Second chance to live: Must divorce Mr. Vincaster.

Vincaster shook his head while watching Serina act silly in front of a mirror. He left their bedroom to get water in the kitchen, but before he could finish gulping the water on his throat, she suddenly appeared and yelled at him.

“I demand a divorce!”  She stood in front of him, crossing her arms together.

Vin accidentally spits the water, and it sprinkles on Serina's face. Then, the latter used the hem of her nightgown to wipe her face. 

She felt terrible about her taste in men and soon realized how insane she was falling for this guy who is sometimes cold and sometimes thoughtful towards her. 

'I had a thing for a red flag like this bastard back then, but not this time, not in this second life of mine.'

"Let's divorce now." Serina's only solution to change her fate is to divorce him and live far away from him. She needs to change the present to survive in the future because if she stays with him, who knows the same unfortunate event would happen to her. She will never allow her feelings to get in this time because it will jeopardize her second chance to live peacefully. 

“We just got married a week ago, and you have not yet fulfilled your duty as my contracted wife, yet you are demanding a divorce?” he asked as soon as he finished one glass of water. He stepped forward which made Seri confused. She didn’t expect this to happen because it wasn’t the way they had a conversation before she returned from her death. Nonetheless, they rarely had a conversation during their first three months together.

She suddenly thought that the order of events must have been changed since she altered what ought to happen today. She vividly remembered, back then, in the same kitchen for their honeymoon, she and Vincaster had only talked about how they would convince his grandfather and relatives that they got married out of love. After that, she simply used to walk past him after getting the fresh milk from their fridge. However,  when she found out that she had returned from a year ago, her resolve to survive this time had grown stronger. And, without thinking twice, Serina hastily demanded a divorce, which unconsciously altered the chronological order from her past life.

Vincaster advanced one step forward, while Serina had stepped backward every time her husband stepped forward. She suddenly found herself cornered, with no steps to make anymore. Her back hit the wall, then she swallowed the lump in her throat as she watched him smirk.

“Have you grown bone overnight? Do you have money to pay back all the cheques I paid to save your family from sinking into a financial crisis? Have you forgotten about the clause we signed before coming here to Boracay for a fake honeymoon?" He trapped her between his arms, pressing her to the wall. He flaunted a confident and devilish smirk again before adding spies to his statement. "I will only honor divorcing you once the medium that forced us to enter this covenant has vanished in this world."

"Tsk! That d*mn clause," she mouthed as soon as she recalled the content of their contract. According to that specific clause, party A (Vincaster) and Party B (Serina) should make the chairman happy and at ease before his cessation. Both parties are allowed to divorce each other. In addition, if Party B had not caused trouble and misdeeds to party A, the money spent on Party A and her relatives would serve as an incentive from Party B. Otherwise, if Party A violates or demands to revoke the contract before meeting the condition, the latter must pay Party B twice the original amount spent by Party B; to reimburse the time and money Party B had spent to Party A during the duration of the contract.

"You better prepare to leave this place now. We are going back to Queshon City to meet my family and relatives, do not fail me. I expect you not to get flustered by my relatives' questions. Gave me award-winning acting. In return, I assure you to protect your privacy. No one at LV university would know that you are my wife. My relatives will zip their mouth because they respect my decisions. However, be mindful of Auntie Lucilla because she's a nagger. Don't lose your cool in front of her since she's fast to catch things."

Suddenly the hairs in her body crawled in cringe from hearing the same statement from her past and present feels like a scary deja vu. It was the same thing he uttered back then. 

'So, even if I alter a few things the actual thing will still follow? What's the point of waking up and traveling back in time if the same sh*t would happen?" her mind was full of uncertainty, yet her resolve to change her fate brought her back to her senses.

"Forget about divorcing for now." She pushed him aside and went back to their bedroom to pack their belongings. She could not believe that she had to delay her decision to divorce him because of the timing and her financial instability.

He followed and silently watched her from behind. Meanwhile, she was too occupied talking to herself while putting her clothes on the luggage. She failed to notice her husband's presence, who was standing on the wall since she forgot to close the door, making it easy for Vincaster to avoid creating sound.

"I still haven't told my family about this marriage, if things will go according to what happened before... then... until I die, my family will never know the reason why I married that psycho," she mouthed and sighed afterward. 

His eyebrow flinched when he heard her calling him a Psycho. He wanted to argue with her, but he chose to listen more. It was a sight for him seeing how odd Serina was.

"He already paid for everything, and if I wanted to divorce him right now, I need to pay twice, darn it. Why so cruel? If only I returned earlier, perhaps the time before I got entangled with him, I bet it would be easier to avoid him. Why do I have to return in time when it is complicated enough to get a divorce?"

At the back of his mind, he was perplexed by Serina's odd statement. His mind goes saying, "Returning earlier? What the hell is she talking about? It's not like she died and time traveled. Did I just marry a weird woman?"

He unconsciously smiled and whispered, “She's interesting.”