Giselle didn’t realize the weight of her words until they had left her mouth.The room settled in thick silence, quiet enough to hear the chirping of a cricket in a certain corner.Giselle wasn’t sure what Ezra’s response was going to be as he kept quiet.Was he going to flat out reject her? Or was he going to take this opportunity and pick up from where they had left?In all honesty, her mind slightly hoped for the latter.“Shit.” Giselle breathed out, running her fingers through her hair as the silence became unbearable. “I shouldn’t have said that.” She said and attempted to get off her bar stool but swayed due to her lightheadedness.One thing Giselle had learnt in high school was that she couldn’t hold her liquor. One to three cups and her head would already be in the clouds.Ezra got off his stool quickly and wrapped his hand around her waist, steadying the half sober brunette.Giselle looked up as the smell of Ezra’s Vanilla cologne attacked her nostrils. The heat his body was
“You’ll regret this later.”Giselle laid in her bed, eyes absentmindedly staring at the ceiling as Ezra’s words replayed in her mind.Recollections of her drunken actions were rapidly coming back to her, flooding into her head and giving her zero time to properly regret anything.Another dull pain shut through her head and the brunette reached her hand up, using her fingers to massage her temple as she sighed through her nose.How was she going to face Ezra?That has been the one question she’s been pondering after waking up.Alcohol was a bastard, and Giselle decided she’d had her own fair share of mishaps with it, enough to teach her a good lesson.Thirty minutes or so had passed since she woke up, but all the brunette did was stare at the ceiling of her room, unmoving.“Giselle Cornwell, what have you done this time around?” Giselle muttered to herself, finally turning over for the first time since she had woken up.The clock on her bed side read Eight-thirty-two.Normally, she wou
Giselle couldn’t stop moving around in her bed.Turning over once again, she glanced at the invitation card on her night drawer.A sigh escaped her lip.Why in Bigfoot’s ass did they think she’ll want to attend their engagement?They had guts.“Bastard.” Giselle cursed out and sat up, turning her head to look out the window.Drizzles of raindrops ran down the foggy glass. The rain fall, luckily wasn’t a heavy one. Just a few drizzles to wet the earths plant. Which had actually spoilt Giselle’s plan to take a walk in the garden at night.Redirecting her gaze to the card; she felt like burning it on sight.Burning it? That was a good thought. After all, the only reason why she’d wanted to get into the venue was to play the recording of Raquel and Nicholas’s conversation.But even now, she doubted that would work.Reaching for the card, Giselle grabbed in and hopped off her bed, determined to burn the blue invite to the ground with any sign of fire she could find.“The audacity they have
Monroe Pharmaceutical. The next day.Shouts of anger and frustration echoed throughout the spacious meeting room that Ethan was currently siting in. His eyes were raging red as he stared at his phone.‘Monroe pharmaceutical creates defective product due to embezzlement of invested funds’ The news headlines read.Ethan couldn’t believe it, if he had previously thought his life was falling apart, he hadn’t seen anything.Calls after calls, his phone was blowing up with complaints of investors. Several of them pulled out their stocks. In a short span of time, Ethan’s company was dropping off the larder.“Shit!” Ethan discarded his phone, fuming in anger. But what drove him insane was the name written at the down of his company’s article.~G.H~It took him a while to decipher what that meant, but when he did, the blonde went bunkers.********Giselle woke up to the sound of her phone pinging. It was like the second alarm she didn’t wish for.Reaching for her side drawer, she grabbed her p
“You should be thankful that it’s no longer hot.” Giselle said and dropped the cup.Raquel looked livid, like she would explode any second from now.The crowd continued to gossip amongst themselves, snapping pictures and recording videos to post on their social media account.“If you so desperately want Ethan, you can have him. I’ll never go for a scumbag like him. You two suit each other, so there’s zero need to put up so much drama.” Stepping in closer, Giselle gripped Raquel’s arm and pulled her close, tightening her grip as the rose blonde tried to break free.In a low voice, she added. “Although, I doubt he’ll still want to be with you after he finds out the child you’re carrying isn’t his.” After saying that, she shoved her away.Frozen in fear, Raquel staggered backwards and tripped over her own feet, falling back and landing on her buttocks. At that moment, Giselle heard an ear piercing roar.“Raquel!”Ethan charged to the girl’s side like a madman, getting on his knees and cr
Ethan lost all sense of reasoning as he watched Giselle slap his fiancée.Charging at her with great speed, Ethan captured her wrist, squeezing it tight enough to leave a bruise for days."Do you have a death wish, Giselle." Ethan roared and tugged her wrist in the air, pulling her closer. Giselle winced in pain and glared at the man in front. The maniac standing before her was nothing like her sweet and loving boyfriend. They had nothing in common.Looking him straight in the eyes, Giselle sneered. "Get your fitly hands off me."Squeezing her wrist with additional force and watching her wince, Ethan asked. "Does it hurt? You should have thought of the consequence when you laid your hands on my innocent fiancée."People in the crowd were now slowly lowering their phones as things looked like they were about to take a violent turn.Ethan was about to apply more pressure to his hold when he felt something connect with the middle section of his stomach. Without enough time to properly pr
~Two Days Later~Giselle was siting down in the garden. Her eyes were fixed on a multicolored butterfly perched on one of the lilac flowers, while she held a simple first aid kit in her hand.The beautiful scenery was calming and she felt fulfilled, at the same time, empty.After that day, news traveled fast. Ethan got arrested, same with Raquel. Giselle’s father got transferred into a different hospital, where he was now receiving better treatment. The misconduct of Dorven was exposed and the ministry of health and welfare closed down the hospital.As for Giselle, Ezra had given her two off work, which she highly appreciated. But the brunette himself was extremely busy, which left Giselle with no time to see him.That bothered her for some reason.Sighing, Giselle placed down the kit and flipped it open. She rummaged through its contents for a second before pulling out a small tub healing ointment.She pressed her lips into a thin line as she squeezed a small amount onto her fingers
Giselle stayed outside for a while longer until the clouds began to darken before she went inside.On entering inside, Ezra was nowhere to be seen. Giselle didn’t think twice about it and plopped down into one of the couches. Grabbing the remote, she tuned in to one of her favorite Teen-toon on YouTube. As she was currently feeling stressed, the brunette had a notion of always watching something light instead of watching some of her favorite series.Angel’s Friend, it wasn’t like some of the recent Teen-toons that had no head nor tail. The show had a way of making the twenty-three year old sing along to its opening theme and stay invested even after she had binge watched the whole two seasons which had a total number of a hundred and four episodes.Half way into her current episode, Giselle felt her stomach cry for food. Not bothering to object, she stood up and went straight to the kitchen.After she had ransacked a few ingredients together, the brunette began preparing herself a hot