I went back to our table and their were three strangers, girl students, mockingly looking at my girls. “Of course it’s alright for you to get attracted with a twenty-nine years old hottie since you were attracted to that old Murray. Like how old was he? Forty? Fifty?” The girl at the middle flipped her hair and laughed with her friends. “Eavesdropping? Are your lives that boring for you to listen to someone else’s conversation and meddle?” Amara stood up looking at the girl straight in the eyes. “Look who’s talking? Are you poorer than rats that you threw yourself at one of the Collins, get pregnant, and get rid of him right after? Poor Bruce brainwashed by a golddigger.” The girl on the left pushed Amara’s chest. “You should be expelled for getting yourself pregnant without a husband,” she added and was about to push Amara again. “Lay your hands on her one more time and you’re dead.” I warned drawing all their attentions to me. “Here comes the knight in no shinning armor.” The gi
ZACK“Mr. Collins!” I called him grabbing his arm.He looked back and he was stunned to see me. The shock on his face was swiftly replaced by disgust. He shoved my hand and turned away.I swallowed my pride and dropped my knees on the ground. “I’m begging you, Mr. Collins. Sir, please help my mom. She’s dying. The hospital won’t allow her brain surgery unless we pay for it in advance and pay all our debt as well.”I’m willing to pay any expensive price. I could gave up my name, pride, dignity, everything just to save my mom.“I don’t have anything to do with you.” He stared at me like he was looking at a complete stranger.I sneered. I got up on my feet and wiped away the dust and sands on my knees. I clenched my fist. If my plea won’t work on you, then, I’ll use one last card on you. I don’t want to do this but you left me with no choice. “I will tell everyone your dirty secret.” I blackmailed him.“Are you threatening me? Do you think they will believe you?” He shook his head grinni
“Amara Beltran,” I mentioned his beloved ex-girlfriend’s name that made him stop. “She loves you and wants to get back with you but someone is stopping her. He’s manipulating her, brainwashing her,” I added staring at his back. I saw his anger through his clenching fist, heard it through gritting of his teeth, and felt it as the atmosphere tensed. It smelt like a perilous rage. “Who?” he queried. A single word that weighs vast anger. “Bruce Collins,” I answered. I smirked with how his reaction worsen. The veins on his arms were about to explode. “I heard and saw everything. How come? Because I am the Mr. Collins’ illegitimate child.” I justified bitterly to convince him. Labeling myself as his illegitimate son when I was the opposite didn’t hurt anymore. I was immune with the pain. What worse than that was watching my mom suffer in her hospital bed for years and I couldn’t do anything. I watched Mark McCoy went on his way to the place Bruce brought Amara to hide her from him, her
“You think you’re a family? You’re the family? You’re wrong. I am also a Collins and I will steal everything away from you...” I put out down the golden knife and fork, then extravagantly wiped my lips with the white linen cloth. “Including your girl,” I added beaming him my provoking smirk. In one swift move he slashed my cheek creating a long line across it using the knife that I used to cut the steak. I laughed. He looked confused but he soon realized my intention. “You...” He lunged toward me. I covered my bleeding cheek and faked a scream. The nurses immediately ran inside the room that I prepared for me to talk with my half-brother privately. “I told you! He’s insane! He called me Mark!” I exclaimed while the vacinity’s nurses took him away with force injecting him with a drug to snatch his conciousness away. He wasn’t crazy but I’ve made everyone think he was. A sound mind is a requirement to acquire the inheritance of the deceased old man. The old man doesn’t really care w
“Where could she be?” Lulu panicked. “You should have told us earlier. Nothing like this would have happened,” Kate said pushing all the blame on me. “I wouldn’t have missed my photoshoot,” she complained crossing her hands on her chest. I sneered and gave her a disgusted look. “You sounded more worried for your photoshoot than your friend. Let me remind you, Kate, no one forced you to stay here. You could leave if you want to.” Mandy butted in between us. “Guys, come on! It’s not the right time to quarrel. Someone abducted Amara!” Lulu meddled and pushed the two away from each other. I pulled Grip away from them. “Grip, I have a feeling that you know where she is.” I grabbed his hands and locked my eyes to his. “Please tell me,” I pleaded. “I want to but I can’t, I shouldn’t,” he said not leaving his eyes from mine. “Just this time. Please...” I begged. He sighed in defeat and nodded. I looked at Gugu telling her to stay. She wanted to protest but hesitated. “We know where sh
“Insolent fool!” Her hands snapped into black thin strips and elongated toward Grip’s direction, attacking randomly. Grip turned around slashing his scythe in the air releasing a huge curve of light and hit all the strips bursting it to fire flakes. The flakes stayed in place, floating in the air. Grip raised his hand and snapped his fingers turning the flakes into ashes. Cold wind blew sweeping all the ashes away. The demon cried screaming. She regrew her hands by reducing her necks’ lengths. She outstretched her fingers forming them into long and sharp claws. She clawed in the air unleashing multiple black curves in succession. Grip leaped over her head spinning and landed on the ground standing behind her. He dodged her counterattack with just one jump. The concrete wall that the black curves hit cracked and crumbled down the ground in pieces slamming my ass on the floor in shock. Her six heads wailed ferociously. The corners of their lips tore up to their ears. Their teeth stre
“G-Grip, do you still remember the spell?” I glued my eyes at Amara’s direction. Few more seconds and she’ll entirely absorb Gugu. “What are you thinking, Serra? It’s forbidden.” I could feel his eyes at me. “Even if I still remember the spell, I won’t tell you.” His resolve was fixed. The decrease of Gugu’s presence was crushing my heart. I couldn’t bear watching. I shouldn’t just stand here. I have to do something. This happened before. Something was telling me not to loss her again without saying goodbye. I curled my fingers molding them into fist. I took a deep breath and exhaled loudly. “Serra, don’t,” he warned. “I don’t know why but I can bear to loss everything just to save her,” I said without looking at him because if I did, I might hesitate. “Serra, look at me.” His voice was firm but begging. “Do not anger the heavens–” I shook my head and fixed my eyes at Amara. “The heavens could turn me into a cat forever, strike me with lightning, I will accept anything. I will ac
She stretched out her hand. I ran to her. The ball of light behind her moved forward swallowing her fast. I grabbed her hand but I grasped nothing as the light vanished together with Gugu. I was a little too late. “She was just inches away from my fingertips,” I muttered pulling my hand on my chest. She was following me for eighteen years, protecting me, guiding me. She was the love that I didn’t see but I felt. I knelt on the ground sobbing. That day when I was sick, when she cooked porridge for me, it wasn’t a dream. “That day, she asked me to take care of you. Do you remember what I did at Bruce and Amara’s place? I cast the same spell to have her a temporary shell so she could take care of you when I couldn’t.” Grip showed up in front of me. He knelt in front of me grabbing my nape and embraced me tightly. “You are her mission, Serra, her flesh and blood,” he said brushing my hair. “You knew. All this time. Why didn’t you tell me? I haven’t got to say goodbye.” I tried pushing