INICIAR SESIÓNWhen Eliot Duke, a self-made man crosses his path with Raquel Roswell, he thought that he finally has the woman of his dreams, but fate seems to play a dangerous game. Raquel is married—and he, the greatest Billionaire of his time had just become her illicit lover. ** What Raquel and Eliot shared in Bali was magical. It was more than their pleasure. It was more than the libido they had drowned themselves, and Eliot thought that Raquel was the woman made for him, but she disappeared without any trace, gone without giving him a chance to ask her to become his lover. When fate allows him to meet her again—Raquel was afraid, because she too longs for the man she meets on that beach. One of the greatest scandals. The betrayal of a wife, and a downfall of a man. Will Eliot’s love for Raquel overcome her betrayal, or is she worth going against his principles and his prime?
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受付の女性は、作業的な笑みを浮かべたまま淡々と告げた。 雪乃は慌ててノートを広げ、ペンを走らせる。 『これだけでも預かっていただけますか? 温かいスープです』 「恐れ入りますが、手作りの食品はお預かりできない決まりになっておりますので」 にべもなく断られ、雪乃は頭を下げるしかなかった。 重い保温バッグを抱え、トボトボとエントランスへ向かう。 傘立てから自分の水色の傘を取ろうとした雪乃は、足を止めた。 ――ない。 鍵のないオープン型の傘立ての中は、すっかり空っぽになっていた。誰かに間違えて持っていかれたのか、それとも勝手に使われたのか。 冷たい雨が降る外を眺め、雪乃はぽつんと立ち尽くした。 しかし――このまま突っ立っていても仕方がない。 雪乃は保温バッグを抱え直すと、意を決して雨の中へ足を踏み出した。 冷たい雨粒が容赦なく肩を、髪を叩く。数歩も歩かないうちに、コートの生地が重くなっていく。 通りに出てタクシーを探すが、この土砂降りのせいか、空車の姿はどこにも見当たらない。 ロビーで配車アプリを使えば良かった――そう思いながら、雪乃はびしょ濡れのまま、呆然と通りを見渡した。 その時、バッグから振動が伝わってきた。 ――柊也さんかもしれない。 僅かな期待に、雪乃は濡れた指を滑らせながら急いで携帯電話を取り出す。 画面に表示されていたのは、見覚えのない番号だった。 声の出せない自分に、電話をかけてくる人間などいない。 それなのに、なぜ――。 雨に打たれたまま、雪乃は画面を見つめた。 無言のまま、通話ボタンをタップした。 もしもし、とは言えない。声を出せない自分にできるのは、ただ耳を澄ますことだけだった。 一瞬の沈黙のあと、耳に飛び込んできたのは、男女が甘く囁き合う声だった。 『もう……柊也ったら。空港なのに、そんなに我慢できなかったの?』 柊也、という名前を聞いて、雪乃は携帯を握り締める手に力が入った。 でも、だったらどうして私にこんな電話がかかってくるのだろう? そして次の瞬間――雪乃は結婚してから一度も聞いたことのない、優しく甘い夫の声を耳にした。 『莉子……我慢なんて、できるわけないだろ』 莉子――聞き覚えがある名前だった。 柊也が一度だけ寝言で放った名前――……。 『君のことを、この五年間ずっと忘れられなかった』 その一言で、耳の奥から音という音が引いていった。 雨も、街の喧騒も、遠い。 激しい動悸に襲われ、握り締めていた携帯電話が小刻みに震えた。 声さえ出すことができれば、きっと叫んでいた。右手の中指は思うように動かず、声も出したいときに出せない。その二重の歯痒さに、雪乃は下唇を血が滲むほど噛み締めた。 雪乃は、消えてしまいそうな真実を、せめて証拠だけでも残そうと震える左手の指で録音ボタンを押した。 押し込んだ指先に、二人の吐息が、濡れたリップ音が、互いの名を呼び合う声が、途切れることなく流れ込んでくる。 五年間、柊也が抱けなかったのではない。 抱きたくなかったのだ。The next morning was a bliss. For Raquel, it was, but for Eliot, it isn’t.When she noticed the grim look plastered on his face, Raquel did not hesitate to ask, “Is everything’s alright?”Unlike her, Eliot was already fully clothed compared to the bareness they share last night, and the thirst they both patched up with flames. But his face seems to be I grave, grievance worries that she was oblivious about.Is it about last night? She don’t think so. When they did it, he doesn’t seems regretful, no remorse and lament that she could perceive as they make love to each other.If it is love making, and not just some sex he had been pursuit, because of his anger.“It’s my father.” Eliot brushed his hair, already messing the tangle knots that lay sprouted on top of his head. “Maids called, he had been diagnosed last night, and they said he is in the ER.”“Oh my god.” Worries flashed before her eyes. “Do you wanted to go to him? I can packed some things up, and let’s just grab some breakfast
“How long had I been out?” Eliot asked.So far, his conditions are getting better. He is already recovering from the worst scenario that Raquel feared he’ll fall once he lay there on that hospital bed.“Just a couple of days, but everything’s good.” She was busy peeling an apple as she glanced on her shoulder to look at him. “Jerome said that you can be discharge tomorrow, since you’re okay now, but they are still going to run some test, Eliot.”“Who’s Jerome?” A tiny bit of jealousy made his chest twitched.Raquel noticed it.“It’s the doctor, Eliot.” Raquel rolled her eyes.“I’m just making sure that no one’s trying to pursue you yet, Raq.” He joke, chuckling“Oh, don’t be absurd.” Raquel placed down the apple and the knife in the table and dried her hands. She grab the plate and walked near to his bed. “Are you still not going to believe me after I confessed?”“Of course, I do.” Eliot hold her hand. “Because I love you.”Their eyes meet.Raquel softly smiled at him, “And I love you
“I—” Raquel gulps. The awkward air made the atmosphere between them thickens. Even with David, she had never been this nervous, only with Eliot. Only with this man, whom she always wonder—“Why?”“Why?” Eliot looked at her.“Why do you wanted to help me?” She was straightforward. “…so bad?”Raquel didn’t know, but Eliot was like a breathe of fresh air, away from the abuse. He was the same stranger. Always carefree. Always the risk-taker. He was full of freedom, while she’s not. And she will not drag someone to the same hell just because she was chained there.Elliot is just…too precious to be contaminated by her toxic family.“And I wasn’t blind, I don’t want to assume, but your action speaks of a pursuant man.” She bit her lips. “And you know…I am married, I am no longer free, Eliot.”“Raquel…” Eliot took a deep breathe, before looking at her. “Would your doubt be compensated, if I told you that I like you?”“Don’t give me that crap, Eliot.” With him around, Raquel felt free expressin
Raquel knew for a fact that Eliot is somebody, a sin from that island she must forget, but her heart couldn’t. The memories of the night they shared would came back, on how much she moaned with pleasure, forgetting the marriage she was forced to, while they were together.Eliot Duke made her forget every pain, and the torment meant to made her suffer. When she rejected him, Raquel knew it ended, that the fate that was playing between them was already cut in loose. Not until seeing the great Eliot Duke in the flesh to the charity ball she had accompanied her mother.“Tired of forcing yourself to smile, Mrs. Smith?” Eliot’s voice filled her ears, and unconsciously, Raquel stepped away from him. “Am I really that scary, huh?”She hardened her resolve.Don’t do anything silly. Raquel was begging herself. Don’t do something that would only hurt you badly at the end. She reminded herself about what happened to David that night before the whole world knew that they had spend the night togeth
Anita is kind just like how Doctor Gonzales described her. It was later that day Raquel meet Anita when she paid a visit for the pair. “I was worried when I saw the two of you in the riverbanks. Oh god! I felt like I am going to have a heart attack by the sight of you, Raquel, and Oh! You
Yesterday, she thought that it would be Claire, but look who’s here, another woman named Janine.How can he have the nerve to bring different women inside? It somehow made her annoyed. To add up, Nancy’s taunts whenever she walked past by at her. “And speaking of the wife.” She would chuckled behind
CHAPTER 24: HIS ORDERS Raquel did not lost them. As she run to save herself from whatever trouble awaits for her, she never noticed the dead end in front. But it’s too late.She was cornered, and the fear that blossoms inside her chest doubled.“What an I going to do?” She whispered helplessly.Hopeles
CHAPTER 10: MARRIAGE FOR CONVENIENCE “Mom, I hated this dress! It’s too bright and ugly!” Grace groaned.Her shrill voice echoed. Stomping feet reoccurred afterwards with her nonstop complaint with the red dress she wore. But regardless of her disgust, she couldn’t do anything same with Raquel, who s












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