SOPHIA’S POV
Meeting Navier’s family is one of the best moments that I have now and I will forever cherish this day. Nicole and Sage are like a set of big siblings that I never have and most of our dinner time, Sage and Navier spent moments teasing and bullying Nicole! I laughed too hard at how their set-up works. It was a nice feeling of having older siblings because I never really know how it felt before. Our night is more than perfect when I get to know Mrs. Leanna Ortega—their wonderful mom.
Mrs. Ortega—it is still hard calling her “mom&rd
NAVIER’S POVI knew that my mom would like Sophia and I am really happy that I am right. Nicole and Sage already liked Sophia the moment they met her, and now having mom on the list feels like a very satisfying validation. It was really a fun decision to wait for mom before officially introducing her. The wait is worth it.Our mom, the ever beautiful Leanna Ortega, would often joke about how she wanted more daughters. Nicole and I, even our dad, all know that her lighthearted jokes about wanting more children are closer to the truth rather than being a simple joke. S
SOPHIA’S POV“You’ll have to promise me lots of dates soon, okay, sweetheart? And if ever this son of mine does something you didn’t like, you have my number. Call me anytime, anywhere, and I’ll beat him up for you.”I could not help myself but to laugh more with Mrs. Ortega’s reminders before we go. When she opens her arms, I hug her as tightly as I can because even if we are going to see each other again, I am already going to miss her. She pats my hand one last time before letting me go.
NAVIER’S POVI cannot help but to pace back and forth here in my office. I already finished everything that will distract me from having all these thoughts, and now I do not have anything better to do but fully welcome them. I should not be this worried but when it comes to Sophia, every little detail counts and I knew something has been bothering her since last night.The thing that makes it harder for me is that she did not ask about anything nor she did not clarify what seems to be her problem. Given that what bothers her may not be related to me at all, but still
NICOLE’S POVI do not know how to address this feeling that I have, but I am sure that something happened when mom and Sophia had their alone talk together. I am also sure that I am not losing my mind nor simply having this weird intuition. I know I am right, damn it. What I only cannot do is actually pinpoint what is the actual thing that happened.Pacing back and forth here in my room—I am still here at the mansion because I did not leave—I am taking my time whether I should confront mom or not. I mean, I cannot really confront her, so the proper polite
NICOLE’S POVJean Gilmore is one hopeless romantic man, and it was not a secret on how much he admires me since our high school days. I do not mind it. I do not mind people liking and admiring me as long as they like. It is their choice and it is something that we cannot control If they like me, then they like me. What I cannot do and all I can assure them is that I will not return the feelings for me. Out of the people who had the guts to actually confess to me, this very man can prove what I am talking about.The only difference now is that things have changed. Not
SAGE’S FLASHBACKFour years ago…Death is inevitable. If one would think about it, it is so simple—it is the natural ending for everyone in this world. I am not scared of death because since I was young, I understood and saw death with my own eyes. Not that I am the one who was facing it, but I watched people die at a young age that I even thought that it was dying and killing are the same thing. Death is inevitable. I know that one day I will face my own.
NICOLE’S FLASHBACKI can never understand how one is capable of feeling two completely different emotions at once—I am angry and I am relieved. I do not know how it works, but I am both equally. I am fuming angry for those who cause this and I am beyond relieved that Navier and Sage came back safely.Before I realized it, I was already out of bullet magazines to use. My gun’s muzzle is already smoking from all the bullets I fired just to calm down myself. My obsessive compulsiveness and my anger issues are mixing is all the worst ways possible that I am a
SAGE’S POVI must be losing my mind—or maybe I am dreaming. Either of the two, I just know that this is too good to be true. This is too impossible and yet… even if how much I try to convince myself that this is not real, this is my reality. Our reality. This is really happening like a dream come true. Nicole granted me to do what I have been dying to do.I could easily give in into temptation, easily give in into what this temptress wants to happen. I could effortlessly lose control and yet here I am, trying my best to make this right.