THE next day, as a wife now, she wake up early and prepare breakfast for two. She prepare coffee, bread, fried rice, bacon and hotdogs. Hinintay nalang niyang bumaba si Denver para kumain pero magtatanghali na at lahat ay walang Denver na bumaba. He just waited for Denver to come down to eat but it was going to be noon and all Denver didn't come down.
She turned off the water hose he was using to sprinkle the plants in front of the house. She entered the house and knocked on the door next to the master bedroom where he is but no one answered. "Denver, are you in there?"
She hear nothing but silence, she tries to open it and it opens. When she wandered her eyes across the room there was no one. She smiled. "I guess I am all alone last night." She said.
There is nothing as tangled as the bed sheet. The whole room is clean. Laughing, she closed the door of the room and then went downstairs to eat. She just waited for nothing. She must have knocked on it earlier in the morning.
"Hi, Mrs. Ybarra!" Cali, Denver's friend. Surprisingly, she greeted it back.
"Is Denver in the office?" Cali frowned at her.
"That's my intention, Mrs. Ybarra."
"Ha?" Sandra was stunned. If Tina who is she talking talking to is vague, Cali is even more vague than Tina who is she talking to.
"I'm here to ask if Denver is here. I'm from the office, he's not there. I thought his secretary was just fooling me that he didn't come in because he wasn't even absent once."
"Couldn't he have gone home to the mansion?" She said and then turned her back on Cali. "You want a snack?"
"Didn't he come home here last night?" Cali asked her.
"He does. He said he would sleep in the other room. I woke up early earlier because I thought he was still in the other room. I prepared breakfast, it's going to be noon and all, he hasn't come out yet."
Cali shrugged his shoulder. "I thought you're having honeymoon."
"Maybe he was there in the mansion. Maybe he wasn't comfortable here." She daid to divert the conversation.
"Who's in the mansion?" They both turned to Madame Madelle as she entered. "How's the new house, Sandra? Is Denver home? Cali, why are you here?"
"I am asking Sandra too if Denver is home?"
"What?"
"HAVE you eaten yet?" Sandra met Denver at the door when he got home, at eight o'clock in the evening. But she bitterly smiled when he didn't even throw a glance to her. "I'll cook for you, if you haven't eaten yet. Do you want meat?"
She followed him until Denver stepped on the stairs without looking back. Until he entered his room. Ah, yeah. They have separate room. Since a month ago after their wedding. She always tries her best but for Denver, best is not enough.
"I'll prepare a meat for you. Come down when you want to eat some!" She shouted.
CALI visited the next day. Denver is just leave. "Ah, I thought I could still see him. Anyway, if you need anything, just call my house phone number. Maybe Denver told you that we will be having an overseas business trip."
'What? He didn't tell me anything.' Sandra remained unbothered. 'Is that why he have brought a suitcase with him earlier?'
"Ah, I know but he didn't say how many days." Cali frowned.
"Really? That bestfriend of my isn't that thoughtful, is he? It will take a 2 weeks or so." Sandra calmed herself and smiled at him.
"Oh, I see. Sige. Just let me know if something happens then. "
Cali just nodded. He got in his car and Sandra looked at the car in the distance. Is he really doesn't like Sandra? Well, at least inform your spouse, right?
'Not that I won't let him. If this Cali didn't inform me, I might worry all night.'
"YES, Ma'am. It's 71,200 ruals in total. Do you want to add flowers and accessories too?" She thought of going back to work since she had no other preoccupation but to stare at that house. She decided to move to her house and stay until Denver arrived.
She is having a conversation with a customer in a resto. "I think that's all. I am more than satisfied with everything you have prepared for my wedding."
"The pleasure is mine, Ma'am." She replied.
"Anyway, aren't you Mr. Ybarra's wife, I mean that Madame Ybarra's son."
"I- I am." She shyly answered.
"Ah, strange. I met him at a yatch port the other day and it seems that they are having business trip, I am right?" She nodded. "He is with his bestfriend Cali. I thought you were the one he is holding too but I am sure it's not you." The woman noticed Sandra's negative emotions as she watched and listened to her.
"Ahmm, sorry for that. I didn't mean it, I-- I was just curious." Sandra smiled at her.
"No, it's okay. If you have any concern abour your wedding program just e-mail me. I'm sorry but I have another meeting to attend. Excuse me."
She walked out in that resto. His chest was heavy. She got in her car and quickly pulled it over until she noticed she was out of the city. She stopped the car on the side of the road and then bowed her head at the steering wheel.
'Why? Isn't it unfair? I always try my best. If I can't at least have his love, I want some respect. Why, why is this happening to me? God, is this a sign that I have chosen a wrong decision a month ago.'
She wiped away her tears and started her car again and turned it back into the city. 'I won't let him destroy my life. I will show him that I am more than enough for him. I will win him no matter what it takes. I will, even if I will look like pathetic to everyone.'
"SUCH a bastard." He hears Cali whispering. He knows that he is referring to him. He hears Cali laughed and then he look at Denver. "I knew it. HAHA. I knew it. Why did I just now realize? I am a womanizer but at least I know my limits. Tsk."
Denver didn't say anything to him and let him be. He pours another whiskey on his glass and walk towards the yatch railings. "What's on your mind?" A lady approach him.
"It's nothing." He simply answered.
"Oh, boy. Whatever you are thinking I know an answer. Want me to show you what it was?" The lady kiss him torridly and he respond to it. The rest is history.
"SANDRA!" At least she have them, her mother-in-law, her father-in-law, her bestfriend Tina and everyone. At least they won't be worried because they don't know. At least, she is not dragging them with her in a deep and dark hole.
"How are you?! How have you been?!" At least she have them. She have them asking how is she. At least she have them asking how she have been. At least, she have them who cared for him.
"I am okay, Tina. How about you? Why you came so sudden?" She was in the middle of baking cookies when Tina came unannouced. It's good that at least she'll not be alone today.
"What? Why are you asking me that? Hello! It's your birthday!" Ah, right. It's her 32nd birthday. That's why he is somehow in a good mood. "What? Don't tell me you forgot?"
"No! Actually, I baked cookies." It's a good thing she has cookies as an excuse.
"Oh, good! Then what about let's eat outside?" Tina suggested.
"I'll come with you then, girls!" Madame Ybarra said. Woah, it's gonna be a happy day.
'Yes, as I should. This is my day, I need to stay positive and happy. For a prosperous life.'
"REALLY? Ah, why didn't you tell me?" Cali and Sandra had facetime. Tina was also next to Sandra and in front of them was Madane Ybarra.
"Who are you? Are you important?" Tina answered him.
"Hey, I'm not talking to you, woman." Denver saw Sandra on Cali's cellphone screen.
"Heh!"
"Don't lie. What proof you can show me?" Cali asked. Sandra presented her cellphone to Madame Ybarra. "Madame Madelle!"
'What's going on?' Denver leaned and continue watching them.
"It's her 32nd Birthday that's why I came to treat her. Isn't I the best mother-in-law in the world, don't you agree, Cali." Cali nodded.
"I agree, Tita."
"When are you coming home? Is Denver with you? Is he busy?" Cali laughed out loud.
"Of course, he is busy."
"Oh." She simply said.
"I bet my finger, he didn't greet you. If he knows, I bet he said 'Okay, it's your birthday. Who cares?' He don't care at all." He heared Madame Ybarra spoke in the background.
"Watch your mouth, Cali. I'll cut your tongue instead of your finger."
"Tita, as if you don't agree with me."
WHEN night came, Denver opened his e-mail and Sandra's personal email showed up.
'Are you doing good, Denver? I hope you are eating 3 times a day. I hope you aren't having any health troubles. Please watch out for yourself. Come back fastly. I miss you.'
And he delete it afterwards.
'He don't care at all.' He heared Cali's voice in his mind once again.
"I DON'T care so shut the heck up!" Sandra seemed deaf when Denver shouted at her the next day after he came home from a month -long business trip. "You know what, no matter what you do, I don't care. I don't care about how you feel or what the heck up! I don't care! Screw this pathetic girl." Her tears streamed down through her cheek as her eyes heathens. She seemed to be pumped hard in her ear. She could not properly digest what he said."Do you really hate me that much?" She asked him. He turned his back to Sandra and glared intently to him. "I don't just hate you nor angry at you, I despise you. So hecking much." "Why? Why can't you open up yourself to me? I-" "What the heck, human? Are you kidding me? Open up myself to you? Huh! Go find those screws you lost and fix your mind." He left her there while Sandra was standing in the middle of the house. When the whole household was quiet, she fell to the floor. "Ma'am Sandra!" It wa
"ENOUGH, Sandra. Can you just. . . just mind your own? Stop making me guilty all the time." But Sandra just asked him if he had eaten yet."But-""Just. . . stop. I hate you but it doesn't mean I don't care." He whispered. "Just take care of yourself. Don't mind me, I can take care of my own."With that, he left Sandra in the kitchen. A week after she was hospitalized, she felt that the man was treating her better every day. She didn’t know if she would be happy or not because there seemed to be something wrong.When Denver asked her why she was rushed to the hospital she said she was just exhausted.'See what happened? Stop going to bed late at night just to wait for me. I can't take care of you, so take care of yourself.'"Ma'am Sandra. Please eat.""Do you think there's any hope that Denver's mind can be enlightened? I'm not here just because I want to have a family on my own but to seek love too." Emm
"YAH. What the heck did you do?" Sandra asked Tina. Tina silently laughed."Huh? What do you mean?""What do you mean? Are you crazy? You left early, you didn't even say goodbye, you left me confused. Then, Denver had been strange! What did you say to Denver?!"Tina burst out laughing. Her words are really powerful that what she thought. "I didn't say anything, are you accusing me?" She said with dead-malicious tone."Hey, you. I know you." She stared into the air."Oh, I thought you knew me?" Tina didn't do anything. She just said what Sandra deserve."SHOULD I let her in?" Always. Sometimes Cali thinks that he is the one cheating on Sandra. Denver seriously looked at him and shook his head. Cali surprisingly slam his table."What?" Denver asked him."Have you already realize Abby is just a bothersome?" Cali laughed. Denver did not say a word. "You know, you're a friend, but what you
". . . WHERE did you inherit a habit like that? Ah, maybe from your parents. Opps. You don't have parents, my bad, you lack care-"A slapped echoed inside the office. Those who witness it was beyond shock. Madame Madelle was the one who slap Abby."Fck." She commented. She smiled and glared at Madame Madelle but Madame Madelle slapped her again. Two consecutive slaps for Abby."Have you come to your senses, bitch?" Abby muttered curses before she looked at Madame Madelle again. Not afraid of getting slap again."This fcking witch is here." Abby said. "Ahh, where the boss is, the disciple is also there. Wow, what is this, reunion of the desperate--"'Ahh, this is the third.' Sandra was the one who slap her this time. "Do you know what to call a slap that lands on your face? It's called a slap for a desperate.""Desperate, my ass. On the two of us, you're the desperate one. Desperate to make Denver fall in love with you no matter how man
DENVER moved his body. He feel stif. He feel his head throobing and his temple is palpitating. The sunlight coming from the outside is dazzling him. He wonders why sunlight can penetrate his thick dark curtain?Then it hits him. 'Shit!' He thought when he saw his bed color white instead of ash gray. He got up and what he first saw is the interior of Sandra's room. He mentally faced palm when he realizes he entered the wrong room last night. 'Shit, this is embarrassing!'He saw no one in the bed with him that it relieves him. 'What the shit. I'm almost cause an incident.' He went out of the room and found nobody. 'Maybe she's already out for work.' Then his head throb. He quickly entered his own room and decided to have a shower. He turned it on Cold and had a bath until he got sober."WE will send it to your email, Mrs. Ybarra. Thank you!" A big fashion line contact her for collab project. She thought that why not? This is what she wants, having the career she wants and making it succ
IT WAS three o'clock in the afternoon when Sandra woke up. She gently rubbed her eyes before getting up. She does her daily routine and leaves her room in her night dress. She was not in the mood to go to work. No, her mind and body were tired. "I have prepared something for you to eat, Ma'am Sandra." Sandra sat down in front of the table and ate quietly while Emma stood behind her."Excuse me, Ma'am Sandra. A postman give a letter for you. It's still trendy, you know, letter and a postman. Aren't everything now is digital?" Sandra stopped eating. "There's what?" She curiously asked. Emma hurriedly left and picked up the letter she had received from the postman this morning. When she returned she handed it to Sandra.She sighed. It is an invitation from Vana West. An international gala. She was not in the mood to send an email as a thank you for the invitation. Sh just poured water into her glass and drank before returning to her ro
Sandra felt sorry for Tina. One day Sandra will wake up when Tina came to Limuel to beg him to come back to her. Everyday, if Sandra disappears from Tina's sight, Tina escapes to go to the place where her ex-husband lives. She would go home rubbing her knee with scars and ask Sandra if it wasn't enough to kneel in front of her husband for him to comeback. Sometimes she would be seen on the side of the road stunned and would say that she was waiting for Limuel. Every day Sandra's heart seemed to break. Tina do not deserve this. Tina is a good woman. She has a good heart. Sandra can't help but to shed a tear. She is on the way to find Tina again. Comsidering that Lantaza City is wide and huge, she is nowhere to be found, sometimes Sandra just wants to lock Tina inside her house but seeing Tina silently looking outside the window really breaks her heart. "What will I do if I lose you, Tina?" She endured scouring the whole town only to find Tina
THE silence of Sandra's seat make her nervous. She is uncomfortably sitting there with Emma on her side. Trembling as he recalls Tina's condition. She vomits a yellow petal, it still has blood attached to it. It's been 3 hours, they do not even know what she is sick of or what caused her to vomit the petal. It was frightening that she did not know the reason."Sir Denver." Suddenly Emma said. Emma stood up and Sandra looked up. She smiled bitterly when she saw how dark his face is. "What are you doing, woman?" She just smiled. "I am waiting." She whispered. Denver not please on what she said just sighed. She knew it won't end that way. She knows her husband to much. Even if they only got married a months ago. How can she not know whats her husband when he is her crush even before? "Why wasting your time waiting for not-so-worthy things?! You're my wife and your job is to serve me! That's all you have to do, you have not done it?! You are so worthless!" Sandra just looked down tryin