LOGIN155"What are you doing here? And dressed like a bride..." Vince gritted the words out, making a fear streak through Jasmine. "How dare you think you can run away from me?" Those words triggered an onslaught of panic. Jasmine saw the door behind him. Some nuns and fathers were standing at the door, breathing heavily, indicating that they tried to stop Vince— a stranger in their gaze— from breaking into a bride's waiting room, who had been waiting for her groom. "Jasmine," Vince's voice made her jump. Jasmine looked back at him and did what a person undergoing severe panic would do— She pushed him back and ran for the door. Luckily it worked out because Vince wasn't prepared for any such thing. He lost his balance at once and crashed to the floor. Jasmine didn't look back. She ran out recklessly. Her veil slid off her head and fell behind her. She didn't know where she was running but she had only one thought in mind— Get away from Vince. ***Kyle stepped out of the car in front
154"How can I face her without looking at her like that girl who enjoyed my mother's love?" He slapped a lamp down the desk. The crashing noise boomed in the room and the pieces of glass scattered around. "She got the life I wanted. She had a mother that I didn't. She went to school happily and I couldn't. She had a mother staying in her bed until she fell asleep while I shivered on the floor." "But she was an orphan, Kyle. She didn't steal your life. Your mother adopted her. It's not her fault.""She was an orphan and yet I was the one who suffered. It's not her fault but she still enjoyed her childhood. What about me? I spent every moment in devastation!" Kyle hollered. He turned around while breathing noisily. Kyle tried to regain his control but it was futile. Everything Jasmine suffered in her marriage so far was blurred out by how she lived as a child, and in his mother's supervision. Falcon didn't want to interrupt him. Of course it was an emotionally draining moment for
153Kyle's eyebrows furrowed. He was staring at the old man for an answer which he got from Falcon."Your father fooled us both, dude. He's not responsible for your mother's company. Never was. But he used your feelings against you to get you married. A dirty but effective trick."Anger coiled in his stomach as he grabbed Falcon's collars."What the hell are you saying?""Falcon isn't lying to you, Kyle. That's what I told him." Mr. Brimmer confirmed. "Do you seriously think that after what your father did, your mother would leave the responsibility of her company to him?""Never." Kyle answered hoarsely as it started making sense."Sophia left you along with your father to prove a point to him that nothing can stop her, not even her son that she loved more than her life. She wanted to take you, Kyle. But your father resisted. He thought he could use you to stop her but your mother was too dignified and proud. She left you. She never came back even if she was struggling in the last fe
152"That's a joke, right?" Lila said in disbelief. "You just don't want to share it with me. After all, you became The Mrs. Panther!" "I'm honest, Lila." Jasmine couldn't catch the jealousy lacing her voice. "Signing on a piece of paper isn't enough to say anything. Maybe after we exchange the vows.... Then I can tell you something. I promise I'll tell you how I feel after we exchange our vows.""I will wait." Lila tried not to sound stern. She brought Jasmine to the parlor and waited in the back on the couch as half a dozen makeup artists surrounded Jasmine. One of them worked on her hair, another on her nails, another on her eye makeup. All of them had something to work on on her body. Lila was watching her begrudgingly with a dark evil glint. Her lips were twisted and she scoffed silently at the jokes the artists made to make Jasmine less nervous. 'You're living my dream, Jasmine. Dressing up in a wedding gown that was supposed to be for me. Getting ready to marry the man I lo
151Jasmine's fingers were shaking in fright. She was barely holding herself back from crying as she stared at the certificate under her hand while she held a pen over it. MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE The words were printed in big and bold letters. Her and Kyle's names were printed on it in cursive handwriting. He had already put his signature— A fine stroke with elegant loops, clearly showing that he was accustomed to putting his name on papers. Jasmine, on the other hand, was close to breaking down in tears. Although this was the best day of her life, she was shaking and on the verge of collapsing. There was a cough and her head came up. An advocate was standing beside Falcon. His eyes dropped down to the certificate under her hand as if he was nudging her with eyes to sign it. "Jasmine, you okay?" Kyle's hand came around her waist as he leaned into her to whisper those words near her ear. "I am, thanks for asking." Jasmine smiled, yet she was far from being okay. Her gut was throbbi
150Jasmine stepped into the house with her heart banging in her chest. She directly went up to Kyle's room to find it empty."Kyle?" She called out to him but there was no reply."We just chatted and he said he's home. Where is he? Kyle?"When Jasmine couldn't find him, she came to Jojo's room."So? How did it go?" Jasmine asked with her heart continuing to pick up speed.Vince came home to meet Kyle today to sign the business agreement and the divorce papers and her coffee shop ownership papers along with it. Kyle had assured her that she'll get good news when she comes back. But now there was no sign of him, though he asked about her shopping and told her that his house was safe for her to come back, that her husband had left."What, Jasmine?" Jojo's query made her mouth dry."M-my husband came today, didn't he? Did Kyle manage to get him to sign the—""Oh, Jasmine, trust me I am not the right person to answer.""Why are you saying that, Jojo? Did it not go well?""Jasmine," Jojo w
85Kyle felt a flash of irritation. He expected it to go quietly and without much conversation, and take hardly more than ten minutes. "You're in no position to put any kind of condition, Mr. Panther. That company belongs to me. I have a birth right on it. No one can stop me from possessing it." H
80Kyle sat in his study with the letter kept on the desk in front of him. He just took a bath and came here first thing as he couldn't think of anything else. Mari did come to ask him about dinner but his stomach was already full— with regret and self-loath.He had politely declined and came to his
83"Sir..." Mari rubbed her hands together. "I think..." "Yes, Mari? What do you think?" He asked and seeing her rubbing her hands worriedly he mentioned, "For this one time, just forget that you're my employee. Think of yourself as my adviser. An adviser who's to help me see through a misty situat
82Four days later, Jasmine had adjusted well in Sky's house. She looked better and her appearance had improved too. Sky was so touched by Jasmine's struggles that she submitted a request for a few days off, and luckily it was accepted. She was a hardworking airhostess. She never asked for a leave







