A quote once goes by as, 'we can only understand the true meaning of death, after it has placed its own hands into someone we loved so dearly'. Zoey was trembling uncontrollably and Dionysus had to stop her every ten seconds just to breathe and calm down again. "Did you tell your mom and Zamantha?" Dionysus asked after Zoey was finished telling him everything. It took Zoey nearly twenty minutes to do that yet Dionysus was all so patient and calm even though deep inside him, he was fuming mad and wrathful. Zoey shook her head."I was too scared. I don't want them to worry about me. Besides, my father died a week after that. Everyone in my family was devastated as hell." Seconds later, Dionysus asked again. "Why didn't your older sister do anything? She knows about it, right? What kind of sister will do nothing when her sister was clearly molested?" Dionysus clenched his jaw. Zoey's lips quivered when a painful sensation struck her heart. That was also one of the reasons why she was
Deaths can change the way we see everything, because it is the grief that tears everything down about us. Our losses rearrange our world and the pain transports us to an entirely different universe and to an entirely different thinking.The old Chevalier was lying on the carpeted floor, with his eyes and mouth open, lifeless and seemingly not breathing anymore. He was surrounded by his own pool of blood that was coming from the massive gunshot wound on his chest that looked like it was directly shot onto his heart. Dionysus never knew that he could utterly feel his world crumbling down more than ever. What devastated him more was the fact that his grandfather's face looked like he had felt such tremendous pain before actually dying on the spot."Grandpa. ." Dionysus' voice quivered while his hands started trembling so badly.Dionysus' mind stopped processing anything right there and then. He froze on his spot and even though he wanted to crawl towards his grandfather, his body wasn't
An inspiring quote once said, 'when we think that all is really lost, when all is dire and just bleak, there is another hope rising again'. "I'm so worried here! Stop acting like a child for once! Your grandfather died and everyone thought it was you. But, there are still some people like me and Sebastian who believe in you. So, please. Please. Talk to us. ." Yet, even with that outburst from his wife, Dionysus still acted like insanity had consumed him. Zoey could only sob again. Sebastian sighed. "He's in shock, Zoey. The least we could do for him right now is to leave here and understand all of this little by little." Zoey's shoulders sagged. "How are we going to do that?" Zoey asked in a small voice after she had finally calmed down, before wiping her tears at the same time. "If you trust Dio, you should trust me as well. Do you trust him? Because all he has right now is us." Zoey looked back at Dionysus and her heart broke even more at the sight of her husband looking so lo
We all could presume that life is very much stronger than death, even though it cannot definitely stop death from transpiring. Yet, no matter how hard death tries, it cannot absolutely separate people from love. And, in the end, life is still stronger than death. "Here is the body, Attorney Alessandro. Shall I unzip the bag for you?" The doctor asked as soon as he placed the stainless metal trolley cart in front of Sebastian and Zoey where Hermes Chevalier's dead body was currently lying. The doctor got the dead body from the humongous mortuary fridges on the farthest corner Zoey wouldn't even think to come close.Zoey closed her eyes. She could feel all the hairs on her body rising in fear. She was just not used to seeing dead people's bodies let alone being inside a freaking mortuary where several dead bodies were kept for a while before being cremated or taken to a burial."No. I can do it. And, can I ask a favor? Could we see the body alone? You know, my assistant and I don't lik
Love and relationships combined are the most complicated. Because sometimes, a relationship can be destroyed by one, grandiose act or small, inconsequential acts that if being repeated can be very lethal to the love and trust founded beforehand. "The evidences that were all gathered against Mr. Chevalier was too great of a deal not to convict him as guilty to the murder. Then, this will probably be the first time you will lose a case to someone? Now, this is getting exciting."Sebastian's face turned deadly serious. Because what the prosecutor had just uttered somehow kind of managed to get on his nerves. Still, he tried to act cool and all professional. He also knew that several eyes were watching them from the two-way mirror. "Nah. I'm too arrogant to lose. So, just be ready, alright? Don't be a crybaby when I crush you on court." "Crush me on court? Are you joking? Because I don't think that will happen.""Are you two finished boasting now? I don't have all the time in the world
A woman can absolutely do anything for the man she loves. Because when she fell in love, she fell in love deeply, fiercely and irrevocably. Zoey thought that she had been dismissed because the automated voice was turned off and no one had opened the humongous gate for her. She waited for almost five minutes and was about to give up when suddenly, a housemaid opened the small gate beside her.Zoey thought she was going to be ushered inside but Dionysus' mother was already in front of her, eyebrows furrowing and arms being crossed on her chest. "So, you are the murderer's secretary? How dare you come here and talk about papa? Isn't it enough that your boss killed him in the most gruesome way!"Zoey was so taken aback. Now, she fully understood why the bloody hell Hermes Chevalier told her that Dionysus' parents never became a proper model for him and how his parents affected his way of thinking about the real concept of love. "Dionysus didn't kill Mr. Hermes, madame. He wouldn't do tha
Funny how others would say that 'hearts are really meant to be broken for it to be finally wise the next time around'. Even if that is true, nobody still doesn't deserve to get her heart shattered in the most painful way possible. "Zoey Veera Lavigne, you've been ignoring my calls and texts since yesterday. Do you honestly believe that I didn't watch the news involving your boss, Dionysus Chevalier?" Mrs. Zenaida Lavigne's voice was calm, but Zoey knew better. Her mother was obviously scolding Zoey from the other line because Mrs. Lavigne mentioned her whole name in a monotonic tone. Zoey massaged her temples because she doesn't need to be screamed at like that right now. It was the least she wanted and needed from her own mother. "Zoey! It's me! I know Dionysus wouldn't do that, right? I knew it. Please, tell me he didn't do it?" All of a sudden, it was Zamantha's voice turn to rattle the bloody hell out of Zoey's distressed mind. Zoey sighed as she inhaled a deep breath. The fres
A quote we should all know about is, 'the love of a family is life's greatest blessing'. A tear fell from Zoey's eyes. Dionysus' words were like a sharp knife cutting through her heart, again and again. Dionysus never even wavers to look directly at Zoey's eyes just to show her that he really meant every single word he had said and that he utterly wanted Zoey to digest it all at once and never forget all of it at all. Sebastian sighed because of the scene being played in front of him but he unequivocally knew that he doesn't have any right to intervene in that kind of situation. "So, that's it, then?" Zoey asked with so much disbelief and pain in her voice. "That's how you decide to fucking push me away? Why? Perhaps, you realize you suddenly don't want me anymore?" Zoey's almond eyes kept tearing up, but she promised to herself that that would be the last time she would do that for Dionysus. "Who said I want you anyways? I don't even like you in the first place." By then, lots o