A handsome man and woman dancing in the middle of the hall. No eyes can’t take off them, neither Madell and Zion. Madell was so excited to come in the party to see her cousin. But when she arrived, she found out that Harriet is his partner, and worst, they are dating. ‘I was only away for couple of days and he’s already dating my cousin!?’ Madell shouted inwardly while gnawing her lower lip. In her eyes, Harriet is a b*tch who seduced Cassius because she has an ambition to go the top. ‘I cannot tolerate this. Never!’ Madell swore. “Since when did they start dating?” Madell asked to her older brother, who’s standing beside her. Zion did not answer. Instead, he just watched the two dancing while looking at each other’s eyes. “I thought that b*tch, I mean, Harriet likes you. What happened?” Madell kept asking Zion. Harriet likes Zion. That’s the truth. During this party, Zion reminded that to himself again and again. But still, he found it hard to feel unaffected while watching a
Cassius saw hatred at Harriet’s face as soon as Reese approached their side. One thing that puzzles him is how she tried to hide her disgust against the maid. In his case, he’s hiding his expression so the illness of his will remain secret. Harriet has no illness to hide, but she seems to cover something more than a disease. “You are so pretty today!” Reese greeted Harriet. She glanced back at Cassius and bowed her head to show respect. “Good evening, sir Cassius.” Thinking that he has no reason to respond at her greeting, Cassius wordlessly just stared at her. As Reese sensed the piercing stare from the handsome man, she awkwardly looked back at Harriet again and smiled. “Omg!” Reese gasped, pointing her with both of her hands. “I did not expect to see you like a princess, Harriet. I thought you said that you don’t have any dress to wear.” Because Harriet came beautifully like this, Sherly was so mad at Reese, thinking that she gave her a false information. ‘Just because you h
Harriet’s POV Days ago before the party, Marie came to me with a very important information.“Miss, I found this in Reese’s cabinet.”She showed me a powder like substance that resembles white sand.“When Cris went inside our room, she said that she saw Reese sitting in front of the mirror table. Then, she suddenly hid a pouch inside her cabinet, locked it and dashed out of the room with pale face. So I looked what she was hiding and found this.”I stared at the powder she placed inside a transparent plastic bag.“Then how did you get this when Reese locked the cabinet?”Marie looked to her left and right, then scratched her nape. “W-Well, I have a little talent for that.” Then she gave me an awkward laughed.Well, her skills became advantageous.“So did you steal this from her?” I asked.“No!” she answered. “Not literally stealing. The powder is in a expensive looking pouch. So what I did is get some of it and transferred to another pouch.”“Good job. If you stole it, she will susp
Third Person’s POV Cassius stood in front of the hospital VIP room. He hates going in hospital; the white walls, the hospital gowns, doctors, nurse, the smell of the medicine and the sound of the Iv fluid. He felt sick just by being inside but this time, he cannot bring himself out of the place. He won’t leave here, not until he’ll see Harriet wide and awake. Even now, Cassius couldn’t still believe what just happened in the party.The way Harriet drank the wine and her words before that, he knew that Harriet intended to drink the poisoned wine at the first place.Why?No matter how understandable her reasons are, Cassius can’t agree. He would not agree. Never.The moment he saw her collapsed and coughed blood, he felt the whole world stopped and every colors turned black. She told him not to worry anymore, as if she can handle it all, but Cassius failed to do so. And he felt pathetic that while watching her struggles, all he did is to stare at her and hold her hand.Cassius sighed
Sherly threw all the things on the table, including the plant vases of bonsai trees she’s raising for years. A crashing noise of something breaking and hitting echoed inside her room. Broken pieces of vases scattered on the floor and at the vacuumed carpet. Soil dirtied the glossy floor. From her bloodshot eyes, they showed how the resentment blossomed within her. Great anger thrummed through her veins, boiling the blood inside her veins. They thrummed hardly, pulsing and pulsing. She looks like a volcano, as if there has been rage building up below the surface and she can’t keep in any longer. “Damn it!” she shouted and slammed the table once again. All of her plans got ruined. They failed to frame out Harriet and then what? She turned out to be whose daughter again? “What? She is what?” Sherly spit nails from her mouth. When Sherly imagined the face of Reese who introduced Harriet as Astell’s daughter, she was marinated with flaming fury. Questions piled up inside her. How l
"How did you know that Harriet's father is Mr. Astell?" this is the first thing that Zion asked to Reese. Reese, Zion, Astell and Sorren went to the VIP waiting room of the hospital. When they got there, Zion dropped the suspicion/he has for Reese. Before the welcome party of Cassius, it seems Reese did not say anything to Harriet about Mr. Astell. Because if Harriet knows something about it, then she should have told them about this. However, at the times where Reese got put in tight situation, she suddenly revealed it to everyone. After Zion asked the question, both Astell and Sorren looked at the maid sitting next to them. Amidst the anxiousness as they wait for Harriet to completely wake up, the began to get curious how did it happen. Since when? How? And what is Reese connection with Astell?"That is also what I wanted to ask," Astell said to the young lady. "How did you know that Harriet is my daughter?"Reese slowly lifted her pale face towards Astell, the man she once save
Harriet's POV From the first day I worked as the chairman's secretary, when Reese became the Nadia Wyatt, she got engaged with Zion, when Grandpa Sorren died, when I was framed up, went to jail, sentenced to death and died, I told everything to Cassius. This is a story that I would never ever forget. Maybe everyday, it never leave my mind, Every single moment I breathe, I can feel the painful moment I died. If there is one thing that I cannot tell him, then that is that I loved Zion. Cassius was silent when he was listening. But after I told him everything, he suddenly went berserk. "I need to Meet Zion right now," he said, with an expression of an angry bull who saw a red sheet. Before he could stand up and go, I stopped him, by holding his wrist. "What are you doing? Talk to Zion about this?" Cassius unwrapped my weak grip from him. "I wanted to punch him," he said. "I cannot believe this. Someone who's been by your side since childhood believed that you killed gran
The incident that took place in the Fabroa family has all over the news. Everyone was shocked to know that the multi-billionaire, Astell Wyatt, finally found his missing daughter. If there’s one thing that isn’t included in the news, then that’s the truth behind the poisoning incident. The news only said that Astell’s missing daughter passed out during the party and that was the reason how the truth was discovered. It will be impossible to cover for the real incident so the family members of Fabroa are so confused about the agreement the chairman and Astell Wyatt had. How did Sorren conviced Astell to stop the investigation about the poisoning incident? Madell, Sherly and Finn looked at the chairman. They are now sitting together around the same table, and having breakfast. Sorren rarely asked the family to have a meal. Usually, he asks this to happen whenever he has special announcement to share. And so, when Sherly, Madell and Finn were told to come and eat breakfast wit
Spring came. The air began to warm, the temperature rose slowly and the snow begins to melt. Tree buds started greening and preparing itself to grow. It was a wonderful and joyful season which wrapped the cool winter. Another year together, Cassius, Harriet and their daughter welcomed the new season. It’s been 6 years since Cassius and Harriet tied knots through wedding. Their daughter, Jaime, turned 5 this year. Yet, every time they looked back what happened before, it made them feel as if everything was just yesterday. They changed the future, saved lives, avoided regrets. Now, they are living happily with each other, while calling everything as their ‘past.’ “Mom!” Under the sun rays which made the horizon looked beautiful against the clouds, Harriet looked back to see the child running towards her side. It was relaxing listening to the singing of the birds and the dancing of the trees. Yet, for Harriet, seeing the smile in her daughter’s lips was the prettiest thing that
Reese was running away. She heard that Zion would come in that place and she doesn't want her beloved man to see her in this state. Especially, when Zion remembered what happened in the future.But on her way out of the park, a tall man blocked her way.She looked up and fell onto the ground when she saw Zion.He stood there, like a calm lake with no waves, even if the wind was blowing hard tonight.At some point, Reese held her breath. In a situation like this, she could not do anything but stay on the ground while looking at him.“Where are you going? I think we have things to settle first,” Zion uttered.“Z-Zion. I…”“Don’t bother making any excuses. It won’t work. I remembered everything.”“I k-know,” she said before she started chuckling sarcastically. “I know that you would not forgive me for fooling you. I let Harriet die. The woman you love died so I don’t expect you to understand me.”A frown appeared on his nonchalant face.Slowly, Reese crawled into him and held his hands.
At the time Zion found who killed his Grandpa, he received news that Harriet died in the prison. How did she die? Did someone kill her inside the cell? No. She was sentenced to death. Something that Zion did not imagine would happen. He and Reese made a deal. Reese promised that she will do her best to get Harriet out of the prison, and that is by confessing Astell about Harriet’s real identity. In exchange, Zion had to marry Reese even if she’s an impostor. Zion gambled his whole life just to protect Harriet. But in the end, Harriet died. Why didn’t he hear anything about this beforehand? He realized that everyone fooled him. Reese and him weren’t allied. Instead, Reese joined hands with the people around him to keep it secret that Harriet was going to die in the prison. Knowing it was late, Zion went to the prison. ‘Harriet. Harriet.’ On his way, he continued calling out to her even though he knew that an answer would not come back. He did not know the reason why. It just
Harriet’s POVMy heart raced and my chest tightened as the cold fist of understanding squeezed the breath out of me.Reese pushed me, and now, I am underwater.The moonlight above mocked me.It was getting so hard. I guessed my legs were still moving, but I couldn’t feel my toes anymore. The water snugged in around me.My limbs were willing to win this fight. But soon, they decided to rest.I took a deep breath as the water closed in around me.‘I’ll never see my father again.’‘And Cassius, he will cry if I die, right?’The light filtering down through the water mocked me. A slight pressure pushed on my chest from the inside.My clothes swirled uselessly around me, weighing down even further. A ringing filled my ears, but otherwise it’s quiet. My lungs burnt. I clamped my shut trying to kick my legs. The urge to breathe is unbearable. My chest was going to explode.‘No.No…I don’t want to die again.I didn’t come back to be in this state again.Please…’As I prayed so hard, I watche
Cassius shoved his hand inside his pocket. He made sure that he brought the ring with him before going to Harriet’s mansion. He wanted to rent a huge place to do his proposal. But he changed his mind. If there’s one good place to do it, then it is the Wyatt’s garden. Smiling, Cassius entered the mansion. As he stepped inward, Cris, the maid, stopped when she saw him. “Sir Cassius!” she gasped. Cassius looked at the maid who called him in a surprised tone. Cris ran towards him. She was very confused. “W-Why are you here, Sir?” Cris asked. Cassius forged a cough as he shyly answered, “W-Where’s Harriet? I came here to meet her.” “Huh?” That’s weird. As far as Cris can remember, it was Cassius who texted Harriet to meet him in the Damsel park. But, here he is, looking for her. “This morning, I lost my phone. So, I was worried if Harriet was waiting for my text or call,” Cassius added. It was true that he lost his phone this morning, but he was only saying an excuse to see Harr
Harriet couldn’t sleep well that night. She rolled onto her bed, thinking how and when would Cassius propose to her. She was very excited. “You look like you’re in a good mood,” Astell noticed while eating breakfast with his daughter. Harriet smiled at him and said, “Yes. It is because I found something that I shouldn’t see. Now, I am excited.” Astell chuckled. Despite everything that happened lately, he was glad that his daughter is feeling alright. “What is your plan today?” Astell asked. “I am going to check the new project you are working on. You told me to learn more, so I am doing my best to follow your steps, father.” “Really? I don’t want to force you to take this path. If you want something to achieve, you can have it.” “No, father. Ever since I worked as Grandpa’s secretary, I knew that I love this job. Please, let me enjoy learning from your line of work.” At first, Astell doubted if Harriet would really like to continue his journey as the owner of Wyatt corporation
Harriet’s POV It’s been one month since that day. I would never forget the time I saw the truth in my own eyes. That moment when Zion was begging his father to come back. [“Poor child. I did my best. But I guess you are more qualified to teach him.”] Those were the murderer's last words before disappeared. All along, we suspected Sherly, Finn, Madell or Reese. In the end, we discovered that the murderer was neither of them, but residing in one of them. It was Finn’s personality, Victor. When Cassius and I arrived in the mansion to save the Chairman, we only saw Grandpa gasping for air on the floor while holding his neck, and Zion begging his father. It was quite a sight to remember; the sight where the future changed and no one died. The Chairman was taken to the hospital. Finn either, before the police took him and interrogated. When Grandpa regained his consciousness, he told us everything, from the fact that Victor killed Diana in order to protect the police. Until now, Gran
Sorren called Finn after meeting Elona. The prosecutor was still interrogating Madell, and Reese was on the run. Yet, Sorren does not want another day regretting not knowing the truth. More than the corporation’s reputation, Sorren prioritized saving his son from the nightmare and protecting the people around him. Thus, he sat in front of Finn, with Jasmine tea settled on the center table. No one took a sip as they talked in silent arguments with their eyes. Just like in the original future. “Why did you call me? I was very busy, father. Also, it is also weird for you to look for me when I know how much you hate me.” “Why did you do that, Finn?” Sorren asked. Finn stared at his father and tilted his head. “What do you mean?” Sorren gritted his teeth as he stared at his son. “Why did you kill Diana?” Finn’s eyes widened. He lowered his head and acted, “I don’t know what you are talking about. Diana left me a long time ago. She’s not dead!” “W-What?” Then with his head ha
A week ago, Zion met with the owner of Elona boutique. Sitting across Zion, Elona smiled. She stared at the young man who resembled his parents, the handsome Finn and the gorgeous Sherly. Then, with a grin on her lips, she said, “It seemed that everyone from that family came and visited my shop. The father, the mother and the daughter. And now, It’s you. It made me feel like I am already part of the family.” Zion observed Elona’s sneer before he mimicked her expression; the kind of beam that wouldn’t reach the eyes. “To be a real part of our family, meeting my father, mother and sister isn’t enough. There is one person you should meet,” Zion responded. “Do you mean you?” “Somehow. But there’s one more person. That’s the head of the house, my Grandpa, the Chairman of Fantell group.” Elona stopped for a moment before she chuckled. “Wait a minute. Is that a threat? Did you come here to threaten your father’s mistress?” “No. Even if you are his real mistress, I wouldn’t waste my