CHAPTER 03

THALIA ISABELLE

I woke up a while ago with a severe headache from last night and I am still lying in my bed because I can’t find myself standing up and doing my morning routine. I keep on yawning and closing my eyes multiple times, so I get my phone from my bedside table.

It’s seven-thirty in the morning.

When I feel okay I stood up and bring myself to the bathroom to take a bath and start my day. As I shower I can remember the warmth of someone else’s lips last night from the bar, I am sure it is one of my brother’s visitors!

I was frozen on my spot and touched my lips as I remember how we kissed senselessly, the movements of our lips feel like it is from yesterday like we’ve known each other for a very long time. How shameful that I kissed someone else’s lips while I’m married to an asshole?!

I can’t accept that I kissed someone’s lips that are not my husband’s! What a shame, Thalia! You hate cheating but what did you exactly do last night?! I stomp my feet on the cold floor of my shower room because I hate myself right now!

Silently I became what I hate!

As soon as I finish changing my clothes into fine ones I heard a series of doorbells. “Who the hell is that?” I asked on the air. I look outside my window and my eyes got widened when I recognized these people. What are they doing here right now and how did they manage to find out my place?!

I start the day in a bad mood because of what happened last night and seeing them in front of my house right now. I calm my nerves by not shouting at them. I held the doorknob and twisted it.

“Good morning, Ms. Thalia,” Hansel greeted me with a smile on his face, actually there are smiles on their faces right now but it is opposite to mine I arc my eyebrow. “What are you doing here?” I asked him.

“Are you not going to open widely the door for us? It’s cold right now,” Hansel complained and I saw how they tremble with cold in Tagaytay right now. So with a heavy heart, I open the door completely so they can enter my eyes. They suit their selves in my loungers and put the air conditioner at the exact temperature for us.

“You’ve got a nice taste for everything, Ms. Thalia,” Hansel praised as he roam his eyes around the interior of my house. I eyed them and they are all well-disciplined except Silver who is opposite from them, how did the great Giovanni Flynn accept him in his group?

Well, maybe he is a skilled one.

“We are here to talk to you over something but it looks like you have a hangover from last night?” he said and I look at him suspiciously until he nodded to confirm my suspicion. “You don’t have to follow me wherever I go, Hansel. There are personal things that only I, I am allowed to know or see,” I said to him.

“It’s an order from the boss to follow you, Ms. Thalia,” he said firmly so I closed my eyes tightly.

“You cannot interfere with my business I hope you are all aware of that, Hansel,” I said to them and they nodded. If we are on a mission there is no intruder is allowed to join the battle, it only means you are raising war against your group and the other.

“Anyway, can I use your kitchen to cook you something for your hangover?” he asked me so I nodded. They are all looking at me so I heave a deep sigh. “Stop looking at me,” I told to them and they are all shifting their attention somewhere.

I followed Hansel to the kitchen he is now cooking a soup.

“Hansel, you didn’t lend my message to your boss last night?” I asked him and leaned my back on the kitchen sink. “You two are stubborn, Ms. Thalia,” he responded and I look at him sharply.

“You are well aware that regardless of what you say he will not change his mind unless you show up in front of him, right?” he said so I nodded and stomp my feet on the tiled floor. “Why he can’t just let me live my life here? If he wants a divorce he can send me the papers and I will sign it immediately,” I said to him and curse Giovanni in my head so wherever he is he will be tripped off.

“He needs you more than anyone else, Ms. Thalia. You are his wife,” Hansel said and I chuckled at what he said. “That’s not what he said before to me,” I bitterly said and he stops from mixing the soup and face him.

“He’s changed; he is different from what we know.”

I scoff and shook my head. No matter what changes he has right now he can’t change the fact that he wronged me. “Ms. Thalia, up until now we don’t know how did you manage to go home?” he asked me so I smiled at him.

“That’s one of my skills I can disappear whenever I want to,” I said to him and he chuckled. “Oh what is happening right now?” Silver said as he appears in front of me. “Anyway, nice outfit, Ms. Thalia on what wake do you intend to visit?” Silver asked.

“In your boss’ funeral,” I replied to him and he rolled his eyes at me. “You will lose a king, Ms. Thalia,” he said but I chuckled and tap his shoulder. “Don’t be so naïve, Silver. We already lose each other and I do not need a king,” I said to him and he just nodded his head.

“Indeed seeing you right now, you probably don’t need our boss but the boss needs you, Ms. Thalia,” Silver stated and I look at his eyes there was a sincerity and plea on them. “Giovanni can function without me, he is doing that for the past two years,” I said to them.

“Because that’s what he wants the public to see that is the unbothered and unwavering,” Silver.

“That’s pointless, Silver I still don’t find the logic why he wants me when all he did is to push me away from him,” I said to him and he nodded. He is about to speak when Hansel’s phone rang and he showed me the caller so I rolled my eyes.

I lend my hand and Hansel put his phone on it. “Excuse me,” I said to them and they both nodded. I answered his call as I walk my way towards the mini garden outside my house. I inhaled the fresh and cold wind.

“Hansel, what’s the update? I told you to update me every minute,” the bossy Giovanni said over the phone so I cleared my throat. I heard his familiar voice again and my eyes widened.

“Thalia speaking,” I said and there was silence over the phone so I took the chance to speak.

“Giovanni, I am not going back to the Netherlands anymore,” I firmly said to him so he can understand that I can’t just easily go to his country like it was nothing.

“Thalia, you are still my wife and I need you,” Giovanni said so I chuckled bitterly.

“It’s just two years ago, Giovanni how did you manage to change your decision easily? Remember, you pushed me away,” I said to him and every word I said there is heavy on it so he can wake up from his delusions right now.

“My decision is final, you go back to the Netherlands, or I have to drag you by myself,” Giovanni said and my mouth opened with his decision. What the fuck is with his brain right now?

“Did you hear yourself, Giovanni? Neither of your choices is my answer. If it’s your decision what about mine? You still haven’t changed, you still want everything under your damn control,” I said to him hoping he will reconsider my decision.

“You give me no choice, babe,” he said angrily and hang up the phone.

“What the fuck is his damn problem?! You’re still an asshole!” I shouted on the black screen. He pisses me off right now! If it’s not my phone the moment he hang up on me this phone flew away from me. How dare he act like that?!

“The soup is now cooked, Ms. Thalia. You and boss can’t talk nicely right now and he is undergoing some problem, so don’t add fuel to the fire,” Hansel said behind me so I sigh. “Thank you,” I said to him as I handed him his phone. “Whatever he is going through right now, he deserves it,” I mockingly said.

I went to the kitchen and I saw them staring at their bowls with their soup on them. Somehow I felt guilty because they have to wait for me before they eat. “Let’s eat now,” I told to them, and nodded at me. The table is silent like an angel is passing by.

“What the boss said?” Silver asked me.

“We just bickered,” I answered and he nodded his head. “Well, what can we expect? You two have ongoing issues,” he commented and I agreed with him.

I look for Hansel and he is not around maybe he is talking with his boss right now, what a loyal one.