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
“I hate him.”Monique murmurs crying while hiding behind a tree crouching. “Monique!”Cath calls out worried. Knew that the little girl is wrong for saying those words, but still, it is not the right way for Sam to scold his daughter like that. Especially since the twins have been so much for the past years. “Monique!”She calls out again with Cole holding her hand and looking around for his twin sister. Suddenly, Cole tug took her attention and pointed at the tree not that far from there. “She’s hiding there?”With a definite nod from the kid. Cath smiles and immediately run to the place and sees Monique crying with her head in between her knees. “Monique.”Coaching down to meet the eyes of the little girl, Monique raises her head crying even more upon seeing her. “I hate him, I hate daddy, Miss Cath. He doesn’t love me. He doesn’t love us.”Monique cries, a bit rebelling against Sam. That at some point made her see herself and her past with the little girl. Only that at that ti
“WILL you stay with us for this day?”Felt like her world is about to break, along with her heart which was somewhat being poked with a thousand like needle pain. Cath wanted to scream and protest. Scold herself and even more for what she is thinking and feeling right now. ‘COME ON CATH, FIX YOURSELF AND GET YOURSELF IN THE GAME!’The multiple nth time, she convinces herself. But then she couldn’t help but felt betrayed by what she is seeing in front of her. “Look! So sweet.”Gossip and compliments that she didn’t hear from the restaurant. “Aren’t they two perfects together.”She tries to ignore it. Cath tried to and her best, but she can’t. Looking at the two of them and even though how much she wanted to come in between, she can’t as she had no right to do so. “It’s okay Miss Cath, for us you are still the perfect one for daddy.”Monique consoles her with Cole on the side nodding in agreement. Where she is a bit taken aback by Monique’s calm behavior for the moment even though
“HONESTLY CATH.”Words that raise some red flags inside Cath’s mind. Sam’s tone and look scare her differently knowing that he will about to ask her the inevitable that she doesn’t want to hear from him. Right now, or ever. “Tell me the truth,”“I don’t think that we should discuss this thing right now. The twins are missing and they should be our priority right now.”She immediately cut his words and insisted for the reason that Sam wouldn’t have right now. “Are you running away from me?”Sam finally asks. The thoughts that have been running inside his mind the moment that Cath claims that he and Erika are a perfect match. A lie that he knew and wasn’t even that hard to read from Cath’s expression.“Running away? From who?” In a bit of a panic, Cath composes herself and asks the question back. “You? Tsk! Why would I even do that and even think of it?”She firmly stands on her words, but she could hardly look back at Sam’s eyes. Her lies weren’t that hard for Sam to notice.“Then,
SUCCESSFULLY evaded the inevitable confession that Sam wanted her to confess about. Cath acts like what happened a while ago didn’t happen. “Hmmm… Where do you want to go next?” She asks the twins that are more than hype to go to the rides and have fun. All with their innocence that Cath is using a bit to occupy her mind and a bit to distance herself from Sam. “Let’s go to the carousel, Miss Cath.”Monique requested that took her a bit of surprise and didn’t expect the little rebellious and tough girl to choose the easy ride rather than the bit extreme one. But then Monique is still a little girl who would like to have her fantasy. “How about you Cole?”Nodding the little boy’s reply and telling him that he aggresses to what his twin sister suggested. She then all smiles and headed their way. “The carousel it is!”Matching with the twins at hand makes the kids giggle and have fun with her playful act with them. Sam couldn’t take her eyes off her, that turns out he isn’t listening
“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.