"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've been on vacation!" she responded calmly, her knees crossed and her gaze fixed on him.
"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
"Yes, it was always her. You must be shocked and the reason why she did not want to tell you this is that she didn’t want you to blame yourself for what has occurred in the past and was planning to hide it from you forever," John muttered. He let go of his collar when he noticed that she was starting to feel guilty after what he did, John left and let him think thoroughly.AfterJohnhaddeparted,hisoldbuddycameoverandwatchedhimsuffer;Stephenwasoverjoyedtoseehimcryingandmourningfortheladyheliked."It serves you right," he mumbled as he watched him drink all the wine in front of him. He was weeping. He came to him when he saw how weak he was at that moment, "hello, my old friend! How do you feel right now? Isn’t it painful to leave the one that you love for a reason
“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?&