"You will never be a good father!"Sen. Meyer could still hear Arabella's words inside his car. He was agitated that is why he ran off. Resting his body in the backseat of the car, his dark eyes looked at the outside of the window. Then after a while, he dialed someone's number. "Oh, Hanna... Darling, where are you going to move to my place?" The Senator's voice became sweet and mellow. It was way too opposite from his normal voice."I'm... I'm not sure." The person in the other line answered. "But..." Sen. Meyer strongly reacted but when he realized his voice became garish he quickly changed it back to a sweet gentle tone. "But... Darling... you promised me that you are going to live in my house." The Senator was obviously trying his best to control his temper. "I didn't promise you. I said I will think about it because you said you will also accept my brother but you set him up instead!" Suddenly, an outburst of the other person in the other line was heard. Judging from her broke
Hearing the man calling them beggars, the very young Hanna felt hate. At that very moment, she understood the cruel world. Her father hated them. He hated her. He didn't want her. With that, she understood completely. That day, she swore to omit him in her life. She didn't want him to be her father. For her, his identity was already buried in the ground.After that terrible event, they went back to the slum. They continued their life without her father. She knew her mom did everything just to give them food on the table but some days she was unlucky. With her sickness, she was always in bed healing herself because they could not afford to go to the hospital. When she felt better, she worked as a janitor in a restaurant then she secretly kept the wasted food and bring them to her and her brother. Sometimes, Marga sells vegetables in the market sharing a small space with their neighbor in one kiosk until the kiosk was burnt down. Her mother Marga was very devastated when she went home.
She just wanted to let her dad's words pass but it irked her so much that she could not control it. After she saved him, he was still Trishia's supporter, protector, and the greatest father anyone wanted to have but not her. She felt the man was no longer her father. He was only the father of Trishia now and she was like abandoned miserably. She felt bullied by her own father. Her heart could not take it anymore. It was like bleeding tremendously and was sliced deeply by the sharpest blade. Arabella didn't want to shed tears but her stubborn tears skipped from the corners of her eyes. For a while, she let it fall to the ground. With her head low, she saw the ground quickly covered by her tears. She clenched her fists trying to control her surging animosity. "Huh! Thanks for that. You made me realize that I don't matter to you at all and you made me realize that I had enough sacrifices for you." She chuckled bitterly like she felt stupid for doing it and the return was not in her f
"Ginger? Ginger Heather, is that you?" Rosy's voice was heard outside too."Rosy? No way! Rosy Byre?" The girl sounded shocked and excited outside the restroom. "No way! How are you? It's been a while." Rosy's friendly tone was heard along with a chuckle likewise, the girl named Ginger also laughed with Rosy."It's nice to see you here. Come on! How are you? Let's catch up, let's go!" Rosy seemed to know Bill Sky and Arabella were inside the restroom. Eric called her earlier and she was about to follow Arabella into the restroom but she saw Ginger who happened to be her business doctorate classmate abroad before.Rosy saw Ginger knock on the lady's room and she was calling Bill Sky's name. Who even locked a lady's room? With that, Rosy already knew something was happening inside the room. Coincidently, she knew Bill's girlfriend tonight. "Mr. Sky, your girlfriend is outside. Please go now. A true gentleman should not keep his woman waiting for a long time." Arabella commented pushin
"Eric, who is she?" Rosy was the second demotion. Everyone's eyes landed on the girl beside Eric wondering about her identity. Earlier, Eric Grant arrived at the restaurant under his reservation. Tonight, he decided to end up his affection for the masked girl. He wanted to have a formal apology for his bad behavior. Buying her with an empty check and trapping her inside the bar was just too absurd. He didn't even know he could do such dirty tricks until she came into his life unexpectedly. She came and pissed off his lonely life. For an unknown reason, he liked her existence. She made him enraged but at the same time, she made him want to see her more. His focus was on his anger for her that he forgot about Arabella and Bill Sky. He completely forgot his wife. It made Eric very guilty realizing what he became recently. "You're here." The woman's soft voice came out cold mixing the air.Eric looked at the stunning lady who was wearing a silky white long dress perfectly matching her w
Eric shoved onto the sofa hating himself for being so cruel. He still couldn't believe what he did with Hanna and Arabella. He was now with Arabella who was now sitting at his side but his mind was occupied with Hanna. He didn't like Hanna's exit tonight. He got the feeling that he offended her incredibly much. Even though they would not see each other again, Eric just hoped that Hanna would not despise him. He should have told Hanna about Arabella beforehand to avoid hurting her but it was too late. It was just too late."Who is that girl brother?" When Eric thought that everyone had already forgotten Hanna, unexpectedly, Arabella whispered beside him.For a while, Eric wasn't able to answer it. He was lost for words. He looked at Arabella and then he suddenly held her hand. "Hanna..." Eric muttered. "Her name is Hanna," Eric uttered the name with delight in his tone like it was describing a good memory.Arabella nodded and she was satisfied with how Eric got into the mood when he s
Hanna went home very frustrated. She accidentally dropped her mask when she was running away from the crowd. She thought she would be fine seeing Eric kissed by another girl but she was so wrong. It pained her so much and made her question her feelings toward Eric. She hated her situation. She hated herself as she felt ridiculous. This is the reason why she hated having any romantic feelings with a man. She hated herself for breaking her own number one rule. Just like her mother, Marga. When you fell in love everything would crumble. You will shame yourself. You can do things you didn't even think of doing it. And if that guy will dump you, you will beg. You kneel on the ground. You cry. You will spend the nights crying for a man who didn't deserve your love. Then you will doubt yourself for not being enough. You blame yourself for being dumped by him. You will hate yourself and end up broken. How pity! It's unfair! But that is the reality of most girls who gave their hearts to the p
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" Adam...My son...Arabella could not believe what she saw. She felt she was caught in a good dream that she didn't want to wake up and stayed trapped in that dreamland forever. The best dream she ever had for a long time."A...A... Adam..." She stammered looking at her charming chubby boy running towards her still in disbelief stance. It seemed her body turned stiff that she could not make any movement. A drop of tear skipped her eye. It was so pure and it was followed by another drop and another drop until she finally sobbed. "Adam!" The moment she realized everything was all true in front of her, she called her son's name lovingly. Gladness and excitement were written all over her face. The boy came running with arms spreading in the air. She bent down a little to catch her beloved son."Mommy! Mommy! I miss you so much!" Adam hugged her tightly. With all her strength, she got to lift the fat Adam and embraced her so tightly like she was afraid to lose him
“Bi… Bill?” She frowned deeply as she hissed apologetically.How she missed identifying him?Now she realized his kiss was the kiss she ever wanted.The best kiss she ever tasted.She felt the intense familiarity but of course, due to her situation, she had no time to dwell on the feeling, or else she would fall into its spell and would cause her to be caught by her abductor.Bill’s face was red due to the slap she gave.He looked at her unreadably.Arabella felt nervous about his stare at her.“Aren’t you tired of running away from me?” Bill suddenly asked in a strict tone.Judging from his stern expression, Arabella was sure that she was the only human who had hit him.Now, he was angry and maybe felt humiliated.His seriousness was bringing a subtle dark vibe into the area.This signaled Bill's men to get rid of the people around.This left them alone.“Oh… I’m sorry… I thought… oh, I just…” Arabella didn’t know what to say.Clearly, she misunderstood the intention of his men becau
The next morning, Arabella woke in a strange room again.Compared to the present condition, she felt her body was gaining back her strength.She seemed to already recover her energy and for her, it was a good thing.She heaved a sigh of relief.Her breathing was fine now but she wasn’t sure if she was still alive.The immense darkness was gone just like that.Her eyes moved trying to figure out something.Then she suddenly lifted her hand to touch her face.She needed to feel the pain to know she was still living.When she saw her arm, her eyes widened.It was the only time she noticed that she had a drip again.Arabella halted in fear as her eyes stared at the needle in her hand.She was quickly taken aback as her memory brought her back to the time when she was held kidnapped by Damien.Her memory in Damien’s room immediately flashed across her mind.She wracked her brain trying to remember everything at that time.She knew there was something she needed to remember.Something impor
"Bill..." Sounding like a ghost, Arabella's voice was so cold. "Bill...my love. Help me... Help me, please..." Arabella felt trapped in the unending darkness. She could not move nor cry. Not even her tears were moving. They were stuck inside her eyes. Her body was very light but numb like it could float in the air. She could not hear herself breathing nor feel her heartbeat.'Am I dead?'She had thought trying to figure out where she was in. The darkness was consistent. It had no plan to allow some light to enter like it was very oppressive. "Bill...help!" Struggling to make her voice come out, she spoke again even if she knew that it was too impossible that one could hear her. It was like Bill was the only person who could get her out of the darkness. Arabella was waiting...She was patiently waiting for him…Even if there was no hope that he would come...still, she was hoping for him to save her.Meanwhile, the commotion in the airport went out of control when Damien got a
“Bill, where are you going?!” Kelly asked angrily and in panic seeing her son was going out somewhere with his terrible condition. George, his great assistant was putting him a coat.Bill didn’t say a word. He seemed not to want to talk to his mother or his mind was just so preoccupied with something that he missed hearing her or even noticing her presence.Either way, clearly, Bill was not in the mood.After getting a call from Lira, he quickly sat up and took off his hospital gown. “Bill, son! Your doctors were still not letting you go out with your condition. You are still not well for God’s sake! Can you listen to me please for once?!” Kelly was worried about him. Her heart was thumping like a drum. She could not just let him do whatever he wanted as his condition was not yet to be called stable. “Let’s go, George.” Bill didn’t answer her instead he walked through the open door with George behind.“Bill! Stop!” Kelly shouted angrily. Her eyes were in rage like she would not
On day 10 at the hospital, Bill got a call from an unknown caller. “Sir,” George, his right hand handed his phone to him. Bill just looked at him then his eyes landed on his phone. His eyes were soulless like a hawk that was too sharp and dangerous.It was only George who could talk to him not even his mother, Kelly, or his secretaries.No one wanted to be with him right now even his doctors. Just meeting Bill's dangerous eyes, they already wanted to run away or avoid him as he already fired 10 doctors in just one day and another 5 doctors the other day. He seemed to build strong invisible walls around him that nobody wanted to enter or they would greatly suffer.They say the real Bill Sky was back. The literal Bill Sky who was known for his merciless behavior and impatient demeanor. Looking at the phone, he just smirked without planning to receive it from George then his unfathomable eyes closed. “Arabella, where is she? Where is she, Mom?” On day 3 after he got shot, she wo
Arabella looked at the woman in shock. Her eyes were questioning her but the woman could not look her in the eye. She obviously felt uneasy with Arabella. “Ma'am, you… I know you. You are Damien’s mom, right?” Arabella asked quickly hoping she could get any help from the woman. Woman to woman, Arabella wanted to believe that she had a heart if she would know what Damien did to her. “Please help me, ma’am. Your son…” Without wasting any time, Arabella continued. “No…” The woman cut her abruptly. Finally, she faced Arabella with discomfort in her expression.Arabella could feel the woman was struggling to look her in the eyes but even though she did. “I am not his mother. He is not my son.” The woman dropped the bomb with a firm stance. She seemed to know what Arabella wanted from her. Hearing the woman’s words, Arabella halted. The glimpse of hope in her heart suddenly shattered.“I am just a paid actress miss. I do this for a living.” The woman said directly without backing
Arabella felt her body was cold and trembling tremendously. The surrounding was quiet but her mind was screaming for freedom.Her longingness to see her son and husband was invincible.She could not believe she did reach the ground successfully as she thought of giving up in the middle. She could still feel her nerves were shaking but now that she felt the ground with her bare feet, she felt quite a relief. Now, all she needed to do was to run far away from the place. Along with the chilly wind outside and the rough stony ground, Arabella was full of hope that she could see her son and her husband again but to her shock, someone seemed to wait for her on the ground. He waited for her to come.He made a trap and she fell for it.In the dark, Damien was standing smoking a cigarette. The heavy smoke coming from him blended with the chilly air giving Arabella a creepy side of him. She was not expecting to see him there as she thought Damien was already asleep at this time but she w
Trishia stood out from a wheelchair. The only woman who was in a wheelchair among the guests was none other than Damien’s mother. Due to her infection, her face was covered in half with a thin brown flowery-designed fabric. Loose full brown gown not too catchy and easily blended with the crowd. Arabella clearly saw what she saw. Damien was with that woman whoever she was.Not to be embarrassed by her condition, Arabella personally informed the head of security about the additional guest.It seemed that, she made a huge mistake.A terrible mistake. It was clear to her now that the woman in a wheelchair was Trishia all along and not Damien's mom.Damien tricked her but why?It was her biggest question to her old long friend.Why he had to break her trust in him?What happened to Damien?His reason was so blurry but it was so clear that he connived with Trishia's evil plan.They deceived her by using Damien's mom as a ploy.She didn't even know if that woman was his real mom or jus
“Mommy, wake up!” The sweet little voice in her head made her open her eyes. Then she saw her little boy Adam smiling at her so sweetly. His lovely smile instantly lightened up her day. She smiled back at him and then suddenly kissed his forehead. Then, she kissed his nose tip and for a while, she touched it with her nose tip hitting his little nose side to side repeatedly.Adam chuckled happily then finally she kissed his chubby cheeks and tickled him non-stopped. Their laughter echoed around like they were the happiest mother and son.She was so happy being with her son and her heart was full. “Did I miss something?” Suddenly, another charming voice was approaching. The mother and son suddenly stopped and looked at the handsome owner of the voice. “Daddy!!!” Adam jumped out from her and ran toward the man excitedly. Arabella smiled at them. Seeing the two together was her happiest. Bill winked and her cutely then he smiled. Until now, Bill was giving her butterflies in th