"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
WITH the blow that Emerald receives from Cath. She couldn’t help but feel good about herself. Now with a smile that irritates Emerald despite still having fear for what Cath had just told her. “To answer your question.” Cath smiles and in confidence with a little bit of threat. “I am doing perfectly great and having the time of my life Emerald. How about you?”Now asking the question with a bit of malice in it, made Emerald's spine run with chill for fear. Emerald immediately clams herself, draws her irritation towards Cath, and acts the same as she is. “More than perfect.”Emerald’s smile with sly intentions in it that taken Cath aback. With the hunch that Emerald will be about to counterattack her with words and taunting.“I still have my name. I have all the luxury and I am still one of the sought-out ladies in the state.”She proudly said, flaunting her standing and rubbing it on Cath’s face that whatever she had will never be hers. “Tsk!”Cath click her tongue in dismay and a
“What is going on here?”Emerald asks in surprise, denial, and offended by what she just heard from Sam. “You heard me, Emerald. This is my fiancée, my love, my future wife, and my world, Cath.”Speechless and not just because Cath is surprised by Sam’s presence and words. But she is flustered with the warm feeling of how Sam describes her in front of Emerald. “Cath?” Emerald asks in an unexpected tone and looks back and forth between the two of them. “She is your fiancée?”“Yes.”Sam’s firm response made Cath’s heart jumps a beat. While it made Emerald shake her head from still being in denial. “How could it be? I mean she is Cath.”Emerald’s indirect insult is that Sam didn’t have to think deep about what she meant by those words. Emerald is still seeing Cath as the nerd and the one that they are bullying back then. He admits that he had the biggest part and fault for that. “Catherine Wayne and future Mrs. Lawrence for you, Miss. Emerald Hart.”The very first time that Sam addre
“THAT means that I can eat you later, right?”‘DAMN!’Cath curses, but inside her head for she was just caught and once more in an unexpected teasing game of Sam. His little game that she should be use to right now, yet she seems couldn’t.“You know what you should order for I already did. Let’s eat, I am starving and you might as well.”She casually diverted the topic away and immediately. Metaphorically forcing Sam’s thoughts that is all due of hunger and can be fixed by food.“Tsk!”Sam could only smirk, knew what Cath is doing, yet he decided not to argue anymore. Knowing that he still has the entire day to squeeze her out for the truth that he wanted to hear.“Please.”Cath quickly called out gesturing, by which the waiter immediately served them. Distracting Sam a bit and the distraction that Cath desperately wanted right now.“Just the usual.”“Yes Sir.”A bit puzzled, yet Cath immediately thought that since Sam is typically the owner of the hotel and this very restaurant. He s
‘FALLING EVEN DEEPER?’Cath’s mind is screaming and currently in chaos after being caught in Sam’s little teasing game. “I am not.”She firmly denies it. Irritated and dismayed at Sam for playing his stupid game that she isn’t fond of nor she is having fun with it.“I know.”Sam suddenly said, casually agreeing with her that is not what he is nor use to be. With his confident smile and proud stance, he added. “You are not just falling even deeper for me Cath. You are falling all over again and worse than before.”“Woah!”The crowds' reply is now cut into the drama that they are currently displaying in front of them. While Cath is once more flustered and in deep red ears from those words. “Come on man!” One of the men from the crowd suddenly protested with a huge grin. “Why don’t you propose properly to your girl? Where’s the grand gesture to make her say yes?”Everyone then agrees while the ladies are currently on cloud nine from what they are seeing like they both are the main le
“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.