Ryan could only watch her leave his sight after throwing the document at him, her face crumpled down in a disapproving frown.
“You can't force me to do things against my will. I'm sorry, but your silly threat can't move me…" She had told him before leaving, stomping her foot away.
A deep but low grunt escaped his throat as he clenched his fist tightly, gritting his teeth in anger. “How dare her?” He growled under his breath, more like speaking to himself.
He was angry —no, he was in rage, and he felt like his anger would take over him soon. How did the table turn against him in a snap of a finger, eh?
Did he not threaten her enough, or maybe he threatened her more than he was supposed to? Ryan thought, his mind was clouded in confusion.
He badly wants to end everything with her, but she's making it seems hard, like there is a big deal in it, but to him, he found none.
“…Why try to breach the contract midway for no reason?..” Her voice rang loudly in his ears. Who cares whether he's trying to breach the contract or not? No one and he doesn't either.
‘It's my decision, yeah. Why does it matter to anyone?’ He muttered under his breath, his fuzzy mind setting out to think through of a way to make her do as he had planned.
He could not wait any longer, he wanted her gone as soon as she can. He had married her on contract because he needed to buy himself out urgently, but now that he felt it was all settled, he needed her no more?
After several minutes of battling with his inner self, he just couldn't come up with anything good thing to hold on with. She has no weak state —not the one he knows of, he could have threatened her with, and she doesn't seem like she's ready to see reasons with him.
‘How am I to go about her?’ He thought with in himself, running his fingers through his hair and ruffling it, too.
Ryan thought the best way was if he keeps ringing it in her, she might think he was not being serious with her —to him, his persistence would prove he was not joking with her from the start.
Seeing that there weren't any better thoughts to it, he decided in settling for it without thinking twice about it —well, he needed not to think twice.
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Night fell quicker than expected and a few hours had passed, Ciara was expecting he will still come to her but was surprised not to see him, she concluded that maybe he had gone to sleep or possibly he is still in the living room ‘cause it's too early for Ryan to go to bed. Like an owl, he barely sleeps at night and if he does —it's only for a few hours.
This was unusual, and it feels odd to her —the Ryan she had come to know won't let her off the hook that easily, else he gets whatever he wants from her.
Ciara, on the other than, who has been expecting him, was never ready to give in to his request either.
It might be his and not her decision to make, but she just could not allow him to breach their contract for some reason best known to him alone. Still, she dreaded he might have something up his sleeves.
Pushing her thoughts aside, she decided to go check on him in the living room but was surprised it was empty with no traces of him in sight.
On most nights like this, he's always pouring himself some wine, but he was nowhere in sight, where could he have gone to? Ciara wondered, feeding her eyes with the sight before her.
‘Maybe he must have gone to his room then…’ She thought with in herself with an intention of checking up on him in his room. She did know why, but she just felt like she should.
She shrugged her shoulders lightly, well, it's not a bad thought if she does so. Just when she was about heading back, the corner of her left eye caught a glimpse of the document.
It was laying on the center table. There is no way for it to be lying there itself because she remembered throwing it on his face and had angrily left him when he would not stop threatening her. Who does that?
She had wanted to shred the document to pieces before his eyes instead, but she quickly held herself from doing such. She was afraid he might do something drastic to her, he is the type with anger issue.
Strutting towards the center table, she picked it up and decided to go through it once again, since she felt she didn't understand what was written in it in the first place —she needed to be certain it wasn't on a joke and empty threat.
Going through it once again, Ciara realized that no matter how much she goes through it, she will still be left awestruck and bewildered.
‘What was he thinking for him to come up with an idea of divorce?’ She muttered like she was trying to read his mind as though he was before her.
She was pleased with him because he decided to be considerate, he had promised a few of his assets as compensation for the divorce.
Ciara knew that few of his assets as mentioned means fortune, but she wasn't moved a bit. She needed not his money…she wanted something else from him instead.
It doesn't sound right, but it does feel right to her, she can't just leave midway and not because he wanted her to.
Ciara was never the type to fall for any guy, but lately, she realized she's starting to get head over heels with him, and she is not ready to let go of him —no matter how much he tries...
The days roll by quicker than expected, Ryan and Ciara doing their best in avoiding each other. Well, literally, it was Ciara that keeps avoiding Ryan just because she doesn't want him to make mention of the divorce near her.And of course, he figured out that was what she was trying to do but pretended to let things lie the way they were at the moment. He concluded within himself, he's going to bring it up again when she least expected it.Ryan had left on earlier that day, sooner than usual, and leaving Ciara all alone in the huge house.Ciara woke up but could not find him anywhere around the house, the thought of not seeing him that day, breaks her more than anything.She might have been avoiding him for a few days before that moment, and she was always fine with it —but not seeing him…?She groaned lowly under her breath but decided to let go. He will surely get back home before dusk, right? And that was enough to console her.Ciara's stomach growled softly, she felt starving. Th
*•Eight (8) Months Ago•*A stretcher was rushed out of an ambulance into the city hospital building, a few nurses were pushing the stretcher as it was escorted into a ward —a VIP ward.A man in his mid-twenties was laid on the stretcher, he was barely breathing —he's visibly in a coma. Although, he was putting on a new (clothes) but there were still traces of blood on his clothes, mostly around his left arm.He had a bandage on his head and some other part of his body —his left arm precisely, without being told, no one would know he had a bandage around his stomach too. He was given a first aid in the ambulance, which resulted in the bandages on his body.The gentleman was involved in a ghastly accident, but luckily for him, he managed to survive, falling into a nearby pond at the last minute. Well, of course, he was badly injured and lost so much blood. Before he was being rescued by a passerby, he was already in a coma and might have drowned if he wasn't rescued on time.The rescu
It was almost dusk already and Ciara had almost finished with her patient for the day. This time, she was not really as exhausted as she used to be —in fact, she seems to prefer him better than her last few patients.He is responsive and easy to communicate with, his state was not that better due to the much injury he sustained —but still, he acted like he was much okay.At first, Ciara had wanted to declined being his private nurse, but after much persuasion from the doctor, she finally agreed. Well, not because she wanted to.Finding out about the cause of the accident, Ciara felt she could relate to it —she had a familiar incident but not with her, it was her parents. There is only but one difference in it.Ryan was lucky enough to have survived, but her parents did not, they died in the scene. Looking into it several times, she believed it wasn't just an ordinary or a random accident, something fishy was related to it.—this made her grow interest in becoming Ryan's private nurse.
Over the few years, she had tried all she can, to fix him up with other ladies, arranging him up for a numerous blind dates on different occasions, however, none of them turned well as she had pictured them to be —her only son is really obstinate.Now, seeing him getting real well with Ciara, she felt as if she has seen the dextral lady she's been on the lookout for him —and without hesitation, she's ready to set them up together like she's been doing with other ladies.This time, she simply wants to be believing she is not wrong this time else, she will be left with no other option but to accept Anne as her son has desired. No, the thought of it make her skin crawl.“Earlier today, I saw how he was doing well around you…" Ryan's mother began, drawling her tone. “—well, I must commend your skills because it's really rare to see Ryan getting acquainted with someone he doesn't even know.”How does she explain what the older woman is trying to nail at? Should she explain her words as jus
Reminiscing over how they met and her motives for accepting the marriage contract, Ciara felt she had been wrong from the beginning —in every manner and everything.He used to be a pleasing guy —so, she thought of him. However, all of a sudden, he started changing his mindset towards her. At first, she did not examine much into his change of conduct, but soon, she was compelled to get used to it.As the contract stated, it is a one-year lasting settlement and each party ought to preserve it. Aside from the penalty for breaching the contract, Ciara in no way liked going back on her words, she always kept on with it to the cease.Ciara's preliminary purpose from the start was to get a few clues from Ryan, however in return, she ended up falling for him —she fell for the guy, who is nevertheless obsessed with his ex and barely treats her like she exists.She sighed heavily, with just one thought on her mind —sign the divorce papers earlier than he returns.Just as he had left it, the pap
“Ciara is nowhere to be found.” He stated with a small sigh afterward. “Well, I suppose she left.”“What do you imply with the aid of using ‘she left’? Just like that and for no cause whatsoever?” The voice thundered and Ryan was compelled to take the phone off his ear, the voice was loud sufficient to harm his ear drum. It was his mother, who was on the phone.Ryan sighed heavily when he realized her voice trailed off before placing the phone to his ear again. “I do not know why she left, but I got back home from work as regular and found out she's gone.” He informed his mother plainly, sounding more like it was a day by day habitual between himself and Ciara. “I tried reaching her, but it seems like she did not only go away but blocked me from gaining access to her.”Ryan's mother was angered on the opposite line, she understood something was fishy. This, she's certain of. Ciara may not just determine to leave on her own without any reason. Clearly, there must be something Ryan is a
Ryan sighed for the umpteen times and constantly rubbed his temple. His head was crammed up —packed with different jumbled thoughts of a wide variety, and they seem too tough for him to sort out.Everything was and used to head on very easy and fine, his great relationship with his mother was intact even though she used to be strict then too. All of a sudden, it seems like everything started colliding with one another —that was after he introduced Anne to her.For the reason best regarded to her alone, she vigorously kicked in opposition to his relationship with Anne without giving him any good purpose behind her rash action.At first, he had thought she was only trying to tug his legs, maybe to see how he would react towards it, but instead of things getting better —it could only keep getting sore as time went on.Against his consent, she commenced placing him up on different blind dates, even when none turned out as she desired. However, despite everything of these, she did not stop
“Are you certain she's the same person as shown in the photograph?” Ryan's mother speaks in the phone, her eyes diluting with an untold emotion.Ryan, on the other hand, was confused as he stared at her with his brows creased. He wondered who on earth his mother was speaking with, and what photograph was she referring to, is she hiding something he was not aware of? “Okay, I get it…" That was her undeniable reply before putting the phone away from her ear. As quietly as she had brought her phone out from her bag, she returned it in the same way, too.For seconds and without batting her eyelids, her intense gaze was on Ryan, who finds her stare uncomfortable.“What now, mom?” He muttered, suddenly looking elsewhere just to avoid his gaze being locked on hers. No matter how much he tries, he can't win against her —staring without breaking is one of the things she's in most cases good at her.He sighed heavily in defeat. “I know you are still staring at me, mom.” He informed her in a ca