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CHAPTER 72
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Philip stared at the man who just arrived and wondered if he was Paloma’s suitor. He knew he shouldn’t feel a little bit of jealousy if the woman would entertain a suitor because he was nobody to her. They just had a one-night stand too long ago! He just listened as Edwin informed Paloma that he returned her car in good condition. When Paloma smiled at Edwin, Philip was starstruck, just like that night in the bar. He noticed her first just right when she came in, and he considered it a blessing when the woman sat beside him and ordered hard liquor. Just like Paloma that night, his heart was tortured as he mourned for the fifth death anniversary of his wife, the mother of Marcus. Katerina was his world and his everything but cancer stole her away from him! The woman who introduced herself as Sharon was very drunk and tried to seduce him into sleeping with her. He was still sober that night but couldn’t refuse the temptation and carried the woman to his car and brought her to th
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Daniella didn’t believe when Marcus told him that he had no relationship with Alicia. No woman in her right mind would just kiss anyone she met for the first time, and she was not blind at all! She saw it how Alicia clung to Marcus as she missed her so much! “Do you take me as a fool?” She screamed and attacked the man by scratching his face! “Dani stopped it!” Marcus tried to elude her attacks but Daniella decided to transform herself into an a****n warrior. “So tell me who is she? How did you know her? Did you keep in touch with her so that she knew where you are?” There were still a lot of questions running through her head and she wanted to ask him everything! She was too angry that she felt like her heart would explode any moment or she would break down in tears! However, before she would let her tears fall down, she would get every piece of information that she could get from Marcus. “Fine, but can we talk about it in private?” He said and proposed to Daniella that
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Paloma and Philip rushed to the district hospital where Lilian was taken, and while on the way, they were anxious and uneasy. “Let me drive the car for you,” Philip offered as he noticed that her hands were shaking and she was nervous behind the wheel. “No, I can manage. Anyway, the hospital is just nearby.” Paloma refused his offer and glared at the man for inadvertently causing a misunderstanding about Lilian and Alexander’s parentage. “If you were not stupid to just sit there and corrected me, things like these would never happen.” Paloma started to blame Philip for Lilian’s attempted suicide. Philip was exasperated as he listened to the woman’s outburst. “How could you put the blame on me when I didn’t do anything wrong? It was you and your damn assumptions!”Philip fought back and scowled at Paloma for singlehandedly blaming him for everything. “Bastard!” she cursed at Philip as she continued to maneuver the car towards the hospital. She couldn’t blame Lilian
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Gerald waited until they reached home before he confronted Alicia about the kiss. He was too furious and humiliated at the same time when Alicia caused the scene at Daniella’s house. He went there with good intentions as Daniella’s friend, but Alicia did something horrible. “How did you know her husband?” He started by asking how she got acquainted with Marcus Madrigal. “Oh, we used to work together on the farm.” Alicia crossed her legs as soon as she was seated on an upholstered sofa. “You used me!” Gerald accused the woman of using his hospitality to be close to Daniella’s boyfriend. No, he couldn’t allow it! Gerald thought. If Alicia would stay longer in Oslob, he couldn’t guarantee that the woman wouldn’t do something stupid similar to what happened earlier. Alicia didn’t try to persuade Gerald about his accusation because it was true. She just used him to get close to Marcus and she was not going to deny it. “Common Gerald, just consider it as doing me a great favor
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After their fight, Marcus took Daniella towards the greenhouse, a special place to calm down her raging desire to scratch his eyes. “Can you trust me to deal with Alicia?” He asked before they sat down on a bench that was customized to be placed near her workstation for flower arrangement. “To be honest, I’m not sure if I can trust you with it. Maybe you should just let me handle your affair,” she offered. Just the thought of Daniella confronting or challenging Alicia made him shiver. “Or maybe we should set a date for our wedding to stop Alicia from taking me away from you,” he counteroffered. “Do you think that a wedding ceremony can stop her? If I am in her shoes, no ceremony can stop me from claiming what belongs to me, and in one or another, she and I are so alike!” She responded. Her response didn’t make him happy. When he asked her hand to marry him, although she said yes, there was no date yet, and he started to wonder what was stopping the woman from set
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Daniella ran towards Lilian’s room and she was surprised to see Philip Madrigal and Edwin Sanchez together with Paloma in the lobby. “Good evening everyone,” she greeted them. “Ella! I’m glad that you’re here! Can you talk with Lilian? The brat refused to see us!” Paloma expressed her frustrations that Lilian didn’t give her the chance to correct her mistake. Her daughter wouldn’t even let her speak even a single word! Daniella nodded and proceed inside. “Lil? Are you awake?” She asked as soon as she closed the door behind her but Lilian didn’t respond right away. She waited patiently until she stirred from her bed and opened her eyes. “Ella…,” she whispered her sister’s name before Lilian let her tears flow freely. What she learned today was heartbreaking and she wasn’t strong enough to bear the sad news. Daniella pulled the chair and put it beside Lilian’s bed. “You can tell me what’s hurting you, Lil.” Her voice was tender as she convinced Lilian to share her b
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It had been days already since she was discharged from the hospital but Lilian continued to be distant from her parents. Paloma's mother pressured her to accept and acknowledge the presence of Philip Madrigal, but she just couldn’t do it! Not yet… As she was alone in the living room and had no one to talk to, she got herself occupied by staring at the beautiful paintings on the wall, and she was mesmerized for the nth time that everything in Daniella’s house was perfect and well-designed, but she missed her less complicated life in the island. Lilian took a deep breath as more thoughts came into her mind. She wanted this and that, but she couldn’t make up her mind and it just annoyed her even more! “Pumpkin, what are you doing here alone?” Alexander smiled at Lilian whose expression told him that something was bothering her. “Just take it easy, Lian, I know it’s hard and shocking, but, you can’t continue doing this.” “I am fine Alexander, and happy too, because
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She was temporarily out of her mind and Alicia scolded herself for losing focus on her ultimate goal to take Marcus away from Daniella. From the window of the inn she was staying, she admired the exquisite view of the countryside. Last night, something terrible almost happened between her and Gerald’s father, and she didn’t know if she had to thank Edwin for being able to control his desire when he kicked her out of his house afterward. Her nostrils flared as she recalled that embarrassing moment when she almost gave her body to that man and he had the nerve to humiliate her! Alicia took a deep breath to calm down her nerves and reminded herself that everything happened for a reason and she should consider Edwin’s rejection as a blessing in disguise! Her body, heart, and soul should only be dedicated to Marcus Madrigal and no one else. While having a cup of coffee, she racked her brain to come up with a plan on how she could convince Marcus that she was a better deal com
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Daniella bit her lip when Marcus questioned her why she came. Was he not happy to see her at all? Daniella was still seething in anger towards his employer why did he allow that horrible man to beat him in the first place? “Should I consider your question as a sign that you don’t want to see me anymore?” Daniella took offense at his tone but regardless of how he would look at her, she wouldn’t give up on him. She glared at the man who treated her like a pest when she was just being kind to help him. “It’s not what I mean, Dani. I’m just asking why you came here, and how did you know where I was. Wait, did you stalk me?” His nostrils flared and he tightened his lip as he imagined that the woman was probably stalking him. What happened to her statement that she didn’t want him anymore in her life? Marcus narrowed his eyes at Daniella while he waited for her answer. “Of course not! Why should I do that? It just happened that I come here for business and saw you today at the
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Every day, she had to lie to AJ about the whereabouts of her father. Philip and Paloma also wondered why it was so sudden that Marcus was summoned by his friend to assist in the farm. Just like before, she didn’t tell everyone about the real reason why Marcus was no longer in the house. She lied that Samuel Velasquez needed an extra farmhand as his supervisor had to take a few days off due to an emergency. The lie was perfectly devised and Daniella almost believed it as well. Even if Marcus was no longer in the house, Philip Madrigal has all the reasons to stay since his only daughter was getting married. Lilian was enthusiastic about the wedding and even when they hired the best wedding coordinator that they could find, Lilian insisted on incorporating her personal touch into the giveaways, so at night, she and Lilian would usually work overtime to finish the giveaways on schedule. Although it was a bother to work on super glues, she didn’t mind it all. It kept her occupied, and
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Alicia’s excitement got the better of her when she immediately signed the papers without reading them first. Her signature was already on the paper before she decided to read what was written on it. Her eyes blinked several times when she finished reading it. “I’m your girlfriend but I can’t kiss you or touch you, especially in public? This is pure nonsense!” Alicia threw the signed agreement back to Marcus and cursed at the man for tricking her by writing that information in the middle. “Now that it is signed, how are we going to proceed with it?” Marcus smiled that he was able to trick Alicia into signing the agreement. It wasn’t his fault that she didn’t read what was written on it. Alicia glared at him but he chose to ignore it. “Just think of it as my retaliation for ruining my life, Alicia.” “I have no idea that you can be so cruel, Marcus,” Alicia muttered a curse, however, she thought that there must be a way of getting out of it. “How much would it cost me to break o
