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Is this love, Mr CEO? Now and then, a little frequently…
NAVY’s POV"Navidad!" Mother's voice echoed in my head, jolting me from my thoughts.Reality slips through my hand now and then, a little frequently, a little too often.This would count as our eleventh dinner together and I intended to announce their awaiting departure soon."Are you okay?" Mother asked,"Yes, Ma'am.","You seem distressed,"I glanced at her and a sly smile widened my face, “I’m okay, Mother”"Are you sure this isn't about Rosé?" Not this again. I exhaled."You said you didn’t want her here," I replied, "and it's fine. Don't worry about me.""How can we not worry when you look more miserable by the minute," Lumbar interjected, announcing his presence at the dinner table.“Butt out!” I exclaimed.“Don’t talk to your brother like that!” Papà chimed, “At least he successfully got married. Yours fell through before it even happened.”I glanced at my father, and our eyes locked, a kind of icy air engulfed the room.“When will this topic rest, Papà?!” I thundered. Their
Last Updated : 2024-01-03Is this love, Mr CEO? Fail through?
ROSÉ’s POVI paced the corners of my room restlessly, my thoughts racing as I reread Mrs Maya Leonardo's text messages."You have to find a way back home, Rosé, I wish I could help but all my plans fail."I couldn’t shake off the puzzling aspect of the message. All her plans fell through?What plans?!When I fiddled through my phone reading his mother's message, I had no intention of dialing his number, I was going to stay as far away as possible but somehow, I ended up calling him.The phone rang persistently without an answer. Despite knowing that I was probably the last person he wanted to talk to, I found myself more eager by the end of each unanswered call.As the third call went unanswered, disappointment began to creep in.Navy's infamous silent treatment. I sighed, moving to hang up.Unexpectedly, his voice rasped through the phone."Elodie," his voice was gentle.My heart skipped a beat."Good... Good evening sir..." I stammered."Are you alright?" He asked. I went blank. H
Last Updated : 2024-01-03Is this love, Mr CEO? The heart spoke before the mind could make out the words
NAVY’s POVThe heart spoke before the mind could make out the words. There, I said it.“I love you…” Elodie’s eyes widened slowly, she was astonished.“For a while now…” I added. If I was going to confess, there was no need doing it in bits. This tumultuous moment when my life was falling apart seemed fitting to lay bare my feelings for her. Feelings so long hidden that I didn’t expect her to believe me.“You don’t have to say anything. I just…” my voice failed as I noticed her shrunken figure.“I don’t hate you, Elodie. I don’t like to see you hurt, I don’t want to disrupt your life either. Despite my desire to have a family to raise our daughter, I would hate for it to be against your will.”“It is my will…” She interjected. I was the nervous one but she was the one with a quivering voice. “I mean… I mean that I want to… be a better mother than my mom… I want to try even if it hurts.”“In the future when she asks why her parents are not together, I want to place my hand over my
Last Updated : 2024-01-05Is this love, Mr CEO? Everything is fair in love and contract?
For most of the night, I laid on my back with my eyes closed, unable to get any sleep. The night dragged on as my mind flowed with thoughts stemming from Mrs Leonardo's words. Until my phone rang loudly shattering the silence of my room, I was unaware that it was dawn.I glanced at my phone's screen and picked it up in a daze."Huh, Paula" I groaned tiredly, "Rosé, I just..." She gasped, "I just saw a video of you and Mr Leonardo on my laptop.""Why would you send that to me?! Eww, girl!" Paula yelled and I sprang from my bed, sitting upright as she spoke."Paula... I promise it is not me. Why would I record myself during sex and dump it on you? Are you sure it is me?...""I might not know Mr Leonardo perfectly but I know what you look like girl and it's definitely you... You look good though, real good."As Paula spoke, a sickening suspicion dawned on me, and an unbelievable picture of my abuser began to unfold in my head.It was Lydia.Everything was beginning to add up now rememb
Last Updated : 2024-01-05Is this love, Mr CEO? I don't know what to do with myself…
Broken and shattered to the bone, my heart ached. I bolted out of Paula's house with eyes blurry with tears, dashed into a waiting cab, and went back home.My head buzzed with several thoughts and voices saying everything at the same time.I pressed down the window and shot my nose out for air. The morning breeze filtered through my expressions and emotions, working them out gradually.The cab alighted in front of Navy's wide gates and I sighed. "It's fine..." I urged myself. As I stepped down from the cab, a sharp pain pierced my ribs and I stopped abruptly."Ah!" I gasped, "Aaah!" The sharp pain intensified.The cab driver jumped out and caught me before I fell to the ground, and that was the last thing I remember.I blinked my eyes open and found myself in a room vaguely familiar. I looked around more intently and noticed an IV attached to my wrist, yet the surroundings didn't seem like a hospital ward.Unexpectedly, a voice quite hoarse and firm bellowed in the air, "Are you awak
Last Updated : 2024-01-06Is this love, Mr CEO? Shrill
The earthy tone theme of my room felt like a bad idea when Doctor Martin’s voice echoed, everywhere suddenly turned dull evoking nausea from within me."The only problem is that her fetus is not growing as it should... She needs to rest more, eat more..." The doctor's voice resonated in my head and I remember exhaling sharply.The terracotta-toned walls seemed to be closing in on me, suffocating the breath in my lungs.Elodie's eyes blazed with unimaginable, her glare fixated on me, and my confidence faltered under her scrutinizing glare."I'm sorry, Elodie... I can explain." My voice strained with despair."No, you can't!" She countered, her eyes flared with rage, causing my heart to clench painfully against my chest.The silence between us deepened with each passing moment along with my regret."I can please, give me a chance to explain...""You lied to me, Navy. How could you do that to me? Why would you put me through such pain? Is that what you want? Do you really want me to lose
Last Updated : 2024-01-06Is this love, Mr CEO? On my darkest days…
NAVY’s POVOn my darkest days, on my happiest days, on the days I felt desolate, on the days I needed a shoulder to lean on, on those nights when the sound of my ticking clock was the only thing keeping me sane, I secretly wished, secretly prayed that God sent someone my way. But life seldom unfolds the way we plan it. Most times, our plans do not even happen, other times when they happen, they do so in the most agonizing ways.I stood by Rosé's door, deliberating on whether to knock or not.The echoes of her tearful conversation with her mom haunted me all day.It was because I heard her sobbing painfully that I stood outside her door with a cup of soothing tea torn between barging in to comfort her and waiting for her to come to me.Neither of those options was likely to happen. Elodie would not come to me. She wouldn't ask me for help, and I wouldn't barge into her room. I wouldn't do anything to upset her more. So, I made a turn with the mug of tea now chilling in my hand. As
Last Updated : 2024-01-08Is this love, Mr CEO? Let’s call it a proposition
ROSE’s POVTears streamed down my face as I grappled with the overwhelming memories of my past. “I didn't do it.” The words even though whispered, lost their value in the midst of the heaviness lingering in the room.I didn’t kill my father. Yes, I lied to him. I lied that I never knew him but that was because I wanted to forget. I wanted to forget anything that had to do with him. I wanted to forget that part of my life ever happened, but who knew it would come back to haunt me? Who knew Cecilia would haunt me with my almost forgotten memories?Navy paced the living room restlessly. I could tell from his hardened features that he was slowly losing patience. He wasn’t only losing his patience, he was losing his mind too. His company was just recuperating from the fire case, he couldn’t have other news that his fiancée was an accused murderer.“How could this happen?” He murmured, his voice betraying the fear of uncertainty gnawing at him.I wanted to say it, I wanted to go to h
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