"This will only be effective if you take these pills daily at the same time, but you have to take note that taking a birth control pill will only lower the chance of getting pregnant and it doesn't mean that you won't be pregnant anymore, Mrs. Lancaser," said by my OB after she handed me a bottle of birth control pills that suites me the best. "Is your husband outside? It would be better if I could talk to him too. I have a thing or two that I need to tell him." I immediately shake my head to tell her that Kairos isn't with me. I needed to leave him behind in the villa where we stayed the night because something urgent in the company came up and I guess they needed him to decide about something. Though the OB no longer looks surprised, she seems disappointed and yet that look on her face didn't last that long. "If there is something that he needs to know too. I could be the one relying on the message to him," I said and she instantly nodded her head, but instead of saying anything d
"We are going home, Isla. Get inside of the car now," he said to me. His eyes didn't even budge to look at Nika who was trying to talk to him. She is the least of his concern and it feels like I am the one that matters to him the most. I glanced at Nika who was swallowing a lump in her throat. She chose to remain silent thinking that she wouldn't be able to take it if Kairos burst out of anger at her.With just the use of my eyes and without saying a thing. I told her that I needed to go now and she only nodded her head, telling me that she understood. Kairos shared his umbrella with me, and if we were okay and he was not mad at me. He'd be all over me now but he was distancing himself from me as if I had some sort of communicable disease that he didn't want to get from me. I sighed deeply and tried to move closer to him but he was quick to make sure that our skin wouldn't even touch. Kairos walks me to my side and even opens the door of the shotgun seat. He waited for me to get in an
"Your husband got in a vehicular accident," hearing that, it felt like my whole world shattered. If something bad happens to Kairos, it going to be my fault and his whole family will blame me for it. "Hand the damn phone to me. I need to talk to my wife. You are scaring her by not telling her immediately that I am fine," I heard a familiar voice scolding the one that I was originally talking to on the other line. I heard another noise that I couldn't quite understand except for the fact that they were trying to make him sit still and Kairos wasn't listening to them. He was arguing, wanting to talk to me on the phone. A few seconds later I finally heard his voice from the other line. "Baby, I need you to calm down. I am fine." Instead of calming down. I panicked more after I heard those words from him. I know that man, he'd tell a lie if it meant I'd be at ease. His could be severed at the moment and he'd still fight with the emergency team so he could have the phone and talk to me.
Nika groaned at me. I stopped after I heard her tap the space next to her, asking me to sit down next to her, but I couldn't. How can I sit back and relax when it's been two hours since the last time Kairos called me, that was before he got admitted to the hospital. What if he suffered some internal injury and he needs to stay longer in the hospital? He had a slip of the tongue. He didn't mean it but he told me by accident that he hit his head. What if he has an internal bleeding? I shouldn't have let him convince me to stay here and wait for him to come home. "Isla Therese Sloane," Nika murmured my full name. I wanted to ask her how she ended up knowing my full name, but it is the least of my concerns. The bag of chips and salsa that she is entertaining herself with is now downed on the center table and she just got up from the couch and is currently making her way towards me. "Will you please stop pacing like a ghost? If you are so worried about him. Why don't we go see him? I'd r
Nika pulled over in front of the hospital's parking lot and then the two of us sat in complete silence for a few seconds after she turned off the music that was playing on her car. I glanced at her, her eyes were glued straight in front even when she could feel that I was staring in her direction. She kept staring at the windshield ignoring me. I unbuckled my seatbelt and my bag was already hanging at my shoulder all that I needed to do now was open the door to my side and get out of the car, but I couldn't do it. I couldn't move away from her after she revealed the truth.Holding the door, I only need to open it and even if I am already pushing myself to do it, I can't. It feels like I need to comfort her because for the first time, she showed me her vulnerable side and I feel like she isn't the type of person who always does this thing.I must have earned her trust and she is probably telling me the truth when she told me that I am now her best friend for her to be so comfortable t
"Baby?" I wasn't sleeping so heavily so when I felt Kairos move and then he started to whisper things in my ears. I am already up but I pretend as if I am still sleeping just because I don't feel like opening my eyes for him yet.He leaned closer and kissed the side of my head, but that wasn't enough to make me open my eyes, we both knew that I was already awake. "When are you getting discharged? Nika told me to text her if we were about to leave the hospital so she could go and pick us up," I told him when I finally opened my eyes. I planned to immediately sit up, but Kairos wrapped his leg around my body, seizing my incoming moves. "Let's not bother her anymore. She is in Bali to have fun. How about we just call Dino to pick us up?" Hearing Mang Dino's name is all that I need to hear for me to find the strength to push Kairos away from me."Speaking of Mang Dino... are you going to apologize to him? You have to," I said to him. Kairos nodded his head. He reached for me and tried to
"I already knew about it, Nika. Long before you do and our father knows about it too as well as the father that you grew up with." Hearing that caught me and Nika off-guard. My head started to spin with all these secrets that they were dropping on me the way the Americans dropped those bombs in Hiroshima. Nika told me last night that the father she grew up with doesn't know that she is Kairos' father-daughter as well and now Kairos is telling us that all along they knew. They knew and yet her mother's husband didn't say a thing. "What do you mean my Papa knew? He won't. If he knows then it means he will hate me forever, but he doesn't. He loves me as if I am his real daughter because he thinks that I am!" She said, trying to control the cracking of her voice. There was no trace of extreme changes in Kairos expression. He was just standing there, watching his half-sister figure out things on her own, and then soon she was going to believe her. "Is this why up until now our family do
Rory rolled her eyes as soon as she heard a rattling at the doorknob. It only meant one thing. Someone is trying to unlock the door of the room where she is held captive. She glanced at the small window that barely fit her head. The sun was shining so bright outside. The rattling of the doorknob and the sound of keys as well as the full-on brightness that can be seen through the small window on the wall only meant one thing. It's lunchtime and whoever it is that is trying to open the door is here to deliver her food placed on a plastic tray. Her eyes waited for a familiar but to her disappointment. Only Kairos's right-hand man showed up. It wasn't a tray of food that he had in his hand but a newspaper and that made her eyebrows shoot up.Their stomach growled because she didn't even taste the food that was served to her right now as a form of protest. Rory had made up her mind that she would eat her meal today, but much to her horror, there was none. "Where is my food? I am starving