“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
“A mere apology will not fix everything. Especially since the pain is too deep that it still hurts just to see you in front of me. Sam.”Cath’s words slap Sam more than a hundred times from deep inside his heart. “You do not know anything. You are clueless, ever since then, Sam.”Everyone falls into silence. Looking back at the two of them with the fear of saying a thing. Even breathing deep and loud from the tension. “Then tell me and make me understand, for I am more than ready to know Cath.”Like everything around the two of them vanish, and the world only revolves around them. The loud music from the background somehow faded, but Cath’s pain from the past is only getting louder. “I’m sorry, but I do not want to talk about this anymore.”Cath walks away, couldn’t take the current moment and the pain that’s starting to eat her away. “Cath, wait!”“Enough Sam!”She screams in frustration as Sam tries to stop her and grab her hand. “Why just drop this off and forget everything th
SULKING in bed and have been thinking all night about what happened. Cath is torn between giving up the assignment or continuing. “I can’t do this.”She murmurs. Locking herself since last night and not even talking to anyone made her younger brother worried and even rush home to talk to her. Lying a bit only convinces her younger brother but not the rest of her family. She forgot the time until her phone rings its alarm. “The twins!”She hurried out of bed in a panic. That thought that the confrontation from last night will still be an awkward moment between the two of them Sam. She couldn’t let the twins down especially since the twins are comfortable with her and vice versa.“Oh My!”She almost screams upon looking at the mirror and finding her reflection to be like a living dead after having a sleepless night from thinking of what just happened. “Fix yourself Cath! You cannot be this weak and not this time.”Once more scolding herself and was reminded of the facts and reality t
CATH knew that there is a miss when Brian asks her to come with him out of the blue. A peculiar thing for Brian to do, yet she couldn’t say no to her older stepbrother. “Where are we heading and why Brian?”She asks, yet Brian stayed quiet and does not even a word, to begin with. “Whatever this is and wherever you are taking me, it should not be about and to where Sam is.”Her warning, that Brian could not help but smirk. Yet, perfectly in a time where Cath didn’t notice a thing. “This is a trap, isn’t it?”Cath’s suspicion that Brian casually ignores, knowing if he will make any random expression or two Cath will go bunkers and demand for him to stop the car and leave. Which is not even an option, to begin with. “Fine!”Finally giving up, Cath is disappointed, and irritated, but in a panic. Knowing that this is a trap. ‘CALM DOWN CATH. JUST BREATHE AND IF ANYTHING IS A MISS, JUST RUN AWAY AND FAST.’Her plan and consolation to herself, thinking that this day will not end up good
“SINCE you are holding that guitar with you. Then make me.”A dare that Sam couldn’t back away from nor say no to. “Prepare yourself to swoon.”Sam’s smile with those eyes of his made Cath’s heart skip a beat and turns her ears a blushing pink. But before it could get any worse, she immediately snaps out of it, held her poker face upfront, and accepted the challenge. “Alright!”Monique cheers giving Sam along with Cole a high five and immediately rush to Lindsey and Brian’s side who are standing not that far away from them. “I’m not owning this song. I modify it a bit, but I hope that you will get the message.”Sam’s introduction before strumming the guitar made Cath giggle upon realizing that it is one of the most popular songs back during their freshmen years in high school. “I’m good at creating time.”“I don’t think so.”Cath protested and immediately looked at the twins that caught Sam’s attention, yet continues playing his guitar and answering Cath’s little protest. “Okay,
“DOES this mean that you and daddy are okay now, Miss Cath?” Monique’s question took Cath off guard. With the little girl who is anticipating the positive response, just how could she say to Monique that what the little girl is thinking right now is not the exact way that it all is? “And you will not quit being our nanny, right?” Now with the twins’ hoping smiles towards her. It makes her feel worse if she will deny even a little of the misunderstanding that the twins have right now. “It may not exactly be what it is, but you wouldn’t let the twins down, right, Cath?” Lindsey added her burden. Reading her mind and the truth that she wanted to explain and make the twins understand. “Well.” She hesitates, looking at Sam with a knowing look and telling her with the expression on his face that it isn’t his fault that the twins are thinking that their original misunderstanding is solved. “Far from what the reality is, but.” Cath whispers and enough only for herself to hear thos
“LET’S see who will last up to the very end.” Xander’s threatening words and challenge for Sam. All after the supposed to be lunch date for the entire family turns chaotic upon the arrival of Cath’s younger dotting brother. “Alexander!” Xander’s fans swarm over the restaurant. But before they could cause a scene or any trouble, Brian already handle the situation with the group of guards standing outside the restaurant and restraining the fans to rush inside. "If you are prepared to lose, then let’s start this game.” Sam’s reply and acceptance of Xander’s challenge that doesn’t help even a bit with the turns chaotic situation that they are into. “If daddy will win against Xander, will my number one idol be my uncle, aunt Lindsey?” Monique’s words and hoping tone that Lindsey immediately nods in agreement. Making the little girl squeal in excitement. Not just for the reason that she is with the country’s famous idol, but when Sam defeats Xander, he will be her uncle. “Becomin
“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.