“SOMEONE TELL ME THAT I AM DREAMING, PLEASE!”The scream that circled around the house from Brenda, Zeke’s mother, got Chloe rushed over to her and then Jeremy who had just returned home.“What is wrong?” Jeremy frowned and settled on the couch.“She is back!”“Who?”“Elena! Our daughter-in-law!” She screamed.Chloe swallowed and hissed before she turned around to leave. “Our? Don’t be ridiculous.”“Did you say something?” Brenda asked as she kept her eyes glued on her screen.Chloe rolled her eyes. “You could have said something like 'ex-daughter-in-law', you know?” “But she is… hold on, did you know she was back?” Brenda drew her brows together“Did literally everyone in the country not know that she’s back?” Chloe smacked her tongue.“You would not blame a woman who only knows about the latest TV series, would you?” Jeremy drawled in a sleepy voice.“Are you talking about me?” Brenda frowned.When Jeremy did not answer and only looked away, Brenda moved over to Chloe and resumed.
“Arrrrgg!”She screamed as she smashed another glass cup against the television of her room again.“How dare she do that to me?!”It’s been a week since the incident between her and Elena had happened but Camila had still not moved past it yet.She drank every day, screamed, and cried till she slept.She was not sure if it was the slap that anguished her. It definitely was not.She hated that her ego was ruined in front of her only one enemy.Maybe what she was still expecting was Elena from six years ago.The dense lady that she could trample on.The lady that, even before she found out about her and Zeke, could give her her eyes if she so much wished.Elena was a naive person, at least to her.Before she found out about the incident between her and Zeke, the lady had a different aura from what she had experienced the previous week.She was calm… awfully!Should she talk about the different gifts that the lady always got her… which she had never gotten her anything as small as a pen b
“Dad!”Elena rushed into her parents’ embrace as soon as she entered their room and closed her eyes.“Oh my, Darling,” Karina, her mother patted her back.They stood still in their position for a while before she disentangled from the hug and then took glances at them.“Did you two plan on not coming over here again?” She asked with a fake frown and her parents laughed.“You can’t blame us. It might be long, but we later realized that it is better to have fun than to work,” Raymond, her father, said and they both laughed.Her parents always acted as if they were newlyweds. Their travel out of the USA literally proved that the two of them only had fun, traveled, and did nothing related to work.Maybe it was their relationship that got into her head that she thought she could have the same thing with Zeke six years ago.She grew up in a loving home, unlike the few conglomerates that she knew where it was all war and fights.She had the best relationship with her mother, sister, and fath
“Then, fucking break up with her!”Ryan yelled with the life in him and dropped his hands on the armrests rather dramatically.He closed his eyes as he imagined Zeke’s eyes on him and then sat upright again.“You kept nagging about her. It shows nothing but how tired and irritated you feel for her already. Do you love to be miserable? Fucking end this stupidity and move away from her!”Zeke swallowed and leaned back comfortably. He pressed his lips together and scratched his forehead while he lowkey regretted that he told Ryan anything.It was a Sunday, and a day he should be resting and not even thinking about anything since all he did the last few days was think! But no, Ryan chose to come over to his house and he could not help but tell the man everything that was going on just like every time.“You don’t love this woman anymore. It is very evident in your eyes, and that is for the better if you would ask me. So, just break up with her. It’s enough.”“Camila is crazy,” he finally s
Chloe had loved Ryan since she was a teen. It was safe to say that she had had a crush on him for almost ten years, in fact.At first, she thought it was just a teenager’s crush that would fade away in no time, but it grew stronger.It was when she was seventeen years old that she first met Ryan, and she was twenty-five now. She needed not to be told that this infatuation of hers would never work out because not only was he not interested in her, he was older than her by almost ten years.Ryan was thirty- four.Not only would the age gap between them make things impossible, but her brother might never ever agree to their relationship.She knew it was better that she kept her feelings bottled up than to tell the man only to get rejected and then make things more awkward between them.Ryan did not share the same feelings for her, she knew that so much.The man never stared at her for the past ten seconds. He always made sure to take nothing less than ten seconds of glance at her and wha
“Come and see, Nathan!”Natalie’s scream literally threw Nathan off his bed and then rushed to his sister who sat in front of the TV.He had not even asked what was going on before he saw the picture plastered on the huge screen and a wide smile plastered across his face.He stood up, rushed to the door, and then turned the door locked. He would not want to risk getting caught by their mother again.It literally took him three days before he got his iPad back.“Nat, I thought you were watching anime!” He whispered and collected the remote control from her.“I did well, right?” she smiled and he nodded his head.“Is that not Mum’s company?” Nathan asked as he pointed at the screen.The big screen had their mother and their supposed daddy’s picture there. They were walking side by side and they seemed to have gotten caught on the camera before they entered the company.“But… Do mummy and daddy have issues?” Natalie pouted.“Why?”“The television always talks as if it is some big deal th
“The twins know about Zeke.”Ramon stated, as Elena walked him to the car and she stopped walking.“How did you know?”She asked and turned to look at him.“They asked if I knew Zeke.”“And what did you say?”Ramon swallowed before he shook his head and smiled, “I don’t know him.”He watched as Elena switched into panic mode for about thirty seconds before he moved over to her and then dropped his hand on her shoulder.“What are you worried about?”“They have never talked about him, and now…” she exhaled and slapped her forehead.“All of a sudden, they wanna know him.”“They are just kids.”“They don’t even act like one, Nathan especially!” Ramon laughed at her words and then nodded his head. He could testify to that fact.“They would soon get over it. You said they are resuming school tomorrow, then, they will stop talking about him before you know it,” he tried to calm her by caressing her shoulder gently but she shook her head.“Are you really talking as though you don’t know them
As soon as Zeke entered the office and saw the man with Elena, his facial expression turned cold and he hissed out unconsciously.Both raising their heads to look at him, they returned to what they were doing for a while before Elena raised her head to look at him again.“Were you a timekeeper in college?” She glanced at the time.“You can’t blame a man who only knows how to be punctual and accurate,” he entered fully, strolled the chair, and then settled on the empty seat opposite Ramon.Ramon did not also show his displeasure in seeing the man. It was so evident that he hated that he was around Elena again.“Or maybe he was killed in his past life for being overly late or something,” he shrugged his shoulders off rather sarcastically.“You think that is funny?” Zeke raised his brows with a straight expression at the stupid ‘joke’ the man had just made.“Is it not?”“You need help if you laugh at something like that,” he shook his head and adjusted his tie.“That should be the other