AUTHOR’S POV.He stirred in his sleep and then stuttered his eyes open before he dropped his hand on the woman lying on the bed beside him—only that she was not there.Liam opened his eyes fully and looked around the room and when he did not see the woman anywhere around, he sat upright and breathed out.Maybe she was in the bathroom.He assumed.He looked around the messy room and when his eyes caught only his clothes on the floor, he got out of the bed and walked to the bathroom.He pushed it open and walked to the balcony of the hotel room to see if she was there.“Where did she go?” He asked himself as he walked back to the bedside. He was about to pick up his phone when his eyes met with the small paper in the drawer and he picked it up.However, Liam’s brows pulled together in disbelief as he read the short letter Hilda had dropped for him.“I enjoyed myself. Thanks.”“What is this?” He groaned as he tightened the paper in his hand and then threw it on the floor before he picke
AUTHOR’S POV.“Jesus, this is so embarrassing. Why are you treating me like a baby?” Sapphire groaned as she buried her face in Daniel’s neck.She had just been discharged and her husband had carried her in a bridal style from the ward till they got outside the hospital.People were watching and it seemed like she was the only person who was feeling embarrassed.Daniel did not even seem fazed by that!“Why is it embarrassing? I am simply saving my wife from stress,” he whispered in her ear.“Did I tell you I can not walk?” She asked right back.“I just want to do this, okay? Just enjoy the moment,” he said, stopped walking, looked into her eyes, and then kissed her cheek slightly before he resumed walking.“You have been acting weird since yesterday,” Sapphire smacked her tongue and Daniel burst into laughter as he stopped by the car.“Because I pecked you?”“You kissed me in front of everyone yesterday too,” she hissed.“You are my wife. I can do that,” he said as he lowered her gent
AUTHOR’S POV.“Here, you're going to love this.”Sapphire grinned as Mogan dropped the tray of hot soup in front of her.“You prepared it?” She asked as she picked up the spoon.“Of course. That’s why I am here, and I will keep preparing your meals as long as I am here. Now, try it,” she patted her and Sapphire smiled.She scooped the soup into the spoon, blew it gently, and then sipped it.She broadened her eyes, dropped the spoon, and covered her mouth with the back of her hand.“Why? You don’t like it?”“It is so delicious!” She exclaimed and Mogan clasped her hands together in excitement.“Have more,” Mogan said.As Sapphire drank the soup, she sniffed as tears threatened to fall from her face. She kept her head buried so that Mogan would not notice as it kept getting uncontrollable.“What’s wrong? Your stomach still hurts?” Mogan asked as she patted Sapphire’s back.“No…” she exhaled as the tears finally fell off her face.“It’s just that… the soup…” she raised her head as the te
AUTHOR’S POV.“It was very easy getting here! Who knows that your husband’s house is located clearly on the GPS!” Hilda squealed as she entered the room with Sapphire.“By the way, this place is so nice. I’ve only heard about this place. I’m entering for the first time.”“Hey, what’s up between you and Liam? Why did you look at each other that way?” Sapphire asked.When Hilda arrived, Daniel had called her to tell her and she had gone outside to meet her. There, she was as the two of them only stared at each other.“W…what are you saying?” Hilda asked as she settled on the couch in the room.“Hey… don’t tell me you’re still not talking over what happened at your first encounter?” Hilda pressed her lips together and looked away from her friend.“Woah, your room is so nice!” She grinned.“You’re not going to answer me?”Hilda was not interested in talking to Sapphire about what actually occurred between the two of them.Sapphire was the opposite of her and she would not appreciate tha
SAPPHIRE’S POV.“Is something going on between those two?” I asked Daniel as we entered the room and he shook his head.I am sure he was fed up with my questions already. I kept asking him till we got inside and he was not replying to me.“You are so nosey,” he shook his head as he unbuttoned his shirt.“Come on, Liam is your friend, so I am sure you are aware of what is going on.”“Is Hilda not your friend too?” He asked halfway, undoing his button.I shook my head and settled on the edge of the bed, “You are too uptight.”“Because I am refusing to gossip with you?” He laughed.“I mean, that is so boring, for real!” I hissed.“You are funny.”I dropped my eyes on his now bare chest and breathed out heavily. I hurriedly smacked my tongue and looked away from him.“By the way… you have not told me what happened to me. What did the doctor say?” I asked.“It’s nothing serious.”I frowned at his short response and turned to look at him again.This time, he was avoiding my gaze and I stood
SAPPHIRE’S POV.Breathlessly, I unwrapped my arms around Daniel’s waist and dropped them on his chest to tap him.We’ve been kissing for as long as I could remember and he did not take a second of space to catch his breath.Slowly, and unwillingly, he broke the kiss, while he panted heavily and then bored his eyes into mine. “Sapphire,” he whispered my name as I felt the rising and falling of our chest.“Daniel, I…”“Shhh,” he cut me short and moved back gently.“You don’t need to give me a reply now. I know you don’t feel the same way for me and I understand,” he said and I shook my head.Was he kidding me?I feel the same way, of course!How could he think it was vice versa?I felt like heaven was going to fall due to the excitement I was feeling.All this while, I had assumed that it was only me who felt that way for him and I thought it was wrong and illegal to feel so.Hearing his confession… him pouring his heart to me and through the kiss, I felt too much happiness in my heart
SAPPHIRE’S POV.These past two weeks have made me lazy and so happy that I wish that those days would never vanish.Mogan had to be the best sister-in-law that anyone could ask for.Apart from cooking for me and ensuring that I eat almost every hour daily, Mogan made sure that I did not go back to work no matter how much I protested.She claimed that I was not okay yet and Daniel backed her up too. Of course, I enjoyed her babysitting me, but it also came with her not letting me do anything in the house.As I applied the nude lipstick on my mouth, I glanced at Daniel who sat on the bed, staring at me, through the mirror, and then raised my brows.“Are you sure you want to do this?” He finally breathed out.I pressed my lips together in order to make the lipstick sit well on my lips before I turned around to look at him, “You know I have to.”“No, you don’t need to.”I shook my head and stood from the chair. No matter how much he had tried to stop me from visiting them, it was not work
SAPPHIRE’S POV.“I hope everything mum and dad told me is not true. You would not steal what belongs to me, right?” Emerald asked me as she covered the space between us.“Steal what belongs to you?” I tilted my head.That was what they told her? That I stole Daniel?Of course, my father would not want to admit that he had forced me to marry the man and now that he no longer has any say over it, he wanted to dump the blame on me.After all, Emerald was that favorite daughter he would not want to offend.“Logan is mine!” She snapped.I ran my hand through my hair and moved back gently then burst into laughter.“Hold on, he told you that I stole him?” I asked amidst laughter.My eyes dropped on my father who shook his head to me, stylishly pleading to me to go with the flow.What?Damn me if I do!“Just because I was in an accident. You went ahead to him and pretended to be me?! How dare you?!” She hollered.“Did your daddy not tell you that he was the brain behind it?” I raised a brow.
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“Spending a whole three months in France made me assume that you and Daniel will not return here again,” Hilda snorted as she settled on the chair beside Sapphire who had her eyes glued on the big screen in the in house Cinema. “We had to return. I’m near my due date and we don’t want to deliver our baby there,” Sapphire smiled as she dropped her hand on her friend’s hand. “You really spent three months there! I thought it was just going to be a week or two vacation!” Hilda hollered. “Trust me when I say that I don’t even wanna return. It’s really fun there. Plus, we were not there all through the three months, we traveled to Rome, Amsterdam, and so on.” “Tsk, no wonder you don’t always pick up my calls.” “You nag too much, Hilda. At least you came to see us in France with Liam about two months ago.” “So? That is enough. You don’t miss me at all?!” “No, no, I’m not saying that. Of course, I miss you a lot,” Sapphire shook her head. “Oh, Pookie… come here,” Hilda leaned closer t
FINALE.~~~DANIEL~~~I settled on the bed beside my sleeping wife and then dropped my hand on her stomach.“Amore, time to get up.”I stared at her sleeping, innocent face and then shook my head. Since we returned from Mogan’s party around eleven PM last night, till now, 10:56 AM, she had been sleeping.I proceeded to move the hair from her face and caressed her cheeks.“Amore.”When she did not answer nor stir in her sleep, I shook my head and then smacked my tongue.I do not like waking this woman. It usually takes a while before she answers.I raised my head as the maid walked out of the closet and I raised my brows, “Are you done?” I asked as I glanced at the bag in her hand.“Yes, sir.”“Take it to the car,” I said and she nodded her head, bowed, and then walked away.Today was the day I was going to show her the surprise that I have for her and I can’t wait for her to see it and be happy.I kept shaking her gently till she finally stirred in her sleep and then I exhaled. “Good mo
AUTHOR’S POV.“Babe, come help me with my shoe,” Sapphire said after she finished adjusting her dress.“I’m coming!” Daniel said from the closet.She settled on the edge of the bed and then sluggishly picked up the shoes from the ground.This evening, she was feeling heavier and lazier than usual. She just wanted to stay in bed and sleep, but it was Mogan’s party, and they gotta be there too.She panted as she felt beads of sweat gathering on her forehead and she wiped it off.She turned to look in the direction of the closet again and then Daniel did not come out still, she exhaled and shook her head.This was something she could do herself. However, she could not as she was tired and pregnant!She needed him to come help her, but he was not leaving the closet.“Babe,” she swallowed hard.When Daniel did not answer, She tried to wear the shoe herself but her stomach was making it hard for her so she just gave up again.“Daniel!” She snapped.“Amore, I’m coming,” Daniel came out of th
AUTHOR’S POV.For about a minute, the room was quiet as everyone kept mute.They definitely did not see that coming.Alice was the first to find out about Ethan and Mogan. She just knew something was up when Ethan had stopped calling and coming by to tell her to beg the woman.At first, she thought that Ethan was giving up on Mogan, but then again, she knew that was not the case.He had been waiting for her for several years to give up that way.So, she dug into it after sharing her thoughts with Daniel.As usual, Daniel and her husband just told her to mind her business and leave the two alone but she didn’t agree.When she found out the truth, it was when the two had rented out the whole restaurant just to have a date and immediately, she called Daniel and then Thomas.The three agreed to keep it within them and not say anything as it might be as if they were invading their privacy.Alice, at first, didn't agree with that. She literally wanted to go in at that moment and be like, “B
AUTHOR’S POV.Sapphire carried the funerary urn tightly in her arm as she stared at the sea with Daniel beside her, and then Liam, Hilda, and Carlo behind them.She closed her eyes as she muttered words on the funerary urn and then sniffed gently.Her mother had specifically told her that whenever she died, she wanted to be cremated and then that her ashes be poured into the sea.Sapphire had tried to persuade her mother not to do that as it was better for her to be buried, but Charlotte declined. “LETTING GO.”Charlotte had said. She said it was the best for her and Sapphire.The cremation process had taken two hours and afterward, Daniel had driven them to the sea that used to be her mother’s favorite“Amore,” Daniel patted her shoulder gently, gesturing to her that it was time to let go of her mother.After a while of clutching it closer to herself, Daniel watched as Sapphire began to sprinkle the ashes in the water while she muttered words and smiled.“Till we meet… to part no mo
AUTHOR’S POV.Daniel clicked on the button on the laptop, leaned back, and then raised his head as Liam moved over to him.“What’s that?”“Let’s watch,” he smiled.When Daniel had told Liam about his experience with Baldwin, the man had felt very bad and sad for his friend.Instead of getting mad at him for keeping it to himself all that while, he instead pulled him into a hug and muttered words of encouragement to him.As Daniel and Liam heard the scream that came from the laptop, they glued their eyes to the screen.Baldwin was hung up in the air while his feet were dangling around. He was stripped naked and looked around in fear.“Holy Moly!” Liam exclaimed as he watched the video in front of him and then glanced at his friend who had no expression on his face.It definitely was his idea.“What are they doing?” Liam asked as his eyes met with the firewood on the floor centered on where Baldwin was dangling from.“Showing him what hell feels like,” he raised the corner of his lips i
AUTHOR’S POV. Charlotte sat patiently behind the counter as she waited for the man to appear and after what seemed like an eternity, he walked towards her with two cell guards behind him. “See who is here,” he snorted as he settled on the chair and then tapped the glass which divided them. Charlotte stared at George and then nodded her head, she watched as the guards left them alone and then leaned her back against the chair. “You must have missed me, no?” George laughed. “You left without telling anyone. Should I be happy about your presence? You don’t think I am going to accept you, do you?” He raised his brows. “You… you look so good in that jail uniform,” Charlotte commented and then chuckled. “What?” George frowned. “That uniform. I said it looks so good on you,” she smiled again. “Hey!” “I heard you’re sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, with four years probation afterward.” “So? Do you pity me?” “Pity you? Come on, no way. I don’t even mind if you’re sentenced to
AUTHOR’S POV.“How could you say you don’t want to meet him?” Sapphire pulled her brows together.“You might not know… no, it is something that you know very well. I am not like you. I’m not going to seek validation from another man just because MY DAD, George, is in prison. Never. He treated you wrong… not me. Get your facts right, while growing up, I was loved by him. He hated you so it is understandable if you choose to accept another man. As for me, I am not interested in that shit. All I need is to get away from this fucking country and away from you all. I hate you very much and staying in this country with you all is messing with my head and I might want to do something bad again… you know I always do,” she breathed out and swept her hair to the back.“Have fun with your new father… but I don’t care. Just give me money, and I will leave. I know you want that more than anyone else.”Sapphire smacked her tongue and exhaled. Of course, she wanted it. She took a glance at Carlo who