(Sky’s POV)“Olivia, calm down!” I breathed out, feeling glad I was with a doctor, so I was sure somebody would help me immediately if I had a heart attack. My heart was perfectly fine until she started crying on the phone, telling me about Lalaine and Angela, and that was it. I could not understand a thing she said.“Anj is fine, Sky,” Finn took the phone from her. “I didn’t know what came into her big brain, letting her in. Now Olivia and Nina are crying.”“Nina?” My forehead creased, thinking if my brother was talking about the same Nina at home. “Nina? As in Olivia’s nanny?” I asked as I looked at David, kneeling and lighting a candle in front of Eve’s tombstone. I walked a few steps away to give him moments with her.Finn chuckled. “Elenita told Nina you’d fire her.” I heard Olivia crying hard. “It wasn’t entirely her fault. Anj said to let her in, but damn, brother! You should have seen her. Wow! Angela in action!”I wrinkled my nose, trying to hold my patience, but to whom I di
(Anj’s POV)My lips curved a smile, but I bet Sky found it creepy since what my eyes said differed from the smile plastered on my lips. If he did not come with Dr. Greene, I wanted to confront him about what Lalaine told me. Although I knew she was only bluffing, still, I could not help feeling mad and jealous about it.They came in time for dinner, and in this place, it seemed this meal was vital for them as they were all here unless any of Steve’s children had important tasks to do at work or school. At the dinner table, with Dr. Greene sitting across from Leyanne, my daughter was gaping at her.“Are you really a doctor?” she asked, causing Dr. Greene to smile. She only nodded and focused again on her food.“Why did you ask?” He threw a glance at her and then at me.“I want to be a doctor when I grow up, but not with pets and insects, but I want to help people, just like Grandma Jocelyn and mommy,” she explained.I leaned on my side. “Mommy’s not a doctor, baby,” I corrected, my fac
(Anj’s POV)“If I hear the truth, would I have the chance to debate with you about it?”Cracking a joke seemed a good way to calm my heart from thumping hard because my clenched fist-size organ inside my body was doing a jumping jack at this hour. My big brain was already making an invisible board to note the pros and cons of the truth he would tell me.Steve sighed and turned to Sky and Dr. Greene, giving them the signal to enter his bedroom.I breathed out, my lips quivering as I forced a smile at Sky. “You had it checked if I could produce five sons at once, hadn’t you?” I accused him, only teasing him because seeing them join us made me nervous.“Could you?” Sky pressed his lips, stopping himself from laughing at me, but like me, he looked unsure of what was happening.I sneered at him, almost wanting to tell him that I was able to carry four, so why not five? Yet this was not the right place to mention Cloud to Steve. He would feel heartbroken about it, and I have no intention of
(Anj’s POV)My hand flew to my mouth.“Eve came to me that night, crying and asking for help. I was so heartbroken and angry. My poor Eve… my beloved Eve. My friend. I encouraged her to sue Leonard, and I’d do everything in my power to help her, but your mother said no one would believe her. She said, ‘Who would believe a daughter of a servant?’”Feeling like fainting, I leaned to Sky’s shoulder. My body went cold, my heart stopped beating, and my eyes welled with tears, rolling down my cheeks without warning. I heard someone sobbing, only to realize the sound was coming from me.“Dad, enough,” Sky said as he wrapped his arms around me. “Enough…”I didn’t think he was pretending to be mad at his father because I could feel his muscles trembling, and like me, he was heartbroken, hearing the story for the first time.His dad has no plan of stopping. He wiped his tears and continued. “Eve got pregnant.”When I heard it, my eyes gaped at him, not believing I was a product of a sexual assa
(Sky’s POV)“Dad!” I uttered in anger, narrowing my eyes at them when Angela threw the DNA test result on the bed and sobbed. Although I knew it was not enough to ease her pain, I wrapped my arms around my wife. David stood up, pacing furiously, but I wasn’t sure to whom.“I didn’t know. Your mother kept you from me,” David cried, looking hurt.My mouth gaped open, and I stared at David, not expecting him to be Angela’s father.“If only I had known, I wouldn’t let this happen. Eve knew how much I loved her. She’s the only woman I loved, and she knew I didn’t care where she came from.”He sat down and lowered his head while his hands gripped his hair. “The first time I saw you, I had my suspicions because even with spots on your face, you looked exactly like her,” he gritted his teeth in anger but suppressed the pain. “I didn’t even know what happened to her. She was just gone.”Dad released a bitter laugh. “Ha! I didn’t expect that. The genius David and Eve.”David ignored him and
(Anj’s POV)After kissing me, Selene called her sisters to the steps of the pool, and as if it was something crucial only for them, they started talking in a hushed sound.“Hmm… That’s a first,” I mumbled, wanting to say more, but Sky molded his lips to mine, kissing me with such fire in the early morning. I saw him last night checking on me, but I was glad he gave me time to be with my mother, even if I only had her things with me.“Good morning to the most beautiful woman in the world,” Sky said, planting another searing kiss.“Mmm,” I moaned, breaking our kiss because I could feel eyes gaping at us as if we were in a movie."Really? I just heard that last night that I was the most beautiful woman in the world," Anya teased, nudging Dylan.Sky laughed. "You are, Anya." He kissed me again. "But for me, only my Angela."“Aww! I need a girlfriend,” Finn uttered, looking at Elenita and smiling at her as he waggled his eyebrows.Elenita wrinkled her nose. “I’m too old for you, Finn, and
(Anj’s POV)Olivia and the kids went back to the swimming pool, Steve excused himself to take his medicines in his room, and Finn told us he would feed his pets, inviting Dylan to go with him.Anya and I were the only ones left on the table. She stood up, sitting on the empty chair beside me. When I looked at her, she was in tears.“Why are you crying?” I asked, wiping my tears too. “I’m glad Sky and Dylan weren’t here,” I said as we laughed and cried.“I’m just so happy for you, Anj,” She sniffed, breathing out, hoping it would stop her tears from falling.“Me, too, Anya; I’m so happy for you,” I held her hands. “I’m sorry about yesterday and last night, Anya. I really wished us to talk, but -” I sighed, not knowing where to begin.She nodded. “Sky explained to us you’re not well, and even if we suspected he was lying last night, I wouldn’t dare pester him last night. Sky looked tired and worried about you.”“He was,” I answered and then raised my eyebrows at her. “But tell me the go
(Anj’s POV)Without Sky, my life felt empty.For five days, even if we would do video calls many times a day, I still missed him, and when I woke up at night, I could not believe my heart wanted his warmth beside me. Yesterday, when Frank told me he was at an important meeting and couldn’t talk to us, I could hardly eat, and all I wanted to do was curl in bed and hug his pillow. He was only free to video call us last night.Today, my Mighty Sky is coming home. I smiled as I left our room but stopped in the next bedroom and peeked at the door to check on my daughters.My girls excitedly listened to the interior designer about how she would decorate their bedroom. I would catch her glancing at me nervously as my daughters told her what they wanted to add. She had to please her little clients, who had lots of demands just like their father, or else she had to answer from Steve or Sky.Sky told me I should give them whatever the girls wanted, but I told him I didn’t want to spoil our kids
(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