CELINE POV-‘I might consider.’ This was my answer to Tristan’s question.It was a little late at night and I was still thinking about that. He wants to move us here for good if we get married. He doesn’t rush me into thinking and he doesn’t force me either.If his family doesn’t change their minds about Skye and Sunny once they find out that Tristan is not their biological father, I might consider moving here. But if my children don’t want here, then maybe not.My children’s welfare and wishes are still the first things I will consider. However Skye and Sunny told me a while ago they want it here and don’t want to leave.I let out a soft sigh and dismissed that matter for now.I looked at my children who were sleeping soundly. I kissed their foreheads and slowly got up to avoid waking them up, especially Skye. I had a little trouble getting him to sleep because Tristan wasn’t by his side.After I dressed Skye and Sunny for bed earlier, Tristan left, his Grandfather and Father called
CELINE POV-Tristan dropped us off at my apartment and hurriedly left.“Stay here. I’ll update you.”I nodded. “Be careful.”“I will.”We were rushing back to Chicago after Bianca called Tristan’s phone number this morning and told us the bad news—that all the branches of the Stellar restaurant had burned down.Upon entering the apartment, I sat Skye and Sunny down on the couch, then turned on the television and brought them to their favorite videos.“Mummy is just going to call someone,” I told them while grabbing my phone from the center table that I had left when we left.I hurriedly grabbed the charger from my suitcase and immediately plugged it in to charge my phone.When I opened the phone, my forehead furrowed after I saw the thousand messages from Lance’s mobile number. Asking where I am and many more. My nostrils flared, and I bared my teeth as I stared at his messages. I’m sure he’s the one who caused the restaurant's ashes.That’s him. That his organization is known for tu
CELINE POV - After I recovered from my shock, I went straight to walking. I had nothing to fear from her. I was going to go to her husband to confront him; that’s it. If she wanted to come and listen to what her husband and I were talking about, she was free to do that, so that she would know what her husband was doing to mess with my life. “The nerve,” Freya whispered while grabbing my arm to stop me from walking. “Didn’t you miss my feet?” She asked, laughing until it disappeared. “Now I understand why my husband is still here,” she firmly said the word husband. “After being his ex-wife, now you’re a mistress? Are you flirting with him?” I slid Freya’s hand down until she released her grip on my arm. “I’m not anyone’s mistress.” “Oh? You are not calling yourself a mistress, then what?” She observed me from head to toe. “I am Lance’s wife; he is married to me. What are you if not his mistress? Another woman? Fling? One-night stand? F*ck buddy–” I didn’t let her finish ac
CELINE POV-These stiletto red heels I gave to the person who owns them. But maybe I’m just wrong; maybe it’s owned by someone else.I slowly headed upstairs, avoiding making any noise, even though my breathing was slow.Once I got to the second floor, I silently gasped. I almost fell after I saw Tristan’s clothes scattered around. Those clothes were what he was wearing this morning.I followed the direction to where Tristan’s clothes were scattered, to his room with the door open.When I was outside the room, I didn’t even need to see what they were doing. I heard her moan, screaming in lust.“Ooh! Tristan! Too fast!”“Please, make it faster!”“A-Ahh!”I continued to enter thinking and hoping that my suspicions were wrong, but I stopped and froze in my tracks after I saw Tristan riding on top of Bianca’s body. They are both naked on the bed.“I’m cumming again, Tristan!”As they cum at the same time, they both caught their breath. Tristan buried his face in Bianca’s neck until Bian
TRISTAN POV-“I don’t want to see your face again,” I told Bianca as I pulled myself to her.I was about to stand up, but she clasped her hands around my body. “Are you sure? I’m sure you’ll miss my body.”“I’m going to marry Celine, and I won’t need your body anymore.”“Married? Are you sure she’s going to marry you?”I glared at her. “Try to tell her about this, and you’ll be held accountable,” I warn, then remove her hand from my body.“I’m helping you get closer to my friend. Example: remember what happened to Skye? He was so brave that he wasn’t afraid of his real father, to hate Lance, that night; thankfully, I figured out a way to scare him. I made him watch that little kid a video of killing someone, and that’s when he became completely afraid of Lance, and you and Skye became even closer.”I stood up, took my phone, and sent a text message to Celine to tell her the steps we would take tomorrow about the restaurant, and that was to talk to all our staff. After I sent this mes
CELINE POV - I looked at Lance intently as he was sitting in front of me holding medicine and a glass of water. “I don’t want to,” I told him again. “I won’t die from a headache.” I added. I had no choice but to go with him because it looked like it would be a while before a taxi would pass by that place, especially since it was late at night. Now I felt like I regretted going with him, and maybe I should have just walked until I found a taxi. He insisted on taking me to the hospital, and just after I had done a CT scan of my head like he wanted, he forced me to drink a painkiller. “To ease your headache,” he insisted. “I don’t want to take medicine as long as I can,” I told him again. “Here, sir. You can give this to your wife.” I looked intently at the nurse who came up to us while handling a cold compress. Lance took the cold compress from the nurse and just nodded. After the nurse left, he looked back at me, and I turned my sharp gaze to him. “I guess you w
CELINE POV-The next morning, a kiss on the cheek and a hug from my children woke me up.“Good morning, sweethearts.”“Good morning, Mummy!” They greeted me at the same time.Following I got up, I kissed their crown head. “Are you both excited to go to school again?”“Yes mummy!” they answered at the same time.“Let’s go? I’ll just cook breakfast, then I’ll give you both a bath.”We got out of bed at the same time. As the time we left the room, Sabrina was just as out of the room. I had already made Skye and Sunny’s room a guest room while Sabrina is still here.“Good morning,” she greeted sleepily. She approached the children and sat down. “Good morning, sweethearts. Can you give Auntie Sabrina a kiss?” she pointed to her on both cheeks. “So that I can have energy.”“Yes, auntie!”The children followed her and kissed her on the cheek at the same time. I smiled as I saw they were both close to Sabrina.“Wow! I have a lot of energy now!” She raised both hands.“Ye-hey! Then we can pl
CELINE POV-Skye and Sunny asked me about Tristan; why did he not bring them to school? I just told them he was busy.In what is happening now, even the children were affected by what I did.When I left school, I stopped in my plan to wait for a taxi after I saw Lance. He waved at me and then ran towards me.“Let’s go?”“Where?” I asked, frowning.“Where you’re going, go straight to the hospital to get your CT-scan results.”“Don’t you have work? ” I asked, annoyed.“I’m the boss; I can be absent whenever I want.”“Wow!” I commented sarcastically.“Does that mean let’s go?”"No,” I replied, then passed him.I went to the side of the road to hail a taxi. I felt Lance was still behind me and just ignored him.Once I saw a taxi, I immediately hailed it, but my forehead furrowed in surprise. The taxi was close to me, and it suddenly swerved past me. The next six taxis were the same.I couldn’t help but be surprised, so I turned to face Lance, thinking he had something to do with the taxi
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
RAYNE ‘ASHLEY’ EVANS POV-Pure happiness washes over me for my friend. She deserves that kind of happiness. The proposal alone almost made me cry with joy for Celine. How much more so when they get married? I would like to witness their wedding. Just by their smiles, I can feel the overflowing joy.“Yes, I’ll be there tomorrow.” I replied to my soon to be manager. As I ended the call, I took a deep breath. I have to say goodbye to Celine that I will need to leave.I was about to head back to the garden, but close to where I was standing, I saw Hendrix approaching Sabrina.“What do you need again?” Sabrina asked irritably.“I’m just reminding you of my proposal.”Sabrina scoffed. “You’re crazy if you think I’ll accept your marriage proposal. If you have nothing to do in life, don’t bother me.”Marriage proposal? Something seemed to tug at my heart when I heard that.At the instant Sabrina left Hendrix’s presence, I approached him before he could walk behind Sabrina.“Why?” I asked tear
CELINE SALVATORE POV-Everyone came near the table where the birthday cake was while everyone sang happy birthday and Lance lit the seven birthday candles on each cake.After Lance lit all the birthday candles, we stopped singing ‘happy birthday’.“Make a wish first before we blow out your birthday candles.” Lance sweetly reminded our kids.Skye and Sunny closed their eyes together with a smile on their lips.Lance and I looked at each other and smiled at each other while waiting for our children to finish making their wishes.“Are you done making wishes?” Lance asked our children after they opened their eyes.Skye and Sunny giggled while nodding.“Let’s blow out your birthday candles. After counting to three, we will blow out your candles together.”Our children affirmed with a smile.Lance and I moved closer to our children and then our friends and family counted.“One! Two! Three!” As mentioned the three, we simultaneously blew out the birthday candles one after the other. When w
CELINE SALVATORE POV-I just want to cry in elated. In the past few hours, our children’s birthday celebration has gone smoothly.Benjamin had prepared a short program he hosted, while he had someone take pictures while he was busy. He prepared children’s games, which everyone took part in except Don Charles, Sir Frederick, Yuichi and Giovanni.Giovanni wanted to take part in the games, knowing him he would do anything for his nephews, but in his condition, he pretended to cry on the side when Skye and Sunny looked at him.For now, we have given everyone time to rest after the games, and now I am sitting at the table with Christine and Astrid.“You should have told us what Lance did, so we burned him inside one of his hotels.” Astrid asseverate in a frustrated tone.Christine just mentioned that she had just found out from her husband about what Lance had done when I disappeared without saying goodbye six years ago. She mentioned that not because she wanted to bring up the pain I was
CELINE SALVATORE POV-“Mummy, I saw Skye and I’s cake.” Sunny said in amazement when she returned to our room after drinking water downstairs. “Our cake is so big, it’s bigger than daddy’s height.”It was our children’s day. We made their birthday an early dinner party because most of the attendees were close friends of Lance and I. My family with Ashley were coming from Italy who had just landed here thirty minutes ago and the Morgan family was coming from San Diego.“My cake is yellow and Skye’s is blue, just like daddy and Skye’s eyes.” Sunny continued with her story. “Is Uncle Lucian coming?”In six years, except Lucian was with us, he was never absent from Skye and Sunny’s birthday. So they got used to Lucian attending their birthday, especially Sunny.“Yes, sweetheart.” Lance answered. “Your Uncle Lucian is coming.”I told him yesterday that our children can look for Lucian on their birthdays, and he said he understands that. What’s important to him is that our children no longe