(Sky’s POV)My forehead creased as I entered the bedroom, and I tilted my head, thinking whether I should ask Elenita to put a trampoline in the bedroom. Three girls were jumping on the bed while singing the Five Little Monkeys song, while Nitro barked with them whenever her body would lift.Their mother glanced at me, half-smiling as she looked at our children jumping and singing happily.“Sugar rush,” She mouthed.She breathed out when Leyanne finally stopped because our eldest seemed to be their signal when the two also halted and sat, but no one ran to me.I knew their day had been exhausting, but the sugar seemed to have worked on their little bodies, giving them lots of energy for tonight. “Mommy, is it the later time with Daddy?” asked Leyanne, who was still panting from jumping.My eyebrows raised because I had no idea what it was about.Angela made a swift look at me and nodded. “He’s here now, so I guess it’s the later time,” she said, sitting on the edge of the bed.I sat
(Sky’s POV)I didn’t know if I woke up or didn’t get a wink, but when I opened my eyes, Angela and the kids were still sleeping. I couldn’t believe Angela would be such a tease that after those searing kisses, she pushed me away and hid in the bathroom with the spare key with her. When she came out, Selene was already crying, looking for her mother and wondering why it was me beside her, not her beloved mother. Before getting up, I kissed my kids, but Leyanne, perhaps a light sleeper among them, opened her eyes.“Daddy,” she whispered, maybe checking if she was dreaming or not.“Yes, baby?” I uttered in a low voice, glancing at my still sleeping family.She smiled at me. “I love you, Daddy.”Her smile, words, and eyes, same as their mother’s, melted my heart. “I love you, too, Leyanne.”My daughter closed her eyes again, rolling to her slide, her arm stretching to reach Selene’s hand. I walked slowly, not wanting to disturb their sleep.After Aunt Eden suddenly popped up the other n
(Sky’s POV)“Good morning, Anj,” greeted Frank when she entered the study room.She smiled and raised her hand, showing Frank the car key she used to drive the children to school. Despite my offer to let the driver do it, she shook her head, explaining that it would only scare the children.“Where’s Sky?” she asked.Angela raised her eyebrows when she saw the folders on my table. I almost guffawed when she peeked to see if someone was sitting on my chair. I got up from the chair and took her hands, pulling her to me and wrapping her arms to my waist.“That busy?” She was still looking at the folders.“Nope. You are, Ms. Perry,” I said, kissing her forehead and taking one folder. “Frank, leave us for a while and make sure to lock the door when you go out.”“I’m going to the office, taking more folders from Catherine,” he informed me. “Should I tell Elenita to tell the maids this is an off-limit room?” he teased Angela when she turned her head to him.“Yes, please,” I smiled and waited
(Anj’s POV)A cluster of clouds covered the perfect blue sky, and the wind kissing my skin promised a heavy rain later. As I sat on the wooden bench, facing the manmade river by the park, I realized how time had changed this place since Dylan, Anya, and I would go here after school. When Dylan told me we would talk here, only now that I had thought of bringing the kids here. They would be excited to hear stories about why we usually stay here and how our friendship bloomed like the flowers in the park.My eyebrows raised as Dylan sat beside me and gave me the paper bucket of Chinese food he had ordered for us. “And?” I asked him. He hadn’t said anything yet, but he knew what I was talking about.“You, first. How are you after yesterday? It was one hell of a day experiencing everything at once as if the ‘divine agency’ was in a hurry to end your life,” he said as he gave me chopsticks.My mouth made a downturn shape. “I guess I was too confident telling Sky I wanted the position. You
(Anj’s POV)Frank glanced at me and his wristwatch when I yawned. I was on the couch, and the documents Sky asked me to study were piled on the center table, making it easier for me to take one folder while sitting. When I returned, the folders were no longer on his table but piled and carefully labeled according to year and title.I was just beginning, but I already felt tired even though I had taken an hour nap with the children. Maybe it was the time I spent reading with Steve or the playtime with the girls before going to bed which exhausted me.When Elenita told me Sky was still working, I went to the study room and found him reading a report Catherine had sent him. “You looked tired already, Anj. Why don’t you take a rest? Just so you know, I have no plans of taking these files with me,” teased Frank as he got ready to leave.I chuckled. “I’ll wait for the boss.” I puckered my lips, pointing at Sky. “He might need something.”“That man doesn’t sleep, Anj.” He half-smiled and l
(Anj’s POV)I chuckled, wishing Sky would let go of me so I could see his face. “Yes, but I told you I won’t beg, right?”He sat on the couch and sat me on his lap, but not facing him. He wrapped his arms around my body and planted a kiss on my nape. My body shivered from his kiss. “Can you reach that folder for me?” He said, pointing at the blue folder Frank placed on the table before he left.I leaned forward to reach the folder, but I smiled when I felt his manhood getting hard again, and as I sat back, I moaned when his member penetrated slowly inside me again.“Open it, pumpkin,” He confused me. Which one? The folder or my legs?“You’re adorable, Sky,” I said, hissing at the delicious feeling and finding the pleasure as I moved my hips slowly up and down. “Which one?” I voiced out my thoughts. “This folder or my legs?”His hands grazed on the skin of my arms and the tips of his fingers, reaching and touching the stiffed peaks of my breasts. It was making me crazy.“Don’t drop t
(Anj’s POV)When my eyelids opened, I was surprised to be alone in the bed. I groaned, feeling my entire body sore from last night. Smiling, I got up and had a long bath before leaving the bedroom and looking for my children.I found them in the family room, sitting on the couch as if they were adults talking about the Insects documentary they were watching on the TV.“Good morning!” I sat on the couch and embraced my girls, but I could not help noticing the name tags pinned on their clothes. “Hmm… What’s with the name tags?”“You don’t expect me to know your girls’ names right away, Angela,” answered Elenita, coming to the room with another maid, bringing sandwiches and milk. “Here’s for Leyanne, Lyra Helene, and Selene.”I pursed my lips, raising my eyebrows at my daughters. “Girls,” I shook my head, showing them it was not good to confuse other people.“Sorry, Mommy. Sorry, Elenita,” Leyanne giggled, taking off the ‘Selene’ name tag on her shirt. The others followed, putting on the
(Anj’s POV)“Why can’t we go with you?” I asked again, following him in his seat, looking like my daughters wanting to get an answer from him right away.After I ignored Anya and Dylan, as if wanting to give me privacy but couldn’t leave, they went to the farthest part of the study room and pretended to be busy talking about the books stacked on the shelves.“Because this isn’t a leisure trip, Anj,” he answered without looking at me. “Frank, email me the file,” he said to his secretary.“Sure,” I heard him answer.I turned my back on him, not wanting to sound like a nagging wife, and returned to my seat and read the next part of my readings. If this business trip has something to do with the recalled automotive products, it would mean Leonard Johnsons would be there, and Steve told me last night in passing that Lalaine would sometimes represent her father in the meetings. Lalaine and Sky.My eyes darted to Sky, giving him a dagger look as jealousy hit me, but when he turned in my dir
(Anj’s POV) Two years later… I glanced at Anya as she rubbed her baby bump. She hissed as she continued to touch her belly. “Dylan was so ecstatic about having a boy that I wanted him to carry our baby. This little one seemed to practice taekwondo inside my belly,” she complained. “I’m not sure if he’s practicing for the Olympics too early.” I chuckled, looking at my girls as they listened to Olivia playing the violin in the pavilion, and then my eyes went back to the three children playing on the sand. “Dayana!” yelled Anya at her daughter, startling me. “Good lord, don’t eat that!” “Relax, Anya. She was only smelling the shell,” I laughed. “Cloud, Rain,” I called my boys, shaking my head at my twins. They giggled and stood up, walking toward their sisters, leaving Dayana as she continued to play with sand. It has become our tradition to visit the Angela Island every year. Although this year was different without Steve, leaving us all last year just before his birthday. “I onl
(Sky’s POV)“I want to marry the Mighty Sky,” I remembered Angela saying dreamily.I looked at Frank, and as he smiled, I recalled telling him that night, ‘I’ll marry this lovely angel today.’“Are you ready?” Father Jesse asked, his eyes wandering at the small chapel I asked to build for this celebration before looking at me.I turned my gaze to him. “Yes, but Father Jesse, I have a question.” Not giving him a chance to talk, I asked him, “I came to you and asked for Angela, but you said you didn’t know her.”He chuckled softly. “You were looking for an Angela with red spots on her face, and you were describing her to me as if she was ugly. I didn’t know any ugly Angela. I only realized she was the same person you were looking for when I opened the envelope.”“My bad,” I smiled nervously, and Father Jesse patted me on my shoulder before entering the chapel.Olivia sat in front of the piano organ and began playing. The wedding organizer smiled at me, giving us the cue, and I walked on
(Anj’s POV)“Aren’t you scared of being on the plane with me?” Sky asked when his new private plane took off.I shook my head.“Then why do you have that long face?” he asked me again, pulling me to him.I placed one arm on his waist and rested my head on his shoulder. I felt him kissing my hair. “I convinced Anya and Dylan to go with us, but I guess she was having difficulty with her pregnancy.”“Have you experienced that with the girls?” he tilted his head to see my face.I craned my neck to look at him. “In my first trimester. It was hell,” I chuckled. “I couldn’t even make my own perfume, but after that, I could study and work again.”He heaved a deep sigh. “I should have been there. You shouldn’t have carried them alone.”I raised my head and reached for his lips, kissing him. “What would you do? Get one baby and put her inside your belly?” I teased him.“I wonder if men will like that,” he laughed at me, then he pouted, looking so cute. “I’m still mad at you. Why didn’t you want
(Sky’s POV)The luminance of the glow-in-dark stickers in the bedroom still shone vividly when Angela and I collapsed on the bed, panting and catching our breath as I pulled her closer to my body. The thought of dying in the plane crash still made me shiver, and I couldn’t imagine leaving Angela alone, raising our kids, and hating me for the rest of her life for not coming back to her. I kissed her again, not wanting to stop, but I knew she wanted to know what had happened.“I hate you, Sky,” she whispered as her fingers traced my cheeks down to the hollow of my throat. Her hand slid down, stopping her palm on my heart and closing her eyes as if to make sure my heart was still beating. “What happened to you?”“Frank and I didn’t expect it to happen. I was about to enter the cockpit when Leo called and reported someone saw Leonard escaping to Macau. I didn’t need a plane to catch him, so Frank and I got out of the plane but gave my pilot and his co-pilot a go when he asked me if he c
(Anj’s POV)Don’t blink!Don’t disappear!Sky claimed my mouth before I could say his name again. If this were a dream, I would probably hurt anymore who would dare wake me up. It was an intense kiss and hungry as if there was no tomorrow.I could feel the tears rolling on my cheeks, and I cried when Sky stopped kissing me and moved slightly away from me, pressing our foreheads together. It was one long second that I thought my heart had stopped beating again.“I love you, Angela!” He whispered, his lips reaching mine and planting a quick kiss.My mouth opened, hoping to utter words, but no sound came out except my sobs. The mixed emotions stirring in my heart and mind made me dizzy, and all I wanted was to be in his arms. Slowly, I raised my hand, placing my palm on his chest, feeling his beating heart.“Say something, pumpkin,” he sounded begging, but I was more afraid to speak.If only Sky knew the news almost killed me and broke my heart. If he only knew that the days without info
(Anj’s POV)“Angela!”My hand stopped from opening the door, and I turned to the female voice I rarely hear in this place. I saw Jocelyn smiling shyly at me, and behind that curve in her lips, there was tenderness in how she looked at me.“Yes, Jocelyn?” I asked, wondering what she wanted from me.“I wondered if our granddaughters could sleep in our room tonight,” she asked.Our room? My eyebrows raised. With Olivia? With Finn? With Steve?“Steve -” She heaved a deep sigh, blushing like a teenager. “Umm… He wanted to ask if the kids could sleep with us tonight.”“Ah!” I exclaimed, opening the door and finding my children, now in their pajamas, jumping on the bed as Anya read them a book.“Mommy! Mommy!” Lyra Helene called me.“Please, girls, stop jumping. You’re making me dizzy,” I smiled softly at them, stopping at the edge of the bed.The girls stopped jumping and ran to me.“Yes, baby?” I asked, brushing their hair with my fingers, starting with Leyanne, then Selene.“Mommy, Aunt A
(Anj’s POV)The large clusters of clouds had been hiding the beautiful and perfect blue sky for two days now. As I leaned my back facing the garden, I noticed that even the flowers were gloomy about the weather, and sadness loomed in the mansion.Elenita shared with me that it has never been this busy in Mars’ residence except when Freya died. In the kitchen, as she claimed her kingdom, the maids seemed to have never stopped cooking. It was only yesterday when Jocelyn came, hysterical with the news about his son was missing and could be dead somewhere. Steve, though looking tired, remained the strong head here at home, but when he saw his ex-wife, I saw him break into tears for the first time.After seeing Steve cry, I understood what he meant when he told me not to break down because when everyone saw him and Jocelyn crying, it was like looking at the top of the tower falling to the ground. All I wanted was to sit in the corner and wept, wanting to scream for Sky.Finn and Leo have n
(Anj’s POV)“Sky is alive!”It was what I wanted my heart to believe.After Sister Grace left, Aunt Rose came, giving me her warmest hug, and for a while, she cried with me. She sniffed as she moved away from me, her palms on my face as her thumb softly touched my cheeks, wiping the tears.“Have you eaten already?” She asked, and when I shook my head, she forced a chuckle. “I’m not asking you, Angela. I’m asking that little Sky in there,” she took my hand and placed my palm on my belly. “He might be hungry and tired. Or should I say, they might be hungry?”“They?” I released a brief laugh, tears rolling again. “Aunt Rose!”She smirked. “What? You’re a Mars now. You should have known the rumors about them.”“Rumors?” My eyebrows raised at her.Aunt Rose grinned at me. “They were wealthy because someone in the family always produced double. Steve has twin brothers, and you knew he has twins, too, right?” She pursed her lips. “I guess you broke the tradition of producing only two. They s
(Anj’s POV)After giving birth to two babies, the doctor asked me to push again. I remembered glancing at my sun and bright star before nodding to her. She was expecting another girl to come out, but she said it was as if my moon goddess helped me push her brother, but despite that, he still didn’t survive, and Selene almost didn’t make it.When I heard Selene’s first cry, I sobbed, wishing Sky was here. With three babies on top of my chest, I told my children that the sky was almost complete. My heart ached for Cloud, but with three babies, I had to live and wake up. They needed me, and with the thought of me being an orphan, I swore to my children that they would not lose a mother.“Mooommmmyyyyy!” My children wailed, crying as they tried to get into the bedroom. Nina has been stopping them because she thought I needed the time alone.I blinked, and my head turned, following the cry of my girls. My lips curved a sad smile as I opened my arms to them. I saw Nina wiping her tears, ste