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?'
When Laura walked into her office, grinning from ear to ear because of the two days leave she had bagged, she got a call from Lucas."Hello, Laura. Good morning," Lucas' voice boomed through the phone. "Good morning, Lucas, I'm doing good," Laura said, honestly."Woa, I can sense that from the joy in your voice. I guess someone woke up at the right side of the bed, hm," Lucas said.Laura laughed and took her seat."Well, I'm happy and you're responsible for that. Thanks for what you did, Lucas," Laura appreciated. Lucas was a bit surprised when she thanked him because he had no idea why she was thanking him. He didn't know what Mark had told and offered to Laura. He had only decided to call Mark this morning and promised to recommend him to a well-known business tycoon in return for a favor which was that he persuades Laura to go out with him this Saturday and Mark had accepted to do that happily.So, Lucas didn't bother to ask Laura why she had thanked him or what he had done for he
Not bothering to cast a glance at the man who asked Laura a question, Lucas brought down his gaze to Laura and saw the great shock in her eyes. He looked the other side and his gaze met with Feran's."Do you know him, Laura?" Lucas asked in a strange manner, still staring at Feran.Laura woke up from her trance and looked around to see some people in the store and a bit far away from the counter watching them. She couldn't bring herself to answer Lucas' question."Excuse me? Who are you? And I should rather ask you this. Do you know who she is to me?" Feran asked with anger.Lucas chuckled and gave him a displeasing look."I don't care about you," Lucas uttered to Feran's surprise. "I only care about my lady," he added and Feran narrowed his eyes and stared in bewilderment at Laura who was now standing behind Lucas, trying to avoid his gaze."Your what? She is who to you?" Feran asked."Are you deaf? She's my lady. She's someone special to me!" Lucas yelled to Laura's great surprise n
Upon Feran's order, they packed it and when they slided his card into the machine, they all watched with curiosity to see if it would refuse the card which might be fake or it will state 'Insufficient fund' but to more than what they had expected, the money was deducted from the card and they slim female attendant handed over the card back to Feran with shaking hands. "S..sir, sorry for the little misunderstanding earlier. Please, here is your stuff," the lady in the uniform said to Feran with a laudative tone and grabbed the handle of the unique shopping bag they've packed what Feran had bought and stretched it out to Feran. "It's alright," Feran said and took the bag. He turned to leave but the lady stopped him in a highly respectful way. "Sorry, sir. Just spare me a few seconds to say this. Um, you're now part of our top notable customers and we would truly appreciate it if you would grace us with your present by coming some other day to shop for her, maybe with your wife." "Hm.
"Where is Vicentzo, father?" Feran asked, curiously. Sir Leo stood up and sighed."He's not at home now. He's out of the country. On a business trip,"Sir Leo answered and glanced at his wife."It's quite unfortunate. We've not seen each other for about three years now and upon my second coming in three years I still couldn't see my special brother," Feran said. He turned to his sister, Lovisa."But I'm happy to see you, aunt, uncle and Anna." He handed over the shopping bag to Lovisa after taking out the box containing the gold bracelet and pocketing it in his coat pocket. "This is yours," Feran said and glanced above his shoulder at his father as Anna rushed to Lovisa to check out what he gave her. "I'll take my leave now," he said to his father and headed to the door."Woah, this is a piece of the latest ivory strapless embroidered satin-twill black gown that was made by the well known Parisian fashion designer. I saw it in the fashion magazine some days ago," Lovisa bellowed, caus
"Laura, would you marry me?" Lucas asked again when she didn't say a word."L…Lucas, just get up," Laura whispered to him, feeling nervous as she gently pulled her hand from his grasp and sat down. Lucas stood up and gave a displeasing look to the waitresses and waiter watching them, making them disappear in the wink of an incense.When Laura gazed at Lucas when he sat down, she saw the gloom in his eyes and she cleared her throat."Lucas, I'm sorry but I can't give you an answer to your proposal," Laura said, scratching the back of her neck with a finger, she was feeling a bit uncomfortable."I see. But why? Don't you like me, Laura?" Lucas asked, leaning forward against the table and staring at Laura intensely."You're not a bad guy. You're good, Lucas, honestly. But I know you do know that I am married. I have a husband and…""Husband? He is no good for you, Laura. He is worthless. He doesn't deserve you and I also do know that he has deprived you of your happiness and nice life fo
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