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
“I know, but I also know that you couldn’t be angry with me for long. And I am going to prove you that.”The challenge that Cath is more than willing to accept, with a little thinking of teasing Sam. “Alright. Prove it.”Her wide and confident smile that Sam already read what is going on inside her mind. Then he took her hand and pulled her beside him and went his way to his mall’s department and into the men’s section. “We better follow those two.”Nadia drags Jun with her following Cath and Sam. All while hiding her dismay from what just Jun said a while ago. “Come on!”She insists that by this point Jun had no choice but to comply. “This?”Jun is in awe, after checking the prices of the clothes after entering the department store of the mall. With all the branded names and luxury that he doesn’t even have the slightest liberty to wear. “Yes, I know.” Nadia interrupted his words and finish them in her tone. “One piece of clothes from this line can feed thousand of starving kids