Vanessa's POV"What is that woman doing?" Andreas stared intently at the middle-aged woman standing in front of our car.I noticed the woman and realized that it was Anne. My eyes rounded on her. Anne stood there with her gaze fixed. She was looking at me from behind the glass with a look that I couldn't explain, the expression on her face was too complicated.I recognized the various expressions on that face, living in the same house with her for a long time, made me know what her character was like. Anne was the one who often arranged me about things, before Jaxon misbehaved with me, Anne was the one who mistreated me first.He was the worst in-law. If I had any disappointment in Jaxon, then I had tremendous heartache for him. From him, all my pain started. He scolded me when I confessed to having no parents and found out that I was an ordinary country girl.His expectations of Jaxon really hurt me, he wanted Jaxon to marry a woman from a great family, with wealthy parents. He hoped
Vanessa's POV"How dare that crazy woman do something like this to you!" my father's snapping voice echoed throughout the room. I sighed at the booming voice that sounded quite frightening.Facing my father's anger was nothing new, but it always made me panic and fear. I turned my gaze towards my father. "Dad calm down, Anne's been taken into custody, she won't get away with what she did to Andreas." I tried to calm him down.Father's eyes were staring at me, and those irises the same color as mine looked unfriendly and uncomfortable. I turned my gaze towards Andreas, sitting next to me, but instead met the gaze of Maria, who was staring anxiously. She didn't look fine either."Of course that crazy woman must be caught, she must be taken into custody immediately before she hurts anyone else again." He said with passion.I still remember when Maria found out about our relationship, and Andreas confessed to it. Maria slapped Andreas hard and mistreated him because of her anger, but she
Vanessa's POV"Dad, what do you mean by saying something like that?" I burst out at him in annoyance.Andreas wasn't that kind of person, even though I had misidentified someone. But I was sure that my judgment of him wasn't wrong. Andreas is not a man with evil thoughts or bad intentions. He's not someone who seeks the benefits of a relationship. Comparing him to Jaxon is outrageous.Jaxon is the worst man I've ever met. I admit I misjudged him, but that's because I ignored many of my feelings about him. I dismissed my feelings of doubting him. I didn't trust him completely. I didn't believe it, but somehow, I ignored it and accepted his proposal anyway.Ignoring the warning my father gave me and marrying him anyway. I was stubborn because I was uncomfortable with Andreas. I don't know why I was bothered by his gaze and his smile that bothered me I probably realized my worries until I decided to leave him.Father sighed as he watched me, his calm demeanor returning. "I just thought h
Vanessa's POV"Does the dress look okay?" I motioned to the dress I was wearing in front of Maria, who checked with the designer directly repeatedly as I pointed to the cream-colored, mermaid-shaped dress that wrapped tightly around my body.Maria came closer to me. She stood right behind my shoulder while watching my appearance reflected in the mirror right in front of me. She looked at my appearance very intensely. I saw the look on her face in the reflection of the mirror, saw how she looked thoughtfully at the parts that didn't fit, and how her lips seemed to curl. "What's missing, Vanessa?" she looked at me in confusion. "You look beautiful. So beautiful, I've never seen anyone more beautiful than you."I laughed, glancing at her face that said such sweet words with a serious look. "Mommy, stop it." I put my hand on his hand, touching my shoulder while shaking my head softly at him.She looked at me warmly. "I'm telling the truth. This dress looks like it was made for you. So fit
Vanessa's POV"What do you think you're doing?" Andreas startled me with his loud voice. I looked up at his face. He was looking at me with tension and panic.Andreas' steps widened. He almost looked like he was running towards us. He arrived quickly before I could even process how to react in front of him. Andreas grabbed the man's shoulder, causing him to turn his head towards him harshly."Have you lost your mind?!" he snapped at him in a loud voice. "What do you think you're doing, huh? You want to propose to her right at the time of her proposal party?" I covered my mouth and looked at him in surprise.Steve, on the other hand, looked confused in front of him. He looked stunned and awkwardly at me, then looked back at Andreas. "It's not like that, I can explain-""What nonsense!" Andreas interrupted him fiercely, his face seeming to stare disapprovingly at him. "I saw what you did. You took something out and gave it to him. I heard what you said to him earlier. Do you think you
Vanessa's PoV"Are you tired?" I asked him with my hand gently stroking the head. As he breathed deeply into my shoulder, I could hear the sound of his breathing in time, with his heartbeat beating in a matching rhythm.Andreas shook his head. "I'm tired of talking to them, welcoming their congratulations and other pleasantries." He raised her head slightly, peering at me. "I bet you went here too because you were tired of everything."Andreas laughed. He looked at me with a nosy expression, like he had read what was going through my mind. "You must be getting sick of them talking like sycophants, right?" he grinned.I raised my eyebrows at him in astonishment. "You're just like a psychic." How could he know? Was he reading my mind? Or was the expression on my face too evident and easy to read? I furrowed my eyebrows.He chuckled as he wrapped his arms around my waist. "I'm not psychic. I know you well." He replied with a smile on his face that seemed to tease me. "Let's go out. We ne
Vanessa's POV"Are you sure you want to join us for the meeting? Don't you want to wait in my room?" I asked him as he opened the car door for me.Andreas shook his head. "Why, you don't want me to interrupt your meeting with him?" he glanced at me with a serious look, even though I knew he was joking, while extending his hand to me.I grabbed his hand and joined him, walking out of the car. "I'm not." I denied it. He was still being nosy about it. "I'm just worried that you'll get bored waiting for us to talk about work," I replied casually. I was hooking my arm tighter around his.Andreas turned to me with his eyebrows knitted together and a fierce look on his face. "Me? Bored with talking about work?" He twitched her lips with a playful face. "Seriously, have you forgotten who I am?" he pretended with his annoying face.I stare at him in astonishment, right? For a moment, I forgot that Andreas was someone like that. He was a workaholic, and it was impossible for him to feel bored w
Vanessa's POV"Let's take a short walk before we go home." Andreas stood up from where he was sitting and extended his hand to me.I grabbed his hand and pulled him so I stood beside him. "Where are we going?" I asked him, holding my hand tightly as we walked out of the café where Steve and I had signed off on our project."Mmm... just walk around here. I saw a park when we were walking here earlier. It's nice outside, so let's go outside." He glanced at me with a warm smile on his lips.I nodded my head, walking out of the place with him. The park, she said, is not far from there. The park was near an artificial lake in the city's centre, but even though it was an artificial lake, the lake's size was quite large.The atmosphere in the garden looked very shady and pleasant. In the sunny weather with a brightly lit sky, the garden showed its dominant, alluring green and brown colours. Walking there felt cool because the wind first hit the leaves and made the breeze feel cooler.I sighe