***ESTHER***“I was in the rehabilitation centre when I heard my mom was hospitalized. They never told me it was cancer.I thought it was just some regular nausea when she was hospitalized. I was called when she was breathing her last breaths. I rushed to the hospital and stayed with her till her last breath. She was alive for three days after I visited her. She was kept in incubating ward and her body was connected with numerous pipes. Every time, I looked at her through that glass door, she would look at me with an expectations. Expectation that dad has visited her but every time, she looked at me, I had nothing to say to her. She waited three days for him but he never came for her,” he stops and doesn’t speak now.I thought he stopped and would continue with telling me more but he doesn’t do that. He stays silent and I can hear his sobs now. “Caden! Are you crying?” I ask. He doesn’t still speak at all. I try to turn around but he holds me tighter around my shoulders making me una
***CADEN*** I can’t believe my dad asked her to leave me. I never thought that he could get so much cheap like some television melodramatic series. This man is really unbelievable and crazy. “Don’t believe him. Don’t take him serious,” I say as I place my hands to cup her cheeks. “I mean, it’s true. Whatever he might be threatening you with might turn out to be true. He never get back on his words but I am not giving up because he has threatened me with it. I am going to protect you with everything and every ounce of strength I have within me. You have to trust me Esther, please. I am going to break every walls that are protecting him and behind which he does all of his evil deeds. The world should be displayed the true colors of him,” I say. She fixes her eyes on mine and grabs my wrists which are below her face. “I know Caden and I am always going to trust you,” she smiles as her eyes get closed in surity that she believes me. I love her. I lover her so much that I just canno
***CADEN*** “Are you suspecting me for all that happened to your sweetest girlfriend? Caden, how could you do that?” Natalie shouts. I know she is absolutely pissed off right now but that’s the truth and I know better than anyone else that she is trying every way possible to cover up the mess she had created. “You shouldn’t have done that Nat. You just shouldn’t have done that. You were the closest one that I had as a friend. How could you back stab me like that?” I try to sat as calm as possible. “Stop! Just stop with whatever you are doing right now. How could you blame me? How could you accuse me of something so huge? And you know I would never back stab you Caden. Why would I do that? You have been my friend for last three years and I fucking love you so much,” she gets up from the bed and hits the wall in beside me. She leans her forehead on the wall. Her hair covers her head completely as she keeps on slapping the wall with her palms. I don’t know if she is crying right now
***CADEN*** “Here, it is,” Esther hands me a cup of coffee and looks amazingly at me. She takes a seat right next to me and grabs my criss-cross our hand and lean her head on my shoulders gently. “What happened? You look disturbed?” she asks. “Disturbed? Not really but I just saw someone who dragged my attention to her,” I answer. “Really? Who?” she lifts her head up and looks at my face in the expectation of answer. “Daisy,” I say. “Daisy? Here in the hospital?” she asks me. I nod my head. She doesn’t ask me any more questions but she leans her head back to my shoulder and clutch my shoulders. “Caden!” she asks. “Hmm…,” I hum. “Is Daisy really beautiful?” Her question made me sense the little ounce of jealousy in it. I smileas I hear that. “Yeah, very beautiful. She could be tagged as Miss beauty of the whole country,” I say. I know that isn’t correct but I just want to play little game with her and have little fun. “Oh! Really? Is she extremely beautiful? I swear you wo
***ESTHER*** Caden sends me her address in my phone. I never thought that the girl with whom I bumped in the cafeteria. And she is pregnant, that’s what shocks me even more. Well! She is indeed beautiful. She has beautiful green eyes, curly brown hair over her waist and beautiful porcelain skin, pink lips and her subtle smile when she talks with people. She didn’t seem like an extroverted person at all. I can sense her innocent aura from her face, like she is too delicate even to shout. But I could easily sense that she wasn’t happy. She was sad. Why would someone be unhappy after hearing that she is getting pregnant? But when I looked around, she was alone and without her husband or her boyfriend. Does that mean that baby was unwanted by her pair? Was she unhappy because of that? But the more shocking news is, she is Daisy. I mean she is the same girl, his dad asked him to marry but isn’t it shocking that she is already pregnant. I am sure it is of Cohen. Caden had told me tha
***ESTHER*** I am just so much shocked to hear him talk about my dad. I have never heard anyone talk about my dad after that accident. You know what, Mr. Payne was my dad’s classmate but I have never heard him talk about my dad all this time.“How do you know about my dad?” I ask. “So, you’re his daughter?” he asks. “Yes, I am his daughter but how do you know about my dad?” I reiterate. “I was incharge of his case. The one in which there was huge embezzlement of money. And in the one in which he was killed,” he says. “Killed? What do you mean by killed? M dad wasn’t killed. It was an accident,” I say. He laughs as he hears that and looks at his daughter for a while and then looks back to me. “Can I talk to you for a bit? I think we have a long history to discuss right now,” he says. I don’t know but for some reason, it makes me want to listen to him and hear what he has to tell me about my dad. “Well! Let’s go to my office,” he says. I look back at Daisy. She calms me as she
***ESTHER*** “Stop her, I don’t want to see her face. Tell her never to visit again and not to threaten me with brazen threats. She can abandon me if she likes. I don’t have any problem with that,” I hear the sounds of my mom inside the cabin. She is shouting at her nurse loudly and scaring the hell out of her. She is standing right in front of the bed and moving her whole body along with her hands. Her action seems really to be intimidating right now. “But mam! She is your daughter. You need to see her one day. You can’t always avoid her from meeting you. I have heard that she really wants to talk to you about some important stuff,” the nurse tries to convince her. “Why don’t you get it? She is my daughter and that is why I don’t want to meet her. I don’t want to face her and expect to see the questions she might ask me in the future. I am scared to see her. I know she doesn’t know anything but I am scared one day, she will knock the door of my heart and would want to know t
***ESTHER*** “Have you ever known the fact that I wasn’t the first love of your dad?” she asks me. What? I have never known that fact all my life. I have never seen my dad and mom quarrel over the things and I have never heard them even argue or have discussion with each other. They were really hard to deal with couple. I mean no one would just understand each other just like that. They were too good to be just true. Hence, never in my life that question ever occurred. Who was the first love of my dad?I had always thought that it was her, my mother and strongly believed that all my life. However, hearing that the truth that I had believed all my life has now turned out to be the false assumption shocks me on one side while it hurts me that my mother isn’t the one he loved. “It’s not even possible,” I say. “I knew you wouldn’t believe that. The relationship between your dad and me was bound my trust and respect for each other. I know he had done the same to me all his life but I