MasukMARK“Are you sure about this?” Vector asked me for the third time in five minutes.“Yes, I am, and Brent has said that it can work,” I responded with the same confidence. “Is there something you are worried about?” I asked him.“Will Alexa go with this new plan?” Vector asked me.I heaved deeply and my shoulders fell.Even before Vector mentioned it, I had been thinking deeply about it. Thankfully. Brent already said that it would work that way, but just as Vector asked, Alexa was the only thing I was worried about.She had been very difficult lately. She was the only one who would make this harder for me and I had no doubt that that was exactly what she would want to do.It was as though Alexa had taken a vow to counter me at every angle.“I will have to convince her,” I eventually answered, but not with the same confidence anymore because a big part of me doubted it.“You couldn’t convince her to start living with you after you both got married,” Vector reminded me.“She had her re
IVYI paced about the cabin like a lunatic because it was almost noon and I hadn’t heard a thing from Lina Barry.Wasn’t she supposed to call me?From the moment she left yesterday, I had kept the new cell phone that Drew gave to me, but not a single beep. All night, I stayed awake, watching and waiting, but nothing.And now, still nothing.“You didn’t take your coffee or eat your food,” Jack said from behind me.I turned and saw that he had walked into the cabin. He left about an hour ago and we didn’t even exchange any words. Lately, Jack and I had had little or nothing to say to each other and we simply left it at that.“I didn’t even realize you made me something,” I said.I glanced at the kitchen counter and that was when I noticed that Jack had actually made me coffee and food, but till this very moment, I hadn’t even noticed it, and that was because food was the last thing on my mind right now.“You didn’t sleep a wink too,” Jack observed.“Were you watching out for me last nig
ALEXA“Mark sent the money without asking any questions,” I told Noelle.I couldn’t deny that I was still surprised at what he did even until the next day. And now that Noelle and I were on our way to have a formal meeting with Tatiana, I just had to talk about it.“I think you forget that Mark Ronaldo is a fucking rich man,” Noelle said, shrugging.“No, it’s not that,” I responded.“Then, it’s what?” She asked me.“He didn’t ask any questions, Noelle. I mean, I could have demanded for such an amount of money to run away from him, but he didn’t. The moment I told him about it, he sent the money to me,” I tried to explain, hoping that Noelle would understand my reaction.“And that is something to be worried or surprised about?” Noelle asked. “Has Mark ever withheld money from you before?” She questioned further.I didn’t need to think deeply before I know what the answer was.“I never liked Mark, but one thing I know about him was that financially, you never lacked. Only that you never
MARKIt had been more than forty-eight hours since Alexa and I last spoke when she told me that we needed to talk. Unfortunately, we hadn’t been able to until this moment when I arrived at her house.“Good heavens, help me to handle this well,” I muttered to myself in exasperation.A part of me feared for the outcome of this. I knew that Alexa would never forgive me for what I was about to tell her, and if it wasn’t for Brent, I would never have mentioned this to her.“Telling her is the only option, Mark. Until you find a solution out of this mess, there is no way Alexa wouldn’t find out, especially with how available you would have to be for Mona. It is best she hears it from you, and if you can, figure out a way on how to handle this situation together,” Brent had insisted.What he didn’t know was that Alexa had consistently given me cold shoulders regarding anything that had to do with Mona and her pregnancy.And that was even worse because it kept me wondering what she would do n
IVYFor two days, Lina Barry and I made plans. She didn’t have any other choice but to go along with what I wanted.It was the only way.All through, Jack refused to meddle in our affairs, which was very reasonable of him. However, it didn’t stop me from thinking about the news Drew had given to us days ago.Mark and Alexa were married...again.“So, after everything my mum and I did to keep them apart, they end up getting married again,” I had muttered to myself bitterly.It didn’t help that I also knew that Alexa was carrying Mark’s baby.Yes, I really shouldn’t be thinking about Mark and Alexa, especially with the situation I found myself in, but I just couldn’t help the pain that crossed my chest every single time. Also, I already knew that getting back with Mark was completely out of the option now.Even if Alexa wasn’t in the picture, Mark would never want me back, not after finding out that I cheated on him with Oscar all through the period of our relationship and that it was th
ALEXA“You are back in business, Alexa!” Noelle couldn’t stop screaming the words in excitement.I still stayed with her because I was too astonished to even think of leaving, and Noelle’s house gave me some sort of peace and comfort that I hadn’t experienced in a really long time.“Not exactly, Noelle,” I responded, trying not to get ahead of myself.In less than two hours, I had already eaten twice. Thankfully, neither Noelle and anyone in her household minded.Her parents were currently out of the country for their first honeymoon of the year. I wasn’t sure that Noelle realized how lucky she was to have parents who were still in love with each other, so much so that they still kept going for honeymoons as though they were only recently wedded.What they had was unreal. I wasn’t sure I would ever get something like that...not with the kind of complicated situation I had gotten myself in with Mark Ronaldo.Unfortunately, he was the only one I had ever loved, and I feared that he was
MARKI had just finished going through the last document I intended to work on when Vector called me.“Vector,” I said into the phone.“Have you gone to bed yet?” Vector asked me.“Not yet, why do you ask?” I asked.“I was thinking we could hang out at Dancing Devils tonight,” Vector suggested. “It
ALEXANo matter what I tried to tell Noelle, she just wouldn’t leave me alone.“I can’t leave you feeling like this, Alexa,” she told me. “I am spending the night with you and that’s right about it,” she insisted.And I decided to indulge her.After she drove me to get lunch just so that I would be
ALEXAI watched Mark leave, and still couldn’t tear my eyes away from the door until Donald held my hand and squeezed it gently.Affectionately.“Huh?” I said dumbly, turning to him as though he had said something to me.He smiled instead.“Down to earth, Alexa,” he said nicely.I shook my head to
MARKI arrived at work really early because like I said before, I was more than determined to fix things around my company and bring it to the top.The receptionist had already been replaced by someone else from the company, which was simply relieving to me.I grabbed the intercom and dialed my sec







