"Hun, let’s talk tonight. I need to say an important thing to you because I don’t want to hide it from you anymore, I have been thinking about it lately, but I always end up thinking of you. I hope you can forgive me after hearing me out. I will be waiting for you in your place."
She read the message glued on the lunch box she received this morning, Schina got nervous after hearing the message written on the paper.
"Is he breaking up with me?" She was worried. She noticed that he had been avoiding her for a week. He hadn’t even texted or called her lately, but he never failed in asking some people to send her a meal.
"Is he pushing himself just to send it?" she wondered, her gaze fixed on the dish she was carrying.
"How long do you intend to gaze at your food?" Clarissa inquired.
"Until all the doubt I feel inside my heart passes," she grumbled.&nb
"Marie, where have you been? I have been looking for you lately, but I didn’t see you around," Stephen asked a tanned Marie."I'vebeenonvacation!"sherespondedcalmly,herkneescrossedandhergazefixedonhim."That’s cool! You have been rested for a long time. Are you refreshed now?" He inquired."Yes, I am." She had been grinning since the time she arrived at the restaurant."You have been away for a month, I bet you haven’t heard the news around?""What news?" She curiously asked, grabbing the glass of juice she ordered and sipping it."If you can make sure that you will be calm once you hear it, I am willing to tell you openly," Stephen stated."No news could ever spoil my mood, sweetie, since I am so happy right now," she
Axel arrived at the location of the jewelry design competition in Taguig, City. As the lifeless faces of the crowd surrounded him, his gaze swept the area.He recognized the front desk and noticed one of the workers organizing the list of candidates, so he approached it and faced her."Good morning, sir! How may I assist you?" the lady asked, smiling."Good morning, Miss. May I inquire as to whether Mrs. Gwenn has arrived?" he said."Let me check in my computer for a moment, sir," she quickly browse on her data and search on the checklist, she raised her gaze at him when she found it. "Yes, sir. She’s already inside, but I am afraid you can’t talk to her because she is busy preparing for the contest.""It’s alright, I am willing to wait for her," Axel is decided to talk to her. The lady saw that it would take too long for Gwenn to talk to him. 
Marie raises her head from her seat and nervously smiles at Gwenn, "hello!" she says, embarrassedly greeting her. "Hi! Would you mind introducing me to this good looking man next to you?" Gwenn drew Stephen's attention, causing her husband to look at him as well. Stephen smiled and rose, "It’s nice to see you in person, uncle!" He sounded friendly, but they looked questionably at him while Marie was glaring at him. "You must be Mr. Hodreal, am I right?" Stephen was being chit-chatted with. "Yes, I am. May I know how you knew me?" he said, as Marie and Gwenn were merely listening in. "Who would not know the tycoon businessman?" Stephen reminisces. "But that was long ago, I couldn’t know that someone might still notice me," he was laughing as he shifted his gaze to his wife. "Yes, it is! But my best friend has kept on talking
"No… I will still do it all over again." Gwenn cried her heart out when she muttered those words while her daughter was trying to hold back her tears but she couldn’t stop herself from crying.She laughs even though her tears are streaming down her face, "so... you are telling me that you will keep on abandoning me! You are an evil woman. You don’t deserve my forgiveness." She coldly mumbled."Schina, please listen to me first; I—I'd want to tell you that I will continue to make the same mistake I did before, because... I can't live with him any longer, and... this decision makes me love myself more." Her teary-eyed mother looked at her sincerely while her daughter was crying and decided to not grant her the forgiveness that she wanted."Love?? Love yourself more? Have you heard what you were saying?! But how about me? How about our family? Did you ever think of me before making tha
"Schina, I heard to my cousin that you already found your mother? Why aren’t you talking with her? I thought you always wanted to find her." Aicko whispered to her to not let Eve hear their conversation."Yes, I always wish that, but when I met her, I couldn't help but blame her and question her about the past," her voice became sad.Aicko sighed, "I am sorry to hear that, dear." She cuddle her best friend, "but you know what, even though Axel hates to see his parents he wished you to be on good terms with your mother." Aicko murmured.Schina removes her arm from her friend and faces her, "why?""Just like he used to say, he wants you to be happy. You didn’t know how sad he was seeing you sad too but if you still can’t forgive her for what she did to you, you can still get mad at her and when your heart gets light, don’t forget to forgive those who harm you becau
"Axel’s POV"I don’t know what went into my head when I saw that man again, but my feet led me back to the hospital and I found myself standing in the same spot that he stood just an hour ago."S-sir? Sir, may I know how can I help you?" I heard the nurse query.I shook my head and was planning to leave, but my mouth automatically opened and asked, "can I ask if there is a patient named Martin Hodreal?""Please wait for a moment, sir," the nurse face the computer and browse. After few seconds, she turns to me and replied, "I am sorry, sir but we don’t have a patient named Martin Hodreal on our data.""One last question, can you tell me what this man did here? I seem to saw him paying here an hour ago," I mentioned while showing the picture that I have been keeping inside my wallet for many years."Oh! That man pays for the bill of…" t
"Schina’s POV"This is the day I've been looking forward to, the day we'll become one, our wedding day! I'm looking forward to seeing him because it's been days since I've seen Axel, but he always guaranteed me that we'd meet on this day. He also informed me that he had an unexpected business trip that he needed to complete before marrying me.I'm sure he's already accomplished his duty because today is a big day for us.Everything feels like a fairytale dream to me since we met in unexpected ways; we both despise each other, and this necklace is the reason we met.I have always been thankful to him because he guides me in this journey, he protected me to not be in danger even though I never told him that I was the girl he have been looking for because I always wanted to be the Schina he met not the Schina who saved him and I don’t want him to blame himself for what happened in the past.
Schina understood everything he said, but her mind seemed to not comprehend what he meant by his statement, "what do you mean? Why are you blaming my mother?""Your mother broke my family and she is the mistress of my dad!"Schina took a step back as Axel moved forward, glaring at him."You must be startled! My father and your mother were married for twenty-two years! Do you know what that means? After she broke up with your father, she married my father!" He raged, forgetting that he was already hurting her by holding each of her shoulders and shaking her body.Schina burst into tears at what she saw and how he reacted to it, "I—I didn’t know that…" Her voice was shaking as she mentioned those words."Don't you realize your dad is the reason my father died? But… have I ever held you accountable for it?" Schina added whi