"Riley and I will clean up. You go, Diane, this is the time you've been waiting for" Kevin smiles before kissing her forehead. Already teary Diane nods her head and follows Arah upstairs. Leaving Riley and his father to tidy the kitchen together with their household help, they went upstairs to Arah's room. "I'm ready to listen" her only words before she kept her silence, waiting for her to talk.At first, there was silence. The older woman was skeptical to speak but found the courage after a while. "Hate is an understatement of what you feel towards me and I understand" already teary, she started to speak. Unaware that she has been wringing her hands. Taking a deep breath, she frees her constricted breath. It gained her more confidence and she even meet Arah's calm gaze."It was a lovely love story. Me and your father. Not until he started to control me. His jealousy destroys him...it destroyed me" Diane calmly relays. "Then the physical and mental abuse started" she bitterly sm

Sirens are approaching and upon hearing them, the bikers turn around and pick up their comrades as fast as they can before speeding away.People went out of their vehicles and rushed to the two cars. "Call emergency" A man shouted after seeing movement inside one of the vehicles. But before anyone did, someone had already called. More people came and tries to help, but they cannot do much. They tries to open the door and they succeeded with the other one. With shared efforts, they carefully pull the old woman out from the passenger side. While the old man in the driver's seat is whimpering. "Check the other vehicle!" one of the men yells and men rushed to the other side where Arah and Riley's car is in the wreck. Both drivers' sides of the two vehicles slammed together and doors were jammed by each car. They are trying to open the door on Riley's side when several police cars arrive followed by a black SUV. "Riley...Arah..." Kevin run to the side and helped to open the door but

"Who is Amara Rechner?" A question even Kevin could not answer. As Calvin waited for his response, he just stare at him in a daze. "My wife's daughter from her first marriage to an asshole neurosurgeon. But Arah is far from being like her father. She is a great woman. She is a doctor, a dermatologist to be exact. She just appeared at our door one day. Diane didn't ask her anything. We are just so happy she took the step my wife has been praying for decades. It's all enough for us. We don't care what reason she came here" he mutters at the same time thoughtful. Indeed he doesn't know his stepdaughter at all. Mulling his words, Calvin becomes thoughtful. "I ran a quick background check on her and she was linked to a certain CEO Luther Steel of Steel Corporation" Calvin stare him straight in the eyes. "A powerful family on that side of the world" he added while getting Kevin's entire interest. "And according to my intel, a highly classified one, the matriarch is the daughter of a Ma

"You got to be kidding me" Luther mutters after another note arrives with a name and contact number. But this time it has the name of the hotel and room number."It will just keep coming" Tim chuckles while watching the irritation on Luther's face. It has been like this every night. Notes kept coming, which he kept rejecting. But the women are persistent. They are becoming bolder after knowing Luther is free again. "I can't believe I tolerated this shamelessness before" he irritatedly mutters while crumpling the note and throwing it away. It has been the fifth? Or sixth? He lost count. "It was when you still have low standards with women. Just a cunt and you're fine" Tim scoffs before sipping his drink. "I have a very high standard with women, the reason I don't do relationships. But I'm a normal man, I need release. The only woman I want has been so elusive and impossible. It took eight years before I could make a move despite already owning her. She is so stubborn but adorable" m

"What do you mean, Arah? Don't give me incoherent words" for the nth time, Luther asks. He won't jump into assumptions until Arah speaks clearly. "Ther..." she gulps hard."I'm pregnant" she quickly added, closing her eyes. And it's been a while since she waited for his reaction but got nothing. Slowly, she tries to peek with one eye. Just to find him staring at her. Inscrutable of what was in his mind. "Ther?" she tries to call him"You've been away for four months with my child. That long" he grimly mutters. "I didn't know, I swear" she fervently tries to convince him, afraid of the grimness he is showing.While anxiously waiting, she watches his unremarkable countenance. But her brows furrowed seeing despair cross his eyes."I let you go alone with my child. Unprotected. I was so irresponsible" after a while of silence, he whispers. The anguish in his voice is evident that she felt it too. "Ther" seeing his agony, she holds his hands."I can't believe I can be this negligent.