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
“THANK you so much, Miss. Lawrence.”With a big smile and a genuine heart to help the orphanage despite her initial plan to only acquire the necessary information that she needed for her investigation. Lindsey look around the office of the orphanage headmistress and caught with her eyes the oldest photo that is placed inside the glass cabinet along with the other photos of the orphanage children. “This photo.”She whispers, looking intently at the faces of the kids. Spotting that old ball among the crowd. “That’s the oldest and the first photo that the orphanage has.”The headmistress interrupted Lindsey’s thoughts. Didn’t mean to take her attention, but then gave her the chance and a way to further ask.“The first photo. Does that mean that the children in this photo are the first kids that you have taken care of?”Lindsey asks curiously, especially after finding that familiar face that she is having that specific hunch about. “Yes, they are. They are the first batch of children t
“NICE to meet you, Miss Lawrence.”“So, do I, Mr. Wayeright.”Lindsey put on her best professional smile. Proud and confident in front of the person that she’s been investigating. Their meeting is a bit unexpected, but she then took it as a chance. Comes into contact first with the person that she will be looking closely at. “I suppose I owe you my appreciation and thanks for choosing this orphanage to be sponsored by your company Miss Lawrence.”Aaron and so what he introduces in front of Lindsey gladly said. With the smile that Lindsey somehow could read deeper than what he meant from the surface. Lindsey smiles back, shakes her head slowly, and replied. “You are very welcome. Our family is grateful that we can help institutions like this and for a cause,”Both exchanged professional words. Their look towards each other is knocking something that neither one of them wanted to show the real thing. Somehow, they are playing the difficult game of tag where neither one of them want to