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 POV-When I left the restaurant, I looked up to at least stop my tears. I may not have loved Tristan as much as he says, but he has become an important person.In the six years I was with him, I trusted him completely. I even considered marrying him because I knew at some point he had a special place in my heart.Why do they always do this to me?I kept thinking that maybe what my parents had told me back then was right—that no one would ever love or appreciate me because I am worthless.“We need to talk.”Before I could see who pulled me, in an instant he put me in the car. When I looked at the man hurrying to walk to the driver's seat, my forehead furrowed.The moment I recovered from the shock, I was about to get out, but he suddenly locked the door.“Fasten your seatbelt,” he ordered.“What do you need?”Instead of answering my question, he put my seatbelt on and quickly started the car.“Hendrix, what is this?” I asked firmly.I had just finished confronting his brother,
CELINE POV - When Lance also got inside the car, he glanced at me first and then started the car. “Who is that man?” “I don’t know him.” “Then, why did he suddenly pull you into the car?” “I don’t know.” I answered annoyed. “What does he need from you?” “I don’t know.” That’s kind of true. I don’t really know what Hendrix is saying. I didn’t even talk to him when I was at their mansion. “You don’t know? Or maybe you just don’t want to tell me?” “Go back to him and ask him.” I held back my scream but I couldn’t hide the annoyance in my voice. It’s annoying that he asks so many questions and when I answer, he won’t believe it. If Tristan– I let out a deep breath as my children suddenly came to mind. How could I explain to them that they would not see Tristan anymore? Tristan has been with them since I gave birth to them until now that they have learned to talk, walk and their first of school. What have I done? Because I trusted the people around me too much, my children
CELINE POV - We got the results of the CT scan of my head even though it wasn’t even twenty-four hours ago, luckily there was no damage to my head. After that I immediately went to school. Lance just left me when Sabrina arrived with Conrad. “Boss Lance said I’ll be the one to deliver you.” Before I could reply that there was no need, Sabrina spoke before me and immediately thanked Conrad. “Let’s go. Let’s go see the kids.” Sabrina agreed. Sabrina pulled me into the school while narrowing her eyes at her. “My gosh, sis. Don”t look at me like that. Give me this chance to be with Conrad in any way.” “Is there anything else I can do?” “Nothing.” She replied laughing. When we approached Skye and Sunny, they both came to me and gave me a kiss on both cheeks. “Mummy, where is Daddy Tristan?” Sunny asked. “He is busy. He has work far away so it might be a while before we can be with him again.” I reason. “Okay.” Sunny said sadly. Sabrina and I quickly looked at each other. It s
CELINE POV - [TWO WEEKS LATER] .. I watched the woman approach my interviewer. The woman whispered something to my interviewer, then she took a quick look at my resume after that my interviewer nodded and the woman left. This was completely familiar. “I’m sorry, Miss Rodriquez, you are overqualified for the position.” I nodded. As I expected. “Thank you.” I just said and took the resume that HR was returning. When I left the building I tilted my head while looking at my resume. I had a lot of resumes printed but I haven’t reduced them yet because not even one of them has accepted me. I’ve been looking for a job for two weeks, and the scene a while ago, when the interview went smoothly with me answering all their questions, suddenly someone else comes in, whispers to HR then suddenly returns my resume. Sometimes there’s a scene, as soon as they see my name they immediately return it to me without even interviewing me. The few reasons I hear are that someone has already bee
CELINE POV-I want to believe Lance is hurt, but what if I’m wrong? What if he has bad intentions for my son? What if I still have to protect my son from his own father?“Daddy superhero?” Sunny utter.When Skye heard Sunny’s voice, Skye broke away from the hug and before wearing the mascot’s head, he saw Lance’s face.In the few seconds Skye stared at Lance’s face, Skye suddenly ran towards me.“Mummy, I’m scared.” He whispered to me after I hugged him.I rubbed Skye’s back as I looked at Lance. He was just watching Skye and didn’t know what to do.“Who are you scared of? Olaf?” Sunny asked innocently.Skye shook his head, after that I felt Skye’s tight grip on my clothes.“Don’t be afraid, Skye. No one will hurt you.”“He’s here.”“Who?” Sunny innocently asked again and approached her brother.“The monster.”Sunny looked around, searching for what Skye was saying. Right now we were the only ones here in the parking lot so no one else could see Sunny except us.“Don’t worry Skye, Da
CELINE POV-“Skye, are you okay?” I asked when he didn’t move or speak after seeing Lance.“I’m sorry, mummy.”“Why, sweetheart? Why are you apologizing?”“I am not brave.”I hugged Skye.I told him once that if he wanted something or wanted to do something but was afraid, he should go for it rather than regret it later.I don’t want Skye to be like me; there are many things I haven’t done because of fear of the people around me or what might happen because of fear.“It’s okay to not be brave sometimes. You can still feel scared.”“I want to go home. I want to see Daddy Tristan.”I bite my lower lip. If I had a hard time without him, I’m sure the kids have a harder time adjusting without Tristan. How many times have they looked for Tristan in me? I’m running out of excuses why we can’t be with him.I don’t want to confuse the children by telling the truth about why we can’t be with Tristan again.“Are you sure you want to go home? I thought you wanted to ride in this car?” “I’m scar
CELINE POV-One corner of my lips twitched while reading the documents, including in Giovanni’s computer.It’s nice that Giovanni is in the right hands with our family company.I was dropping the folders I was holding on the table when Giovanni’s telephone rang, connected to the entire building.“Good afternoon, Ma’am Andrea. Mr. Lance Hart is here.” Enzo informed me on the other line.I glanced at the digital clock. Twenty minutes before six in the evening, I didn’t notice the time.“Let him in here.”“Yes, Ma’am.”After I hung up the phone, I arranged the papers I had read to hide them again.I hadn’t finished arranging them when I heard footsteps approaching me and, as I looked at the owner, it was the person I was expecting.“Sorry if I was late. There was a problem with my private jet, which required me to buy a new one.”“It’s okay, Mr. Lance Hart.” I said formally. I pointed to the open area. “Sit down there. I’ll be right next in a second.”“Sure.” He also replied formally.O
CELINE POV-I spent time at the coffee shop after leaving the hospital and after talking to Hannah.Mom also informed me they had released Giovanni because his condition was better than expected. He just needed to rest his legs and arms for one to two weeks.I sighed, remembering the conversation between Hannah and me.I wanted to take back what I had told Hannah, to talk to Lance. It’s all clear to me, so why do I need to hear what he has to say?“Here,”I looked at the iced Spanish vanilla coffee along with the cookies and cream croffle that Ashley had placed in front of me.“Are you having a problem?” She asked, sitting in the other chair.“I’m sorry if I’m not that helpful here.”“It’s okay so I can learn to talk to other people too,” Ashley said with a smile.I smiled at Ashley’s words and took a sip of my coffee.It seems everyone is ready to face what they fear, yet I thought I was courageous, but for Lance’s love, I was always afraid of the truth. Even though I know he didn’
CELINE POV-I picked up the medicine bottle. My forehead furrowed, reading what this medicine was.I took medicine like this after I moved here to Italy, but with the help of my family I could stop needing this medicine.This medicine is calming whenever feeling fear or unable to control heavy emotions.I shifted my gaze to Hannah. She was already standing and looking at me. Her eyes were red. What caught my attention was her trembling hands.“Q…Queen…”My brow creased, not just because of what she called me, but because of her raspy voice.I shifted my gaze to Giovanni. His eyes were also red.“What’s going on here?” I asked, still full of ponder. “Do you know each other? How? Since when?” I take back my gaze and forth between the two of them until my gaze settles on my brother. “Why didn’t you tell me?”If he knew Hannah, he would know that she was close to Lance.“I’m going out now…”My gaze shifted to Hannah again. This was the first time I had heard her voice shaking, as well as
CELINE POV-It felt like I had fallen and got up when I remembered I was in a meeting. When I got up at the same time as I opened my eyes, I was surprised to see that I was in the room and my children were next to me.I slowly got up to avoid waking my children. I took my phone out of my bag and saw that it was only seven in the morning.I usually wake up at twelve to one in the afternoon if my children don’t wake me up.I fall asleep late when I don’t take sleeping pills, so I wake up late. I still feel heavy every time I wake up. I always lack sleep and force myself to get up even after less than four hours of sleep, so that I can do something and be with my children before they start school again.My body clock is the reason I haven’t been able to work at the company, but now, except for waking up early, I feel light.I kissed my children on the forehead. I smiled, seeing them sleeping soundly. I just saw my children sleeping again in the morning.It was still one to two hours bef
THIRD PERSON POV-“I’ll explain again from the beginning?” Celine asked reassuringly while hiding her irritation.“I think you need a break first,” Lance said formally. “I’ll review what’s in the folder again.”Celine blinked her eyes innocently a few times for a second while looking at Lance, who was so engrossed in the folder that he didn’t notice Celine’s actions.She didn’t know what to do as she waited for Lance to finish reading the document in the folder again. She could already feel the pain in her feet from wearing three and a half inches heels.Celine wanted to sit down for a moment to rest her feet, but thinking that she was in a formal meeting, she wasn’t sure if she should sit down, so she stood up.By chance, Lance glanced at Celine’s feet and was surprised to see her wearing high heels. He hadn’t noticed that Celine had been wearing such high heels all this time.Lance shifted his gaze from what he was reading. “Miss Andrea, you can sit down.” Lance said, still formal.
CELINE (ANDREA) POV-A wry smile glimpsed on my lips after I presented Mr Lance Hart with the best wines we could offer him, as well as other wines he requested me to explain.In my last explanation of the presentation, I no longer look at the slides. Out of the thirty slides, I didn’t memorize five or four slides because of how many times I explained it to him.No. I was wrong. This is not a familiar occurrence, I prefer to call it an annoying occurrence.He tilted his head while looking at the folder Enzo had given him a while ago, where the printed slide I had presented to him several times was attached.Lance and I were the only two left in the conference room. His secretary, who was with him earlier, had to be dismissed because he had an emergency job that needed to be fixed. While Enzo, who was with me, also left because he had other work to do that Giovanni left.After a second, he looked back at me. “Can you repeat your explanation from the beginning? I don’t understand what’
CELINE (ANDREA) POV-I tilt my head, cross my arms, frowning as I look at Giovanni.“Andrea, why are you looking at me like that?” He asked.Giovanni is in the hospital, lying in a hospital bed. His favorite car crashed into a pole because he dodged a cat, so now he has a mild arm and leg injury.“After driving for so long and taking such good care of your car, you suddenly crashed your car into a pole? And now, really?”“Accident. I can’t avoid an accident.”“Why do I felt that I don’t want to believe you?” I blurted.“Are you saying I’m lying?”“No,” I shook my head. “I was just pointing out that… the timing of your accident was great.” I said with a sarcasm tone then sighed.While he was on his way to the company, he called me and said he was in the hospital.I was at the coffee shop when he called, serving customers’ orders. I was startled by his screaming in the other line, causing me to call our mother to come see him. He said that what happened to him was serious and that he
CELINE (ANDREA) POV-When my parent’s mansion came home, I went straight to our room. Skye and Sunny are asleep. My mom is next to them. I kiss my children’s forehead first before bathing.I took a quick shower to just freshen up.Getting out of the bathroom, I slowly wake up my mom.“Are you just coming?” Mommy asked as she woke up.“Yes, mom.”“Who brought you here?”“Hendrix. They took me here before heading to the airport with Sabrina. ”Mommy smiled when I mentioned Sabrina’s name.“Sabrina, she looks nice.”“Yes, mom.” I proudly answered. “As I say, she is the last person I know will never leave me.”My mom kissed my forehead. “I’m happy you have someone to depend on when we are not with you.”I smile.I didn’t even tell my family what I had experienced in the hands of Sabrina’s parents.“I’ll take you to your room?”“Don’t bother. I will not get lost going to our room.” Mommy jokes. “Go to sleep. You must be tired. Good night.”“Good night, mom.”When Mommy got out of the ro
CELINE POV-After setting the coffee on the table along with the chocolate cake and muffin, I sat down.“I’m sorry if I only took care of you now. Ashley is still not very used to interacting with people.” I explained to Sabrina. “Taste them. They’re one of her specialties.”It was late at ten at night when Ashley and I closed our coffee shop. I helped her talk to our guests, so I didn’t have time to take a break and attend to Sabrina. Before Ashley left, she made coffee and baked Sabrina so that Sabrina would eat freshly baked.My family takes care of my children during these times.“It’s okay, Sunny and Skye entertained me, so I wasn’t bored either, also your brother.”I laughed when she mentioned my brother. “I hope Giovanni didn’t hurt your head.” I said, laughing. Knowing my brother, he has a talkative nature.“I’m used to it.” Sabrina laughed until she let out a sigh.“How are you?” I asked.She sipped her cappuccino, then smiled. “I’m fine. Your friends didn’t abandon me. Than