“SO, you are that girl?”Suddenly approached by one of the nutritionists of the company with a wide smile and expression that is both intrigued about her and requesting to know the progress between her and Sam. Cath awkwardly smiles, pretending that she didn’t know what she is talking about. “Stop that Olive. It’s rude to ask her that question when we all know the truth.”Words that made it worst for Cath to think of the possibilities and screams that Sam had done and been feeding his employees behind her back. “Truth?” Curiosity hits her, asking for the meaning of their words while hiding her irritation for Sam, while still in her composed and professional nature in front of his employees. “What do you mean about that truth?”The other employee who stops the first one that she calls Olive turns her head away, but Cath knew that she is guilty. Olive didn’t hesitate and gladly cheerfully answered her. “Well, we all know that you are the woman behind the CEO’S smiles for quite a w
“ALRIGHT!”Cath cheers herself. Shaking out the words, thoughts, and the recent conversation that she just had with the employees at the nutrition department. “This is just for a day. Only this day. Just how hard it is to cook a single meal for him?”She then comforted herself while preparing the ingredients and all after wearing the spare uniform and apron from the employees. “Can she do it?”“She can, I believe it!”The rumors are buzzing a bit to her ears with Olive cheerfully on to her side. “Lunch meal.”Cath though, thinking if that is the right name to call for that particular time or does it need some fancy ring to suit the position that Sam is currently holding right now. “So, what are you making?”Olive suddenly asks which took her a bit of a surprise. Making her remember what she just said a while ago. Most especially the news that just slap her unexpectedly for the second time around. “Our CEO’s girlfriend.”She wanted to burst with her disappointment towards Olive. F
A sudden knock on the door breaks Sam's concentration. “Come in.” He commanded and allowed the request. But unlike his usual attitude and anger issues from the past when his employees disturb him he prompted them to push each other on the task of delivering his lunch for the day. “Mr. CEO.” One of the nutrition departments enters and announces his presence by almost stuttering. Expecting Sam to scold him hard. Yet. “Mike?”“Yes, Sir! Sir?” Taken aback and acted like a military cadet for a second before realizing that instead of scolding Sam, their company’s CEO calls his name. By which Sam never did, for the whole year that he’s been an employee. “Nothing.”Disappointed by seeing his employee rather than Cath. That he is sure by now that she then again is distancing herself from him. Like he is a big virus that Cath should run away from before she could catch it. “She didn’t come and deliver it herself unlike what I told her.”A bit irritated while whispering those facts
“IF only you know how much I wanted to kill you.” Cath whispers to herself and protests in anger while pounding the meat like brutally killing it into the grounds with her hands. “You want to eat my original recipe? Then, I will let you eat the most delicious meal that you ever tasted before.”Now laughing like a villain in any movie with the dark ulterior motive at hand. Everyone from the nutrition department and the cook from the station kitchen is looking worried and puzzled towards her. “This image right here is what I call a sparkling love.”Olive giggles. Forming with her thumb and pointer fingers a photo frame while looking at Cath with her other eyes closed. Deep with her fantasy, she doesn’t run away from how Lindsey is shipping Cath and Sam. “More like a death sentence.”Carol says otherwise and immediately pulled Olive back to work. “Now, for the perfect sauce.”With a proud smile, Cath is acting like a professional chef in that instant. Feeding her anger by proving to
BACK and forth. Unlike the usual things that Sam does. Brian is almost at his limit with a headache in two from Sam’s undecided plan for the night. “Should I ask her out tonight?”Sam asks himself in deep thought. Walking back and forth while making Brian dizzy. “But how could I ask her for a dinner date that will be just the two of us? I got away with it the last time with the twins, but now.”In a dilemma, but for Brian it is more like a dating problem of a teen that once wasn’t a problem for Sam. For the fact that he is the Casanova. “Will you make you make up your mind?”Brian demanded while checking the time ever after fifteen minutes and straight for almost three hours now.“I may remind you Sam that the office hours are almost over. You may have asked Cath to be your personal nutritionist for the day, but that doesn’t include the hours after the working hours.”“Why didn’t you tell me that sooner!”Finally snapping Sam out of his trivial dilemma with a bit of scolding. Brian
“DONE?” Cath asks sarcastically while staring at Sam, with her irritated expression. “Almost.”Sam replied in a seductive way that any noodle commercial with a hunk and handsome endorser would play. “You are enjoying this, aren’t you?” Glaring back at Cath’s deliberate intention of doing the same thing that Sam is doing as a game. That’s turning this little charade into a test of seducing endurance. “You have no idea.”Now with their eyes unto each other and close enough for a kiss. Cath couldn’t help but trace Sam’s facial features with her eyes. Reminding her of the past and how those eyes of his made her trip and fall deep for him. “You still have these pump cheeks just like in the past.”But then, Sam unknowingly ruins the moment. Noticing that one feature of Cath’s face that she hated. Sam’s teasing and pinching of her cheeks irritated Cath. “Stop!”Screaming in anger that immediately stops Sam and turns the supposed be going smooth moment into ruins.“You never change, an
“IT’S him! CEO Lawrence! But what is he doing here?”Gossips start as phones are up and recording the surprise visit of the talk of the town bachelor. When unexpectedly, Sam appears in front of everyone with a guitar at hand and expresses his feeling like a confession towards the person that everyone has a hint of who. “The CEO is about to confess his love.”Olive claims, with her smiles and excitement. While looking at Cath with the eyes and expression that everyone knew, they both knew and Cath could no longer deny the fact that something is going on between them, Sam. “Right, Cath?”Everyone’s eyes are all on her. The entire department with their smiles and all convinced mind that it will not take that long for Sam to give her an engagement ring. “I---” Cath is left stuttering and couldn’t find the right words to say nor anything to protest what they are all thinking and asking of her.“The CEO is getting bold. He never did anything like this, not even for his ex-wife.”Taken a
“EVERY day I love you more. I’ll do anything to prove to you my worth. I am not the same stupid guy. Just one word, that confirmation. Can I have a chance for your heart?”The question that Cath had been running away from and evading for a long. The confession fills the place with cheers. “Can I have a chance for your heart?”Sam asks her once more which made everyone around them chant. “Say yes, say yes, say yes.” Talk about putting pressure on her. Cath remains silent while staring at Sam that in that same moment knew that she isn’t ready to answer him. “I can wait, no matter how long would it takes.”Everyone erupted with cheers, thinking that they got in the same agreement. But no one knew that it is still a maybe and even worse a no for Sam. “Alright! Let’s turn the music up!”The club’s DJ breaks the moment and put on his mix that made the crowd wild and back before Sam took the stage. “Cath.”“The staff in the nutrition department are all at the seventh table. It will be
“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.