A little bit of jealousy even in a relationship is quite dazzling. Because, everyone would say that it's sometimes nice to know that someone is so afraid of losing you."Can't we just talk about this when we get home? I just want to focus my mind on seeing my family again. Please?""Coward." Zoey clenched her jaw but still tried to understand Dionysus. "It's alright. You can think that way. It's better to be a coward than to be hurt in the end. I had realized long ago that someone like me won't be able to find that one true love everybody fancied about.""Fuck this shit." Zoey was surprised because when she looked at Dionysus again, her husband was silently crying but he was so fast to wipe it all out while his eyes were still fixated on the road. "Ohh, my god, Mr. Chevalier. Are you crying?" Zoey looked like she couldn't believe what she was witnessing right now. Who would've thought that she could make the most ruthless C.E.O. cry for her just because of his feelings she doesn't w
A powerful woman once said, 'we all have a soft spot within ourselves, contrary to popular belief. Because, it is not where we are weak, but it is the gateway to our most indestructible power'. Even when Sebastian, Zamantha and Miss Zenaida Olivia Lavigne helped each other to get the drunk Zara away from Dionysus, Zoey was still in trance like her whole world had stopped.Right there and then, Zoey finally understood what Dionysus had felt when her husband thought she really fell for Apollo's charm. She wanted to shout at her sister and tell everyone that everything about Dionysus belongs to her, and to her alone. And, no one, even her sister, could take him away from her. However, instead of doing all of that, Zoey looked at her mother and sister and smiled a bitter one. She tried her hardest to stifle her cries so her lips slightly quivered. "I suddenly remembered I still have something to do, mom, Zam. I'll just come back next time. And, I'll call later." Then, Zoey faced Dionysu
Sometimes, we can't really explain what we feel for a certain person. Because most of the time, our feelings are too loud or too shy for the world to hear. "Ohh, sorry. I didn't see you. Are you alright, my buddy?" Sebastian's eyes widened in shock and his smile disappeared. He gulped in fear because he knew that Dionysus only calls someone as 'buddy' right before he kills them. Dionysus grinned menacingly and in the blink of an eye, Sebastian ran away from there as fast as he could while shouting. "I'll wait in the car, boss. I promise I won't step over the line again!""What is wrong with him? And, why did you push him?""Don't mind him. He's alright. By the way, we should go home for now. We can visit Hera tomorrow. You should take a rest. Come on." "Can we see her for a bit? I mean, if it's allowed." "Of course. Let's go, then. We'll ask Doctor Campbell." Dionysus stood up and reached out his hand towards Zoey. Zoey contemplated for a while but at the end, she still accepted he
Oftentimes, heart to heart conversations are the best because each and one of us can become vulnerable. And, vulnerability attracts honesty, while honesty attracts two souls to connect more.Zoey froze in her spot. Suddenly, everything about Dionysus fascinated him again and brought fluttering feelings inside her chest. The way he smells, the way he simply sit in front of him, the way he smiles genuinely at her, the way he holds his wine glass so elegantly, the way he looks so manly even in just a white shirt and cotton shorts and most importantly, the way he stares at her like he really sees her as the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, likely to what Keisha also apprised her.But, it only took Zoey one glance down to her arms, to her arms that were discolored by big, brown patches and Zoey immediately remembered the long buried scar deep inside her soul. She closed her eyes and suddenly remembered all the bullying she had experienced when she was still attending middle school ye
A quote once goes by as, 'we can only understand the true meaning of death, after it has placed its own hands into someone we loved so dearly'. Zoey was trembling uncontrollably and Dionysus had to stop her every ten seconds just to breathe and calm down again. "Did you tell your mom and Zamantha?" Dionysus asked after Zoey was finished telling him everything. It took Zoey nearly twenty minutes to do that yet Dionysus was all so patient and calm even though deep inside him, he was fuming mad and wrathful. Zoey shook her head."I was too scared. I don't want them to worry about me. Besides, my father died a week after that. Everyone in my family was devastated as hell." Seconds later, Dionysus asked again. "Why didn't your older sister do anything? She knows about it, right? What kind of sister will do nothing when her sister was clearly molested?" Dionysus clenched his jaw. Zoey's lips quivered when a painful sensation struck her heart. That was also one of the reasons why she was
Deaths can change the way we see everything, because it is the grief that tears everything down about us. Our losses rearrange our world and the pain transports us to an entirely different universe and to an entirely different thinking.The old Chevalier was lying on the carpeted floor, with his eyes and mouth open, lifeless and seemingly not breathing anymore. He was surrounded by his own pool of blood that was coming from the massive gunshot wound on his chest that looked like it was directly shot onto his heart. Dionysus never knew that he could utterly feel his world crumbling down more than ever. What devastated him more was the fact that his grandfather's face looked like he had felt such tremendous pain before actually dying on the spot."Grandpa. ." Dionysus' voice quivered while his hands started trembling so badly.Dionysus' mind stopped processing anything right there and then. He froze on his spot and even though he wanted to crawl towards his grandfather, his body wasn't
An inspiring quote once said, 'when we think that all is really lost, when all is dire and just bleak, there is another hope rising again'. "I'm so worried here! Stop acting like a child for once! Your grandfather died and everyone thought it was you. But, there are still some people like me and Sebastian who believe in you. So, please. Please. Talk to us. ." Yet, even with that outburst from his wife, Dionysus still acted like insanity had consumed him. Zoey could only sob again. Sebastian sighed. "He's in shock, Zoey. The least we could do for him right now is to leave here and understand all of this little by little." Zoey's shoulders sagged. "How are we going to do that?" Zoey asked in a small voice after she had finally calmed down, before wiping her tears at the same time. "If you trust Dio, you should trust me as well. Do you trust him? Because all he has right now is us." Zoey looked back at Dionysus and her heart broke even more at the sight of her husband looking so lo
We all could presume that life is very much stronger than death, even though it cannot definitely stop death from transpiring. Yet, no matter how hard death tries, it cannot absolutely separate people from love. And, in the end, life is still stronger than death. "Here is the body, Attorney Alessandro. Shall I unzip the bag for you?" The doctor asked as soon as he placed the stainless metal trolley cart in front of Sebastian and Zoey where Hermes Chevalier's dead body was currently lying. The doctor got the dead body from the humongous mortuary fridges on the farthest corner Zoey wouldn't even think to come close.Zoey closed her eyes. She could feel all the hairs on her body rising in fear. She was just not used to seeing dead people's bodies let alone being inside a freaking mortuary where several dead bodies were kept for a while before being cremated or taken to a burial."No. I can do it. And, can I ask a favor? Could we see the body alone? You know, my assistant and I don't lik