“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
“AND here I am, thinking that you already drop the idea.”Brian somehow reminded Sam, no, he is a bit venting his frustration for Sam’s hard-headed nature. That is getting worse day by day when it comes to his little sister, Cath. “Drop the idea? Did I ever tell you that?”Sam smirks, somewhat toying with Brian. But, both of them know that it is just his little antics to justify his choices. “Aren’t you afraid Cath will know about this?”Brian now threatened him casually. Bluntly using Cath in the situation which Sam is taking his initial advantage from. “If she will know,” Sam emphasizes with confidence. Looks back at Brian with those eyes that tell him one thing. “I know that you wouldn’t rant me out no matter what.”His trust and defense, knowing Brian while taking into consideration their friendship and partnership in one way and another. “Confident enough?”Brian’s reply is that isn’t a joke, nor a little play-by-words that they usually do in an argument or two. While hidin
“WHAT do you think, Brian?”Sam’s words and suspicion, no, his deduction that Brian is left contemplating if he will tell him the entire truth. This means, breaking his promise to Cath and the fact that they are facing a dangerous situation this time. “The Chairman?”Brian asks, a bit changing the topic which Sam can see through him and what he is trying to do and implying. “Mom is never a person who jumps into things recklessly. Yet, she also isn’t the person that would just sit back and do nothing if she had something that doesn’t suit her principles.”Sam briefly explains, which Brian knows about and way from before. Not just being his best friend, but the most trusted employee that the Lawrences had. “What do you think the Chairman knew?”Brian’s question and this time a fact that he wanted to know about. Now that Sam just shared with him the involvement of the Chairman that no one of them especially Cath should take it for granted even for a bit. “Not that much, but one thing
“WHAT the hell is happening?”Harry desperately asks Brian, irritated by the fact that he is a bit left in space. Worst with his guts telling him for a while now that Sam knew everything more than they could expect of him. But Brian could only look at him knowingly. Hesitant and in between the facts of what Sam knew, what he didn’t and will about to know. “We are here.”Brian immediately informs Sam, pulling the car to a complete stop in front of the apartment building that just confirms everything of Harry’s intuition. “Floor number.”Sam directly asks, but to Brian and instead towards Harry. Brian is then taken aback by the question and the bit of a threatening stare that Sam is making toward him.“What?”Harry asks, acting all puzzled to stall some time while sending signs to Brian to help him out. But before Brian could, but then, on the contrary, he isn’t allowed by chance nor has Sam given him the second to do so. Sam repeated himself and much more firmly this time. “I resp
THE three of them are stunned, more than just surprised by what they just heard and saw. Especially Sam that didn’t expect his mother to keep a such deep and huge secret from them. “I see. That’s why she was uneasy back then.”He recalled the past whispering the fact that just make sense. That somehow everything of the lost pieces of the grand puzzle had been found and placed perfectly in their rightful place. “When does this conversation of them happen?”Brian asks, worried about the things that just explode in front of Cath. “Just a while.” Jun immediately answers him, reading his worry that he then corrected and assures. “Cath is not an ordinary woman, unlike the rest. She is not someone who will back down and easily be swayed by things around her. And I admit, she is one hell of a badass one that I ever met.”Jun’s compliments and emphasis on those facts calm Brian. Realizing what Jun is saying to him about his younger sister and the fact that Sam also admits. Just realize that
“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.