Chapter 61: "Someone has been having lewd thoughts about an injured person."Ruben stared at Tess wordlessly. He seemed to be lost in the depth of his mind. "Do you trust me?" Tess repeated. Her voice wobbled slightly as a budding of fear rose in her heart. Truthfully, she was still in doubt about the recent occurrences. Luke, Ruben, Brittany's and Lucas's heinous plot, and the strange events that came with it. She felt everything could be a dream, a long bittersweet dream. A mix of steamy passion, bliss and dreary tragedy, fiction-like. She had been too busy to process the whole situation but now that she thought of it, what if it was all a dream? What if she was still living in the past, six years ago, and all of these were a manifestation of her wishful thoughts, a warm family and loving husband. "Tess, You are my world. When one loses trust in their world, they lose themselves and their reason to live." Ruben's voice pulled Tess out of the hazy layer of fog clouding her senses

Chapter 63: "Hmmm, Good genes" The Father and son held an intense staring contest until Thomas appeared to diffuse the situation. "The plane leaves in thirty minutes, we have to hurry to the airport, it is forty minutes away with safe driving speed." "But mother is hurt." Luke's big almond shaped eyes moistened with tears threatening to fall off. Tess squatted with much difficulty, held Luke's little hands and placed soft kisses on them. " Mother is fine Luke, it didn't hurt." She spoke warmly, a tender smile lingered on her face. Luke stopped crying, he pulled Tess into a hug, his small hands held her awkwardly as he was being careful not to poke her wound. "That's enough, let's go." Ruben helped Tess up, his arms circled around her waist and he continued to help her all the way to the back. Luke strotted behind them, wiping his tears dry while Luuk's deadly eyes followed Ruben’s back, he still had his suspicion that Tess and Ruben had engaged in a physical brawl overnight and

Chapter 65: "You're so naughty Mrs De Vries.Tess returned to her room, surfing through a De Vries mart shopping app to order a new batch of junks. She was seated on a soft sofa, her back turned against the door with earphones in her ear, listening to intense soul music. Her body moved to the rhythm softly, this particular song had a unique choreography, the fans of the artist had a signature move of slumping their shoulders in a second time interval and Tess imitated the move. She didn't notice when Ruben opened the door as her ears were plugged with loud music. Ruben observed Tess calmly, her shoulders shook continuously and he thought she was crying, his heart winced in pain. He thought of various things to say or things to do to pacify her but his head went blank. He couldn't think of anything, he felt helpless. Tess was immersed in the song, she shook her shoulders faster, anxiety rose within Ruben’s heart. He cursed Theresa silently under his breath. He brought out a chocol

Chapter 67: "I love it so much I want to take it off of you myself, admiring every piece that tears under my fingers." Tess' gaze swept across the familiar faces. They were all present at her wedding ceremony with Ruben eight years ago. She remembered it as clearly as yesterday, their faces were brimming with smiles and respect as they handed her gifts and praised her endlessly. But it all ended when her father died. Tess observed the crowd, they all stood a distance from her, watching her with weariness, their eyes held a tinge of envy at her stunning appearance. Luke misunderstood Tess's actions as fear, he wrapped his small hand around her pinky fingers and tugged it softly. "Let's go inside mother, I will protect you." He said with firm resolution in his blue eyes. Tess laughed, flashing her white perfect set of teeth. She rubbed Luke's head in adoration and spoke, "Mmh, mother trusts you." Unlike the previous times where a butler came to receive Luuk and Ruben, the butler di

Chapter 69: "I'm sorry but are you dumb? I just said glue doesn't work on it, why would I try to glue it to my precious shoes then, do you know how much they cost?!" Tess was faster. Her thin left hand grabbed the chubby aunty's wrist, holding it in a firm grip. She turned her face from the old madam to the aunty who was standing by her left side and narrowed her eyes dangerously. "You would lose your wrist if you tried that again." The first aunt felt true terror for the first time in her life. Her limbs were visibly shaking and she went mute. She was trying to retract her hand from Tess's grip but it didn't budge. She was at least three times Tess's size but she couldn't use her weight to her advantage. She looked at Tess as if she was staring at a monster. Pain shot from her wrist and blood rushed to her face as her expression contorted in pain. Her wrist was about to be broken, she could almost hear the cackling sound of her bones breaking but Tess let go at the last minute. Th