher Agnes and I headed to the school’s CCTV room to check where Sunny was, but when we reached it, we saw the operators were so busy. “Maybe you have footage from the kindergarten building about an hour ago?” Teacher Agnes asked calmly. “We can double check, Ma’am.” The operator replied. We followed the operator to a table with four desktops. The operator checked many videos from different angles, but I couldn’t see any angles from outside and headed to the hallway of Sunny’s classroom. “The CCTV on this side broke during the lunch break,” the operator told us while still double checking the footage. “What!? And you didn’t notice that?” I held back my frustration. “But I assure you that Sunny is still with us in the classroom from morning until time to go home.” Teacher Agnes state
CELINE POV - “Celine!” As soon as Sabrina got out of the taxi, she ran towards me, leaving her suitcase behind so she could run faster towards me. “What happened? What did the police tell you?” I shook my head. “They say that a person can’t be declared missing until twenty-four hours have passed.” “Stop crying,” I inhaled and exhaled slowly. “There’s nothing we can do if that’s their policy.” She continued and sighed. “But it’s still annoying. What happened? How did Sunny disappear? Where did she disappear to?” I detailed what Teacher Agnes had told me. “What? Sunny disappeared from that strict school? If anything happens to my niece, I swear I’ll sue that school.” I won’t just sue that school, I’ll make sure I do everything I can to close that school down if anything bad happens to Sunny. “Do you have any idea where to look for Sunny, or who we can talk to that she might have been with?” I shook my head. “Sunny hasn’t mentioned to me where she wants to go or who she’s tal
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
CELINE SALVATORE POV-It’s not like it used to be that my children wake me up every morning, now I wake them up.Skye and Sunny were still rubbing their eyes when I woke them up.“Good morning, sweethearts.” I greeted them and gave them a sweet kiss on the top of their heads.“Good morning, mummy.” They greeted me sleepily.My smile widened seeing their father was still sleeping soundly. I saw that his forehead was unfurrowed, he didn’t smile widely, but his face was peaceful. He looked like a puppy sleeping. He was so cute when he slept like that.For all the years, I think this was the only time I’d seen him sleep. In all these years, I finally saw Lance sleeping without anger on his face.“Daddy!” Skye and Sunny happily approached Lance at the same time.Sunny climbed onto Lance’s tummy while Skye was on the side of Lance’s face.“Daddy, wake up!” Sunny woke up. I came closer to them, theb supported Sunny’s body when it moved.“Daddy!” Skye and Sunny woke up at the same time to th