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SABRINA RODRIGUEZ POV-It’s so annoying to see Conrad’s face. I don’t want to see his face anymore, and yet it seems like fate is still working for us to meet over something small. Every time I glimpse his face, I think about how stupid I am. I don’t understand why the way he treats me and is concerned more than a friend; he has another woman he likes and no one else but his friend Hannah.When he learned Hannah was in the hospital, he couldn’t rest, especially since he couldn’t call her. He almost turned his suite room upside down and only calmed down after talking to Hannah. Only then did he realize he didn’t mean to yell at me, and then he apologized for doing that.I get it; he was worried about Hannah. I get that person was a friend—but his worry; it’s different. There’s something he’s hiding. It can be seen and felt that his worry and anxiety that day were more than a friend. That’s not what I hate about him, but how he treats me is what’s annoying. I feel like he made me reboun
CELINE POV-Here’s my tear again while looking around. I smile and quickly wipe away the teardrop before it even falls down my cheek.I was taken to a high-end and exclusive restaurant where Lance rented the entire building. It was quite far from the hotel, which took more than an hour to travel.When I looked around again I smiled. The only light at this time was the scented candles that each table had. What made the ambiance even finer was the night view from where I was sitting overlooking the bright city lights outside the glass wall. Each table had a single red rose flower and on my table there was a bouquet of red roses.The surroundings were quiet until my attention was caught by a server who went to three tables and replaced the scented candles there. She checked on me and smiled at me.“Ma’am, would you like us to serve food for you? We have an appetizer ready for you.”“No,” I refused. I coughed softly because I felt my throat tighten and dry. “Can I have a glass of water?”
CELINE POV-I couldn’t move from where I was standing as I turned to look at the man who uttered my name.My forehead wasn’t wrinkled, but my body was full of wonder as I looked at him, and I was sure the question was, 'why is he here?' was printed all over my face.What’s going on? Why is he here? Why is he in front of me? Why is he in front of me in this situation?“Hendrix?” I utter hoarsely.After seeing his face, my tears came back to my eyes; I felt again the pain in my back from sitting for over five hours and the hunger I was feeling. Most of all, the hope may be that the proposal was from Lance.I couldn’t make a mistake in my gaze; I’ve been looking at his face for a few seconds, and his appearance hasn’t changed. I also couldn’t be hallucinating because there was no reason why I should see him in my mind. I never thought about him after our last encounter.Why is he here? Why isn’t the person I expected and waited for here? Why isn’t Lance in front of me now? Where is he?
CELINE POV-“You should have let the woman kneel down earlier,” my eyebrows furrowed at Hendrix’s words. “Or you should have let her terminate her job.”Is that the kind of person he is? He likes seeing other people suffer? Didn’t he think about that person’s situation? Maybe that person’s job was too valuable to her. That person wouldn’t dare to lower her knee to the ground if she did not badly need the job.“Don’t judge me,” he said, laughing.He read my thoughts?He faced me, he crossed his legs, and rested his elbow on the table. “Someone like her needs to learn a lesson; she needs to pay for her mistake—that’s all I’m saying. It’s not just the surprise that that person ruined but also your feelings. That person not only ruined the surprise for you but also your feelings. She hurt you badly, and your mind was confused by what happened. Who wouldn’t think and be glad that you were expecting someone, but then the wrong person would come in front of you? Right?” He raised his pointed
CELINE POV-“Thank you,” I said with a smile to the manager and the female server who served me a glass of water earlier when I saw them in the lobby.“Ma’am, wait!” They exclaim at the same time.I stopped walking when they ran towards me.“I want to apologize again for what happened earlier,” the woman regretfully said.“I also want to apologize for my negligence,” the manager said and bowed his head.“Don’t think about that. It’s okay,” I told them. “Is that all you want to say?”“Ah, no.” They suddenly panicked.The manager handed me a paper bag. I took it and peeked at the contents. Inside the paper bag was a suit coat and a familiar calling card.“What is this for?” I asked.“Sir Hendrix Morgan left those. He asked me to give you the paper bag.”I returned the paper bag to the manager, but he didn’t take it.“Give it back to him,” I stated.The manager took a deep breath. “I…” then he exhaled, and his face was covered with worry. “I’m sorry, ma’am. If you give back to me, he war
CELINE POV- “I don't have time to joke around.”“Likewise,” he said meagerly.I calmed my feelings down first. “You won’t hurt me, will you?”“No,” he answered sparingly but directly.Somehow his answer made me feel at ease. I had no choice but to just believe what he said. I didn’t have anything with me except the mini makeup kit in the purse I was carrying.“Where are you taking me?”“To my gift for you.”“Gift?”“Don’t you accept late gifts?”“No. That’s not what I meant.”I didn’t explain anymore, and I didn’t open my mouth for a while.I’ll wait until we get to where he wants to go, so his nonsense can end.“We’re almost where we’re going,” I heard him say as I looked out the window.————About ten minutes later, he stopped in front of an amusement park.“Come on!” He was so excited that he even giggled.I laughed a little at his reaction.I also got out of the car. I looked around; except for the amusement park staff, Hendrix and I, I didn't see anyone else.What was surprising
CELINE POV-Hendrix extended his palm. “Shall we go in together?” He asked me.We toured the theme park, rode the few rides we had planned to ride before, and we also played the machine games as well as the arcade games.Now we were in front of the Ferris wheel, and we planned to ride it last.“No, thank you.” I refused the hand he offered.I rode the Ferris wheel first and as he rode someone locked the door and started it.During the few hours I was with Hendrix, I didn’t think about anything else. I tried to focus and try to enjoy this place.Once we reached the top, the Ferris wheel stopped whirling.It was scary, but I still found myself smiling slightly after I saw almost the entire theme park.“The Ferris wheel is actually what you've wanted to ride the most since then.”I nodded without taking my gaze down. “The way you drew the Ferris wheel before, it was colourful, and you could see a lot from just one seat. Then it was close to the stars, and this is the exact one you showed
CELINE POV-“Are you sure of what you are saying?” I asked her.“Yes,” she answered confidently. “Conrad went to the restaurant to meet you there. He can’t call Sir Lance's phone either.”“Conrad couldn’t call Lance’s phone number?” I assured her.“Yes.”Is it just a coincidence that Lance’s phone number couldn’t be called and he didn’t come?“Celine!”I looked at Sabrina in surprise after she yelled at me right in my face.“Why?”“I am asking you why you are not with Sir Lance. Did you know someone rang the doorbell yesterday, and then I checked the intercom? The man had his back turned, but I doubt it was Sir Lance; that’s why I didn’t open it. Because Conrad told me not to open the door if he’s not the one outside. I’m not one hundred percent sure if it’s Sir Lance because he has his back turned and seems to be talking to someone on the phone.”I assumed Lance had come here. Maybe something unexpected happened that made him not arrive?“CELINE!”I felt like I was going to be deafen
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
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
CELINE SALVATORE POV-This was probably one of the shortest days of my life. If my phone alarm hadn’t rung when it was time for our kids to eat dinner, we wouldn’t have noticed the time.After we finished swimming, Lance and I took our kids around the mansion, then let them play in the indoor playground and accompanied Sunny to her art room.For our kids, the mansion house had renovated a few of the mansion’s rooms, but most remained the same. Lance also introduced us to all of his personnel here at the mansion house, some of whom were new and some who weren’t new and didn’t know us.We also moved some of our clothes to our room.I spoke to Mommy on Face-Time and asked her to bring our important belongings when they arrived tomorrow.“Who’s excited about your birthday tomorrow?!” Lance queried our kids with delight. All three of them raised their hands while Lance raised two of his also his two feet. “You’re more excited than our children.” I carefully remarked as I climbed onto th
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 chi
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, th
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 the
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–”