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Love, lies and, secrets 131. The end is just the beginning
ALICE "I am so sorry Alice. It's all my fault," my mother cried and I had to pull her back from the hug."It's none of your fault, mother. You did nothing," I told her, wiping the tears in her eyes but she shook her head."It's my fault. I caused all of this. I should have been a better mother. I should have seen the signs and known when things were wrong. I was just being stupid letting them fool me and allowing them to act like some married couple and hurting you more than ever. I'm so sorry Alice," she spoke at length with tears in her eyes and her voice croaky.“It’s not your fault, mother. If we all begin to take blame, then we all have our faults according to Anna. The truth is, maybe this was meant to do from the start. Maybe I should have never gotten married to Al. Maybe I should have never fallen for him but then I did and that’s it. It’s all fine.”I let out a small sigh. “It was difficult for my mother. Maybe I took the punishment too seriously…”I said that in regards to
Love, lies and, secrets Epilogue
TWO YEARS LATERALICEI have never for once imagined getting married to Kelvin before being in a relationship with him. He has always been my friend, someone who I cherished and was grateful to have by my side. Kelvin is that friend that came to my rescue when I didn’t expect him to. After Anna died, I took Fiona as my own and began to nurture her.She looked just like my sister. Those eyes of hers were like eyes and each time I looked into her eyes, I am reminded of Anna. I have completely forgiven Anna in my heart and I will be raising Fiona as if she is my own.Fiona is indeed mine because a child or my sister is mine too. Today is my wedding day. Funny right? Yes, it is my wedding day. Something I never expected and I’m getting married to Kelvin. I did not hope to find love in anyone after my last situation and I decided to focus on myself and raise Fiona in the best possible way ever but then Kelvin happened.How it happened, I do not know but I found myself thinking of him and
Love, lies and, secrets Prologue
Anna felt a jolt of electricity run down her spine when Al tweaked her left nipple with his finger, while trailing fleeting kisses from her neck down to her shoulder.She felt a pool of heat form in her core and her panties were already dampened.She still couldn't believe that she was in a hot make out session with a man she only met about an hour or two ago and to her actual surprise, she was loving every second of it.Her eyes locked with Al's for a brief moment and she couldn't help but shiver at the intensity of his gaze. His blue eyes were like a magnet, pulling her closer to him while her heart raced faster than usual and her body felt like it was being set on fire. The good kind of fire.Al leaned closer to her, bringing his face closer to hers and claiming her lips once again. The kiss instantly made her feel over the moon and ecstatic, like nothing in her life could
Love, lies and, secrets 1. It's him
ANNAIt only takes a second for your whole world to turn upside down and leave you in a frantic state as to how it all came down to this in the first place.I swallowed a painful lump in my throat as I stared at the Adonis in front of me. My heart was racing faster than usual and I could barely move an inch from where I stood.It couldn't be him, it definitely shouldn't be him, I tried to convince myself even though it seemed as though reality wasn't in agreement with me.I tried telling myself several times that he wasn't the man I slept with two nights ago.I adamantly refused to believe he was and the reason was because my elder sister, Alice, had just introduced him to me as her newly wedded husband.He was staring back at me with a smile on his face, almost as if he didn't know who I was or
Love, lies and, secrets 2. Perfect Hypocrite
ANNAI managed to lift my head up and just when I'm about to reply to him, Alice chimed in and I mentally thanked her for doing that.I didn't know how to give him a reply without sounding utterly disgusting or even worse, bursting into tears. I didn't know what I was feeling at that moment but I knew there was a lot going on in my head and I had several emotions running through me at this very moment.I wanted to cry for so many reasons and one of them was because I have always been the type to speak out on anything that was bothering me in any way, especially to my sister, who I have always trusted and relied on. I just couldn't handle having to keep quiet about everything and pretend like I was okay when I wasn't. I'm this close to pulling my hair out from guilt."Anna wanted a change of environment for her school so she traveled to an entirely different state an
Love, lies and, secrets 3. Two nights ago
ANNATWO NIGHTS AGO"Pour me another shot of tequila and a shot of vodka please," I requested from the bartender whose brows rose up in a questioning manner as soon as I asked but he didn't dare to ask any questions. At the moment, my only intention was to down as much alcohol as my body could take and thankfully, I had a very impressive alcohol tolerance so getting drunk and completely wasted had never actually been an issue for me."Sure thing madam," I heard him respond, but I'm no longer paying any attention to him at all.I just took a seat and focused on my phone while waiting for the bartender to return with my two shots of tequila and vodka respectively."Is this seat taken?" I heard a deep suave voice ask and I immediately turned my back to check out who it was that owned such a gentle, yet quiet and seduc
Love, lies and, secrets 4. Faking it
ANNAI woke up to the sound of someone knocking on my bedroom door like their entire life depended on it. I let out a loud groan as my head felt it was going to roll off my head anytime soon. I could barely get any sleep at all through the night because I was having difficulty closing my eyes without feeling like my entire world was drowning."Anna, are you in there?" I heard Alice's voice question from outside and I struggled to drag myself out of bed. I wore my slippers that was right beside my bed and walked towards the door to answer her so that she'd finally stop knocking like a crazy woman."Good morning big sis," I greeted as soon as I opened the door and saw her standing in front of the room with her usual sheepish smile. "Good morning sleepy head," Alice replied and I yawned tiredly since I was still feeling very sleepy."Don't you intend on having breakfast sweetie? You've been asleep for so long that I got scared that perhaps, something happened to you. Anyways, get chang
Love, lies and, secrets 5. We need to talk
ANNA I was able to convince Alice to go to the mall without me even after she had tried everything she could to get me to go with her. It was a little difficult to get her to go by herself and she even went as far as telling me that walking around and doing some exercise was a very good a way to relieve my stress and help with my cramps but I immediately knew she was only pulling my legs so that I would agree to go shopping with her. After she had left, I busied myself with anything I found interesting and I eventually fell asleep while reading a novel on my phone. When I woke up, it was already past three in the afternoon and almost immediately I did, I heard a knock on my door. "Come in," I said, inviting whoever it was in. Alice walked into my room with a wide smile playing on her lips and with two huge shopping bags on both her hands. "Hello, my lazy little sister. How are you feeling now? Are you still in pain? Did the pain relief meds have any effect at all?" Alice asked
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Love, lies and, secrets Epilogue
TWO YEARS LATERALICEI have never for once imagined getting married to Kelvin before being in a relationship with him. He has always been my friend, someone who I cherished and was grateful to have by my side. Kelvin is that friend that came to my rescue when I didn’t expect him to. After Anna died, I took Fiona as my own and began to nurture her.She looked just like my sister. Those eyes of hers were like eyes and each time I looked into her eyes, I am reminded of Anna. I have completely forgiven Anna in my heart and I will be raising Fiona as if she is my own.Fiona is indeed mine because a child or my sister is mine too. Today is my wedding day. Funny right? Yes, it is my wedding day. Something I never expected and I’m getting married to Kelvin. I did not hope to find love in anyone after my last situation and I decided to focus on myself and raise Fiona in the best possible way ever but then Kelvin happened.How it happened, I do not know but I found myself thinking of him and
Love, lies and, secrets 131. The end is just the beginning
ALICE "I am so sorry Alice. It's all my fault," my mother cried and I had to pull her back from the hug."It's none of your fault, mother. You did nothing," I told her, wiping the tears in her eyes but she shook her head."It's my fault. I caused all of this. I should have been a better mother. I should have seen the signs and known when things were wrong. I was just being stupid letting them fool me and allowing them to act like some married couple and hurting you more than ever. I'm so sorry Alice," she spoke at length with tears in her eyes and her voice croaky.“It’s not your fault, mother. If we all begin to take blame, then we all have our faults according to Anna. The truth is, maybe this was meant to do from the start. Maybe I should have never gotten married to Al. Maybe I should have never fallen for him but then I did and that’s it. It’s all fine.”I let out a small sigh. “It was difficult for my mother. Maybe I took the punishment too seriously…”I said that in regards to
Love, lies and, secrets 130. A new start
ALICE I used to hear a saying all the time that sometimes when something feels like the end, it can sometimes just be the beginning of a new start for you and all you need to do is just be ready to embrace whatever is coming to hit you. After the emotional roller coaster that I have to go through and after reaching my goal of getting back at Anna and Alejandro for everything that they did to me, I couldn't help but feel kind of empty on the inside but I was trying my best to remain hopeful and positive because I felt like I still had a lot of things that I could end up doing. Anna ended up in a psychiatric hospital where she is being looked after and as for Alejandro, I was successfully able to divorce him and since he didn't sign a prenup with me, I was compensated with half of his properties and I still had the company in my name because I refuse to give it back to him.Alejandro has been trying to get across to me for a really long time now but I refused to grant me any sort of
Love, lies and, secrets 129. Defensive
ALICE "As for you Alejandro, you are a sick and disgusting bastard not just for lying to me but for putting me in this condition and without considering the fact that I'm here because of you, you did so many horrible things that even led you to losing so much. You are a disgusting piece of shit and I hope you rot in hell," she hissed at him, with an upset look on her face. She grabbed the nearest chair in front of her and threw it toward Alejandro and the way she was acting was so creepy and crazy at the same time. I was honestly quite amused that I was successfully able to drive her crazy and make her seem crazy but I kind of felt bad for her that she was this way when she had so much potential but anytime I remember everything that she did to me, I end up being happy about my actions and laughing at her for finding herself in this situation. "I'm going to advise you to remember the condition that you're in and get a hold of yourself because I'm definitely not in the mood to deal
Love, lies and, secrets 128. It’s mine
ALICE"I honestly don't care about whatever it is that you just said right now because as far as I'm concerned, this company is mine and there is nothing that you can say or do to take it away from me no matter how hard you try," he said in a stern and confident manner and I laughed. "Are you trying to prove to yourself that you're not a good listener or what? What other proof do you need to realise that this is no longer yours anymore because it's now in my name and the official document says it all?" I retorted, finding his confidence quite amusing. I had every intention of playing with his emotions and making him feel frustrated for every time that he made me feel less of myself and for making me feel like I wasn't good enough because of his habit of being unfaithful. Alejandro glanced at Freya. "How could you have done something like this to me even after I trusted you so much? So your only objective for approaching me was to just set up a trap for me and watch me fall into it?
Love, lies and, secrets 127. Fishy
ALEJANDROThe minute I heard Anderson mention something about what I did to Alice, I couldn't help but question if he already knew about the situation that was between Alice, Anna and myself and I couldn't help but also question what he knew and how he found out. I was starting to wonder if the relationship between Anna and I wasn't as discreet as I told you I was because even Freya mentioned something earlier and it kind of bothered me. "It is exactly what I just said and you can freely take it however you want to," he answered."The both of you hurt Alice and you expect her to want to see you both happy? Why would she? And you think the papers are forged? Do you not recognize your own signature again or you need someone to confirm that you indeed signed those papers?" he asked."You need to be more direct with whatever you're trying to say because I don't understand what you're trying to say," I demanded. I couldn't understand what he was going on concerning Alice not being happy
Love, lies and, secrets 126. The truth hurts
ANNAThe fact that Alejandro just stood there and kept listening to all the nonsense that this stupid girl was saying to me without defending me or telling her to shut her damn mouth up was very upsetting to me and I found it very disrespectful that he didn't even have the balls to just stop this. The only thing that I could think of was that he probably told her everything that happened between us because absolutely nobody knows the whole story and judging by the way she's talking, it seemed as though she knows quite a lot and Alejandro telling her everything was definitely the only way she could have known all this. I hated him for saying things about us to a total stranger that didn't even understand the basis of our relationship and I also hated her for having the audacity to say all this nonsense to my face when she doesn't even know the whole story or understand my relationship with Alejandro. "You have absolutely no right to talk to me however you please I'm going to have to
Love, lies and, secrets 125. Caught
ALEJANDROI had no intention of going to work today but I got a call from my secretary that a woman was waiting for me and I asked for her description only for the description to match Freya's. I was confused as to why she would show up in my office without informing me first because it's unusual for her to just go there without telling me and I couldn't help but wonder what she wanted by going there.Since I already told Anna that I was going to spend the day at home, I had to quickly lie to her that something came up and I had an important job to finish up so that she wouldn't find it weird that I suddenly had to leave the house. Thankfully, she didn’t ask what it was that I was going to do and I was able to leave without getting questioned unnecessarily.I called Freya on my way to the office because I needed to know why she went there with her telling me first but she simply told me to show up first and I would talk when I arrived.When I arrived at the office, I saw her standing
Love, lies and, secrets 124. It’s about to go down
ANNAFROM ALEJANDRO: Come to my office. I want to see you. I have something to discuss with you in person. I was really surprised to see this text message from Alejandro because he just left the house not too long ago and I didn't understand why he couldn't tell me what he needed to tell me while he was around. He also knows that I've been trying to avoid coming to his office because of my pregnancy. I don't want people to ask me questions on who the father of my baby is and he and I agreed that I wasn't going to show up at the office until I gave birth. I tiredly made the decision to get changed, take a bath and head to the office even though I haven't a clue why I needed to go there. I didn't feel the need to take a driver so I drove myself to his office while thinking of what he could possibly want to say to me and why he made emphasis on my presence being important. I arrived shortly and got out of the car. I made my way to the company building and thankfully, I was allowed i
