Lahat ng Kabanata ng Till Divorce Do Us Part: Kabanata 341 - Kabanata 350

IVY“Donald Shell introduced himself and talked about how amazing I was as an actress,” Lina Barry continued.And I listened to her.“Usually, I didn’t even allow fans to come very close to me, but he was just different in a unique way…” she said.“How do you mean?” I asked with curiosity.“He wasn’t acting all star-struck and stupid. He spoke with a certain sense of reasoning, and then, he wasn’t just someone who knew me like all others, he knew every movie I had featured in, including the ones I played lead roles, and trust me, they were more than twenty at that time,” she said, chuckling bitterly.The way Lina said it sounded sweet, and I could almost fall for it as well.“As if that wasn’t enough, he had favorite lines from each of them. Donald Shell recited each line from all the movies to my hearing, and he said them all with passion in his eyes,” she said. Then she chuckled dryly again. “Who wouldn’t be intrigued with a man like that?” It was a rhetorical question, but I deepl

ALEXAHere came the deal day!As early as possible, I was already dressed in one of the most elegant outfits that Eva made for me, and I went downstairs even before Mark came downstairs.“Good morning, Alora,” I greeted Alora and took my seat at the dining table.“Good morning, Alexa,” Alora responded. “You look radiant this morning,” she complimented. “Do you feel better?” She asked with concern.“Yes, I actually do,” I said. Then I cleared my throat and added carefully, saying, “About last night, I was just tired and feeling sore, and I wanted to keep everyone away from it, including you. Mark, being a doting husband, insisted on seeing me to ensure that I was okay, but you already know what I told you about him getting infected,” I explained emphatically.I couldn’t believe how much of a liar this trip had turned me into, and worse, caused me to say sweet things about Mark when he wasn’t anything close to it.“I understand, and I am glad that you feel so much better this morning,”

MARK“How did you do it?” Alexa asked me when we got into the elevator.“Do what?” I asked her.She seemed to have gotten her color back, and I was grateful for that. A few hours ago, I had worried that she would pass out.“How did you know all that you spoke about earlier?” Alexa asked me. “I didn’t even know half of the things you said…well, not in depth,” she admitted.Something else I noticed was that Alexa didn’t seem upset with me. She didn’t ask me to take my hand away from her back even after I placed it back there when we left Mr. Gregory’s office and headed for the elevator, which I was enjoying anyway. There was just something about Alexa’s body that made me want to hold her every damn time.Then, she had stopped being hostile.“This is your opportunity, Mark, and if I were you, I would seize it with both hands,” a voice in my head told me.How could I not?For the past two days, Alexa hadn’t said more than ten words to me, and that was only in Alora’s presence when we wen

ALEXAWhen Mark stopped, it was as though the earth had stopped rotating.“What’s wrong?” I asked.And he made it worse by getting off me.“What’s wrong?” I asked again, trying so hard to resist the urge of grabbing the sheets and covering myself up with it.We were both gloriously naked, but somehow, I was the one feeling a huge depth of shame already. I didn’t want to believe that Mark was about to walk away right here and now, but that was exactly what it seemed like.I had never experienced anything close to what his touch did to my body, and if Mark ever got up and walked away, I would give up everything and never see him again, and I wouldn’t feel guilty about it because I actually gave him the chance to back out before we got to this point, but he didn’t leave.“Mark, why are you not saying anything?” I asked him, my anger simmering to the surface. “Why are you staring at me like that?” I questioned him further.“You have never had sex before,” Mark said.It was a statement, an

ALEXA“I slept with Mark Ronaldo!” That was the thought I woke up with, and as much as I tried to shake it off my mind, I couldn’t. It was lodged there, and it made me deeply shy.I kept the gift Mark got for me on the bed and we proceeded to have breakfast. Whatever he had to say, I wanted to eat first before hearing it.First of all, getting into the shower, I was reminded that today was the day we would hear from Mr. Gregory, and that was enough to make me stop reminiscing on the wave of passion that Mark and I had drowned in last night.What if he wasn’t impressed about the presentation even though Mark aced it? I could not tell, and neither could Mark, but the last thing I wanted was to return to Paris with failure.I couldn’t do that to my dad.“What are you thinking about?” Mark asked me worriedly as we waited for Alora to bring out breakfast from the kitchen.“Nothing,” I lied, shrugging.Then I tried to concentrate on the present instead of worrying about the future. Any mom