บททั้งหมดของ My Drop-Dead, Gorgeous Rebound: บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

SARAHThe phone was ringing but I couldn’t be bothered to answer. It was only when I heard the banging on the door that I realized who had been calling. Tom was the only person who knew I was back in the condo unit where I lived before, and that I had left Carl’s house three days ago. There was no one to call to help me move. I had no one. I even refused Carl’s offer to help by making his driver go with me. Not only did it feel like an insult, I also didn’t want him to know where I would go while I thought of what next to do. Up to the last minute, I had hoped he would change his mind. That the three days we spent together would make him reconsider what I could do for him as his wife, not just in the bedroom but as a partner. I could learn. I got this far because I worked and studied hard. I could go anywhere.But the third day, I woke up to find him dressed and ready to leave, taking my copy of the keys to the house, handing an ATM where I could take my initial expenses as I settl

FAELola Leah had plans to grill us after dinner—I just know it. Jigo and me. The others would be sent to wherever they planned to go for the day. There was no discussion that an Engagement Party would be held as soon as possible for the closest friends of the family to keep up with appearances—a small price to pay for making a much-awaited event secret. That meant guests of about five hundred people. At least.I sighed. It’s started.But I could see how excited Lola Leah was to finally be able to do something she had been dreaming of doing for a very long time. Her eyes were twinkling, her lips couldn’t stop smiling, and her whole being was vibrating with bliss. We all could see this as we wrapped up lunch, the boys itching to go somewhere else. This only made me feel guiltier. We should have told her, included her from the beginning.She suddenly looked at me and I didn’t have time to hide the expression on my face. My eyes even felt a little wetter from unshed tears. Her frown was

FAE“Jigo!”I turned to the voice. Actually, all of us did. We were still in the restaurant, going through the initial and most important detail of the incoming church wedding, trying to wriggle ourselves out of schedules (mostly of the two because I still was officially unemployed and though Lola Leah was long retired, her social calendar was so swamped she still used an assistant), when someone opened the closed double doors and made a noisy entrance.I recognized the voice. It was Gabrielle, one of the females who used to hang out with the guys in the campus. I didn’t know her anywhere but there and it had been a long time since I had seen her. There was little change to her physical looks, I observed as she walked in, her curvy hips swaying. Still tall, and willowy and pretty. She was a cheerleader, and she did ballet. And she was one of those who were nice to me.That was when I still liked Carl. I had always suspected Gabrielle secretly liked Jigo. I wondered if they had ever h

FAEI saw from where I floated in the gentle waves how Jigo left hurriedly when a moment before, he was having what seemed to be an intense talk with Carl. Carl was left behind on the beach, and I presumed he didn’t leave with him because someone had to be with me. Jigo left Carl to take care of me, as if I was a child who needed tending. I didn’t know what to make of this. On the other hand, if I was correct, it meant Jigo and Carl were starting to patch their friendship to the way it used to be. That trumped the bewilderment I felt about getting left behind. Then I thought, only something important would make Jigo rush away like that. Worriedly, I stopped floating and swam back to shore.As I emerged from the water, I watched Carl. At first, he tried not to look at me in my tiny bikinis. Then he bravely smiled and steadied his gaze on my face as I neared him, though his hands fidgeted. He placed them on his waist, then on his sides, at the back… then he crossed them over his chest.

FAEThey didn’t let me see him. I saw the manager talk to Carl in a hushed but very agitated tone, and then the other guys were upon me, blocking me from going to Jigo’s office. I couldn’t be angry. I was only so scared. Too scared that when they assured me Jigo was alright, I burst into tears. There was no doctor in residence on the island so he was boarded on a helicopter for transport to a hospital in the mainland, City of Batangas. I was instructed to stay put as we got word he would only be there briefly and would be transported back before morning.“It’s really for medico legal, Fae. Something was put into his coffee, we’re thinking it’s a drug that had him sleeping very heavily. He’s in fact already awake,” Klyd told me on the phone. He, Mark and Ivan went with Jigo. Carl, Theo and Enzo stayed in the hotel to put order to things and, most probably, guard us, because Lola Leah was with me. She was having late dinner in the restaurant with friends who flew in that afternoon when