“Thank you for your concern, Aunt Matilda, but you are not in Italy to think that I only had flings or go out with different foreign men in there. Besides, I am not like your daughter who is afraid of running out of men.” She was still smiling at the woman and emphasized the last sentence. “How dare yo—” “Matilda, we are in front of the food!” Jessy quickly scolded his wife before she could finish what she had to say. “Are you insulting us?” Lovely’s heart swelled with anger. “Lovely,” Angeline called softly her sister to stop her from speaking. “Oh, I was only responding your mother, My Dear Cousin. I guess she deserve to hear the truth.” Shaina pretended to be angry. “Shaina, the food is getting cold.” Gabriel scooped up a dish and placed it on his daughter’s plate. “Matilda, everybody is changing. Don’t make judging a habit.” Cristy’s voice was gentle but not happy with what she heard. Matilda never spoke again. As much as possible, she does not want her husband’s mother to
“I don’t like your sense of humor, are you joking or mocking our mother?”The confidence in the aura of Matilda’s face suddenly disappeared. Her insulting look gradually changed to anger at the same time as her lips pressed firmly together. As if she was being slapped and humiliated infront of her family when a little boy criticize her behavior. “Adrian, she’s your grandmother.” Shaina calmly scolded her son but she couldn’t help but smile at what she heard. “You see? Even the boy was not happy with your judgmental attitude.” Annoyed, Jessy’s sermon to his wife. Matilda snobbed her husband and her shame on herself just increased.“She was insulting you, Mommy. So what if Pappy Daisy is our biological father? Why does she have to ask you in a sarcastic way? Family should not ask you like that.”Angeline and Lovely were speechless. The young boy was right and even surpassed like an old man in the way he’s speaking. Sometimes Lovely was really annoyed by her mother’s behavior. She was
On the day of the event, Shaina got ready early to go to the bidding’s venue. She is determined to be match with Angeline now even if her own family’s company will get affected. At Travis’s house, Angeline waited patiently for the young man. They must reach the hall together. She was confident that their company would remain the one chosen by Travis. Travis stared at the woman sitting on the sofa. When she smiled upon seeing him, his expression remained blank. He stared at her body as she move and stood up. Angeline is tall and has a beautiful body shape. She’s wearing a red dress that fitted to her body, that made her look attractive. The girl’s dress also had a deep groove in the chest and exposed her cleavage. It wasn’t obscene to look at but Travis didn’t like that. They don’t just go to events.“Son, it’s Angeline who can go with you in the car,” Matilda provoked the young man’s silence. The smile on Angeline’s lips was erased when there was no readable emotion on Travis’s fac
In her mind, Angeline cursed Shaina as she watched her in front of the crowd. Many people are impressed by her presentation and Joshua is one of them. Travis still had a blank expression on his face. She didn’t know what he was thinking but she saw him looking at the file he was holding. Everyone applauds after Shaina performs at the front. A sweet smile appeared on her lips and thanked them before returning to her seat. “And now, the next one is the beautiful and talented granddaughter of Chairman Cristy Monreal. Their company is one of the most famous in the Philippines. Most of all, she is a special someone to our handsome CEO, Mr. Travis Villanova!”Everyone applauds and looks in awe at Angeline sitting next to Travis. Travis frowned slightly because of the emcee’s last words. For him, that is off topic and should not interfere with the participant’s personal affairs. The emcee quickly looked away from the CEO when he saw that he didn’t like what he said regarding the relationsh
“I will introduce myself to you, but you must stay at this hotel tonight.” After re-reading the piece of paper, Travis crumpled it and threw it in the trash can. He made sure it wouldn’t be read in case anyone else saw it. He still doesn’t trust the mysterious sender. But he had to gamble to get his memory back, as soon as possible.Angry and in a hurry, Matilda went up to the 10th floor of the hotel and went to Travis. She knew where his room was. His room in this hotel was the one she hadn’t opened before because the security was tight. The hotel’s manager doesn’t want to give the key card of that room as long as Travis is alive. She doesn’t know how Travis got close to the manager of said hotel and found out about his private room there.“Who’s there?” Matilda blew air through her mouth first and calmed herself down before answering. “Travis, son, this is your Mommy. Can I come in?”Using the remote to unlock the door, Travis was forced to open it for the stepmother. “The door is
“Speak!” Travis ordered the man authoritatively while holding the gun tightly. “My name is Cyrus, sir.” Travis furrowed his eyebrows and remembered where he had first heard that name. A few moments later he lowered the pointed gun at the man. “How can I be sure that you are the detective I ordered before?” “It is not unknown to you that I was involved in the fall of Ben’s car in a cliff. There is no one else who knows I’m still alive, especially your family.” His eyebrows furrowed even more because Cyrus clearly did not trust his brother and stepmother. “Sir, before you had an accident, you didn’t even trust your family. The fact that you hired me to investigate a woman you had a one-night stand with is the proof.”“Then I really sent you to find that woman to marry?” “I didn’t know that marrying that woman was part of your plan. You only sent me to find the woman because you wanted to know who wanted to ruin your reputation.” Travis clenched his fist when he realized that he
Travis carefully observed the woman standing infont of him. He expected her to sign the contract but she was too early. “I’m sorry if I came here early.” Shaina smiled at the young man but she felt uncomfortable by the way the man was looking at her. “Have a seat.” Travis responded formally before motioning for the assistant to exit. “So, are you fine working with your cousin?” Travis asked, making sure. “Yes, of course, sir!” She quickly answered the young man and for a moment she was staring into his strange eyes. The feeling of nervousness in her chest was there again for an unknown reason. “Then, congratulations and good luck!”Shaina accepted the contract she was going to sign. Right after she signed, the man shook her hand. The familiar warmth that came from his palm was rise again, so she was stunned for a moment. If the assistant hadn’t knocked, Travis wouldn’t have been able to let go of the girl’s hand. “Sir, Miss Angeline Monreal is here.” Shaina quickly straightened
“What’s the result?” Travis asked immediately after answering Cyrus’s call. “Positive, sir. You are taking the wrong medicine. The first one is a type of drug that paralyzes and the other one impairs memory.”Travis clenched his fist as his other hand gripped the cellphone tightly. “I’ll make them all pay!” “Calm down, sir. They shouldn’t find out that you already know about this.”“I want to visit Teddy’s grave.” Travis gritted his teeth as he remembered the former assistant. Eventhough he didn’t recall about him yet, he knew he was one of his confidants. “Not now, someone is following you,” said Cyrus, he’s also tailing Travis’s car.Jomar peeked in the side mirror when he heard what Cyrus said, because the volume of his cellphone was loud. He turned into an alley to confirm if a black car had followed them. He saw another car behind and that was Cyrus.Cyrus darted out of the way when Jomar turned so as not to notice that he was also following Travis’s car as well.“Sir, you’d b