LOGIN“Ms. Analia, we have a problem,” she said. She sounded worried, which made me worried too. “Jarred canceled his flight under his fake name. We can no longer trace him,” she said. I took a deep breath. “But we just got another piece of information about him. He was last seen with Stephanie,” Jann
Analia’s POV“Let’s go to the living room. Arzhel and the kids are there,” I said, smiling. Everyone looked at us. I saw the kids looked surprised and excited. They ran to Adrian. “Daddy!” Chris said happily as he hugged him. Arriana followed him and hugged her daddy Adrian, too. I looked at th
When Analia went down to the living room, she saw Arzhel and the kids had just arrived. “Mommy!” Arriana ran to Analia and hugged her. Chris followed. She gave them both a hug. After that, the kids ran to the kitchen. Analia looked at Arzhel. They looked at each other and smiled. Arzhel hugged
Third Person POVAnalia took a picture of her hand with the ring last night and posted it on her I*******m. She checked her post today and saw a lot of likes and comments from their friends, family, and relatives. It was just a ring, with a caption that said, “yes,” and no other clue for the publi
But when she looked harder and finally saw it, her eyes widened slightly. She looked at Arzhel. Slowly, she took it from his hand. “I’ll take care of this,” Liezel assured him. “Please make sure no one knows about it yet,” he said. Liezel nodded.Afternoon arrived. “Are you sure you’re feeling
Arzhel put down his coffee. He was in the living room. It was still early in the morning, and he was the only one who had woken up. It seemed like everybody was still sleeping peacefully after getting drunk last night. He had let his friends stay in their guest rooms. Except Stephanie. She had vo
It was an unregistered number. But the number was very familiar. It was from Veronica. I had memorized her number before. “What does she want?” I asked myself. Curious, I answered it, already annoyed. “What-” “You b*tch!” she cut me off. She said it in a whispering way like she was also gritting
My knees dropped to the ground. “Help!” I shouted repeatedly. I was holding Arzhel’s head, my hands were shaking, I couldn’t clearly see him now, my eyes were full of tears. “A-Arzhel,” I said, my voice shaking, and I couldn’t stop my tears from falling. I felt my heart pounding too fast, like i
He laughed but didn’t bother to deny it. My teasing laugh slowly turned into a bittersweet smile. Adrian saw how Arriana grew. He treated her as his own daughter, and as someone who acted as a father to someone who was not really his child, I knew it hurt him knowing that Arriana’s father was clos
He just followed Arzhel here because he also didn’t know he would come here unannounced and that we would have a meeting because it was originally not in his schedule, which was also the case for me. Janna and Ethan sat on both sides to take down notes of our meeting. “Let’s start,” I said and cli







