“ADRIELLA, could I ask you about Governor Charles Gideon?”Cath immediately asks with a casual tone and expression that doesn’t buy anything from Adriella. “What is it that you want to know from that person and why?”Adriella typically asks with her eyebrow raising and looking suspiciously at her. Enough when she asks about the only person Adriella rather not want to talk about for years. “Never mind, I do not want to know.” She stops Cath from explaining which is convenient for Cath and thinking that asking her for a thing or two wouldn’t hurt. Even though it is about the most unlikely person that she ever meets. “Neither Sam nor Lindsey know a lot about me and Charles. As I do not want to even hear his name, but I believe you want to know because of the twins?”She half-nailed it. Cath agrees for it is the easiest way to progress their talk and make Adriella share what she knows without causing any fuss. “Very well.”Her calm demeanor and words that a bit rings a red flag at Ca
CATH knocks on the door and someone inside opens it for the two of them. “You are here both here, Mrs. Lawrence, Madam Lawrence.”The school principal addressed the two of them with her welcoming smile. Gently gestured with her hand and pointed to the chairs on the right side and in front of her table. “Are we late?”Adriella asks, not to address her concern about time, but to take the attention of the unlikely person that she doesn’t want to see right now. “No, not at all.”Governor Charles Gideon’s reply. Sipping his tea along with the entitled parents of the other kids who bullied the twins. “I never knew that you are a dotting father to your kid. In your hectic schedule, you still have the time for this kind of matter.”Adriella’s reply means deeper than what she just said. But at that moment, only the two of them understand what the other is saying. Cath is the exception, upon knowing more than she currently should. “He is my only son, and besides how could I say that I care
“CONGRATULATION. You won.”Governor Charles said to Adriella with a sly smile that contradicts what he just said. “I won? Are we playing some sort of game, or perhaps gamble unto something Mr. Governor?”Adriella replies that are both hitting the target and grilling Charles in his own words and a little psychological game that Adriella is all used on him. “Just like you always been.” Charles laughs both in amusement and dismayed toward Adriella. Wherein the two of them are too hostile towards each other that they aren’t hiding it from anyone who could see. Just like how anyone could read the atmosphere in between them without even trying. “You never change Adriella.”“Believe me, I haven’t.”Adriella’s reply knocks something of like a code to Cath. Making her suspicious of Adriella and added with the few red flags that she just had a while back. “Do you?”Taken a back and which Cath observes Chares intently. His expression changes for a few moments, looking in a warry way towards
“WHERE are you?”Brian demanded an answer and fast, after knowing that Sam didn’t arrive at the company and already past eight. “Just put everything that I needed to review and approve on my desk. I will be there at the company soon.”Sam’s command and not even a reason that Brian wanted to hear. All after not listening to Brian to stay calm and reasonable from his speculation that Cath is cheating on him. “Are you at the twins’ academy?”Brian concluded that it wasn’t that hard to confirm that he is right from Sam’s silence from the other line. “I need to hang up the call now, I’ll just see you at the office.”“Wait, Sam!”Sam immediately ended the call, hanging up on Brian that pisses Brian a bit, but calm his nerves knowing that he couldn’t stop his boss and best friend. Yet, he still could do something to prevent the worst-case scenario that everything this is about to fall into. “Damn!” Brian curses, fixing his glasses, and closes his eyes firmly for a few seconds. “Alright.”
“WHERE are you?”Cath asks calling her accomplices. This in turn is not the first time that she will be meeting, yet the perfect time to take Sam’s suspicious and crazy thoughts about her. “Perfect.”She smiles, then giggles that Sam is more than irritated to see and hear from her. All after and still tailing her in a distance with his all-black clothes, cap, and mask that he literary copied from Asian spy dramas. “I am almost there.”Cath confirms and hangs up the call. While all knowing that Sam is just a few meters away from her. “Seriously?”She wanted to protest and scold Sam for his disguise. To remind him that no matter what he wears, she will always recognize him. But what’s worse, he took inspiration from some drama that made him look like a kidnapper and not a spy or some regular passerby at all. “Calm down Cath.”She reminded herself and stopped her giggles to make it known. All for the sake of the plan and the trap that she prepares beforehand. “Cath!”A voice and the
“WELL, I am here to take Cath back.”Nadia’s confident and firm words. Telling the biggest fact that it is something unavoidable and Sam couldn’t do a single thing about it. “Back?”Sam couldn’t help but asks that one-word question, which amuses Nadia, yet she didn’t show it to her face and not even for a second. “Nadia.”Cath warns Nadia with her piercing look behind her seemingly innocent smile. Asking her what the hell is she saying. “Yes, our boss wanted Cath back.”Nadia added and with a quick wink towards Cath. Telling her that she got this at hand. A teasing game that Cath almost had a migraine, thinking that Nadia might spill her reason for coming back. “She is only here for a vacation, right?” She asks with some kind of assurance and a reply from Sam. Which is a bit taken aback by the worried expression that Nadia wanted to burst out laughing. “Well, Cath filed for at most a one-month-long vacation, but our boss thinks that it was quite long.”Nadia made up some lies th
“FIANCEE?”Jun smirks and draws a wide sly smile on his face after what just Nadia did. Introducing him in such a way that he isn’t protesting about, but rather like it in secret. “Why? Didn’t you like that perfect lie?”Nadia smiles and acts all cutesy with her eyes blinking which never fails to make Jun smile. But then he always denies and erases that expression like a professional detective with his own principles. “Next time, give me a heads up.”Jun demanded that Nadia doesn’t have the excuse to not be guilty of that fact. “In times of crisis, one must do the right and fastest thing available.”She proudly claims and kind of reminds Jun of one of his rules that impresses the detective. “Alright. But when did you have that diamond ring?”He asks curiously, and Nadia sheepishly smiles recalling her plan before boarding the plane a while back.“WHAT could be the perfect plan to cover someone whose lover is suspecting that cheating is going on?”Nadia asks herself while looking a
“NADIA’S fiancée.”Sam whispered to himself and just enough that he is the only one who could hear those words. After realizing the fault that he had just done. Jumping to conclusions and not listening to Brian. Which will put him in trouble with Cath. “By the way what are you doing here Sam and wearing those clothes?”Nadia casually asks with a bit of a weirded-out tone. But in truth is starting to grill Sam and sending that hint to Cath to do her part. “M-me?”Sam stutters a bit pointing at himself and looking at his clothes. Knowing that he couldn’t escape the worse predicament that he put himself into. “Right? What are you doing here Sam? I thought that you are in the office?”Cath immediately acted, scaring Sam with the way she stares at him. Completed with her arms crossed and a disappointed expression. “I…”Sam tries to think for a reason and quickly. After seeing Cath’s expression, one wrong word and move, he will end up on the bad side of his woman. “And cheating?” Cath
“MOMMY!” The twins, Monique and Cole opens the door and runs up to her with excitement and twinkling adoration to their eyes upon seeing her. “Wow, you look like a princess, Mommy.” “You do, you do!” Monique’s comment with wide smile and agreed by Cole. Admiring her beauty as she is dress in a sophisticated white dress. Her wedding gown and the day that she will finally tie the knot with Sam. After all the problems that are resolve, the secrets that are said, apologize, forgiven and done. With the twin’s biological mother gracefully out of the picture by her death. Everyone is there in that very special day to witness and congratulate them. “Thank you.” Cath smiles and giving the twins one kiss each on their cheeks. Making the twins giggle more in excitement. Just then, the wedding coordinator knock on the door and asks her. “Miss Catherine, shall we?” “Of course.” She couldn’t contain her happiness and smiling all the way through. With the wedding theme of like mystical fore
“HOW long has it been since then, Leo?”The expected meeting, but the unexpected expression and tone that is in a mix of disappointment and anger that Cath is showing right in front of him. Left alone in the headmistress office and at first glance they are seem to share a casual tea time. He looks down, not in shame, but a bit of worry from how things unfolded. Which makes him think if he is regretting his decision of giving Cath a clue about the past.“Or should I call you now with your known name, Aaron?”“Tell me, do you hate me that much after what you have learn, Cath?”“Hate you? Why should I? You didn’t do anything to me which needed me to resent you. Instead I am the one who should be asking you of that question, for I failed to recognize my old friend.”Old friend. The words that means more than the shallow meaning of it. Words that will disappoint anyone, for it means more than just a rejection, but a total abandonment towards someone who only thinks about one person and dea
MORE than being stripped of everything that he had, Harry is slapped with the truth and faces the wrath of Adriella in her calm demeanor whom everyone knows that it is worse than a tyrant in that kind of mood. “You do not need to explain anything to me but sign the divorce papers, right now.”“I-I…”Definitely shaking within his wits, Harry couldn’t even utter a single word nor look at the face of his mother-in-law worst towards Lindsey whose expression is indistinguishable for lacking nothing to see. Worst with the atmosphere in the room that is getting heavy and dreadful upon their conversation that a while back is going smoothly and just like always. Only to be struck by the divorce papers and the secret that Harry is been hiding for almost a month now. “I stayed quiet and compose for the sake of Lindsey. But since it all comes to this and the fact that you are caught red-handed. There is no need for further discussion.”“But I… I only did it once, or maybe twice or thrice, but t
“WILL this be alright?”Lindsey’s worry and her thoughts about what Sam decided upon after what happened. Hiding the fact that they were kidnaped. Letting Jun handle the rest with the pieces of evidence at hand and the new ones that were suddenly sent to them just a while back. With all of them know that it was from Beatrice, leaving Francis in the air and saving herself. “This is better and the appropriate thing that we should all do.”Cath seconded, forcing everyone to have this talk and all from Sam’s protest. With her injuries and critical state in the first few hours after they are saved. Luckily Cole wasn’t hurt in any way nor the child is traumatized. But make sure, Sam sends his son to the psychiatrist, and is currently under the care of Adriella. Lindsey recovers fast, and can now move on her own, unlike Cath. “Let’s just leave it to Jun and Nadia. They both know what to do.”She added, hiding the fact that she doesn’t want Sam to know about the organization that Francis on
DAMN alive and still breathing despite his injuries and the gunshot that he just receives from Aaron a while back. Francis stands before Cath, with his gun up a bit shaking from his wound, but directly pointing it towards her. “I may stupidly fail at first, but this time I will not fail to end your life. You who put me behind bars, Catherine Wayne.”“Cath!”Two familiar voices echo in the air, but before Cath could look and see for herself who could those two people be? Francis fired his gun, missing Cath’s vital spot from his shaking hand due to his injuries. Yet still, inflict Cath with another injury and a gunshot to her left arm. Stumbling backward made her lose her footing and leads her to fall to the cliff.“Damn! Just die!”Two gunshot echoes, now directly to Francis's legs leaving him impaired and down helpless. “You cannot save her, she is gone! You failed to save your girl, Samuel Lawrence!”Consumed with anger, Sam clenches his hands tight, yet he didn’t blow up on Franci
STARTLED and quickly stops in her tracks, now standing and still. Lindsey instructed Cole to close his eyes and cover his ears. Do not let go no matter what happens and wait for her to say so. “Do you understand, Cole?”“Alright, aunt Lindsey.”The little boy replied and quickly borrow his face to Lindsey’s chest. Being an obedient child, Lindsey could feel the fear of her nephew with Cole’s shaking body and cold hands. “Stop, or find yourself swimming in your blood.”More than a familiar voice and the only person right now that Lindsey could think of who. She slowly looks back and is not surprised to see the Governor, no, Francis, pointing a gun right in front of her and with a cursing look on his face. “Just how low could you go for doing this to our family? Are you desperate to establish your dominance over us that you are going this far for your selfish desire?”“Low? Who, me? Tsk! Do not make me laugh Miss. Lindsey Lawrence.”Their exchange made it clear and more than to Linds
TRAIL OF BLOOD is visible from near. Cath’s breath is heavy and her sweat is dripping from her forehead. She’s easing the pain from the gunshot wound that she got to her left arm and right leg. Dragging her heavy body and following the path that she instructed Lindsey at first if anything might happen and they needed to separate. “Tsk!”She clicks her tongue in anger and irritation. Tired and has been losing a lot of blood after she fought and struggled against Ivy. Now holding the gun that almost took her just a while back. “CATHERINE WAYNE!”The name, her name that Ivy screams in anger at the last second when she pulled the trigger and put a hole in its forehead. Ending a nightmare that she took within her hand and fails to put her back behind bars. “Almost. Just how many it is right now?”Suddenly reminisced and the similar danger that she took and choose for her career and passion. She chuckles and a bit rested behind a large tree. Ripping her bolero and tying it around her leg
GUN shots can be heard from a distance and back. The exchange and the loud crash with the blow of a bomb shake the ground for a few seconds. Holding on to a tree while tightly holding Lindsey’s hand with her right one, Cath held her ground looks back when Lindsey screams in surprise at what just happened. Starling Cole awake, that worried Cath even more than she is under a lot of stress right now. “Lindsey, are you alright?” “I am. I am just startled.” “Mom? Mommy?” “Cole.” They both immediately coax the child back to sleep. Lindsey covered Cole’s ears while hugging the little boy tight into her arms. “Mommy, aunt Lindsey, what is happening?” “Don’t worry Cole, that was just nothing, just go back to sleep.” Relieved that the little boy is still sleepy and that it didn’t give them the hard time to coaxing it back to sleep. Cath looks around and a few steps away from where she instructed Lindsey to stay covered and safe with Cole. “Tsk!” She couldn’t help but click her tongue
“THIS is what you need to do.”Instructions that Beatrice needs to follow. Things that she is hesitant at first to do since it might drag her name along with the danger that she just run away successfully from Francis. But with Hiro’s assurance and the things that Hiro just told her. The plan and the fact that the organization has Cath, Lindsey, and Cole, the truth that the organization is the other party that is rubbing Francis's patience, and the little deal that Hiro on behalf of the organization strikes a deal with Cath. Is more than a heavy reason for her to believe. No, she had no choice but to believe. For in between the organization and Francis, added with the fact that Cath strikes a mutual deal with the organization. One thing is only left for her to choose from, and that is to follow the plan Hiro just told her about, and put everything of the blame on Francis.“I got it. I’ll prepare everything as soon as possible. I’ll call you when everything is ready.”“Thirty minutes.