Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Secret Heiress' Return: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 9

"Why are you even here?" asked a middle aged lady as she entered the room, not bothering to hide the disdain on her face as she watched me peeling the apple for her son.Just two days ago, Theo, my boyfriend, met an accident, resulting him to be in the hospital. Ever since then, he had been unconscious. The doctors said he's in stable condition now and that we just needed to wait for him to finally gain some consciousness. "There was no one taking care of him--" "What are you trying to say? That me, as his mother, is not capable of taking care of my own son?" I shook my head vigorously. "N-No, ma'am, that's not what I am saying." "Get out of this room and don't ever show your face again," she said and by the way she said, it looked like there was nothing else I could do. And she looked like she's moments away from grabbing my hair or worse, shoving the knife I was holding to my face."Please let me know if there is something I could do," I said but she just gave me a death glare a

The sound of the bell continued to ring in my ears as I saw Theo and Heather walking inside the place.I swallowed hard, immediately realizing that Theo should not see me here.With a hushed voice, I turned to my coworker and faked a reason to be able to excuse myself. Mercifully, she agreed and I immediately ran towards the staff room and slammed my back against the cold wall, hoping it would somehow help calm me down.My heart continued to thunder as I took a deep breath.What is he doing here? Did Heather force him again to come? My fists clenched. I can't be seen here. I don't want him to see me here. He will just feel bad and I don't want him blaming himself why I ended up working here.Immediately, I went to talk to Melissa to give me an early day. I told her I have a quiz to catch up and she immediately let me go.I felt bad for lying but I can't be seen by my boyfriend.I fished the phone from my pocket and texted.'Can I meet you now instead?'It did not even take five minute

In movies the people who had been hurt by others seem to get back up pretty easily. They declare they were done and then that's it. It was as if the pain was never there to begin with. It was as if they woke up one day and forgot everything. Forgot every shard that pieced her flesh. Forgot every memory that broke them.It was not the case for me. I guess that's why people love those movies so much. They see the main character picking themselves up after a downfall and it's just satisfying. I reckon it's going to take longer for me as much as I hated it. I hated it. I hate looking at myself in the mirror and barely recognizing myself. I hated how I let Theo treat me the way he did. I hated how I did not see him truly from the very beginning. If I had, it would have saved me a lot of time. It would have saved me from all of this. I stopped on my tracks and looked up the billboard sign. It had been there for longer than I can remember and it was only now that I truly noticed it. It's

I can feel the gazes of all the customers inside the restaurant. I wanted the ground to swallow me whole. Heather was seething as she looked at me, accusing me of something. I should have seen this coming. I should have expected this to happen."Please, miss, let us settle this quietly. Valerie did nothing wrong. I would take full responsibility on what happened here," Melissa said, trying to coax Heather but me and Heather know there is no amount of coaxing from other people that would satisfy her. She is doing this to punish me.Heather stepped forward and the whispers inside the restaurant suddenly became to loud. They felt like tiny needles forcing their selves all the way into my skull, echoing inside my head like nightmares."Is this your way of taking revenge, Valerie?" Heather took another step forward and I could not even look her in the eye. I prayed that the ground would just open up and swallow me whole. I prayed that something would happen to divert all the people's gaze

There is no way I would accept his offer. There is no way I would even consider it. There is no way I would let myself be a pawn of whatever sick game he's playing. Azrael King never does anything if it's not for his own benefit. As for me, I don't see anything that would benefit me if I work with him.I hate that it ended like this -- me crying over a relationship that was never meant to work in the first place and my ex-boyfriend happily in a new relationship with a girl whom he chose because she was rich. There is no point in me telling them who I truly am. I will talk to Azrael again and propose another proposal other than marriage and then when it's settled, I can go away and start over to a new city where nobody knows me. Melissa gave me an earful yesterday and even though she acknowledges that it was totally not my fault, she told me to let her handle matters like the ones that happened. Even if I wanted to do it, there is no way Heather would just let me off the hook. She mea