Lahat ng Kabanata ng COMEBACK OF THE REJECTED WIFE.: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

~ ANGELO ~"Can we not use condoms tonight?" Lissa requested, looking up at me with a pout. She wrapped her hands around my neck, trying to pull me closer for a kiss, but I turned my face, so her lips only grazed my cheek, narrowly missing mine."What's wrong?" She frowned, sitting back on the bed."You've been acting strangely for days now. Did I do something wrong?" She folded her arms, looking at me like a petulant child."Not at all." Smiling, I reached for her. "It's just..." I trailed off, struggling to come up with an excuse that wouldn't make her suspicious."I've been preoccupied with work. There are things I need to sort out," I lied through my teeth, knowing she wouldn't realize I wasn't telling the truth.She frowned, not saying a word, just staring at me like she was trying to figure me out. Sighing after a few seconds, she laid her head on my chest."You can tell me whatever you need to get off your chest. I promise to lend a listening ear."Your head first, I wanted to

~ ANNIKA ~He looked shocked when I stood up, as if he was expecting me to back down, to let him assert his superiority.Clearing my throat, I began, going through everything I had already prepared. It was as if I knew this was going to happen; I went through a rundown of the new design I was working on, the same one that was almost crippling me with its excessive demands.For the first time since I started my career, this was the first time I was working on a given theme, not from inspiration, as I had always done. It was a challenge for me, one I wasn't ready to fail.Angelo and the others looked shocked as I went through everything I wrote. He was surprised, like the others, that I had actually prepared for it."That's all I have to say. Thanks for listening." I sat back in my chair, a small smile playing on my lips at my victory.Without being told, I knew I had won the battle. "Is there anything you want me to elaborate on?" I lifted an eyebrow at him, smirking."Do you need me t

~ ANNIKA ~To take my mind off Angelo, and the thing that happened in the boardroom, I took half a day off to rest.Jonathan had already informed me he wasn't picking Powell and Pippa up from school because he had a meeting with someone.This he told me through a text he sent this morning after he took the kids to school.Like I said, he hadn't spoken to me since that fateful day, aside from when he deemed it necessary to do so."Mom, did you argue with Uncle Jonathan?" Powell asked, peering at me with his cute eyes. His twin sister, Pippa, nodded in agreement beside him, clutching her teddy bear.I stilled at his question before I cleared my throat, forcing a smile as I demanded, "No, why did you ask?""Why has he stopped smiling with you?""He doesn't help you in the kitchen anymore," Powell added, his mouth in a pout as he watched me. "Did you do anything to him?""And he doesn't read us our bedtime story anymore!" Pippa chimed in, her voice small and sad.Now, that amused me. "Why

~ ANGELO ~"Mr. Angelo," I said, my voice clipped as I stared at him with a fake smile on my lips. "It's nice to have you honoring the invite."Though my words sounded thrilled, my tone was far from it. I wanted nothing to do with the man standing in front of me, and I could tell he felt that way too.Had it not been for Annika, I would have called an end to the agreement. I wouldn't have wasted my precious time with this bastard, smiling at me like someone who had a secret to share."Mr. Jonathan," he greeted, inclining his head with a small smirk still on his lips. His light green eyes peered into mine, challenging me to back down from the stare, but I held on.This was a battle, one I wasn't ready to lose, and I won. Keeping my gaze on him, I smiled when he averted it at last. Sighing, he released my hand from the grip and sat down, the small smirk on his lips still there as he watched me.I sat back in my chair and commenced with the meeting. I began listing out the things I neede

~ ANNIKA ~My heart thumped against my chest as I watched him. Knowing he met Powell and Pippa freaked the hell out of me."Annika?""They're my children," I gritted out at last, glaring at him as I tried to conceal my expression, so he wouldn't notice how scared I was."Your children?" He frowned, drawing another step toward me."Our children?""Not really." I unfolded my arms and placed my hands behind me to hide them. The last thing I wanted was for him to see how much my hands were trembling. He would know I was hiding something from him."Not really?""Our child... died... just like you wished." I had to bite my lower lip at my words while mentally canceling the evil pronouncement on my kids.There was no need to let him know the children were alive. Knowing his child was dead might make him stop disturbing me."Like I wanted?" His face morphed into confusion as he stared at me like I was nuts."What the hell are you talking about, Annika??? Why the hell would I want my flesh and