Every step she took made her nervous and distressed, she slowly walk and wanted to stop the time. Her eyes were all on the ground, ignoring all the judgmental eyes of the people around her.
She heard the annoying laughter of them all. She was aware that they were all discussing her. Her knees trembled as she approached her boss's office. Her heart is pounding!
She cautiously lifts her hand to knock, but even before she could, the door opens, revealing the guy she is afraid to confront.
"AC’s POV"Today is my second week working for H Group of Companies Inc., I consider myself fortunate to have been accepted into such a respected organization. Luckily, my cousin, Axel, recommended me even though my grades aren't as good as others, and here I am honing my skills as an encoder.The employees have been treating me nicely since day one of working here, I heard that my cousin is the President and CEO of this firm, but I haven’t confirmed it to him yet. I didn’t know that he was wealthy, as I expected that he could afford to build his empire!I had seldom heard from my parents and relatives before that he was a talented and gifted man, but I didn’t know that he wasn't as simple as I thought, I was overwhelmed when I found out that he was a multi-millionaire!I chose to accept his proposition to grow closer to him and become his full-time employee without difficulty
"Hello! Axel?" Aicko dials a long-distance phone call to his cousin."Hello. What makes you want to call me? Do you have a problem?" Axel inquired from the other end of the telephone. He recognized the phone call as coming from his cousin."I phoned to tell you about my best friend, but you have to promise me you won't be surprised, okay?" She attempts to persuade him."Is there something wrong with her? How is she?" He worriedly asked. The line went silent for some time. He was waiting for his cousin to tell him. She was hesitant to tell him the news, but she had to say it."Axel, I don’t want to say it to you, but I promised to inform you anything about her—" "Get to the point!" He impatiently instructed."She’s in the hospital," she promptly responded."What??... How did that happen?!" Axel can’t stop himself from over
Aicko was standing in front of the full-body mirror, wearing a rose pink half-sleeve dress that hugged the curves of her body while combing her hair, she is winking at herself in the mirror. She was ready to leave and head to work, but she heard her phone beep.She extended her hand to reach her phone in the drawer beside the mirror and checked the message. She was grinning like an idiot when she saw the name of the person who had inbox her. It was Mr. Padilla, the manager of HGCI!Aicko's imagination had run wild, believing that the message was an invitation to a five-star restaurant breakfast, a spectacular Ferris wheel date, or a candle-lit supper!She had admired their manager's abilities since the first time she worked for the firm. He was harsh with her, but she didn't take it personally whenever he criticized her or humiliated her in front of so many employees.Mr. Padilla would be classified
It’s been three days since Schina lost her internship training. She didn’t want to go anywhere. All she wanted to do was stay at home and rested her tired body.She was so depressed that she was thinking of giving up. She didn’t want to find a clue that would save her from this cruel world. She knew from the very start that something was wrong, but she was caught up in the thoughts that she might fail again!She was sitting on the living room couch, looking out the window, when she heard her best friend's voice calling her."Why is she here again?" She lazily rose from her seat and made her way to the main door, clicking the knob to open it."Good morning, Schina!" She gushed and hugged her tightly."Are you planning to kill me?" She protested while coughing, Aicko unclasped her hand from her neck and grinned at her."I’m sorry," she s
"Are you sure you're going to hack J.S. Airlines' CCTV footage?!?" Hearing her scheme, Aicko was embarrassed. She couldn't settle herself down just now by imagining what would happen to her buddy if she did such a thing. "Yes! I am certain that I will track down the perpetrator "She said. Aicko understands that once she makes a decision, no one can stop her from achieving her objective, but she still needs to try. "Are you saying that after you locate the person responsible, you'll submit it to your employer as proof of your innocence?" Her pal questioned her in a naïve manner. "Yeah," she said quickly. Aicko sprang to her feet, grabbing the computer from her grasp and shutting it off, "are you still thinking?! I understand your logic but you might get in jail for doing this even if you prove your innocence! I know, you have no time, but you can do the simplest and rightest thing," she noted.
"Gosh! Is he madly in love with me? Is it true that he likes me? If he doesn't, he won't speak those things, but that isn't going to happen!" Her mind informs her. She was still shocked as she stared at him, her gaze sweeping down his face toward his mouth. She bit her bottom lip and cleared her throat, imagining his gorgeous lips as the kiss that had just transpired flashing through her mind."What are you trying to say? Can you enlighten me? I might have misheard your statement just now," she requested, thinking that she was in a delusion when he stated that ‘he couldn’t endure the feeling of missing her.’Axel was ready to confess his love to her. He had just confirmed it when he was away, and he kept missing her. She was all in his head thinking about what she was doing and how she since hadn’t contacted him. He took a deep breath and with all courage opened his mouth and say, "I was trying to say that… I n
"What??!!!!" She yelled loudly."I'm –" the ring of his phone interrupted him. Axel pulled his phone from his coat pocket, answered it, and placed it on his ear."Hello, Mr. Hodreal. I have already completed my task, and I assure you that I verified it before sending it," he heard his employee say on the other end of the line."Okay. My secretary will send you the payment," he said and hung up the call, and raise his gaze to her.Axel grabbed her hand, pulling her out of the house, "where are we going??!" She protested."I will tell you later. For now, just cooperate with me," he assures her, and opens the car’s door, inviting her to come in."Stephen’s POV""Does anyone else live here?!?" I yelled, but my voice reverberated across the area, so I kept going and looking for the exit, but I found up back in the same
"Schina’s POV""Can you tell me where you're bringing me?" I'm still perplexed as to why he hauled me into his car after receiving a phone call. I was gazing at his deadpan expression, but I couldn't figure out what he was thinking. I want to hear that I didn’t know I had been looking at him for a long period.I shifted my gaze. The kiss that happened earlier still appears in my mind. I feel shy around him right now, and I want to disappear."Check this out," he said, handing me his phone, and I looked at it, then at his face. "C’mon! Take it, and you’ll know where we are heading," he stated.I took it from him and was surprised when I saw a video on it, "what kind of video is it? Are you trying to get me to watch a rate," I stopped interrogating him when he gave me a 'shut up’ look.The video was playing when I realized that it wasn’t a mov
“Ahhhh! I can’t hold it anymore! Drive faster!” Schina shrieked to her husband, she was about to labor in just a few minutes. Axel is panicking and blowing the horn of his car to all the cars in front of them, he rolled down the window and shouted at the driver, “give us a way! My wife is about to labor!” he yelled at them. Some car give them way as he drives the car to the nearest hospital around, he quickly parks the car and help his wife to get out from the car. They put his wife on the stretcher as they pushed it inside the emergency room, Axel wants to get inside but the doctor did not allow him to get in. He is so anxious outside and walking back and forth, he is interrupting every nurses that will come out of the room and ask the same question, “how is my wife and my baby?” Yet, the only answer he receives is, ‘they will be alright, please wait patiently.’ He sat on the bench and prayed, AC and Schina’s aunt arrives and saw her c
Aicko arrived in her apartment, “what are you guys doing here?!” She exclaimed upon turning on the lights, seeing her cousin and his wife in her apartment.“Happy birthday!!” they shouted, she forgot that today is her birthday. She became more disappointed when she realized that even Kevin forgets that today is her birthday.She studied that two and saw her cousin is blowing a horn and wearing a birthday hat while her friend is holding a big cake for her even though her tummy is already in eight month.“What’s wrong with you? Why are you crying?” Schina asked her.“Don’t tell me you are crying out of joy?” Axel teased her.Schina passed the cake to her husband and hurry to her friend to lend her shoulder for her, “why are you crying, AC?” Schina is patting her back.“Ke—Kevin is cheating on me!” She burst into cry and drops her backpack on the ground, A
“Where are we going again?!” Aicko exclaimed at her fiancé because they have been going at the same spot again and again in the middle of the forest.The couple were invited by Louisa in a reality show that she is taking part in. It is like a race of couples and whoever wins will win a grand prize worth of half million, Aicko doesn’t like to join the said program but since her fiancé agreed on taking part of it, she have no other choice so she agreed than to see him pairing with Louisa.“She thought that she can take him as his partner in her little trick, no, dear. That will never happen even in your dream,” her mind says and celebrating in victory but she is a bit upset because they can’t see the way out of it.“C’mon, Kevin! We have been walking back and forth in the same spot for long hours,” she is about to cry. She is regretting why she joined this stupid game just for the sake of her fian
“Schina’s POV”My heart is throbbing fast, my body is thrilled with the excitement as I walks down the aisle. My eyes were filled with tears, blurring my vision. I did not expect that this will come into my life, I experience a lot of setbacks in my life as I was trying to figure out which company to apply during my internship. I was being rejected multiple times and I thought that he is my nemesis and the man I have to avoid in the lifetime because ever since he appeared, my life had turns upside down but even thought my plan was to avoid him, I turned my back to him when I saw the important thing that’s missing to me and that is the necklace that my mom made especially to me.My plan had changed a bit during that time, I always think of a way on how I can get my jewelry from him and did all the things till I get it but my plan did not work well because I found myself falling in love with him.I can say that love is like a rosary that fu
“Axel’s POV”I can’t describe how happy I am right now knowing that my fiancee is pregnant! I did not expect that this day will come to my life, and it never came into my mind that I will settle one day and love a very special girl like her. She is the most amazing and interesting girl I ever met in my entire life and my savior.I used to be alone walking in the dark without a light till she came and light up my whole world, I am glad that I found her again.I hurry out of the hospital when my cousin and his fiancé arrives, “where are you going?” AC asked me.“I am going out to buy fruits and food for her,” I explained clearly.“Why do you need to go out if we already brought what you need?” she showed me the basket of fruits she brought.“I need to buy more,” I told her.“Axel! What is wrong with you? Why are you panicking? It’s not like she is
“I thought you like that kind of confession that much,” Axel uttered.“Of course not! I like your proposal more than any other man’s proposal, darling,” she let him know.“But why are saying ‘how sweet’ to them?” He sounded jealous as he complains to her.“I just appreciate them,” she explained but Axel did not accept her simple explanation.“Why are you showing an appreciation to them? Didn’t you appreciate my proposal to you?” he keeps on arguing over a simple thing.Schina is quite annoyed on his reaction, “why are making it big? Are you jealous of them because I told you that I appreciate them?” She ask him directly, she is annoyed that he is acting strange.“I’m not jealous,” he simply respond.Schina knows that he is not telling the truth, “don’t be like this, darling. I don’t want you to repeat you
Schina woke up from a comfortable sleep, she slowly opens her eyes. She is nervous seeing herself in a room, she studied the whole detailed of the room while her mind is trying to recall who brought her here.She is terrified thinking that if her fiancé finds out that she stayed in another man’s room the whole night might ruined their relationship.She get up from bed and sighed in relief seeing that she is still wearing her clothes, “finally! I should get out from this room without letting the man finds out that I am leaving,” she mumbled till her eyes shifted to the picture frame on top of the drawer.“Am I seeing it right?” She surprisingly asks when she recognized the picture of her fiancé in the frame. “Is it his room? I can’t clearly remember that… Oh! He was there last night,” she says happily. Schina did not have a chance to come in his room even before, she turns her back and spotted t
Aicko opens her eyes carefully, she is nervous when she found herself lying on a soft bed and in an unfamiliar room. She is planning to get up quickly till she felt the thin white sheet that covers her naked body!She is terrified as the breathe she is releasing is getting heavier, she didn’t know what to feel but on top of it, she is feeling embarrassed to what happened to her. She bits her lower lip as she is trying to remember how did she ended up sleeping in this unfamiliar place and who brings him in.“Fuck! How did it happened?” she cursed, pulling her hair angrily out of madness.She wanted to cry but she compose herself and searched for her clothes on the ground, “where is my clothes?” she vexed when she did not find her clothes.She sighed and calming herself, “relax, Aicko! Think properly, you can do it. You can escape from this embarrassment if you can find away to get out of here.”Her eyes were
Axel is driving his car back to his condo when he received a notification on his phone that caught his attention, he drives back his car upon seeing the picture of his fiancee having fun in a bar with her friends.“What is she doing there?” he angrily muttered, he quickly phones Kevin while he is driving his car to inform him about this.“Did you know where is my fiancee now?” he sarcastically said, “she is in the bar with my cousin and it is all because of you,” Axel blamed him, “if something happens to her, you will pay,” he added.“Wh—where are they? Send me the address, please?” he heard him begs.Axel ended the call and hurry on the bar, he searched for Schina inside even the music is loud, the place is crowded that makes him hard to find her around; he still continues on searching for her till he bump into a man talking about his cousin.“Excuse me, did you guys know AC?&