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FAEAt that moment, I wanted to stay mesmerized by the view while fresh breeze continued to fill my lungs. I wanted things to stay like that, doing nothing and not overthinking. But there were things in my life I needed to deliberate about and change so I ended up there.I worked in Carl's family’s company, with their legal team. All the employees there knew about me. All the people in the legal team knew what I was going through. Even the partners...They all knew... everything.They had known me since I was a child. My daddy used to bring me to the office. Every lawyer was my uncle. Every assistant was my auntie. Each person in the team felt like family to me, from senior partners to apprentices.And I would miss them all.I would miss the grind, the headache of research to help with the investigation of cases, sometimes even overnight. I would miss the joy of breakthroughs in our investigations and the dinner celebrations for the cases we won, shared by everyone from clerks, parale
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FAEI had just put down my bag when I entered the door of the condo where I stayed with Sarah, and my phone started ringing. It was my agent."Find me a buyer for my unit, Lenny, pretty please? If you have time today, please visit me and make an estimate. I'm leaving as soon as I can, so if you can also help me find a new unit to move into? ASAP, yes."The agent didn't ask too many questions about why I was leaving my unit. Aside from being my late father's real estate agent passed on to me, Lenny also worked for some of Carl's friends, so she might already know the situation.She focused more on my second request.In fact, she already knew of a place that I would surely like and that suited my needs. If I had time today, we could visit the unit.I showered and changed into a new outfit, and we met at the site.Lenny was right; it was perfect for me.Before the day ended, Lenny had taken care of the documentation for the sale. When I returned to the condo, I had boxes with me for pack
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FAEI went straight to the mall after leaving the office. I walked around, wanting to get lost in the midst of unfamiliar faces with no obligation to talk to anyone at all. I still had no intention of opening my social media accounts or calling my friends to let them know I was back in Manila. I still needed to be alone and didn't want a pity party.I didn't buy anything or eat. I watched a movie—or I tried to. I left the cinema without knowing what happened in the movie. I just passed the remaining hours of the night there. When I got tired, I drove back to my condo. My bed was still in place, untouched, so I had that to sleep on tonight. Almost everything was packed, even the kitchen utensils, except for one plate, glass, and cutlery. The fridge was still running, but there was hardly anything inside except for my takeout, which I didn't eat either.I tried to ward off the depression and numbness by soaking in the bath. But it only reminded me of Jigo. But this was okay. I finally s
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FAEHow to get dazed with your eyes closed?If I opened my eyes, I knew I would still be captivated by the rotating fan on the ceiling atop the bed. Jigo melted like jelly on top of me, and we were messy, but again it was the greatest kind of messy. Our hearts continued to race against each other, our chests pressed tightly together, and I felt nothing but contented bliss and boundless wonder."Wow..." I finally managed to say after swallowing to moisten my dry throat. "Just... wow..."He lifted his head, grinning as he looked at me. "I know..." He raised his hand and gently caressed my cheek, momentarily controlling his excitement. I was too sensitive. "I debated for so long whether to come to you. I know you need to be alone... but I can't stay away for long." In a more intense tone, he confessed, "It may just be an excuse… Lola Leah sending me. If it weren't for that, I would find other reasons to come to you."I remained silent for a moment. Then he slid beside me, stood up and he
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FAE"What is it?" he asked, sounding curious but with a smile on his face."Jigo, you're not the only one who's a first… you know… intimate someone for me.” I went ahead of that, awkward for the lack of term for what to call him. “You're also my first kiss!"He blinked, looking at me. "What...?"I laughed at his bewildered expression. "You're my first kiss. I realized I haven't ever kissed any man on the lips. Well, I wished to have kissed... never mind. But you're the first of… everything. So far. Wow!"He gazed at me for a moment, then took a deep breath. "Thank god you never kissed him. Or you wouldn't be with me right now because he would surely want more of this." He tried to kiss me again, but I pushed him away gently, placing my hand on his chest."Just to set the record straight, I'm not implying that because you're my first in everything, I'm looking for a commitment, okay?""No, it didn't even enter my mind," he said, innocently shaking his head while pulling me closer by th
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FAEThe next day, I woke up to a new ceiling, which would have a new fan to be installed until later in the day. I took a deep breath and surveyed my surroundings. The noise was different here, but so was the silence in the unit. It was a different day, a different place, and the scent of Jigo on my pillows... And I was newly minted. Brand new.In that moment, I felt a flutter in my chest, a mix of sadness and joy. I could bid farewell to the sadness now. I got out of bed to start my new day.I had my breakfast outside. I couldn't forget Jigo's instructions before he left last night and the chat message that woke me up. He told me to eat on time. I craved pancakes from the Pancake House so I quickly showered and on denim shorts, cotton t-shirt and running shoes drove and ate there. And I ate well.I went to the mall again to buy the basic items for redecorating. I even bought small, blank and framed canvases and acrylic paint tubes to create small paintings for my new condo. I bought
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FAEI had three close friends who had no connection to Carl or his circle.Joanna had been my best friend since high school, and we attended the same university. I met Kacey during college. Pam, on the other hand, I encountered at a party after we had both ditched our blind dates and ended up chatting at a bar until the early hours.It turned out that Pam and I were studying at the same university, although in different colleges. After I introduced Kacey to Joanna and Pam, they immediately hit it off. Joanna worked as an accountant, Kacey was a businesswoman, and Pam was a doctor. We were all in our mid-twenties. And single ladies.It was hard to say how significant this was, as my friends were not only beautiful and intelligent but also had successful careers. Kacey and Pam loved going out, so they often joined Joanna. Carl was my excuse for being single, obviously. The three of them regularly went on dates, but there would always be something that didn't click. They wanted to find b
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FAEI made sure that there were no visitors in my condo the next day—just in case Jigo thought of coming by and ended up having to do the 'wrong door' trick again. I positioned myself in the living room so I could hear the doorbell if it rang. I couldn't shake off my restlessness, and I knew it wouldn't go away until I saw him again.But not a single soul wandered to my door all morning.In the afternoon, I spent my time filling my small canvases with acrylic paint to distract myself. It helped, as I enjoyed painting, as long as they were just small projects to fill up a day or two while I thought about what to do next with my life. By the evening, I had three good specimens drying on the easel, and I felt so proud of myself.That evening, I found myself in front of the TV, binge-watching the final season of my favorite show 'Suits' because I was tired but couldn't fall asleep.Then I was jolted awake by the sound of the doorbell. I dozed off on the couch without realizing it.I glanc
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FAEBefore she walked through the entrance to the lobby of the dormitory, I knew who she was. No, Carl hadn’t let me see a picture. It’s just that her face might be different, but the way she stood, the hunch of her shoulders before she remembered keeping them squared, the tilt of her head, the way her hair fell on her shoulders. She kept her long hair. Her elbows had a shape that wasn’t the same as the others, tilting a little bit in the corners. Her butt and waist were also shaped like Sarah’s butt and waist. She’d lived with me for two years. In all that time, I learned to love her like a sister. If she removed her shoes, I could tell if the toes were hers or not. But I saw enough to know that this five-foot-six-inched woman who walked through the door holding a cane and who walked with a slight limp was Sarah.Now Vivian Arnaiz. Carl told us her new name.Her eyes roamed the lobby before they landed on mine. Then she
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FAE “You’ve gone very quiet,” he said after a moment, his tone asking me something else—did he get me upset? Was I angry at him? “Have I gone too far?” This time, his voice sounded more than worried. He sounded scared.I raised my eyes to him again. “I want to know why.”“Why I want something like that? I have been trying to understand myself since I started feeling it. It was different when we were young… in college… dreaming about having you even if I had to share you with him. I thought that was how it was going to be if I had a chance for your attention. That if Carl didn’t really care about you, I could try and woo you and have you even if I knew you wanted him. I could live with that.”“Wha-aa-t?!” I was so surprised by this confession that I raised myself from the bed and sat there and stared down at his guilty face. I couldn’t believe what I just heard.He nodded. “I had wanted you so much I could stand just being the second choice.”“Oh baby, baby—are you crazy?! You ca
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FAEHe pulled me to him and there was one of those mind-numbing kisses again. I was quivering after he’d released my lips. He moved with me near the window ledge, and it had just enough edge for me to be able to lean on to as he placed me where he wanted me. With his eyes on mine, he lowered himself on his knees between my open thighs and slowly slid the hem of my dress upward my thighs until my apex was exposed, still covered in sexily cut cotton panties, but with a spot already dewy with my arousal.I had to look just casually sitting there from whoever could see outside while my husband slid that cloth to the side so he could tongue my quivering pussy. And if I wasn’t of stronger stuff, I would have melted right there on the ledge to the floor. But the game was up, and my back was erect and my head was tilted to the side a little, as if I was conversing with someone, while my thighs twitched at every damn flick and slide of that wonderful, flexible tongue. I couldn’t help my moan w
My Drop-Dead, Gorgeous Rebound Chapter 76
SARAHI could hear his voice. For days now, I have been able to hear him talking to me. I couldn’t open my eyes. They had something covering them. I couldn’t speak but for a few moans. I thought I lost some of my teeth when Vega beat me up. My face didn’t feel like my face. I tried to raise my hand to touch it, but it was on a cast… I wasn’t sure but they told me later. There was a kind nurse who told me what she thought I should know about my injuries. She called Carl my husband. She told me he stayed by my bedside at all hours and when he would leave, it was only for a very short time. She told me I was lucky to have a husband like him.She didn’t know the full story and that we were getting our marriage annulled, but what the hell. It hurt too much to try to speak. It hurt worse to think. A good thing I was always asleep. It weakened me so much to plan.Sometimes I would also hear Fae’s voice. She told me she was staying in the same private hospital and that she had her leg injured
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SARAH The door opened with a crash and the next thing I knew, someone had hauled me off the day bed with a hand clutching my throat.“Akh!” I tried to pry the hand off, but he wouldn’t let me. It was Vega. I could smell him before I could see his face. And his hand on my throat wasn’t anything new.Except this time, I thought he would actually kill me. His face was blotched with red patches of rage.“What did you do? What did you do, you bitch!”Thankfully, he threw me on the bed after that because I could breathe. I wasn’t dead yet. He’d found out. But I knew he would. I was ready.“What do you mean?” I turned to him with tears in my eyes. Having your throat on a vise grip could do that. “I didn’t do anything!”“You were with that husband of yours! He’s been coming to our sauna and you’ve been entertaining him and fucking him without telling me!” He was fuming with anger, his voice like a thunderclap inside the room.“Carl?” I scoffed. “I have been playing with him… been playi
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FAEThey’re trying to break the windows. I could see Klyd starting to move where he fell unconscious after our vehicle was upturned from the crash. It was his body that protected me but his head hit something and he lost consciousness after that. Ben was still crouch over me, as bloody as he was, trying to protect me. His phone was still on and I knew Jigo was still on the line, listening as I was hoping others moved on his end quickly to help us get out of here alive—or me from getting kidnapped.I heard Ben say the men outside were after me. They were going to take me. I could see Mang Chito’s head as he swung from the seatbelt that still strapped him to the chair. I thought he was dead. His neck… I closed my eyes tightly and clenched my jaws to fight off vomiting. I must think. I must calm down and think. I couldn’t die here or have the other two men die because of me. I couldn’t even get past thinking what would happen if those men outside were able to kidnap me. I would rather di
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FAEWe’ve fucked twice and he’s insatiable. We hadn’t even left the office and noone had disturbed us since we came here. I was too happy to worry about the embarrassment I would feel once we went outside, and I could see the faces of the guys and the employees here. I got my husband back. And it wasn’t just our honest fuck life, but his worries and fears.In the last hour, he told me everything he was holding back about the problem with the clubs. He also confessed the plans he and his lawyers plus the investigators came up with to eliminate the problem once and for all in the coming months—by setting up a trap for this druglord, dismantling his organization, and either putting him in jail or eliminating him forever in a legitimate operation.She listened and did not feel any judgment at all about everything he’d confessed. Years of listening, deliberate or not, in the background as her father conferred and negotiated for his clients and listening to what wasn’t being said by discuss
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FAEFrom his sprawling position, he got up with the fluidity of a cat. I had to remind myself he was already my husband, already mine, after the lethality of that grace had my body reacting possessive. Any other day a year ago, when I had nothing to do with him except be his bestfriend’s foster sister, and I would have wanted him for myself after seeing that—definitely what other women on that platform were feeling now. Covet was a sin. Even now, if I happened to be somebody else’s wife, I would have reacted the same to him. Thank the fucking heavens for aggressively assertive males who get you wedded and tied in their beds before you realize you had married the most desirable man on earth. Jigo was my champion.No one stopped us. I didn’t want to care at this point whether they knew, and the look on Carl’s face was a mess I didn’t even want to contemplate. I walked ahead and got down the short steps knowing Jigo was following me, his eyes on my back like a hawk’s. He reached my side,
