ENGULF with the pleasure and heat of the moment. They did the deed multiple times that night and by which Sam made sure that he marks Cath in every part of her body.“What just happened?”Somewhat intoxicated, Cath wakes up early in the morning and asks herself the stupid question that she immediately regrets. “Seriously, Cath?”She almost screams in disbelief, but immediately covers her mouth upon seeing Sam still fast asleep beside her. “I just did it, right?”Hopeless, but her inevitable stupidity. She covers Sam’s body that was too tempting, and worse with the red marks on his chest which she is the perpetrator. “Snap out of it, Cath.” She tries to pull herself together. Yet only to see the red stain on the blanket that she immediately pulled and wrap around her naked body. “Catherine Wayne, just how stupid could you be.”She scolded herself and hurried inside the bathroom and found her messy hair, and worse with the red marks that Sam planted on her body. “Congratulations
"RIGHT, MOMMY?”Cole’s words and after years. Which made everyone fall into silence and total surprise. Sam then stands almost slamming the table hard, with nanny Ester that is now in tears for finally hearing Cole speaking again. “Cole?”Cath’s gentle call and asking. Tears that falling from her eyes from the mix of shock and happiness that she is feeling. “Smile mommy. I do not want to see you cry.”Cole consoles her with his cute smile and his small hands that wipe her tears away. “Cole!”Monique rushes to her little twin brother and hugs him tight with tears in her eyes. “You are finally speaking again.”The little girl’s delighted that Cole nods in agreement and giggles. “I can even hear his giggle now.”Cath’s overwhelming gladness, that even the servants are all teary eyes for what they are seeing. “This is so great!”Monique jumps in glee, and in seconds cries for happiness. “Thank you so much, Cole is speaking right now.”“There, there. Stop crying Monique as we all sh
“CANCEL everything on my schedule today.”Sam instructed Brian who is on the other line and currently in the office waiting for him. “Why?”Sam’s teasing smile draws that both made Cath feel fear and excitement about what he is about to say. Worse when Sam looks at her with those eyes and smiles that no one can resist and say that she is his world. “I need to be with my family today and spoil the woman that I am chasing after.”DAMN! Cath didn’t expect those words and added Sam’s smile that made her heart beat fast once more. When she feels like that, she is about to melt any moment now. “You know what to do.”Sam then hangs up the phone and looks at his twins whose smile is from ear to ear and staring lovingly at both of them of Cath. “Daddy!” Monique raises her hand, looks at them with her demanding gaze, and commands. “Take Miss Cath into a special place, spoil her for the entire day, do not think about us of Cole. And most importantly take her on a date!”The bold suggestion
“YOU are going in or I’ll force you?”Sam’s choices that Cath rather run away and disappear. But she couldn’t.“Alright.”Always left with no other choice, and somewhat falling into the palm of Sam’s advantages and everyone’s schemes against her. Cath breath deep and out and look at the luxurious store that isn’t to her style nor on her lifestyle.“Yes.”Sam’s attention is shifted. Taking a phone call and ask Cath.“Go on first and I’ll follow you later.”He instructed which Cath agrees and without fuss.“Just how hard could it be to choose one, and that’s it!”She assures herself, with her minimalist nature and simplicity that shows her profession and back ground as a journalist. She then opens the door and steps inside only to be greeted by a hateful glare of the store’s attendant.“I’m sorry, but what are you doing here?”A direct insult that slap Cath on her face. Which makes all her simple could be shopping slump into worse.“I am here to buy clothes.”She replies in a clam manne
"NOW, close the store and assist my wife.”“Yes Sir.”And that’s how a boss should do it!“You are quite a boss yourself.”Cath disses and at the same time a bit teases Sam.“But you see, there is only one person who can boss me.”With a wink and a smile, Cath’s eyes widen and immediately move away from Sam with her redden ears that didn’t escape Sam’s eagle eyes.Giggling, Sam added. “Being a boss is just one of my skill, but do you know what is my forte?”Cath’s doesn’t want to hear it, knowing what he will say and the flirting scene that’s oozing from his face. Yet, Sam doesn’t want to be stop by just like that.“Spoiling my wife to the core.”Ends up laughing from his teases, wherein in the eyes of any woman is too sexy to not droll over him. Cath on the other hand is in a mix of bursting her steam from the heat of the moment and irritation for letting the other girls see him with his smile that she just couldn’t admit, but she wanted it all to herself. “Fine.”She blurts out and
“PERFECT. Just like how I imagine you will be with me and only with me. Cath.”Cath’s plan failed. For instead of Sam getting speechless and swoon by her appearance with the dress of her choice, she was the one who took the blow from Sam’s declaration.“Prepare everything, you all know what to do next.”Sam instructed his staff with a bit of a mystery that everyone immediately heeded. Leaving them alone.“That’s it? Where done here? How about the other dresses?”Cath is taken aback, but honestly is trying to make her way out from the awkward situation that only she is having. Asking about the summer dresses that Sam made the attendants prepare for her.“You do not need to fit those dress. They already got your measurements. Besides, you will wear those dresses this weekend.”‘WEEKENED?’She thought with a bit of a red flag at hand and worse with Sam’s sudden sly smile that she is well aware and familiar about.“President Villamor invited us to their resort this coming weekend. Your co
“WELCOME TO ROYAL HOTEL.”The welcoming staff of the hotel greeted them immediately as they enter inside the hotel. A bit taken aback by Sam’s presence and their CEO, but none the less performed their job precisely and up to the standard of the hotel.“I guess I need to learn to expect the unexpected from you.”Cath’s compliment after looking at the interior of the hotel that’s sophistication, class and luxury is balance with warmth and comfort.“Is that a pure compliment from you, or an insult?”Sam read’s her inner thoughts. Giggling, Cath smiles and kept the answer to herself. Knowing that it is not important for now to dwell into Sam’s past, especially that she is now starting to look at him not by the fault that happened between them.“I’m hungry, why don’t you feed your wife already.”She teases that Sam knew that it is a game that will only last for this day.“Of course. Everything that my wife wishes.”The welcoming staff and the guess stop and in awe upon looking at the both
ENGROSS by the breathtaking view and the calmness of the landscape of the hotel’s garden. Cath has never been this relaxed for a while ever since becoming a journalist which is her dream job but is tiring bit by bit. Worse with her current assignment that she had a hard time starting with. “Look whose here.”The moment is broken, and somewhat Cath can now see the dark sky ahead of her life upon hearing the familiar voice that for a second she wishes that she got her wrong. “How have you been, Cath?”Dead wrong and just how her day is turning out great. It immediately engulfs her with disappointment with the unexpected encounter worse than finding herself falling in love with Sam.“Emerald.”Cath addresses the lady’s presence in dismay and fake smile. “Just look at how the world works.”Emerald smiles and excitedly claims. But for Cath, it is more like a death sentence in an instant for meeting the worse person who made her world in hell back in their college days. “How many years
“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.