Richard's POV “ This can't be happening” my fingers grazed the decorated font all about it. It was really happening. I might have seen it as a joke but now, this is happening.Dropping on the chair just beside me. I stared around, Ryan was staring back at me. As though he was letting me know that he was here still. “ Are you sure that this is real?” I probed, staring straight at the ceiling. I was broken. I never knew that she meant this much to me. When she smiled, my whole world lit up and now, I didn't know how to feel anymore. I was numb not feeling anything. “Richard.. you have to take this in like a man, be strong” I erupted into chuckles. Tiny ones that rocked the room. “Be strong?” I questioned to which he nodded. “Why? Why do I have to be strong? Why should I be the one who loses her? Why should I let her go when I was the first one who she always wanted?” He shook his head, showing that he was silent just like I was and he couldn't say a word. “ What are you going
Reina's POV Richard. I had almost whispered out of my mouth when my eyes met with his. His eyes spoke volumes, which I knew that he wanted to utter. “ Reina,” he called again. This time a little louder than he had earlier. I love the way my name has rolled off his mouth. Just like perfection would have. I gave myself a pinch in my palm, sharp enough to jolt me out of any reverie I was having and back to reality. “ Have we met before? Aside from the crazy show you put on the day I was about to leave the hospital?” I asked. It has taken a lot for me to say that. The look in his eyes that spoke of how betrayed he felt pricked my soul. “ No, not at all” he gave way for me to walk through, but instead I stood still. Listening to his footsteps until they had faded away. When I was sure that he had gone, and he wouldn't take note, I flicked my head around. My eyes met his. Electricity jolted through me before I looked away. He was going to be the end of me. “Mother” I had a smile on my
Reina's POV “ Gosh Reina….” “ Mother” I whispered as I tried to sit upright, but she held me back. Stopping me from doing so. “ What happened to you? I was worried, I mean your secretary called and said you slumped, and you were rushed down here and. …”“ Take a chill pill, mother,” I said to her. My voice almost came out in a whisper. I tried to recall what exactly had landed me here, but no matter how hard I attempted to. I just couldn't. “ I am fine, mother,” I answered her. “ Jackson said otherwise”“ Jackson?” My brain was muddled as I tried to get in, who exactly was that. “ What are you saying? Jackson, your fiancé, he was here, and he said that'' I threw my head back. “ I have a fiancé?” She looked disappointed. “ Don't tell me you have forgotten that? Jackson, your childhood friend? Does that ring any bells at all?” “ Yes, I am engaged to him?” My eyes moved to my finger which had a ring on it, I didn't know what to feel as it felt surreal. The door was pulled open,
Richard's POVNever would I have thought that I was going to end up hidden in the bathroom away from glaring eyes, but now the glaring eyes had to be Jackson. I placed my ears against the door, trying so hard to listen to what was being said. “Why do you look so unbalanced? You shouldn't, you know”.Reina must be trying hard so that he wouldn't know that I am here. I was speechless, for someone who doesn't remember a thing about me. She was persistent, in trying to hide me away from him. “ Why are you here?” she questioned, and I couldn't help but figure out that her lips would have been culled when she asked that, and maybe she was fidgeting. “ I have to check your vital, I had recalled that I didn't do that when I was walking away, and so I had to come back” She let out throaty laughter. “ It is fine. I am okay, you don't have to do that” I could tell that she was anxious and Jackson, being who he was, was surely going to be suspicious. “ You know that you really don't have a c
Reina's POVIt was taking everything within me to sit up tight and plead with him not to come back. I knew already that what I had felt for him was different. So different that I wanted it to go on. When his hands had held mine, I knew I wasn't the only one who had felt that. How attracted I was to him. I listened, with my ears placed against the door, for his footsteps as it faded before walking back to the bed. It was going to be another sleepless night where I wouldn't get to see him. Somehow, the man who had called himself my husband had warmed his way through my heart. *********The chirping at the window told me that it was another day and all that I needed to do was lay still in bed as I waited for him to come in. He had kept to his words and had come in subsequent times, and I was longingly expecting it today. “Wakieee… Wakieee Ray,” running a hand over my face, I let out strings of curse. It was still morning, why was it that I had to go through such torture most mornin
Richard's POV“I don't want this” Reina mumbled in the still as Jackson stood demanding for an answer from her. “I don't want this,” she repeated. My heart pressed hard against my rib cage as I tried to ascertain what exactly it was that she didn't want. “This marriage, this sham, this facade, I don't want it. I feel nothing for you, I don't Jackson, no matter how hard I tried to. I can't fall in love with you”. Jackson's hands pulled from my clothes. His eyes swiveled around until they were locked on Reina instead. “You didn't mean that, did you? Gosh” his hands ran through his hair. “You can't do this. Why? What are you even talking about?” “I… I… I don't want this Jackson, I don't want to end up with you “The door yanked open, revealing a furious Mrs. Kourtney. “I should have known better when you kept refusing to go home. What exactly is he doing here?” her eyes held a contemptuous gaze, as though she were disappointed at Reina. Like she had done everything wrong and I didn't
Reina's POVI gazed absentmindedly at the mirror, my mind traveling so far. Since the day I had asked Richard to leave, I had regretted every single day, and I didn't know what to do. I couldn't place a call to him, nor was there ever any chance that I would bump into him somehow, everything seemed to be against us and I didn't know what to do. “ You are zoning out again,” Jackson whispered behind me. His hands trailed on my collarbones as he touched me. His touches repulsed me. I didn't want them. They disgusted me and I didn't want them. Flicking off his hands with a false smile on my face. I turned around to look at him. “ I guess it is the fever. The bridal fever you know”He didn't look convinced with my answer. I didn't know what I was to do anymore, so I tried to take a step away when he held me back. “ Let me admire my beautiful bride” his fingers trailed on my collarbones before stopping in-between my cleavage. I swallowed, trying so hard not to get his hands off. It was
Reina's POVMy stomach churned endlessly at the probably that this was going to be it. An endless pit that wouldn't have an end to it. I ran a hand almost unconsciously on my neck, caressing the necklace I had been given. I had messed up but I guessed that was it. I had fumbled this, messed up everything and now I didn't know what else to do unless someone came to help me. “ Do you love it? I wore it when I was getting married to your father, I am glad that I didn't give it to you when you were getting married to Richard, it's almost like I know it wasn't going to end well” She let out a sigh of relief, that conflicted with what to do. I wanted everything to be perfect but still …“ It is” I was sitting in front of my dressing mirror, barely a day after listening to Jackson's endless tales as he rambled on about how he didn't know who Ariana was. He had even let out a swear. “ But mother…” I flipped my head around, gazing at her not wavering. “ Is this right? I mean …gosh “ I di