Once again, the enemy had reached their hand out and tried to grasp what was his away. Once more, he had been tested and taunted. Pablo fisted his hands and lifted his steeled gaze but what met him instead was the agonizing sight of his woman suddenly letting out a screeching scream with her hands spread out and desperately clutching to either sides of her head and her eyes shut tight. “Tania!” He brought her into his arms, holding her dearly as he kissed her on the head and held her face so he could search her frantic tired eyes and speak to her. “Hey…you’re here with me now, they won’t dare come hurt you anymore. I won’t let any harm come to you okay?” She nodded tentatively and he kissed her again, wrapping his arms around her. Lifting his gaze above her, he saw a pensive Bloom who looked ready to ignite her water works once more if anything occurred with the woman. Her worry and extreme concern touched him, he was glad and thankful such people had been around when such a dreadfu

Bloom was surprised at the sudden move but that state was short lived when she felt the soft touch of his skin against hers from the feel of his face being buried into the nook of her neck. And she blushed vehemently when he drew in a deep breath of her scent. “W-what are you doing?!” And as usual, she was ever overly conscious of the public display of affection of which he was always deliberately dense about. This obnoxious attitude of his made her stiffen, thinking he was going to do more than assault her neck. But nothing transpired after that. He was only holding her tightly pressed against his chest, steadily inhaling against her skin and exhaling with delay. Bloom’s instincts rang, there was something saddling his mind again. She could read from his behavior and quietude that he wasn’t in the mood to discuss about it so she did what she felt was best and required of her at that moment and carefully traced her arms around the top of his broad shoulders, easing the friction of

"Leave”. It was a cold command as Hayes's tenor of speech reeked of his disapproval to have that man in his presence and the same space as he was. The look in eyes was grim and his face, stoned. Bloom was perplexed as the atmosphere around them seemed to thicken with malice and aversion. She looked over at Stefano who stood beside her with an indifferent look and nudged him to get his attention on her. “Why don’t you do something? They’re gonna rip each other apart!” Her voice was a low whisper-yell and what she was saying got Stefano quirking a brow. She wanted him to involve himself with those two? In that corrupt air that they reigned in? He fixed a crippling smile and brought a hand to rest on her head. “Bloom, we can’t interfere in their personal matters and you know it's rude. Don’t trouble that brain of yours and calm down, they’ll settle things between themselves”. How convincing and assuring he sounded and with such a smile like that. But the woman was unmoved by his wor

Bloom was getting sucked into his burning passion that melted all her restraints as she replied his corrosive drive. Not until a sudden wave of awareness hit her with a jolt and she pulled away on an impulse.A trail of saliva drew a connected line from her lip to Hayes's and when she gulped and flitted upward to look into his eyes, she stiffened and blushed embarrassedly.The intrinsic, delusional look within his dark orbs glinted with an unknown desire that she ransacked her brain for a fitting terminology until she settled for addiction, carefully watching how his hazy eyes glided down her face and he brought his hand to run down her cheek.'He definitely knows what he's doing, teasing me like this' She felt flabbergasted at his conniving act and swatted his hand away. She stood up with the look etched on her face as she bit the blush away.Hayes chuckled knowingly as she huffed and stepped away from him. She didn't say anything as she gave him a last glance before rounding his tabl

Pablo reflexively became rigid, aware of what was coming his way as Tania’s body laid on a stretcher, covered with a white sheet while the paramedics wheeled her towards the morgue. It meant she was really gone…she had gone so far to a place he couldn’t accompany her. As the distance expanded between them, so did the aching and aggrieving pain plunge deeper in through his shattered heart and broken soul. In silence, his tall frame rattled solemnly as his broad shoulders slummed along with his agonizing sorrow. The sound of hurrying feet came in from a distance, growing closer and louder by the second until they stopped behind him whose head was against a wall as his shaky hands clutched his shirt in a tight grip. Stefano saw the people who had arrived and pushed off the wall to meet them. Bloom looked devastated and fatigued. After she had heard Stefano’s report over the phone, she was inflicted with immense grief and sobbed all the way there. She had only known Tania for a short ti