"If I were you, would you look for her?" Those questions hit him hard. He felt the agony he'd been suppressing for a long time and didn't understand he was sobbing because he was remembering the day... when his parents abandoned him. He curled his hand into a fist as he gritted his teeth and breathed deeply. He never expected that someone would open this conversation to him. The thought he has been avoiding since then was hard to answer as he expected. He sighed before he started to speak, "why—" "Why are you crying??" She rose to her feet and came to him, checking the tears on his face by moving her face closer to his. Axel tilted his head to the left and quickly wiped his tears using the back of his palm, then turned to face her. "I am not crying, you are drunk. You need to rest now," he pretended to be calm even though his heart was getting heavier while all the pain he had experienced felt

"Oh! I remember my mom told me to go to the market. I needed to hurry or else she would nag me again. Let’s talk later. I will call you," Aicko hurriedly ran inside the vehicle while her friend was left standing outside of her home. She sighed watching the vehicle move. She went back home, closed the gate to their yard, and ran inside. She was going to get her things before leaving the house and looking for her mother when she paused on the stairs and became curious. "Why did he suddenly give it back to me?" She was holding the necklace she was wearing. She thought deeply about how he returned the jewelry to her. She sat on the tread of the stairs, taking off her jewelry, and stared at it for a long time. "Wait. Where did I get it? I don’t remember that I met him before and what is his reason for giving it back to me? I thought that he would ask me to do some errands before returning it to me? What makes him

"Stephen’s POV""I have to go finish these files, sir," she remarked as she walked away. I was observing her as she walked through their office. I don’t know what is happening to me, why I suddenly show concern for her and why I have this feeling of protecting her all of a sudden, but I want her to be happy. I've been observing her since she returned, and I've concluded she's one of a kind among the girls. She has a unique attractiveness that can entice any guy, and I believe it stems from her abilities and enthusiasm in life. I grinned and returned to my office to finish my work; I had been examining and signing paperwork that had been sent to my office the whole morning. I placed my pen on the table and leaned my back on the chair I am sitting in, turning it, facing the glass wall. I heard a knock coming from the door of my office, I sighed before I spoke, "come in." 

 "I am not here to harm you, but I am here as a friend giving advice. I know you like Axel," Marie mentioned. She was looking sincerely at her eyes and you could tell that she was not pretending by what she was showing her. Marie was sitting towards Schina’s seat. They had met accidentally in a restaurant near where Schina is working. Marie reached for her hands and touched her softly, pleading, "I am begging you to stay away from Axel." She studied Schina’s reaction only to see how confused she was. "I don’t want to see a girl like you getting hurt because of him and… his ex-girlfriend is already back to take him again, I think you better distance yourself to not get hurt deeply," she continued, then smiled at her. "What is she saying?" Her mind asked she was confused why she suddenly warned her about this since she was in lo

 "Mr. Andrews?" He slowly opened his eyes and realized that he had fallen asleep in his office while reading the documents. He found his secretary standing in front of his desk and looking at him. He raked his hair with his fingers and threw his tantalizing eyes at her, "what is it?" He asked with a deep tone of voice. "Here are the files you asked me to get," she said as she handed him the folders and exited the room. Stephen leaned his back against the backrest and thought about what made him like about Schina, he smiled when he realized that she resembles with Janine though they are different in looks, they have the same thinking and talent. For him, Schina is better than Janine in any aspect, but he will never forget how he felt about her. "Maybe that’s the reason why I fell for her, she’s the same as Janine." He muttered. He look