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Chapter 18
They say love is sweeter than the second time around, especially when you already felt the pain of a broken heart. After the pain, once you learn to trust again, once you learn to let people in again, loving someone will feel greater than the first time. All you have to do is be brave, to not be afraid of loving again.
It's not that easy for Eva. The fear is just to great for her to love again. She may be able to let herself love someone again, but it was just too early for her. Every night, she's still having nightmares about Jack hurting her. Some night, she would even dream about Jack chasing her, sometimes Francine. His eyes were devoid of emotion, like black holes into nothingness.
"Hey, Eva. You're spacing out. What's wrong?" Giselle found Eva at the pantry, sitting at one of the vacant tables near the glass window. Her food is sitting on the table, still untouched.
"What?" Eva asked in a confused tone. It's as if she she just woke from a deep sleep.
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Fame quickly followed after Eva's restaurant was featured on television. Reporters, especially paparazzi exerted their efforts to dig any dirt about her life. However, the only thing they found was how she made herself from scratch, and the story about her abusive husband. Instead of reporting controversy, Eva became a hero. Her story became sensationalized, and she became the modern day Joan of Arc.A lot of people started having interest in her life, but none more than the most famous writer in the country, Alison Walker. She was awarded as a model writer multiple times, and had five out of six of her books were best sellers. She took interest on Eva Vergara's life, and made it her mission to interview her for a book she wanted to right."Excuse me, I'm looking for Ms. Eva Vergara." Alison asked the first waiter she saw when she entered the restaurant."She's in her office, Ma'am. You can sit on one of the vacant tables while I call her." The waiter responded.
Behind Closed Doors Author's Note
"Never forget that walking away from something unhealthy is BRAVE, even if you stumble a little on your way out of the door."-CTTO This story is dedicated for all the women who suffers or suffered abuse in any form. I created this story in the hopes of spreading hope, inspiration and love to all of you. Never let anyone devalue you or torture you, physically or emotionally. Please, know your value. You deserve to be loved, be happy and be appreciated. Stand up and fight for your freedom. Your freedom to be happy, to be free of fear for your safety, your freedom to be physically and emotionally healthy. Please remember, you are precious and you deserve to be treasured. Don't be afraid to be walk away. Don't be afraid to ask for help. You are not alone. Your Author,Ally Ocampo
Behind Closed Doors Prologue
The six-year-old Eva was sitting on a bench near the entrance of the orphanage, waiting for her parents, again. Ever since she started understanding things a little bit, Eva sat on the same bench every single day. She was waiting for her real parents to come and take her back home. But every day, she gets disappointed. In her young mind, she thinks something is wrong with her. She thought maybe that is the reason her parents left her."Eva, come. You're adopted parents have arrived." Mrs Bernardes called Eva and waved her hand signalling for the child to come.They went to the Head Office. The moment Eva walked inside the room, the face of the young couple lit up. Especially the woman. She looked so excited to have met Eva for the first time. Her eyes sparkle with emotions that Eva doesn't understand at her young age. The woman stretched out her right hand."Hi, sweety. Oh, you're so beautiful!" The woman exclaimed. "I'm Sara and this is my husband, David. We ar
Behind Closed Doors Chapter 1
Graduation day. For every student graduation is the right of passage to transition into adulthood. This is when they will say goodbye to teenage crush and welcome young love. The time when their simplest problem is no longer having the trendiest shoes, bags and hair in school. Life will get real, job hunting, dream of family and marriage. But for Eva Vergara, all of those were regular part of her life. Since the day she went to college she already taught herself how to be independent and wise. She has too, she doesn't have choice.As an adopted child, Eva taught herself not be dependent on the life her mom gave her. She worked part time while studying without her mom's knowledge. She worked on fastfood restaurants, printing shop and washed clothes of her boardmates in exchange for money. She did everything to save for her future."Oh my God, we graduated, at last!" Giselle, Eva's best friend, exclaimed happily.Eva shrieked and answered, "I know. Can you imagine
Behind Closed Doors Chapter 2
Eva, together with her best friend Giselle started looking for a job a month after they graduated. But because of the joblessness hitting an all-time low, they were struggling to land a job. In their fourth month of trying and failing to find a decent job that will hire them, they started to lose hope. But one day, as they walk in the busy street of the business capital, a woman approached them. She wears a white collared shirt and black pants."Hi! Are you looking for a job?" The woman asked while smiling."Yes, we do," Giselle answered quickly."That's great! Are you familiar with the BPO industry?" The woman asked again."Uh, we've heard of it but not really," Eva answered hesitantly."No problem, we have a job caravan right now. If you guys come with me, I can take you to Max, where our interviewers are waiting. You guys are fresh graduates?"BPO or Business Process Outsourcing is a fast-rising industry that o
Behind Closed Doors Chapter 3
They said success is nothing if you don't have anyone to share it with. Eva might completely agree. In five years, Eva already handled positions such as Quality Analyst, Subject Matter Expert, Workforce and now, a Team Manager. Her team is the most envied team in the whole site. They always manage to stay on top and have been hoarding awards and recognition ever since they started. Nobod could beat them on a month to month basis. Eva already lost count on how many times a Team Manager requested for her team to be investigated and they calls to be reviewed. But each time Eva and her team will prove them wrong.They would mock the people who wanted to drag them down by singing and dancing so loud after every time that they will be investigated. They would show how ineffective those petty issues against their team. Eva became so proud with her team and learned how to be mor fierce for them. She was the one who demanded for agents to have more compensations and incentives to moti
Behind Closed Doors Chapter 4
It's been two months since Eva and Jack met. And it's been two months since Giselle started to be so overprotective of Eva. They've had arguments a few times because of Eva's association with Jack. No matter how many times Eva tried to say that Jack is trying to change for her, Giselle would never believe it."You've been going out with Jack too often." Giselle coldly said behind Eva while she fixes the bouquet of red roses that Jack gave her earlier. It's been a regular occurrence that would pick her up to take her home or to work."Giselle, please, you have to stop this." Eva held the vase where she put those beautiful roses and placed them on a table near the window. Being an operation manager, Eva got her private workspace."I'm trying to protect you. Don't you see that?" Giselle said, almost begging. "He's not the man for you, Eva. He's a womanizer. He's living a scandalous life." Giselle explained."You have to relax, best friend. I haven't even sai
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