It was such a gloomy day for Isla. She doesn't know who to believe and trust anymore. A part of her doesn't want to doubt her husband since he's always giving her the best, but what if the Kairos is telling her the truth? That thought lingers on her mind for almost an hour now.How can a perfect husband and father like Nicholas lie to her?The door of a room where she's staying since they arrived about an hour ago in this isolated island creaked open.Isla frantically took a step back as she saw him with his eyes darkened into oblivion and clenched jaws.Kairos looks like he have this hatred against everyone and compare to Nicholas. Isla can't be blame if she'll choose to take Nicholas side over the Kairos."I cooked something downstairs. Aren't you hungry yet?" Kairos said in his gentle voice then he put his right hand on his pocket. The silent ate them up as Isla remained silent, gawking at him.Kairos smiled which made Isla blink as if she had just now come to her senses."I'm n
"Seriously though. You should tell me what it is. Unless you finally lost your mind hence you're laughing by yourself." Isla told the Kairos with an irritated voice. He release a set of new set of laughter at that."Its just that calderata is the first dish that you cooked for me back when we're still together and of course you can't remember that." He said. Isla nodded at what he had told her and then she started to eat quietly."Can you tell me things about her?" He asked out of the blue. Isla stopped eating her food as she suddenly felt a pinch of guilt and pity for Kairos.She is almost there. She is about to believe that Beryl is her daughter with Kairos and not with Nicholas and if that's the truth then she finds it heart breaking that Kairos knows nothing about her.She placed the cutlery on her plate and looked at Kairos."She likes to watch cartoons and anime, she's fond of eating Chinese cuisines.""We're the same." Kairos commented. Isla nodded at him and flashed a weak
Wearing a simple sweatpants and a black crew neck shirt. Kairos came to me and sat on the edge of the bed."You lost consciousness. I'll have a Doctor come here tomorrow." He said that I just nodded at because I am still thinking about the dream that I had before."Why did we break up? Is it true that you wanted to divorce me to marry Rory Spencer?" I asked him. He was silent and with a pleading look in his eyes he just looked at me. His eyes were telling me to stop asking and I don't understand why.He shook his head and sighed."I don't want to answer any of that right now, Isla. I'm afraid that you lost your consciousness earlier because you were forcing yourself to remember something." Kairos stood up and started walking away from me. I was quick to grab his hand and made him stop from leaving."I am fine. Please, just tell me. I want to know the truth. If Nicholas is lying at me all this time then I deserve a truth from you." I whispered to convince him. He shook his head o
"If you want I can go and swim with you. I'll help you build a sand castle too." Kairos quickly wore a forced smile as he offered himself to Beryl.If Kairos happens to have a proof that Beryl is his and not Nicholas. I'd be sorry for the way he is hurting right now as he hear his daughter yearns for someone else's fatherly affection."But I want to do it with Dad." She muttered. Beryl walked back inside of the room with slumped shoulders and then she find her way back to her bed. She even covered her body and face with the comforter to hide from us as she tries to prove her point."I'm feeling sleepy. You may leave me now." She said in whisper. I didn't bother talking to her anymore and stepped out of the room like she wanted."I-I'm sorry." I told him with a shaking voice. I don't know what else to say after those words, but one thing is for sure.He deserves a sorry, I guess.If I were in his position. Maybe my eyes would have been red from crying. Kairos forced a smile and playf
"Kairos!" He only smiled at me and shrugged his shoulders before leaning behind the closed door."I'll get dressed." I said that made him grin even more."Go ahead." He casually said. Annoyed, I just took my clothes that were on the bed and walked into the comfort room. "Come on! It's not like I haven't seen your body before." He said still teasing me even after I've closed the door."Baby, why would you be ashame to show me your body? I already know what it look like. It's etch in my head."I am not ashame to flaunt my body around you. I just don't want you to lust over my body with each chance that you get to have." I growled at him. Kairos eyes spark in mischief at my retort. I quickly felt nervous. He took a step towards me and I took a step backward like my instinct told me to do so."Yes, I was and still attracted to you. Yes, I longed for you. Is it my this my fault huh, Iris?" He asked me in a seductive voice. I looked away and gulped.Using his fingers. He guideded m
"What did he say?" Kairos asked curiously.He came closer to me and memories of us kissing came rushing back into my head. I suddenly became conscious of the distance between us."He did not say anything." I murmured and searched for his eyes only to find it staring directly at my neck.I grabbed the chain of the locket that I had around my neck."Where did you get that?" He asked. His voice is full of authority making me afraid of him. It was as if he would suddenly go feral any time from now if I gave him the wrong answer."It's mine." I stuttered as I showed it to him. His jaw clenched and the seriousness of his eyes was unparalleled.I opened the locket and smiled again when I saw a younger version of me that looks exactly like Beryl now."I saw it in my stuff. I assumed that it was mine since the picture in the locket is me. I asked him who gave it to me..." I paused talking for seconds and stared at him. His eyes remained emotionless as he continued giving me cold stares
"I'll just cook sinigang since that is way easier." I murmured and faked a smile. I avoided looking at him and went straight to the sink to prepare the ingredients. Even though I wasn't looking at him. I could feel all the looks that he was giving me."I can't take this anymore. I don't want to become just a mere stranger to my daughter. I want tell her the truth. She deserves to know the truth. I deserve her acknowledgment. I'm not that strong and numb, Isla. Beryl kept on looking for someone else while I am right here waiting for her. I can fake a smile and laugh anymore whenever she tells me a story about Nicholas and how perfect your family is. It fucking breaks me every single time." I turned off the tap and drew towards him."She is not yet ready for that, Kairos!""She will never be ready for this. We should stop giving her false hope that Nicholas will come around to pick you two up. That won't happen. Things will never be the same. Yes. He will come back, but damn it! I w
"I want that." He blurted out. I nodded to him and watched him drink the coffee before I decided to start preparing the ingredients that I would need for the soup.The silence between us stretched. He was just looking at me seriously the whole time. Watching my every move. Even if I want to look at him because I want to check up on him too. I can't for I am feeling shy and awkward around him.I stopped stirring the soup on the pot when I suddenly got a headache. I put both of my hands on top of the sink and closed my eyes while I tried to calm myself down."What are these..." I whispered to myself. The memories that I just got back in my head came in so fast. There were a lot of it that I can barely understand them all. It's like my memories were handed back to me all at the same time."Kairos my head freaking hurt!" I can feel my tears falling because of the inexplicable pain that is hammering me as I called for his help."Isla, what is happening?" I didn't move and instead
"Nicholas grab the bait." Said by an nbi agent from the radio that Kairos and Kio immediately heard. They turned to the window where they could see the car parked at the back of the hide out that Heidi had put a tracker with."Fuck!" Kairos cursed out loud after he saw Nicholas driving away from his hide out."Where's Heidi? Her phone? That's where we can see the location of the car that Nichola's driving.""Heidi's dead but I got her phone." Special Agent Montefiore mumbled to them. He immediately searched for Nicholas's location through Heidi's phone amf they are taking a familiar road that leads to a cliff."I know that place. We should head there now." He told the agent and Barrette nodded.Kairos walked out of the room first to instruct his men on their next plan and then he turned to Kio."Please take care of my daughters. I will leave them under your care. I need to save, Isla. I'd die if something bad happens to Isla.""Our men will take care of them, Kairos. I already in
"The infamous Isla Lancaster It's so nice to finally meet you." Odette is wearing a devilish smile as she walks towards me. She sat on the edge of the bed and looked at me quietly, which eventually ended with her laughing at me.She stood up and shook her head. Seeing me tied in bed like this tells me one thing. She is glad to see me suffering.She darted her eyes back at me with the same smile. Odette came closer again then she dug her sharp nails and traced my cheek with it and she end up caging my jaw on her fingers. I gritted my teeth and keep those groans of pain inside of my lips for I don't want to give her the satisfaction of seeing me hurting because of her.I tried to move my face away from her hand as my way to fight back but she didn't let go of me and instead she tightened her grip on my jaw and she started to laugh in a mocking manner."What the hell is so special about you huh? You're just a lowly stripper like me and yet you managed to win his heart when I couldn't
"I thought your investigator and the NBI agent is working on it? Why do you still not know where Nicholas took my Isla and daughters?" Kairos shouted at the men in front of him.Kairos closed his eyes when he felt pain in his wound from the gunshot that Nicholas.Kio took over. He confronted the agents that Laurant was talking to earlier. "We hope to hear another lead from you but for now it's better for all of you to leave us alone." Kio said. The agents nodded to him in agreement. Just in time with the agents leaving his hospital room. A doctor and Kairo's nurse walked in to check on his fresh wounds."We need to be left alone with the patient, Sir." The female nurse said to Kio. He glanced at his cousin one more time before he left the room as he was told.The female nurse quickly injected Kairoz with an enough dosage of anesthesia after she removed the bandage from his wound while the doctor started to clean it after she stepped away from Kairos.It also took them more tha
"Nicholas, stop it!" Heidi's voice was full of anger. She followed me while I carry the unconscious Isla to a bedroom. I didn't say a word to her and continued walking until I reached the room itself."This is not love. This is obsession. I'm not in favor of what you're doing anymore." I carefully laid Iris on the bed and turned to face Heidi. Her eyes scream too much disagreement with everything that she witnesses. I took a step closer to her and that made her step back. The trembling of her hand did not escape the corner of my eye while it was holding the hem of the bomber jacket that she was wearing."I don't care about you or anyone else. I only need her. I only want her.""Are you really going to ruin your life for a woman who doesn't love you?" She shouted to cut off what I was saying. I couldn't stop myself any longer and my palm hitted her face which made her quiet for a few seconds.It took her moments to redeem herself and when she did. Seething anger on her pools
I knocked twice on the door of Kairos's office on the first floor of the mansion. I caught him standing with his back facing the door. One of his hands was on his waist and the other was holding his phone. He gave me his weak smile and gestured for me to come near him. I held my breath and tried to smile before I walked closer to him."You didn't sleep last night." I said to him. He wrapped me in his arms possessively. One of his hands touches my waist. Kairos seated himself on the table top and me on the other hand remained standing.He shrugged his shoulders and put a few strands of my hair at the back of my ear. "I needed to fix things for your flight and the place you'll be staying at." He murmured. He rested his chin on my shoulder. I closed my eyes when his hot breath hit my neck that made the hair around my neck stand up.My hand started playing with the strands of his hair who are now longer than his usual hair cut."Do we really have to leave?" I asked in a low
"This is mine!" I quickly made my way to the first floor of the mansion when I heard Beryl's shrill and hysterical voice."I said I want that!" Raileigh argued back and tried to grab a magazine from Beryl's hand that my daughter is keeping away from her. I just held my breath and finally approached them both. Beryl came up to me then she gave Raileigh a death glare who was also looking at her with raised eyebrows."What are you two fighting about this time?" I asked in a low voice. Beryl pulled away from me a little and showed her a fashion magazine. I mentally shook my head because of it.Would you believe that? A seven years old kids are fighting over a fashion magazine?"She's trying to get this from me. This is mine. She didn't even mind asking if I could lend this to her, Mom. She just tried to grab it from my hand." Beryl told me what happened and then she hugged the magazine again and gave Raileigh her piercing glare. They are fighting over silly things, that's usu
"By next week we will have the results of the examinations that we did on Mrs. Spencer.""Lancaster. She is a Lancaster." Kairos interrupted the Doctor just to correct him. The Doctor then looked at him with an anxious smile and nodded."Mrs. Lancaster." He repeated. He stood up from his swivel chair to shake his hand, but Kairos decided to reject shaking hands with him.Did I seriously fall for this man before? He is a bit rude and snobbish. Even now. I am still falling for him and that made me question my taste when it comes to men."Next week? That's too long. Can't you make a way for us to get it by tomorrow?" I grabbed Kairos's arm to stop him from speaking. He bore his tired eyes at me that is filled with frustration. I pulled him to his back and luckily he didn't say anything anymore."Thank you, Doc. We'll come back next week." I said. I extended my hand to him to shake his hand, but Dr. Aleman chooses to smile at me and stare at Kairos instead whose giving him a fair
"Can you remove your tiara now?" I asked her after I've seen her wearing it even when she's brushing her teeth. Beryl looked at me for a moment then shook her head to decline my request.She finished brushing his teeth and then wiped her mouth with a towel that was just hanging on the side of the small sink of her own bathroom."I want to sleep wearing this." She murmured and gave me her sweet smile thinking that it'll help her to convince me.I narrowed my eyes on her. Beryl snorted then carefully removed the tiara from the top of her head. I followed her with my eyes as she walked towards the shelf where she got that tiara along with all the other jewelry and hair accesories.I seriously think that she's too young to have things like that."Mom." Beryl opened her sleepy eyes and watched me with a faint smile in her thin and pinkish lips."You love him more than you love Papa Nicholas right?" She suddenly asked. I stopped from stroking her hair. She caught my hand and checked o
"Years ago. I got into an accident baby. I was in a coma for months and when I woke up. I-I lost all my memories. I can't remember your Dad anymore and all that I have by my side that time is your Daddy Nicholas. He told me that we are married. I am sorry but your Daddy Nicholas lied to us." An unbreakable silence made its presence known. Beryl was just staring at me with her mouth half-open, probably shocked at the information that I just gave to her."Dad did that? But why would he lie like that?" He asked me in disbelief. Beryl stood up from sitting. Beads of tears pools around her eyes.She shook her head as her way of telling me that she does not want to believe me.I stood up and approached her. Beryl sobs broke the silence of the mansion. She grew up thinking that Nicholas is her own superhero, the perfect king then this happened. She finds out that her hero is a villain disguising himself as one.Beryl sobbed while she is hugging me so tight as if she's trying to hide her