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~JESSICA~I was sure that Leo could see the agitation and anguish in my eyes.Why was I feeling so guilty about the kiss??I already requested for a divorce. So why was I still feeling guilty?I had kissed him without reservation.Was I starting to really love him??“I made a mistake” I whispered as tears filled my eyes. “I made a mistake and I don't know how to fix it.”He lifted a hand to my face. “What mistake??”I shook my head, refusing to talk.He took a deep breath and then asked, “The whole marriage contract stuff?”My eyes lifted to his, the lashes stuck together because of my tears. “Yes.”“And I'm also worried about you. You love me and you've been trying to prove it. But I'm just scared. What if you stop loving me? What if you change? What if you don't fulfill all your promises?” I asked.I had barely finished before he pulled me closer, tightening his hold on me. And I knew his embrace told me not to worry. That he would always care for me. That h

~JESSICA~Leo wasn't upset with me.He had told me he wasn't, and the way he engaged with me seemed to suggest the same. But he had been distracted on the way to the hotel that was hosting his function, and his usual collective demeanour seemed frazzled. His colleagues had noticed too. At one point, his partner Frank had spoken about the expansion, and Leo had just looked at him, had just stared. And then he had asked Frank to repeat the question, and Frank had shot me a look of concern before replying. I was worried. I was also beginning to think Leo's strange mood had something to do with me. He had been that way since the argument about telling his mom the truth, and maybe he regretted what he did or what he said to her. If he did, would it affect how comforted I had felt because of what he had said? I smiled at one of Leo's colleagues, accepting their curiosity as a part of the event. I never expected my presence to go unnoticed anyway. I focused b

~DANIEL~It had been a week since I had last seen Jessica. A week without a phone call or message. Of course, I had gone without either for much longer. But things were different now. Because of the babies, I told myself. Because she was pregnant. Was she okay? Was the babies okay? How was she feeling? What's she doing right now? Where was she?Those questions and variations of them had plagued me since she had left my office that day.I had called home and I was told Jessica never returned to the house after she left with me to Nanumi.So where was she?? Was she living with her stepmom and stepsister? Or login in a very awful apartment again??And I could have got the answers to them with one simple phone call. That was how I knew I was lying to myself. Things were very different now between us. Because she was pregnant. Actually, not only because she was pregnant. They are also different things becaus things had changed between us. Things had become m

~JESSICA~ “I'm here because I'm choosing to be. And because I didn't think about it. I just came right here after I spoke with your stepmom” Daniel said after a moment.“Daniel, I'm not ready for all of this” I started. “I'm not ready for you coming back into my life and leaving again wherever you want. Why do you keep toying with my mental and emotional health? What on earth have I done to deserve it? Is it a crime that I love you so much??”“Jessica….” “I’m not done yet,” I cut him short. “Do you know how I felt waking up to an empty bed and an useless note asking for me to leave first?? I searched everywhere for you in Nanumi because I didn't want to believe that you would leave without me. Not after the great time we spent there!”“Do you know how hurt I felt when I realized that it's true? That you really left me behind and wanted to make me a laughing stock and all because of what?? Because you ran off to meet Crystal after our little argument of havin

~JESSICA~My entire body went cold.I stood frozen, staring at him as if he had just pulled the floor out from beneath me. His words kept echoing in my head—drugged… recorded… accident… Crystal.No. No, no, no.I shook my head slowly, clutching my arms around myself as though I could hold my breaking pieces together.“You’re lying,” I whispered, though my voice trembled. “You have to be lying. Crystal wouldn’t… she couldn’t….”“She could. And she did.” His voice was low but steady, like he was willing me to believe him. “That woman has done nothing but destroy everything good around me. Around us. She doesn’t love me, Jess. She just doesn’t want to let me go.”My lips parted, but no words came. I didn’t know what to say. The ground felt uneven beneath me, my thoughts spinning so fast I couldn’t catch them.If what Daniel was saying was true… then everything I thought I knew….every wound I carried….had been twisted by Crystal’s hands.I had accused and blamed