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Chapter Forty Five: Bargaining, Third Stage of Grief
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The Dating App Disaster Chapter Forty Six: Bargaining, Third Stage of Grief II
Most professionals say that when we are coping with loss, it isn't unusual to feel so desperate that we are willing to do anything to alleviate or minimize the pain. Bargaining comes from a feeling of helplessness and gives us a perceived sense of control over something that feels so out of control. "They are really gone, huh?" Dionysus exclaimed after seeing the once lively and cozy atmosphere of the Lavigne household was now suddenly turned into an empty and gloomy surrounding.Sebastian and him were standing inside the living area of Zoey's former house for almost half an hour now. And, that was the only time Dionysus said something. Sebastian was starting to get worried again. "Are you alright, boss? Do you need some tissues?" Sebastian tried joking around, just to lighten up the mood but Dionysus didn't bother replying back to him. Sebastian cleared his throat and blew a deep breath on the side."Who was the buyer of this house again?" Dionysus asked after a few, deafening mome
Last Updated : 2022-09-14The Dating App Disaster Chapter Forty Seven: Depression, Fourth Stage of Grief
One way to counteract depression is to get involved not with someone else, but with something else. Sometimes, pursuing our passion is a way to bring us joy and hope again. Sebastian averted his gaze and sat on the edge of Dionysus' table. "You're really being an idiot lately, Dionysus. I believe everything happens for a reason. Do you think you and Zoey would meet in the first place if you're not the C.E.O. of this company? She would have applied for another company but she still ended up here. She could've ended up meeting another man through that dating app but still, you and her crossed paths again. And, what about that restaurant while you're having a blind date? See how lucky you are to finally meet your soulmate? But, you let her go, just like that. If you can't stay with her in your darkest times, you don't deserve to be with her, at all." Dionysus faced Sebastian with curious eyes. "Why do you sound like you're going to court her and anything and like you're going to steal
Last Updated : 2022-09-15The Dating App Disaster Chapter Forty Eight: Depression, Fourth Stage of Grief II
We all know that In this stage of grieving, we start to feel the loss of our loved one more abundantly. Our panic begins to subside, the emotional fog begins to clear, and the loss feels more present and unavoidable.A month later. . "That's it? That is the best you can come up with? That's your fucking fourth revision, Mr. Ismael? I don't pay all of you just to slack around!" Dionysus' thunderous voice echoed at the four corners of the grandiose meeting room of the Chevalier tower. Everyone in the marketing team flinched with so much fear and bowed their heads in unison, trembling and not even wanting to stare at Dionysus' menacing eyes. "What? Don't you have something to say?" "I'm so-sorry, Mr. Chevalier. We're. . we're going to revise it again." Ismael, the head of the marketing team, murmured in a small voice. "If you can just tell us exactly what we really need to revise and. ." "Are you bloody telling me to do your job for you instead? That is your fucking job, right? I can'
Last Updated : 2022-09-16The Dating App Disaster Chapter Forty Nine: Acceptance, Last Stage of Grief
The fifth and final stage of grief where we can finally be able to accept the reality of what happened. And, during this stage we finally tend to accept how this loss has changed our lives and we will eventually stop wishing for everything to go back to how it used to be, for the better. Three and a half months later. ."Will you stop pacing around, Zam? You're literally making my head spin." Zara complained in a loud voice, her arms crossed against her chest while looking up at her youngest sister walking back and forth in front of her."Ohh, right. Sorry, princess. I'm just fucking nervous. It's been ten minutes already and we still don't have any orders coming in online. No one is also coming to check out our first opening day." Zamantha groaned with so much disappointment laced in her eyes.Zoey only smiled at that, she was sitting on the counter of their newly opened boutique while sipping a hot cup of chocolate milk, with lots of marshmallows. Zoey looked above on the opposite
Last Updated : 2022-09-17The Dating App Disaster Chapter Fifty: Acceptance, Last Stage of Grief II
They say acceptance often occurs later in the grieving process, so it was considered the hardest stage of grief simply because it requires fully accepting that a loved one is really gone. It is not that we no longer feel the pain of loss. Instead, we are no longer resisting the reality of our situation, and we are not struggling to make it something different. More than a year later. . Sebastian rubbed his hands against each other but the coldness of the morning air still creeped inside his body. He was even wearing winter gloves but it can only warm him if his hands are inside his coat's pocket. Sebastian hissed when he suddenly noticed that he was so behind from following his boss. "Boss, wait for me!" Dionysus stopped walking just to wait for Sebastian. "Would you please walk faster? We still have a meeting before the actual meeting for the Californian investors. So, hurry up." "Why work so hard for the past months like a madman when you're already a fucking triollionaire? I
Last Updated : 2022-09-19The Dating App Disaster Chapter Fifty One: The Karma of Letting Someone Go
Whatever someone has done to us, is going to be attracted back to them at some point. We are not involved in this process anymore. It's a simple 'Law of Attraction'. Their bad deeds, their freaking lessons for life. "My treat, for today. Yey." Zoey came back with a tray full of food. There were two cups of coffee for Dionysus and Sebastian, a cup of mint tea for her and three slices of tiramisu cake for the three of them. "Your coffee, gentlemen. Just how I remembered them from before." Zoey muttered in a singsong voice while putting down the cups of coffee in front of Dionysus and Sebastian.Zoey feels so proud of herself to finally be able to treat Dionysus and Sebastian with her own money. After all, she doesn't really have any friends. The two gentlemen in front of her were the nearest to that category for her. "Your treat because you're successful now?" Sebastian teased as he helped Zoey to serve the cakes this time around. Zoey laughed before sitting down again. "That and bec
Last Updated : 2022-09-20The Dating App Disaster Chapter Fifty Two: A Mafia Boss, Back on Track
Courting a girl 101 guide: Drive her around. "See, boss? Zoey is safe and sound." Sebastian uttered as soon as he sat beside Dionysus on the couch, placed on the farthest corner of that hotel's waiting lounge. "Hang on. This is one of your five star hotels, right?" Dionysus sighed and blew a deep breath while watching how Zoey laughed and conversed with a lady near her age, in a table a few feet away from them. "She had laughed so much when she was with us a while ago, yet she can still laugh like that with other people. She's an introvert like me, remember?" Sebastian shook his head. "That's got nothing to do with her being an introvert, boss. Zoey can laugh as much as she can because she's happy." Sebastian's phone chimed again, but this time, it was one of the department heads who was tasked to supervise their meeting for that day. "Dio, I think we should really be going now." "Cancel it." Sebastian was too stunned and had to ask his boss again. "I said, cancel the meeting." "
Last Updated : 2022-09-21The Dating App Disaster Chapter Fifty Three: A Mafia Lord's Way of Courting
Courting a girl 101 guide number two: Steal her mother's heart. Zoey bit her lower lip after she slid herself onto the passenger's seat. It was even Dionysus who closed the door beside Zoey. Zoey started fidgeting as she watched Dionysus walk back to the other side.Her husband looked so drop dead gorgeous in all regards. Everything about Dionysus was hollering absolute danger for her already healed heart. Sure, she managed to drag herself out of the quicksand that she fell into right after Dionysus parted ways with her.She managed to cure herself all the way because of her family and her faith in God. But, that doesn't mean she had absolutely made herself be immune to her husband's charms. Even the way Dionysus' eyelashes flutter with his every blink was enough to make Zoey swoon internally.Pinching and playing with the hem of her dress, Zoey slapped her cheek. "Woah, Zoey. What's wrong?" Sebastian immediately asked after witnessing what Zoey just did. Zoey stared at Sebastian th
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All's well that ends well. A knock on the door made Zoey and Dionysus move away from embracing each other. Dionysus wiped Zoey's cheeks gently and smiled. "I love you." Zoey beamed widely. "I love you, too." Zoey hit her husband's shoulders. "But, I hate you, too." Dionysus' forehead creased. "Why, baby? Did I do something wrong?" Shawn and Sebastian materialized beside Dionysus. "I have the results of her tests, Dionysus. And, I want to. ." Dionysus held his hand up in the air to stop Dr. Sprouse for the time being. "What is it, baby? Come on. Tell me." Zoey frowned and looked at the two gentlemen standing on the side. "I. . I forgot, Dio. Just don't mind me." Dionysus smirked. "Then, no one's moving and going away until you tell me why the bloody hell you hate me?" Dr. Sprouse looked down at his wristwatch. "I don't think I can play along with your lover's quarrel, Dionysus. I have surgery to perform fifteen minutes from now." "Did you hear that, baby? So, come on. Tel
The Dating App Disaster Chapter Eighty Three: When She Finally Remembered
Against all odds and against all obstacles, when two people are meant to be together, they will unequivocally make it to the end. "Mr. Chevalier. Should I order something for dinner?" Zoey asked because it was already past seven in the evening and they were still at the office, working. It has been over a week ever since Zoey had known the truth, that she was indeed Dionysus Zephyr Chevalier's wife. But, she hasn't confronted nor asked anyone about it.She wanted to recollect all of her memories first before anything else. So far, some memories had resurfaced to her like the one from the elevators but not all of it. Zoey wanted to remember everything, detail by detail. So, Zoey continued pretending for a whole week that she still doesn't know what her real relationship with her boss is. So, does Dionysus. Her boss continued treating her as a mere secretary as well."Ohh, damn. I didn't realize it was so late already. I have so much work to do." Dionysus closed his eyes, massaged his
The Dating App Disaster Chapter Eighty Two: A Wife Being Jealous of Herself
There are three things that cannot be hidden for so long. The sun, the moon and the truth. Zoey kept glancing back at Dionysus. She had been sitting on her new desk but her new boss won't give her anything to do. It was her first day so she expected some things to be a little hectic.Dionysus could utterly feel his wife's lingering gaze over him. But, he tried to ignore it all because he might do something shocking to Zoey. He had missed Zoey so much and all he fancied to do right now was to hug her, snuggle close to her body and shower her kisses.Yet, he can't do all those things because Zoey might have another panic attack. And, that was the last thing he wanted to happen. Dionysus was just pretending to type something on his laptops because he didn't really program himself to work on that particular Saturday."Mr. Chevalier?" Dionysus felt his heartbeat had gone much louder inside his chest after hearing Zoey's soft voice. He didn't realize that his wife was already standing in f
The Dating App Disaster Chapter Eighty One: Becoming the Boss' Secretary Again
And, at the end, she still found her way back to him. "Breaking news: Cronus Chevalier and Gaia Chevalier were found kneeling in front of the New York Police Department early this morning. The Chevalier couple whose chain of businesses went bankrupt more than a year ago confessed to a horrendous crime involving the murder of one of the richest tycoon in New York, Hermes Chevalier. Cronus and Gaia Chevalier told the police that it was them who ordered someone to kill the old Chevalier and frame their own son for their own crimes. Several evidences about their confession to the murder were also sent to all the computers of every police of the N.Y.P.D. When asked about who was the assassin they had ordered to kill Hermes Chevalier, the couple only said that they had already killed him."Dionysus was watching the news in the comfort of his own bed, still wanting to sleep some more but the news had him all awakened. Sebastian and his men had already done their job. Flashback, more than t
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We all know that God's plan is always the best even though sometimes, the whole process was very painful and hard to endure. A painful tear fell from Dionysus' eyes. He tried moving an inch towards Zoey but Zoey's screams intensified more. "No! No! Don't come near me! No!" Dionysus' voice broke. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that Zoey would look at him the very same way she was looking at him at that jiffy. "Baby. . it's me. Please. I missed you so much." "No! No! Mommy! He's going to hurt me!" Zoey was uncontrollable."Why won't I hurt you, Zoey? I'm your husband. I love you so much." "Argh!" Zoey screamed at the top of her lungs, Zara and Zamantha were too shocked to react on the corner. Mrs. Zenaida Lavigne cannot even hold her own daughter in place anymore. Zoey kept trashing the pillows behind her and even throwing one to Dionysus' direction. Dionysus looked so hurt even though the pillow thrown was just soft and actually weighs nothing. "Go away!" Zamantha star
The Dating App Disaster Chapter Seventy Nine: The Forgotten Husband
Our brain is the body's most complex organ. Because even if we do own it, it still has the absolute power to control what will happen next in our lives. Dionysus and some of Apollo's men had helped each other to uplift the stretcher containing the unconscious body of Zoey into the humongous military helicopter. Afterwards, Apollo faced Zamantha and Mrs. Zenaida Lavigne. "You can both come with us here. The helicopter is large enough for all of us." Zamantha and Mrs. Zenaida Lavigne nodded without hesitation even though both of them weren't actually sure who the bloody hell was Apollo. No one was still introducing him to them. Apollo even offered his hands to Zamantha and Mrs. Zenaida Lavigne to help them climb the stairs of the military helicopter.Afterwards, Apollo turned to Dionysus and smirked at him. "You owe me for this one, little brother." "Then, Zoey has to live first." Dionysus clenched his jaw and climbed the helicopter next. While Apollo hopped inside the seat beside th
The Dating App Disaster Chapter Seventy Eight: The Climactic Accident
They say that everything happens for a reason. Because without these small tests, we won't be much stronger than ever before. Something was wrong that bright morning, Zoey thought. She was back in Illinois after spending the whole day with Dionysus yesterday. They had so much fun exploring islands after islands that were surprisingly owned by her husband himself. Before the night came, her mother called and told her to come home already.And, now that she was back, she was slightly expecting some kind of surprise from her little sister, Zamantha, and from her mother, who always does that for that particular day of the year, her birthday. "Hera?" Even her little puppy wasn't sleeping beside her on the bed.Zoey looked around and thought that Zamantha might have come inside her room while she was sleeping to get Hera and make her baby girl play with Azlan. With that thought, Zoey jumped down from the bed and decided to get ready for the day. "Who knows? Mom and Zam must be waiting for
The Dating App Disaster Chapter Seventy Seven: Someone Sent by God Above
When two people are meant for each other, no time is too long, no distance is too far and nothing can keep them apart.One blink, and Zoey was back to present time. She was no longer inside her own bubble of her flashback dated twenty three years ago. She found herself still imprisoned inside Dionysus' arms. She couldn't believe it. She looked at Dionysus with her wide, shocked eyes. "Hey. Do you remember it now, baby?" "How. ." Was all Zoey could utter back. She couldn't grasp the reality that something like that happened to her back then. How on earth did she forget about it? "Remember when I told you that the first time we met again after all these years, when you bumped into me that day on your final interview for my secretarial position? I instantly recognized you back then. That's why I told you I immediately knew right there and then that you were the one for me. Because I had wished to see you again. I wished so hard, baby. I didn't marry anyone because I was waiting for you
The Dating App Disaster Chapter Seventy Six: Really Destined For Each Other
We don’t get over or move on from our trauma. We are forced to make space for it. We carry it. We learn to live with it. And, sometimes, we thrive in spite of it."She shamelessly did that in front of me and the little girl, without thinking of the consequences. I felt like the whole world stopped at that moment. I was fucking traumatized. If I was feeling that way, how much more for the little girl?" Zoey moved away from her husband to see his face. Zoey saw the undeniable misery radiating through Dionysus' eyes. It was like what he was telling her was long buried deep down his heart, wanting for so long to be heard by someone, so it can be finally free from him. Dionysus painfully closed his eyes, not desiring for Zoey to see the lurking darkness in his eyes. It could also literally ruin Zoey's bright and positive outlook in life. In the end, Dionysus doesn't want that to happen. But, Zoey cupped his face and made him look at her, determined for him to continue. "Go on, Dio. You c
