MasukMARKThe doctor didn’t need to say more before I understood everything he meant, and the ones his mouth didn’t speak, his eyes conveyed.He knew that Alexa needed protection.But would she let me protect her?“Mark,” Vector called, distracting me from my thought.I turned to Vector, who was standing close to Reyna.“Are you okay?” Vector asked me worriedly.They were both staring at me with deep worry.“Did the doctor say something about Alexa that we should be worried about?” He asked me further.“No, he didn’t,” I said, shaking my head.“Are you sure?” Vector asked more deeply.“Yes, Vector, I am sure,” I responded.“I texted Shirley, and she told me that it was okay for me to come in and say hi to Miss Alexa...Miss Alexa didn’t mind,” Reyna said carefully.She didn’t want to hurt me, and at the same time, she wanted to let me know before going in with her flowers. I was envious and a little upset, but not at Reyna; it wasn’t her fault that Alexa chose to see her over me.“It’s fine
MARKVector and I waited at the reception area for the doctor to return and tell me that I could see Alexa.“You need to calm down, Mark,” Vector told me, but I lashed out at him.“Don’t freaking ask me to calm down!” I barked at him.He had no idea what was running through my mind.After Reyna’s call, I had been left utterly clueless. She didn’t give me much information to work with.The doctor wasn’t saying much either.At this very moment, I had no idea how Alexa or my baby was doing. I had no clue what happened that led Alexa to be rushed to the hospital.Weren’t we here for our parental classes a while ago?Alexa was hale and hearty for crying out loud!“I am sorry,” Vector said. “I am just worried that you would give yourself a heart attack or fall sick if you continue like that,” he added with deep care.But I wasn’t concerned about all that.“The only person who deserves any form of worrying over is Alexa and my baby,” I snapped and Vector raised his hand in surrender, choosin
ALEXAI opened my eyes and the first person I saw was Shirley.“Oh, thank goodness you are awake, ma’am,” Shirley said, releasing a breath she had been holding.Then I tried to move, but I felt a slight pain in my lower abdomen again, and that made me wince. Shirley became worried.“Should I call the doctor? Are you in pains?” She asked all at once.“I think I am fine now,” I told her.The pain had stopped now that I was no longer trying to move.Then I looked around and realized that I was in a hospital ward. I didn’t even know when I got here, and it was until this realization that it also dawned on me that Shirley had just mentioned calling a doctor a few seconds ago.“How did I get here?” I asked Shirley.“You passed out, Miss Alexa,” she answered.“How?” I asked, confused and surprised at the same time.The last time I remembered was walking down the stairs with Shirley, and then feeling the baby kicking, only for me to realize that it wasn’t the usual kicks because that one had
MARK“What are you going to do now, Mark?” Vector asked me as I paced about in his living room.I was back to his house.There was nowhere else I could think to go and I was too troubled to do anything or even think straight. Thankfully, Vector’s fiancée, Keisha, was kind enough to give us enough privacy. She left to the spa the moment I got in and she saw that I was troubled and needed to speak with Vector alone.“If I knew, trust me, I wouldn’t be here,” I said, almost snapping.Vector sighed in exasperation.“She has refused to leave, Vector. Mona has refused to terminate the pregnancy now that it is still early, and with what she knows now, there is no telling of the next damage that she might do,” I lamented dejectedly.Mona had become something else that I couldn’t control or force.Leaving her in my house was the only thing I could think of since getting her to leave had become impossible.“If Alexa knows about her pregnancy, she will not even want me coming anywhere near the h
ALEXA“Miss Alexa, do you want something to drink?” Lora asked me for the third time that afternoon.“No, I don’t,” I told her.I had been in the baby’s room all morning, wanting to fill my thought and rage with fixing the nursery, but I just couldn’t bring myself to doing it.Nothing was working.“Are you sure?” She asked me.“Yes, I am,” I answered.Lora was only being concerned and caring. I wished she knew that no amount of care could save me from the pain in my chest.It was almost impossible to stop thinking about it.Each time I closed my eyes, I pictured Noelle and Mark kissing, and when I wasn’t closing my eyes, I just couldn’t stop thinking about it, and as long as I did, the pain kept eating deep.I still couldn’t believe that they would do this to me, especially Noelle.Mark Ronaldo had never been a saint.He always had a woman around him, but for Noelle, she knew from the very beginning that I was in love with Mark. I told her the very first time I saw Mark and fell head
IVYIt was my mother and me now, alone, for the first time in over a year.“Ivy,” she called out in a whisper.She knew that she couldn’t say it out loud.Even though the cop standing with us in the room stood afar off to give us privacy to talk, we still needed to be careful because no one knew that I was Ivy.No one knew that Ivy was alive.“Mum,” I called in a whisper.She looked so thin and sickly that I couldn’t get my eyes off her. The pain of seeing her like this was unbearable. I had no idea that I would find her like this.“Are you sick?” I had to ask.She shook her head wistfully.“It is not exactly rosy in here, Ivy,” she responded.“If you are being starved or mistreated, I think reports should be made. You can’t just live like this,” I told her.I was already feeling the urge to write a report, but she shook her head.“I am not being starved, Ivy. It’s just that getting used to being here is difficult for me. I have to adjust. I have to realize that I am never going to ge
MARK“Good morning, Donald,” I said with a sneer. “How may I help you?” I asked him.It was a good thing that I was shirtless. That way, Donald was certain about what went down between the both of us last night.Seeing me here this early should tell him that I slept over, but I wanted him to actual
MARK“I don’t have an idea of what you are talking about,” I lied, but my tone was firm and stiff. “And this is not what I want to be talking about,” I added angrily.Vector and I then remained quiet until we arrived at Brent’s house.He was waiting for us in his living room, and we exchanged hands
ALEXAI opened my eyes slowly, and the first thing I did was to look around, and almost immediately, I realized where I was.The bedroom.I sat up, wedging my weight on my elbows as I continued to look around.Familiarity settled in my chest, and pain overshadowed me.All the neglect, abandonment,
MARKI was stunned to speechlessness at Alexa’s response.Even though we didn’t see anything, it was obvious that either something had happened, or it had been about to, and she had to lie?“Are you sure, Miss Alexa?” The detective asked deeply.“Whatever it is, you can talk to the cops,” one of th







