“I SEE. Sorry to bother your meeting with your team. By the way, call me when you are done with your work. We still need to prepare for the Governor’s party.”With the assurance that she heard from Sam and the fact that Harry is with him along with Brian. She is left with assurance and confidence in that fact. The thing that remains now is the urgency to show herself in front of her future daughter-in-law.“Let’s see how you will handle things, Catherine Wayne.”Now looking at the information that is not that hard for her to dig and find out. He clicks her tongue and smiles knowingly, taking all her plans to a halt and even changing since the woman that her son choose is someone that is more than meets the eye. “A journalist, a nanny, and my son’s woman. Which one is the real you? Or perhaps none of those things, Catherine?”With a threatening voice and a disappointed look. She throws the folder that contains all the information that she had, sliding it on top of her table and showin
MORE than just surprise, Cath holds on to her seat upon realizing where she is being taken. “Where are we?”She asks by impulse while tightly gripping the seat and composing herself from the response that she knew, yet she wanted that particular confirmation. “Someone’s following us.”Taken a back and shaken. Yet, Cath didn’t show even a little ounce of expression that they could read about her. They didn’t just ignore her question, but deliberately made her know that someone and by means Nadia is following them. “Three o’clock.”One of the men said, now holding a radio at hand and about to call for backup that Cath knew and is worried about. But then. “Stop.”The one driving immediately told the person sitting in the passenger seat. The one who is been communicating with her if necessary. All after noticing that the one they thought is tailing them drives towards the right side of the road. “No need.”He added, which made Cath relax and felt that relief. Knowing that Nadia is ou
LINDSEY pulled her car to the side, closed the door, and looks at the orphanage that is still operating and full of life for decades now. “Get the ball!”Her attention is taken upon hearing the voices of the kids and a ball rolling unto her feet. She smiles takes it and looks at the adorable little boy approaching her. “Hello.”She warmly smiles, greeting the little boy who smiles wide, waves his hand, and replies.“Good morning beautiful lady.”Lindsey chuckles, and she couldn’t help but smile even wider and a bit forgot where she came from after meeting such an adorable little boy with a flowering tongue. “Can I have the ball back?” The little boy asks, which she gladly did so. Earning one wide and cute smile from the little boy she started wondering how endearing and fulfilling it could be if she had a son with Harry. But with her husband’s medical condition in such, she had already long gone forgotten about it. “Here you go.”“Are you here for an adoption?”The little boy sud
FEELS like she is on her way to a battlefield, but instead of ammunition, bomb, guns, and a fleet of soldiers backing her up. Cath is armed only with her wit and words, minus the troupes that could back her up against the Queen that she is about to meet. “This way Miss Wayne.”She followed, entering the largest corporation in the state. From the working crowd and directed into the VVIP elevator. She put her best face forward and cam her nerves, setting her mind to be prepared for anything that might happen. “Miss Wayne.”The elevator door opens, leading her into a seemingly long hallway that she knew is a bit influenced by how her mind is working right now. “Alright.”Cath conditioned herself, stopping at the door where a man in a suit greeted her. Different from the rest, where she can tell the difference at first glance. She knew that it was the Queen’s trusted secretary. “Please come in, Miss Wayne.”With a bow as of respect towards her, he opened the door beckoning her to ente
ADRIELLA casually and in sophistication served Cath tea. Jasmine tea, which is her favorite. Comfortably sitting back on her chair and observing Cath’s wide eyes at the information that she just showed her. She took a few sips of her tea, smiled, and said. “I believe that we are on the same page, Cath.”Cath took a deep breath, composing herself and her mind from what she just figured out and realizes by that exact moment.“Who are you? The real you, Adriella?”The question that Adriella expects to hear from Cath. The usual question that anyone would ask while the other party would get after all the truth that was just laid right in front of them. “You already know who am I. not to mention, Jun and Nadia’s engagement and deeper about the three of us. But not telling Sam the truth and most especially what I came here for and initially. What exactly do you want, Adriella?”A confrontation that Cath wanted to end. Her questions that she wanted some answers and immediately. For in betw
“Impressive. I never thought that I could have a smart and tactical soon-to-be daughter-in-law.”Adriella commended Cath and was more than just impressed with the young lady’s grasp of the entire situation and quick. Something she knew about Cath, she had already seen from her, yet she wanted to prove it to herself and once more that Sam choose the right woman this time around. “The Chairman of the RD Corporation is someone that is more than meets the eye.”Cath’s reply, her compliment towards Adriella, and how cunning and calculating she is. A bit about her that Lindsey got, and she can say that had the greatest influence on Sam and the success that he got in the business. A total turn of difference from what she knows about him then. “I would like to say that I haven’t researched about you before I came back to meet Sam. But I never imagine that you are this calculating for hiding some facts, important facts that even my friend could dig about you.”Cath’s calculating words, give
“FRANCIS.” Cath whispered the name that was enough for Adriella to hear. With a few moments of silence and Adriella’s seemingly blank expression, Cath doesn’t need to ask for any confirmation, for she already knew what runs inside Adriella’s mind.“That con-artist and fugitive stole Charles identity. He made it so flawless and fooled everyone, but not me. But I didn’t take actions just yet, being young and all. Knowing that evidences are needed for my claims. Besides I wanted to have my revenge to the person who killed my man.”Fact that Cath is surprise to hear, an evidence that Adriella had that they don’t. Making it all easy to join hands with her knowing that they both have something that the other does not and a crucial evidence to the case.“I build my life, while making sure that my sight is not taken from him. I secretly feed him with false information that we are rivals from way back then.”That explains some of the information that Cath dug up. Things that does
“THE two of us are not the same.”Cath whispers to herself. Contemplating and way not at the right time after her conversation with Adriella. Thinking deeply and somehow backtracking everything that she had just done and had done so far. “I should have stuck to the plan and nothing else, but that.”She clicks her tongue in dismay towards herself. Clench her hands tight in response to what she is feeling and just recently holding inside. “I am stupid, aren’t I?”The blame and words that she puts on herself. While thinking about the possibility if she will continue a such affair. Live in this seemingly fantasy love story after all that happened in the past. “Stop the car.”Cath requested with a soft tone that Adriella’s man doesn’t want to do, yet is forced to follow. Not far, and a bit close to where Nadia is currently, surrounded by Adriella’s men and by now learned the things that Cath just a while back knew about. She gets out of the car and requests. “Do not worry about me. I c