Lucas took Laura to an exclusive restaurant and they ordered what they would want then it was served to them some minutes later."How's the food, Laura?" Lucas asked as he stared at Laura. Laura leaned and smiled. She didn't want him to really see right through her how badly she was enjoying the meal because she hasn't had such a tasty meal for a while now so she simply nodded."It's not bad, Lucas," she said."I'm glad you like the food," Lucas commended. Laura tried to keep her happiness within her. She had not tried to reject Lucas' request of taking her tonight for dinner because she had done some research about him and learnt Mark was right. He was a great investor of their business and she wanted to mingle with him hoping he would probably put a good word about her to her grandmother or better still, she'll be able to convince him to do that.Ma'am Miguel had not given her a great position in the company unlike Mark. Mark was the acting CEO of the company and he's been with that
Laura allowed Lucas to drop her at her home this time. She appreciated him once more for the dinner and the outfit he gifted her then watched as he drove off the driveway. She turned and walked up to the door with a smile.She held up her hand to knock at the door but stopped and thought about what Feran would say if he saw the outfit.He is likely to question her and she wasn't ready to give a long talk with him about it so she tucked the bag into her hand bag and knocked at the door.Pushing the door open as she grabbed the door knob, she walked in. When she closed the door behind and spun, she noticed her parents were not in the living room and guessed they might be preparing to go to bed a bit early today.She headed for her room. As she opened the door, she almost bumped into Feran who was coming out of the room in a haste."Laura, you're back?" Feran asked."Obviously. I am," Laura shrugged and her shoulder brushed past him as she walked into the room. Feran heaved a heavy sigh
A week later, Laura had just returned from the mall that Saturday morning. A national holiday was observed that day and that's why she hadn't gone to work and same with every worker in the country. She slumped on the sofa when she rolled her eyes to the door. The living room was quiet and she wondered where her mother could be at the moment. Feran had already left in the morning without clearly telling her where he was off to.Some few minutes later, Laura heard the doorbell rang and stood up then walked to the door. "Good afternoon, Ms Laura Miguel," A delivery guy in a recognized uniform said the minute Laura opened the door. "Good afternoon,how may I help you?" Laura inquired."I've got a package for you," the guy said and held up a small wrapped box. "Oh." Laura took it after signing and went back into the house. She unwrapped the box and hissed when she saw an invitation card inside."Gosh,I thought there was something nice in this box. Just an unneeded card," Laura mumbled to
Feran was greatly stunned by Laura's reaction. He never in his greatest imagination imagined that Laura would flare up by the simple question he had asked, wishing not to offend her. But thinking it over again, he considered himself to be blamed. "I could have just let her go in and freshen up instead of bombarding her with unimportant questions. I guess she felt irritated by the questions due to stress she had accumulated at the party," Feran said to himself and he thought it would be best to go into the room and sought an opportunity to apologize. When he walked into the room, he met Laura seated on the bed, taking off her shoes. She glanced at him and took off her ornaments. "L…Laura, I am…" Feran attempted to apologize but Laura ignored him and headed to the bathroom after grabbing her nightwear from the closet. He felt he deserved the attitude she was giving so he decided to wait for her. Laura walked out of the bathroom, clad in her nightgown and as before, Feran tried to a
Feran couldn't believe what the manager told him. So he asked the manager again in bewilderment. "M…my father's plan?" "Yes, sir. He said it was a plan to help you wake up from your slumber," the manager said reluctantly,nor wishing to offend Feran with his words in any way. "My slumber?" "Yes. And, I'm sorry but I had to prepare those documents and had it delivered to Laura because he ordered me to. I couldn't inform you sooner, sir. I'm sorry about that," the manager apologized. "It's okay," Feran simply said and hung up. He waited for a while for Laura to come out from the bathroom before heading out to get her dinner. "Hey, what happened to my precious daughter, Feran?" Mitchel asked when age walked into the kitchen and met him dishing out some food for Laura. "Nothing, mother. Laura just got stressed about work issues," Feran said. " 'Work issues?' What sort of issues?" Mitchel asked. Frank walked up to her from the dining room. "So this is where my dear wife is? Are you
Laura walked into her office and collapsed on her seat. She hung down her head, trying to forget a that had happened in the meeting at the conference room. She heard a knock on the door and lifted up her head to see her father, Frank walked in with a smile. "Hey, madam. What's with the sas expression on my daughter's face?" Frank asked, humorously as he walked up to her desk. "Dad, I'm fine," Laura simply said, tucking her hair in the back of her ears. Frank gave her a doubtful look. "Father, believe me, I'm certainly okay," Laura said, trying to make her father believe her instead of worrying about her. "Okay, then. I hope you don't think much about everything and just forget what your sisters, brothers and infact what every single person uttered in the conference room. Forget about it all, Laura," Frank said. Laura faked a smile and nodded. "Okay. I'm going back to my working place. See you later at home, dear," Frank said and waved at Laura then headed to the door. He pulled the
Feran stumbled upon hearing what Laura said. He was stunned to know that Laura could say she would think about divorcing him. He couldn't really believe what he had heard her say. Taking a few steps back as the was pulled open from the inside, his mother-in-law walked out and he fixed his gaze on the floor. "Were you eavesdropping on us?" Mitchel asked, suspecting Feran was by the way he acted and the shock expression he had on his face and was trying to hide from her. Feran gazed up at her and looked away without answering her question. With that, Mitchel confirmed that he must have likely overheard their discussion and maybe heard what Laura said too. To see him in a kind of strike dumb state made Mitchel inwardly happy but she went further to ask him a question to upset him more. "Did you hear what Laura said, then, Feran?" Feran flicked at his mother-in-law a stare and shook his head. Mitchel knew he was lying and smirked. "You're nothing, Feran. And you mean absolutely nothin
When Laura got home, she went straight to her room but was surprised to see the room out of light when she opened the door. She wondered why there was light in the house apart from the room. She groped with her hand against the wall in search of the light switch and heaved a light sigh when she felt the switch. Sve flicked it on and was thrown off balance when Feran held up a cute little teddy bear in front of her face. "Feran, what the…" Laura paused as she read the inscription on the frontal of the teddy bear and she read it out: " 'I am sorry?' " Feran nodded with a pout like an innocent child that had wronged his mother. "What's all this, Feran?" Laura asked, folding her hands and rolling her eyes to the bed. "I'm truly sorry, Laura," Feran uttered. Laura squinted and tucked her hair behind her ear. "Sorry about what now, Feran?" Laura asked. "For upsetting you last night and I am sorry about the other ways which you think I've offended you," Feran said. " 'Other ways?'
Laura couldn't believe what Elijah had asked for. His eyes were gloomy and filled with the intention to kill, and she knew that this was not going to end well. Having the kind of feeling of somewhat fear in her, her heart throbbed furiously, as the words sank deep and her head absorbed the thought of what he just said. How come he still wanted to kill Feran? She didn't understand what the hell he was talking about. Her eyes twitched as she heard the words, and her heart couldn't take it fully. "I'm not going to do what you say, Elijah. I can't believe you still want to take Feran down. What the hell are you doing? I know you don't know what you are doing, or maybe you don't know the repercussions of it. You should stop having those sinister thoughts in your head, Elijah, or you might end up killing your already black soul," she said. "You know, I only spent a year in jail and did you know what I was thinking all those while? Feran. I was thinking of how to destroy him. I think
"Elijah has escaped. I'm sure he's going to think of hurting one of us," Zoey said, getting scared. "No, Aunt. He won't hurt any of us," Feran said. He quickly called Fernando, who had taken Lovisa and his son, Frazier, to the mall. He ordered him to get them back home safely and ended the call after telling him to tighten the security of the house when he returns. Zita eyed Laura. "I'm sure you know that he was going to escape, right?" "You can't be trusted, Laura. You're a sly woman!" Zoey's accused. "No, Mrs. Anderson. I had no idea. And you don't have to worry. Feran is here. I won't think of joining hands with Elijah to cause harm to any of you because you all are genuinely good," Laura said. "I know my presence is not that appreciated here so I would like to take my leave so you guys can celebrate the girl's birthday well." "Sorry about the accusations, Laura," Jeana said. "Can't you stay for a while?" "I would have loved to but I need to head somewhere else urgently, I'm s
Laura was speechless for a while after Mary revealed who sent the flowers. Unlike her mother who was obviously In a rage, Laura found it so nice of Feran and Jeana to send her flowers."Give me the card," Laura asked, stretching out her hand to Mary."Laura, you shouldn't…" Mitchel paused and glared at Mary as she gave the card to Laura.Laura smiled and read the message on the card.'Hello, Laura, we are saying a big congratulations on your safe delivery. Though it's a bit late, try to overlook the time you got these flowers and rather accept it with our sincere joy for you. Hope your child is doing well. Do take care of yourself. Our regards to your child. Your well-wishers…. Jeana and Feran.'A drop of tears rolled down Laura's cheek and Mitchel was surprised when she lifted up her head, Laura chuckled and sniffed."I can't believe they would wish me well and send flowers to me. This is really great.""What's wrong with you, Laura?" Mitchel asked, jerking up to her feet. "What's go
A month later, Feran got a call from one of the companies manager. He received some bad news that one of the company workers had stolen an important journal. "What's wrong?" Jeana asked after they had breakfast. She saw the look on his face despite him telling her that all was well, she still didn't believe him."I'll go to work now." Feran arose from the couch and went to the bathroom to ease himself, when he came out, he saw Jeana dressed up."Are you going somewhere?" He asked. She gave him a strange look and nodded."Your sisters will be visiting soon. You don't need to go over there to see them." He thought she wanted to go pay her sisters a visit."I am not going to pay anyone a visit. I'm coming along with you, Feran," she said."Excuse me?""Yes?""What did you just say?""You heard me right, Feran. Let's go to work." Feran took.his office bag."No. You are going no where with me," Feran refused."What is wrong with you, Feran?""You are pregnant, Jeana. You shouldn't be work
Silence filled the room after Laura had left. One after the other, they all came forward to apologize to Jeana."Jeana, dear. I'm sorry I didn't even utter a word when you left," Greg said. "Please forgive me.""No, Uncle Greg. You did nothing wrong." Jeana shook her head."We all didn't bother to check things from your perspective but kept quiet after Zita humiliated you and asked you to leave," Zoey said and sighed. "Jeana, I'm sorry. I'm the worst person to you.""Come on, Aunt. You're my best person," Jeana flattered."Laura had good timing but her future is ill-timed now. That sly woman should never have anyone to call 'love'. She doesn't deserve anyone's love," Anna said."You all don't need to apologize, please. I'm the one expected to apologize. I didn't even get to apologize properly to you all before leaving the house. I'm sorry I deceived you all. Honestly, I didn't want to do that before. I wasn't going to keep the truth from you all for long. I wanted to tell you all befo
Laura couldn't bring herself to admonish herself nor could she believe that Feran had any evidence of her. She felt he was lying and was just trying to mess with her mind to force her to spill out the truth."What are you talking about, Feran?" She asked when she found her voice. She glanced at everyone and fixed her gaze on Zita whose stern look was pushing her to quiver but she clenched her fists, lifting up her chin and shaking her head. "F…Feran is saying something which I can't understand. Feran, stop it, okay?" She pointed at Feran. He held her finger and pulled it down.He took out a report from an envelope and held it up to her face. "This is your original pregnancy test." He gave the report to Zita."Laura is actually five months pregnant now. She lied that she was six months pregnant and brought a made-up pregnancy report."Zita went through the report and gave it to Zita who went through it and passed it onto the other family members."Lie! You're lying, Feran! You want to
Feran was in his office when Fernando walked in to give him some new information."Sir, I've been keeping an eye on Jeana as you said," Fernando informed."How's she doing?""She and her sisters are struggling to live.""What?" Feran arose, mystified. "It's been two months since we parted ways and she hasn't bothered to call or come to me for help.""I know her well not to have another misconception about her. Sir, Jeana is a woman of self-respect and values. I'm sure she doesn't want to have anything to do with you again so as to not cause any problems."Feran sighed and sat down. "What has she been doing to sustain herself and her sisters?""She's been working in a cafe as a waitress for over a month now. Her immediate younger sister, Kayla, also started working a part-time job.""What else do you have about her?""I don't think she's in a good shape. She looks tired sometimes when I see her.""Maybe I'll pay her a visit soon.""Sir, you've got some businessmen to meet in the next t
When Laura entered the car to head back to the Anderson house, her phone beeped. It was a message from an unknown number. She guessed who the sender was before opening the message.'Meet me now in the jailhouse,' that was the message. Laura tossed her phone to the seat and locked her fingers."Elijah," she muttered.The driver tilted his head and asked her."Ma'am, did you say something?""Hm, no. Start driving," Laura said. While he was driving back to the Anderson house, she thought of a way to get him to stop the car and leave so she could go to see Elijah. She didn't want the driver to take her there because she knows for sure that Feran was going to know about it and would find out that she came to visit Elijah, and if that happens, he might start thinking there's a connection between her and him and start doubting her.She didn't want any of that to happen. She thought harder when the driver was just ten minutes away from the house and finally sneered when she got an idea.She s
Anita was surprised and so excited that she kept stealing glances at Feran while he was driving. She couldn't believe he was taking her out for the first time. She wondered if his mother had asked him to.When she got a hunch that Feran's mother, Zita, must have asked him to look after her well and make her happy, she smiled broadly at Feran who returned her smile with a fake half smile that seemed genuine to Anita.While Feran kept driving, then it hit Anita. She glanced at him and saw he had a smile on his face. She was amazed and wondered if he had any other intention. 'No, he wouldn't be thinking of dumping me elsewhere, would he?' she thought, and glancing at Feran, chills went down her spines. She recalled how her family treated him. The times he was maltreated by her family, all flashed in her mind and her lips parted when she recalled when he promised them that he was going to get revenge and make them pay."Feran, where are you taking me to?" She asked suddenly, panting. Fe