IT hasn’t even been an hour since Cath officially becomes the nanny of the twins. Yet, Sam is acting like she is his servant and just to get her attention all to him. “The twins’ class will end at 11.” He started, and once more all after the little things that he made Cath do which are all the basic stuff that she already knew. “It’s better that you will stay at the academy until that time. There are designated places for the student’s guardian, so you do not need to worry about where you’ll be staying.” Irritated, but she needed to keep her cool now that the second phase of her plan is already complete. “I will and you do not need to worry about anything ‘SIR’ Lawrence.” She teases, emphasizing the honorific of the word ‘SIR’. Which took Sam aback with the kick of nuisance and offended by her word. “Sam.” He immediately corrected, somewhat snapped and emphasizing his name. with the steps close to Cath, by which Cath in return is stepping back and supposedly evading him. “You
“I WILL be coming for you later to fetch you up.” HEY, WAIT WHAT? The surprised thoughts of Cath, upon hearing those words from Sam. A gesture that he never usually does and has somewhat forgotten ever since his wife left him. “You would? You really would do that daddy?” Monique squeals in delight hearing those words from him. “I will, and after which we will go to the amusement park.” Giving his daughter a slight pinch in the cheek and his son a fist bump. The twins are all excited and even couldn’t wait for the time to turn fast. “You heard that Cole? We are going to the amusement park.” Melted by the twins' smiles and taken by Sam’s words. Cath is reminded of the vice-principal's concern. A fact that lightens up somehow as Sam took the promise she made with the kids if circumstances weren’t changed the last time. “Then, I’ll be seeing you later?” Immediately fading her smile because she doesn’t want him to misunderstand her expression. She instead asks, curious about thi
“CANCEL everything of my appointment today.” Sam informs and quickly hangs up on Brian, knowing that he doesn’t need to explain further for there is only one reason for his sudden absences for this past week. Brian’s step-sister Cath. “Tsk!” He smirks, as he couldn’t help it with his oozing confidence and on the roll not just to continue teasing Cath for the day, but to make sure that he will have the advance progress for the plan that he’s been cooking. “Right.” Parking the car is not that far from the guardian’s waiting area. His presence surely is known when the ladies single or not turns their head to look at him. “Isn’t that?’ “It’s Samuel Lawrence.” “Woah!” They gossip behind his back and are all in awe of his presence that he hardly made anyone see. Added by his natural Casanova presence that’s leaving a trace of swoon woman behind his track. “How was the wedding?” Sam stops on his track and just in the corner after those words caught his attention. “Mia, don’t
“HOW can you tame the heart of the person who is long been tame by you?” The innocent thought of the ten years old Sam. Asking his best friend and little target to be bullied by him, Cath. “Is that even a question?” Cath asks back wondering as she couldn’t understand his thoughts. “Just where have you heard such words? Movies, TV shows, or from some random person?” She asks, somewhat mocking him with those words and thoughts that Cath thinks to be too deep for their current age. “You know Sam, sometimes you are kind of silly.” She then teases which didn’t annoy Sam like he always does. But instead, he stands and opens his arms wide. Looking at the green meadow before turning back to her and declaring. “In the future, I will build a grand restaurant in this place and name it after your favorite flower. In that way, I can secretly tell everyone that it is meant for you.” SWEETLY remembered those words and the past. Cath couldn’t help smiling at the fact that Sam didn’t f
FRIEND. The word that keeps on repeating inside Cath’s mind. Making her frustrated for the reasons that she couldn’t accept and never will be. “Sir, ma’am. Your orders.” The food starts to arrive with the people around them with wide eyes and couldn’t believe what they are seeing. “I can finish this, all of it.” She firmly stood with what she had said with a bit of irritated and angered tone upon Sam’s expression that is doubting her. “You said it.” Sam just agrees, didn’t want to argue with her noticing her frustration that he had no idea why. “Friend.” She whispers to herself and just enough for her to hear. The same word that she couldn’t let go, of and is making her frustrated and irritated by Sam by the minute. “Come on Cath, get your head in the game.” Once more reminding herself of her little ritual at hand. That honestly amuses Sam while pretending that he is not hearing her say a thing. “Okay.” Cath t
FINALLY calming herself, but decided to do the thing that she initially came from in this place. Cath fixed her face and calm her heart. Went back to their table like nothing ever happened. “I’m sorry about that.” Noticing the change, but not the change that everyone will initially think. Sam ignored it for a while and was somehow glad that she isn’t intoxicated anymore. The best part was he made everyone shut their mouth to gossip about them. “Aren’t you hungry?” Cath’s question and offer for him to join her, made him smile yet, is doubting her attitude. For suddenly throwing her upset mood that he is glad about, but then, on the other hand, is kind of disappointing him. Knowing that is something wrong that he doesn’t like. “Cath---” He wanted to ask, he was supposed to ask her about what’s bothering her, yet he is cut off when Cath’s phone rings. “Lindsey?” A bit alarmed as Sam doesn’t want to be dis
“ONCE I’ll tell you, then it means that you cannot escape from me anymore.” A threat? But more like a confession. Two things are running immediately inside Cath’s mind after being pinned and cornered once more by Sam. “Just what do you think you are doing?” She is left with that thought and quickly asks Sam about it. While she is trying to make sense of his previous words she is screaming to herself that it wasn’t like what she is thinking about as a confession. “You sure become an expert in hiding and denying. Aren’t you, Cath?” Caught her red-handed, and Sam just brutally slap her with the fact that she is running away from the very start. She is tongue-tied by the moment and worse with her wild heart that is once more shaking all her revolve out the window. “De-denying? W-what! Just what are you talking about?” She stutters before stepping on with her right foot forward, yet Sam only sees it as her another way of being in denial. “Tsk!” Smirking where he finds her cute
“SO, you are the twins’ new nanny?”Erika asks, not to clarify that fact that she already knows but to warn her about her certain position in the family. “I am.”Cath casually replied with a smile and doesn’t mean any war or to start a heated argument. But with Erika’s disappointed tone and piss expression behind her fake smile. It is not that hard to notice and read that she is angry about what Monique just told her a while back. “The kids like you very much, and I do not see why?”Her critic, Erika started to critique. Trying to go under her skin, but Cath knew otherwise how to distance herself against the kind of entitled girlfriend like her.“Tell me Cath, how did you know Sam?”Intrigued but in truth is just buying some time after Sam and the twins left the two of them for a while and went to buy some food. Before they start to went all over the amusement park with Erika who literary insisted to tag along. “We are childhood friends.”Cath once more casually answer her question
“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.