I stopped walking and looked up. I saw the full moon that served as a light to us at those times. We were both quiet so I could hear the noise coming from the party going on in my family's vast land.
"Solei…" He called me in his hoarse voice so I immediately turned to him.
"Hmm?"
He frowned and turned to face me. I could see the extreme fear in his eyes so I was surprised. Is this about what I saw earlier?
"Why, Hector?"
"Please, be mad. Aren't you mad at me for what you saw earlier?" His voice was full of pleading so I almost laughed. He grabs my hands.
"Should I be mad?" I simply asked him. The wrinkle on his forehead disappeared but he remained seemingly confused. His ja
I was just looking at Maureen's table, his secretary, I saw her immediately stand up and seemed even more surprised to see me."Ma'am Ana, you're here." She greeted me. My forehead furrowed."Ah… Hector knows I'm coming," I replied to her.Her expression became even more confused and she glanced at the door of Hector's office for a moment."Ah, sir is still talking to someone inside, eh," she answered me with her hand so I nodded."It's okay, Mau. He knew I was coming. I'm coming in," I told her directly.I didn't wait for her to answer and left. I knocked for a moment and then went inside. The cold room greeted me and the voices of two people.
I woke up in a dark and quiet room. I tried to open my eyes, but I couldn't see anything. It was only then that I realized something was blocking my eyes. Even my hands and feet were tied. The face of the man I last saw first registered in my mind before I completely lost consciousness earlier. It was Ares. Where am I? Why? My heart was so full of fear that I could hear nothing but the loud pounding of my heart. My thoughts were destroying me slowly but surely. I am afraid of the dark. I was terrified of the dark and quiet place. I feel like I'm slowly dying. I tried not to think but the silence was a killer too. Where am I? "You're awake." I heard someone say. My head quickly turned in the direction the voice was coming
It never crossed my mind that such a situation would unfold. What am I doing? What have I done, Ares? I never intended for that to happen! I didn't want what transpired back then! If only I were given the chance to alter the past, that would be the first thing I'd changeIt's the initial occurrence I'd eliminate from my life because it's the root cause of all this. It's the reason I've been slowly grappling with everything until now. I never meant for it to happen.God knows how sorry I am for that! I even considered forgiving him after discovering his betrayal. I still wanted to love him despite everything. I even contemplated asking for his forgiveness.Why does it still feel like this? It's as if the more I persist in the fight, the more reasons everyone gives me to give up.
It is burning me as well as my eyes and I couldn't help it anymore. I silently wept because of the intense hatred I felt in my heart for these people who did nothing but hurt me.I wanted to ask all of them how much I sinned against them so that they would do this to me, but even speaking seemed to make me tired as well.I gasped for air as I was trying to calm myself, but it triggers my feelings more mostly when I suddenly remember everything he did to me last night. I sighed violently and looked up at him that kept on staring at me still."Why are you doing this to me? Do you know what you did to me? What do you want from me?" I asked him. My voice cracked.He averted his gaze from me and turned away. I bit my lower lip and let out a loud moan. I can no longer describe
I still don't understand why I deserved to be hurt like this. I don't get the reason why all this pain turned into traumas and issues I have no idea how to resolve. I don't think I will ever have a chance to fully grasp what all these sufferings mean, because, at the end of the day, I always forgive.And I continuously forgive them even without their apologies. I still love them even though there are fears of the history they carved on my skin. I still care even if my trust was milk-powdered.I hate that I was called resilient for responding greatly to my trauma. I hate that I am being bamboozled by all the what-ifs, the how-it-happened, the go-with-the-flow. I hate that I am undeserving of this hatred, but it never left me since the day it entered.I am mad because all my life, I have been wondering what I do to de
I thought he would slap me again but I was wrong. He suddenly turned his back on me. My eyes widened when I saw that he was carrying that baseball bat back."Do you know what this is? This is the only thing that killed your mom back then. Just like you, she was begging for her life. Funny how the most dangerous assassin of your family begged her life for me when I was just a kid back then," he said and his laughter echoed in that room.I didn't know what else I was going to do during those hours. My tears just kept flowing as I felt the seeming numbness of my whole body. I tried to stand up which I did but it wasn't long before Ares grabbed my hair again and violently threw me on the folding bed.There I felt an intense pain in my abdomen that seemed to be cutting into it.
"What is this?" I asked full of confusion."Ana, read it first," said Elena so I shook my head."Can't you just tell me everything I need to know? I'm so confused! What the hell is happening? Why am I here? What's going on? I don't understand..." I hissed at them. The corners of my eyes are starting to heat up again."Ares abducted you three days ago. He was the one who shot you, Anastacia. Leon found you bleeding at the main entrance of Terra Verde." Grandpa Leoncio answered.I could feel my heartbeat slowing down when I heard that. Before I could even react, the doctor sneezed again so I focused my eyes on him."I know this is not the right time to tell you this, but it's better for you to know everything. You had a miscarr
For a few more moments, I could only hear sobs in that room even the sound of the machine attached to him. I felt the movement of his hand I was holding, so I was alert and quickly looked up at him. My eyes watered when I saw him staring at me with a small smile on his face."H-Hector!" I exclaimed and cried again. "W-what happened? Why… Who did this to you?""I-I'm sorry…" he said in his hoarse voice so I was stunned and looked up at him again. His eyes were full of guilt as he looked at me."I-I'm sorry I didn't get to protect you. I'm sorry I was late… again. I'm sorry, Solei. I'm sorry," he said repeatedly and his eyes finally blinked because of the tears that came out of there.There was some kind of pain that drew in my heart as I watched him. He was so remorseful that he started to cry like this. Only now have I seen this side of him. I always see him as a cold, stone-hearted man. I don't know how I'm going to feel but I feel like I'm hurting too."I fucking tried to save you.