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
Axel woke up feeling dizzy. He placed his hand on his head and rose from the couch, thinking about how he would end up going home.He walked to the restroom to wash his face. He stared at himself in the mirror, seeing the cut on his lips and the bruises on his face and neck.He hates being in himself because his mind keeps on remembering the love of his life. He has been making himself drunk to escape from the reality he can’t accept till now, but his mind has been making it hard for him to keep on playing all the sweet memories they had together all and over again.He punched the wall and breathed deeply. His hand had been slowly getting hurt as the blood ran down his fingers. "I don’t deserve her because I can only hurt her. I have been a burden to her ever since, but I haven’t done anything for her yet. I am a worthless person, I deserve to vanish in this world!"He held the sink
Since then, three years have passed."Mr. Hodreal, a woman is looking for you," his secretary informed him with a smile.He raised his head and stated, "tell her to wait for me for a while." He saw his secretary leave his office, and he kept the important documents in his drawer while he left the signed document on his table before he left.He walked out of his office and into the waiting room. A woman on the couch waved her hand at him, and Axel smiled as he approached her."How are you?" she inquired, standing up and kissing him on the cheek. "I missed you," she said enthusiastically."I'm OK, I missed you too," he said nonchalantly. He examined her features and noticed that she had already moved on from what had transpired, and she appeared happier now than she had before. "What brings you here?" Axel wondered."Don't you want to see me again, Axel?" she s