“Excuse me?” I squeal, banking all my notoriety on him to hearken to his dumbfounding ridiculousness again. Julie is still gawking at him with dismay, her mouth still hanging open.“I want you back to work!” He elucidates, and I discharge out a breath that I did not know I was holding, while Julie’s face drops and she closes her mouth.At least, it was that. He should have gone straight to the point instead of giving a half-nonsensical string of words. But if he was aiming to anger me, he succeeded because I was arranging a series of profanities to howl at him.“Why? You and your family are a bunch of cunning beings. What kind of games are you playing with me again? What do you stand to gain from me working for you? What other evil plans are you all cooking this time around?” I ask, and he heaves a deep sigh, as if he had muttered a white lie. As if I am being a drama queen. As if I am accusing the saints.I commend the school where he went for his master's in acting, because looking
“Are you thinking straight, Irma? What the heck was that out there, huh? Forget about speaking to that son of a bitch, but accepting to work for him? Are you joking?” Julie squeals as we stroll back inside the house.I knew she would not reverse my decision back there. I could see it in her eyes. How she was scorching my cheek with her stern gaze. How she remained awfully mute in the last part of the discussion. I knew she would bombard me with questions the minute that jerk left.“I am not joking, Julie. Finding work is not easy, and you know it. And again, I do not want to compromise my daughter’s life for anything. Until I can find something else better, I will work for that jerk!” I state.“Your baby daddy, Irma!” Shit! I was about to drop on the couch, but that trikes me up as we lock eyes. “Have you forgotten that and all that you have been through because of that man and his family?” She asks.Is she serious? Of all the people in the world, she is the one asking me that questio
Hello, weekend?I put the papers down and start thinking of what to do with my daughter tomorrow. Yes, it is Friday evening. The weekend has gone by so fast, right? I know, and the good part is, I am doing exemplary awe-inspiring in my new post.The employees have been nothing but nice and friendly to me, making my work so easy. I have not howled at anyone for their incompetence these four days that I have been their kinda boss because everyone knows where to be and do at the exact time. The work is smoother, seemingly more than before. I do not know what the ‘new boss’ said to them that day he reported because no one is slowing in their words. Knowing him, I presume he oozed all his iciness on them, making his orders crystal clear. I haven't asked anyone what he told them. I don’t want to seem so nosy, and I also do not want to arouse any questions like that incident before everyone and how I stormed out of the hotel that day looking like a confused lost zombie.Bitter sigh!I really
I grab my child away from this son of a bitch! How dare he?Why does he have a miniature of him in the world that he does not know of? The nerve! The balls! The audacity of this jerk!It stings to think that I dated this fool, and yet he did not know even a single thing about me. If he did, his barren brains would know that there is no way in hell I would compromise my morals, ethics, dignity, and respect. He has some grilled balls looking at me as if he wants to murder me.Why doesn’t he just stop acting all saintly and rephrase that question loud and clear enough for the countless ears inside this hotel to hear? It should be, Why is this child still alive when we ordered you to kill it five years ago? There. I dare him, so that everyone here can know what kind of monsters they are.Miniature, my black foot! His copy, his stinking ass! May thunder will strike him dead if he dares call my child his again. His audacity is wrecking my nerves, you know. I mean, how dare he even have the
I am almost burning with rage as I sit in the office with this annoying jerk! How dare he drag me up here? How dare he even open his stinking mouth and call me a betrayer? Does he know what that phrase even means? I guess no, because if he does, not even his rotten tongue would have made a mistake of slipping that word out much less directing it to me.A slight knock on the door echoes, and I hike toward it in a sprint, ushering Julie inside whose jaw drops to the floor after seeing the situation - the grogginess of the family that was supposed to be but can never. I did not explain much on phone when I texted her. I just told her to come directly here. I need her to take my daughter with her because I do not want her to witness the war that is about to break out in this office.“Please take Angel with you. You two go home ahead. I will be right with you.” I say, handing Angel to her.“Are you okay? Will you be okay?” She asks, throwing a quick glance at the fuming lion behind me.Of
I am gawking at this jerk with bleeding eyes, but he is not, to a lesser extent, infuriated than I am. I am actually getting a feeling that he is shedding more wrath on me than I am percolating. You know, I am too lazy to crack this facade of his anymore. I mean, what exactly is he trying to do here? Why does he seem like his act of oblivion is just not an oblivion but a sincere hurt?What is he doing? Emotional blackmail? Is his objective to win me over with this sentimental enactment so that he can lure me into their evil schemes again? Well, bad news, moron! I learned how to read through the fake masks. And I learned that the hard way. Even the most opaque ones, like this one glaring at me right now, I can see through them clearly.“Speak up, Irma! Explain why you are so mad with my family that you even had to hide my baby from me.” He speaks low and raw, calm but also somewhat rupturing with smothered ire.I take a deep breath, trying his tactic of acting all calm. I hope it works
I reach home fuming like an infuriated lioness. That jerk sure knows how to irritate me. For the past five years, he has been learning how to get on my nerves or trigger my fears. But there is no freaking way I am letting him near my child. They have evoked a war, and I am winning, come what may. If they could not make me submit to their evil schemes five years ago, then there is no freaking way on earth they will get me now. Not now and not ever!“Where is he, mommy?” That voice startles me.Angel stands before me with Julie behind her. Julie seems scared to hell. I don’t blame her though, but I will not permit my fears to cloud my strengths and determination because, from this day on, any shit that that family will throw at me, I will fire back tenfold! They have just awakened a sharp-set, infuriated lioness, and they will regret it for the rest of their lives. I will give them the war of the century! They better prepare their asses for the cold karma of all their atrocities and try
RAYSON’S POVDELUXE BAR.“Hey, handsome! Whatever seems to worry you this much, worry no more. I am here to take away all your sorrows and worries. I promise to take you to cloud nine, and you will wake up with nothing in your mind but my name and the creamy, steamy memories of our encounter." A lady says as she helps herself up to my lap.Stressed, huh? My head is about to explode from a million thoughts, and all she can read is just stress. I am drowning in sorrow, confusion, and a thousand puzzles that the auspiciousness of today has aroused. The regrets and disbelief spanking my mind are a story for another day. But I don’t blame her for not seeing what kind of a wretched jerk I am. She is only interested in the cash that she will get from what she is offering.Her lascivious eyes are filled with sacred lust, almost devouring me, just like her hands are almost tearing my clothes as she fuddles them all over me. Her red-painted, lustrous lips are parted, denoting how much she is ar
“And I will do everything I can to make sure you will never succeed, Mother!” Bravo! God bless this man for me.His mother snaps her face at him. “I cannot believe that you and your father had the audacity to defy my orders and go for this woman. Are you happy now? She has been here only for a few seconds, and she is already wrecking Havok. See how she is disrespecting me in front of even these pesky servants!"Oh, is she crying this early? It sucks, but it is interesting in a way. I mean, seeing her this way is a very heartfelt picture. And having her own son and her husband take my side gives me so much hilarity. I wonder where Ana is. She should be here to add more fun.“The problem is not about her dissecting you, Mrs. Mazur. The question is, do you have any respect for yourself? Do you have any shame, because even up to this point, I am trying to analyze just how a woman who is supposed to be my real mother could be so cruel and shameless to do what you did? So tell me, Mrs. Mazu
The drive has been so short and quiet. There is nothing that has been said throughout the seemingly short journey. Everyone has been engrossed in their own thoughts, except for Angel, who has been throwing questions here and there along the way.Coming into contact with the gate, Ray hoots, and the door opens. We drive in together with the jeep that is carrying our luggage.Taping our feet to the ground as we got out of the car, Angel was about to shout her awe at the place she would be living, but her glee was held at her throat by the sight of the antagonistic eyes of Ray’s mother and Tarah. They are here, gawking at us like they have loaded guns and their fingers on the trigger, ready to shoot us and send us to our next lives. If they didn’t have their hands crossed on their chests, I would have been forced to check and be weary of every slight movement. But I guess we are saved since there is no sense of guns. The bullets from their murderous eyes are totally harmless since I am u
That day. How can I leave all those memories of that moment behind? I cannot. I do not want to. Just like him. “I am carrying that one too.” I say.“Does that mean that it meant something to you?” He asks. You should see the hope and desperation in his eyes. I never liked the word miserable, but I like how it displays itself in his eyes. It gives them a look that would thaw anyone.I would like to get lost in them and swim through their walls and try to scour what more miseries lay deep there, but I guess there will be time for this and much more. Later? Yeah. When we surpass all these obstacles. When we are free to love and cherish each other without any worries or roadblocks, “I will ask the same thing that I asked your father, Ray. I know your father does not need any form of stress, and heaven knows I want none for him. But your mother and your wife are probably having a grave dug for me and my child the moment we step foot in that mansion. And you know I will not take any sh*t fr
It is that awful day. That day, I am closing yet another chapter and opening a new one of my unknown future. That day, we are saying goodbye to this house that has been our home for the last about six years. Sad, somehow.Darting my eyes around this house and this particular room, I won’t deny that I will not miss this place This is where I started my life all over again. Another phase of my life unfolded. I came into this house about six years ago. My heart was bleeding. I was torn. I was so broken and so lost. So confused. And most importantly, I am so bitter with myself, the world, and everything in general. The graph that depicted my fur was so obscure. I could not tell where I would end up with my baby. All that I knew was that I was a pregnant woman. A broken and broken potential motherI was a pregnant woman whose baby daddy had just toyed with and betrayed me in the most cruel way. That is what I knew back then. I was made to believe that, and I embraced that lie. I was about
“Mommy! Mommy! Mom!”Damn!I kick my duvet aside and get out of bed at a light speed. I hike to the door and open it as fast as I can ever do that, and Angel’s face greets me.“Angel? What is the problem? What happened?” I ask as I pull her inside, looking around for anything that is chasing her.“Nothing, mommy!”Nothing? She came all the way to my room, running and screaming my name this early morning, all for nothing. What time is it? I don’t have a wall clock on my face, so I grab my phone from under the pillow and check the time. Huh? Just twenty minutes past six in the morning? This is early, and she is awake? It's not even a school day.“Why are you still sleeping, mommy? What if Daddy comes to get us and we are not ready?” She asks.Ooh, that is it? The excitement? The glee. The enthusiasm and everything within the margins of that for the idea of living with her dad is what woke her up this early. My goodness! We have everything packed. Even the beds have been garbled, and we
“Okay. I suppose you have bought a gun, then? We really will need one unless you want to die in the hands of Mrs. Mazur and Ray’s wife, Irma. Goodness! I don’t like the kind of feeling that I am getting. We are technically throwing ourselves to the wolves.” Here comes Julie, the lamenter. The fear-freak little bitch She is scared to hell by this news that I just gave her.I know. I know. Yes, believe me, I do understand her. Everyone would look at this scenario from her perspective. Almost everyone would share her sentiments right now about this madness. All this is wrong. All is risky. Wait, risky, yes. Tick that one. But wrong? What exactly is wrong? Me granting an old, ailing man’s plea? Is my daughter getting what she truly deserves? What am I entitled to? Or the possibility of me and Ray perhaps just reuniting? Or is Ray performing his duties as a father to his only child?What exactly is wrong there? Nothing wrong with the above, right? We are just rewriting all the wrongs here.
“First, I need at least about three days to sort things out. I need to prepare my daughter for this first.” I say.I know she will be over the moon with the mind-boggling news of living with her father. I know how much she longs for this—to have her dad close. This will surely blow her mind off. And as early as now, despite the fights that await us ahead because of this, because I know it will evoke a catastrophe, I am happy for my daughter. And I will not deny her this golden chance, nor will I let anyone hinder her from enjoying this new life that she is so entitled to. It is her right. Nobody should stand in her way of this.“I understand. You can have the three days, but please, my dear, don’t take too long. I want to sort things out as early as possible.” Mr. Mazur says:I don’t understand what is chasing this man. Why does he want to speed up things like this? All the same, maybe it’s the need to clear his conscience. If that is the case, I will make sure he gets the peace that
“I was a very vibrant man when you last saw me, Irma. I was the man of the house. I held the sole authority to make you marry my son, and you two could be living happily with each other. No one could have dared go against my word. You wouldn’t need to sneak your hands under the table just to hold each other like your heart wants.”Shieeet! Damn! How does he know? I told you this man is so sharp-witted. I try to yank my hand away from Ray now that we have been caught, but I guess he is glad that we have actually been caught because he does not let go. He pins me more on him, and since I don’t want to arouse any more suspicions, I just let him have his way.I blush as I gaze I look back at Mr. Mazur, though. This is so embarrassing. The old man might be thinking about what we would be doing if there was no one around. But if only he knew that we had already sampled that sin. Sigh!“Instead of choosing what was right, which was my son’s happiness, I put my interests first, my legacy, my
So,their name had no stain, until I decided to stain it. They were stainless untill Irma decided to show up and now she is dragging their name into the mud. And they can not allow that. He is here to ask me to stop this war that I have started because it will stain their name more than it has already done.“I would like to know, do you have any proof of what you are accusing my wife of? Because if you don’t…”“I do have.” I cut him off, nicely, though, after remembering Ray told me not to abset him. “I would also like to let you know that I was not planning on causing any trouble for your family. I was minding my business and doing perfectly fine with my daughter without you all of you in the picture. Believe me, there was no way I would have chosen all this mess over the peace I had.” I explain.“I know. But now you are in this mess. What do you plan to do?”He asks.“I am sorry, Mr Mazur, but that I can not tell you. All I know is that your wife and your daughter-in-law will not leav