PROLOGUE

“How could he do this?”

Alexander was very angry while talking to the company's lawyer. His stepbrother, Mason, embezzled money from the company. The company will lose money if he does not sell his own properties.

He worked hard for that company. He was only gone for two years when he had a car accident. He had a series of operations. As a matter of fact, he was blind and he couldn’t walk for a year. If it wasn't for a donor's cornea, he would still be blind.

His father entrusted his brother with the company, a decision he disliked and opposed from the beginning. But because of what happened to him, he was unable to act. It's been almost a month since he left the hospital. He still looked the same, thanks to the reconstructive surgery. But he didn't expect that his brother would do that in a short time.

“Your father gave him full authority. As a matter of fact, that authority is still valid, Alexander. I’m sorry but he still is the company’s president.”

Damn it! He had a headache. He asked again what he had asked for several times before ---- that he didn't insist on going to see his fiancee Mia the night he had an accident. They had talked about meeting in Makati, but in the afternoon she sent a text message saying she was in Baguio.

He couldn't understand why he suddenly wanted to see her and talk to her. It was his instinct that told him to see her. He planned to surprise her so he went to Baguio. On the way there, a drunken truck driver took away two years of his life.

He heard several times that it was a miracle that he was still alive. More miraculously, he only managed a fractured rib and a bruised body. Even his "mere" blindness is a miracle because he should be dead. He was still blind, five months after his accident, and was still in the hospital for surgery when his father passed away.

It was painful. He had always been very close to his father. But maybe what happened is better because he has been suffering from lung cancer for several years. Perhaps he was still in charge of the company when he had an accident, but his body just couldn't do it anymore. He had no other choice but to let Mason be the president. They talked to him, saying the family needed him. Mason promised to do his best. But in just two years, he had managed to ruin the company he and his father worked hard to build for decades.

He had always disliked Mason. Especially since he was only his step-brother, they never got along. He only came to their family when his mother died and his mother accepted him. And he even became his mother's favorite when the latter was alive. Mason became spoiled rotten. While he was their father’s favorite. He wasn't just spoiled because it wasn't in his father's upbringing policy to do that. His father was a strict disciplinarian, but he had a kind heart and a brilliant mind. It’s in him he learned everything he knows.

His mother passed away when he had been working at the company for a year. At that time, Mason was still studying even though he should have finished because at that time he had already completed his MBA. They just let him go even though he is a rebel. He often retorts to their father, scolding him for him to feel unimportant to him because he is only an illegitimate son.

Mason went out of his way to be a pest. But the time came when he said he wanted to work for the company. And a year after that he had an accident. He doesn't think he's ready to handle the company. But because they had no other choice, that's what happened.

If only he had known, he would have entrusted everything to the lawyer. He thought he was doing well already because he was personally reporting to him, telling the company's situation. He was smart to cover up his tracks. He just found out everything. He needed to talk to him in case they could work something out.

He calls him but he doesn't answer his cell phone. He decided to spend time with Mia first. God, he missed her terribly. She was the light of his life. He loved her so very much. She knows that. He went to her apartment. He knew she wasn't there because she told him earlier that she had a meeting. She will be very surprised when she gets home for dinner. He was a great cook.

Using his key, he entered the woman's apartment. He heard a sound from her room and cautiously went there. The door was not closed and he saw her with Mason. Both of them are naked. And they were laughing together. Bile formed in his throat.

“Why didn’t you answer your brother’s call?” Mia asked Mason.

“Shut up”

“When are we going to leave him?”

Mason grabbed Mia’s breast. “In time, sweetheart. You really do have to marry him. He has proposed already, right?”

“What do you mean, marry him?”

“You have to, sweetheart. It’s for my plan. I know Kuya. The next thing he will do is grow the business again. Obviously, I wouldn’t be there anymore. I need your eyes. I also need for you to not sign any prenup. Can you convince the favored son not to ask you to sign a prenup, sweetheart?”

“Of course. But we already have a lot of money.”

“It’s not enough. Apparently, I only got petty cash. I need more. How can we buy an island with what I have? Besides, this is a five-year plan. If Kuya would invest more money in the business, he would need at least five years to get it back to the way it used to be. You’re my lucky charm, Mia. You know that, right?”

“Of course.”

“Imagine our luck when he had that accident. Meeting you in Baguio, huh? I wonder what you would’ve told him if he really got there.”

“Some lame excuse he would believe, of course. God, that weekend in Siargao was the best, Mason. We had so much fun.”

“We did, didn’t we?” Mason started kissing Mia. “I’m so lucky to have you, Mia. Tell me you love me.”

“I love you, baby.”

He wished that his sight had never returned so that he could not see all that. He was crushed. He was in pain more intense than the pain caused by the accident. It was killing him. And he vowed to make them pay, both of them.