076.Next Day…When Janette woke up, Liam was already dressed for work. She hadn’t been able to sleep the previous night. Even the blood testing she wanted to do, she couldn’t do it either. Her mind was racing with different thoughts about her conversation with Liam, and she could only turn and toss in bed. She was only able to get some sleep after a few hours, and it wasn’t even up to forty-five minutes before her alarm went off again. She got down from the bed and walked to where Liam stood, trying to fix his tie. She took it from him and began helping him. “I’m sorry about what happened between us yesterday. You know, I’m not trying to make excuses, but you know how much I love chocolate perfumes. I even began using chocolate perfumes before I dated and married Lucas, and I only attached importance to it after Lucas told me he loved how the perfume smelled on me. After lie divorce, I still wore it because I loved it and even though it reminds me of what he says about it sometimes,
075.“What do you mean?” Alan asked, his face already showing that he was worried.“You know when you felt the peanut butter was added to his sandwich due to a mistake?” she asked and he nodded. “I don’t think it was a mistake because not only was that intentionally added to trigger his allergy, but it was also poisoned.”Alan’s eyes widened. “Poisoned?”Janette nodded. “That’s what we just found out. So I need to know if he has any enemies or anything.”Alan massaged his temple as he thought of something. Lucas might have various business rivals, but they hadn’t done anything yet. They were only looking for what to use against him, and so far, they have gotten nothing. So the main enemy or rival he knew Lucas would have now is Liam. But Liam wouldn’t stoop that low, right?Alan sighed. “I can’t think of anyone right now, but I’ll go check where the delivery came and see what they have to say about this.”Janette nodded even though she was not fully convinced. Alan bowed and walked in
074.Janette quickly moved away from him like she had been harassed and blinked at him. Her cheeks turned pink immediately and she quickly looked away from Lucas.Her head buzzed with embarrassment. She couldn’t believe he heard everything she said. And the kiss… her hands went to her lips and she touched them—soft, moist—as a result of the Kiss. Her heart beat accelerated.She tensed up when she felt someone wrap his arms around her. Her body relaxed when Lucas kissed the crook of her neck.“Jane,” he called, his voice barely above a whisper. Janette felt the tingles in her neck as a result of his breathing, but her throat felt like it was clogged and she couldn’t bring herself to say anything else. She felt if she opened her mouth, it might come out as a croak instead. Her throat had already dried at this rate.Lucas pulled back and turned her to face him. “Did you mean everything you said?”Janette opened her mouth to speak bu
073.Liam couldn’t believe what his father just said. “What are you talking about? You know I can’t hurt Janette.”Reynold scoffed. “What? She can handle it. It’s not like you love her or something. We’ve been doing this because of what we tend to gain.”Liam shook his head. “Yeah, I might have done this because of what I wanted to gain by marrying her, but I love her genuinely, Dad. Besides, after our marriage, she’s going to be with me for the rest of her life. How do you want her to like me if I do that to her?”Reynold smacked his head. “You fool!” he snapped. “I never said you have to do it by yourself. Get someone to get it done for you. And you know who I am talking about. If she does it, no one will even suspect you. After all, both of them are already clashing.”Liam sighed and ruffled his hair. “But you do know I love her right? She’s going to go through pain—““Put your stupid emotions aside and do what I ask you,” Rey
072.CALIFORNIA…“It’s done?” Liam asked.“Yes,” the person answered from the other end and Liam hung up the phone with a smile. Finally, Lucas was taken care of. He would be returning home in five days. He was sure Lucas would still be asleep before he came.Thankfully, they didn’t use just peanut butter but there were also sleeping drugs induced in the sandwich he took; one that would be hard to detect. He was sure that would keep Lucas knocked out until he returned and proposed to Janette.He was sure that Janette was going down memory lane by now, and she was going to hate Lucas even more. He’d heard about what happened a week ago—how Lucas had sey up a dinner date and Janette became very angry.He had simply called to know how Janette was doing after that, and he didn’t want to say he was happy she looked devastated, but that gave him the hope that he had a chance with her and Lucas had lost that round.He chuckled and crossed his legs. “Don’t worry, my Princess. I will be back t
071.Fear gripped Janette as her hands trembled. She was about to shed a tear when she recalled that she was a doctor. Her instincts kicked in immediately and she rushed to her feet and stormed out of the office. She quickly called the male and female nurses.“Bring a stretcher to my office immediately!”A few minutes later, they were rolling Lucas into a ward room. When they were in, Janette wanted to check but one of her doctors stopped her.“You are all flustered right now. It wouldn’t be right for you to check on him and treat him yet. Why not allow us to handle it? You can go out and calm down.”Janette shook her head. “I have a fast seat of relieving him. I’m not flustered. I’m so calm right now,” she said but the fear could be seen on her face.The nurses exchanged curious looks. They’d never seen her worried over a patient like this before. Could it be personal? The doctors tried to talk Janette out of it but she refused and decided to calm herself down instead. When they wer
070.Five Days Later…Janette walked into her office, her eyes widening when she saw a bouquet of roses resting on the desk with a note attached to it. She needed no one to tell her who it was from—Lucas—this was what he had been doing for the past five days. She’d even have to send Rosa to Alan to warn him, but it seemed the more she warned him, the more stubborn he became.She took the bouquet of roses and wondered why they smelled like chocolates only for her to see a small box of chocolate from Ronald’s in them. It was her favorite. How did he even know that?Janette recalled telling years ago to always get it for her on his way back from work, and he would deny her of it every time, but always ended up bringing it home whenever he returned. She opened the box of chocolates, her eyes lighting up in excitement when the soft aroma wafted past her nostrils. She took one and unwrapped it. When she put it in her mouth, her eyes closed in delight. She couldn’t recall the last time she
069.The next morning, Janette was seated in the hospital, lost in her own thoughts. No matter how hard she tried to forget, it just didn’t work. She always thought about Lucas and everything she said to him. Last night, she saw the raw emotions in his expression—pain, longing, regret and heartbreak—and it was all because she let her emotions take over and acted repulsively.Her phone beeped with a video call from Liam. Janette stared blankly at the phone screen, wondering why Liam wanted to have a video call now that she felt like she was losing her mind. With a resigned sigh, she picked the phone up, cleared her hair from her forehead and answered. Liam’s excited face popped up on the screen and Janette forced a smile at him. Liam’s smile faded when he saw her expression.“Are you okay?” he asked, his tone laced with worry.Janette nodded her head. “Yeah. Just tired that’s all.”Liam wasn’t buying that. “Are you sure?” he asked, squinting his eyes as if he wanted to get a closer lo
068.When Janette was out of the restaurant, she leaned on the wall there, fearing that if she moved further, she might fall. Her heart was aching badly and he began to feel instant regret. All the things she said echoed in her head and she placed both palms on her head and ruffled her hair.Tears rolled down her cheeks as she heard Lucas’ shout. She said she’d forgiven him but why did she say all those mean words to him? She could have just turned him down politely or better still walked away, but she just had to get all emotional and cause both of them pain. Maybe she had said all those words because she hated him for real, but a deeper part of her knew that she’d only said those words because she hated what she felt at that moment. Rosa, who was at a corner with Alan and had seen her walking out — looking all dejected, rushed to her immediately with Alan trailing behind her. When Janette saw them, she snickered. “I guess this is the guy you said you had feelings for,” she began, h