Mr. Robert warmly welcomes the Tan family. Only their close friends are there.
“Hello Mr. Tan, thank you for coming.” They flirted.
“Thank you, ah! My wife and son followed suit. Oh! There they are.”
Neva was shocked by what she saw. She never thought she would see the man she didn’t want to see in her whole life. She has forgotten the past, but how the past still comes back to her memory.
She didn’t know if she was just going home, but what if Gilbert would ask? Gilbert had never seen Robert before, so Robert’s face was unfamiliar to him.
“Ah! Are they already? Nice to meet you, Mrs. Tan. I’m Robert Uy, and she’s my daughter Althea Uy.” Introduce Robert.
Neva was nervous. She was hesitant to answer Robert and shake hands with him. Robert waited for Neva to respond to his introduction to her.
“Neva! Are you alright?” Gilbert tapped her to bring back the memory.
“Ha! Yeah! I’m alright, nice to meet you too Mr. Uy! Nice to meet you, too Althea.” Neva’s raw smile. She stared at Robert as if she looked threatening.
“Ah! By the way, Mr. Robert, he is Robin Tan, my only child.” Gilbert introduced himself.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Robert, and Ms. Althea.” Robin said with a smile as he shook hands with her.”
After they introduced themselves, Robert took Gilbert to his other guests to introduce themselves. Neva went to the minibar for a drink. Althea and Robin talk.
“So! You are the son of Mr. Tan, you also look good.” Said Althea.
“Oh! Actually, not really. Are you Where is your boyfriend? Why aren’t you with him?”
“They will also come here with his dad. I’m waiting! None yet.” Althea replied.
“Oh! Okay, I thought you didn’t have a boyfriend. You’re so beautiful. Maybe a lot of men have flirted with you.”
“Haha! You lied again, Mr. Tan, ahm sort of, but only one. I want a man and I will do everything to make him mine.”
“Oh! Really? You obsess over him!”
“Ahm! It looks like that already. Oh! He’s texting that they’re close. I’ll leave you first! Because I will wait for them.” Said Althea.
“Okay, no worries because I’m going to mom too.”
“Hey! Mom, what happens? Why do you drink so much? You might get drunk because you haven’t eaten yet.”
“Leave me, Robin, I just want to forget.”
“What do you mean?” her mother didn’t continue to say anything because she immediately went to the bathroom because she felt like she was vomiting.
Neva vomited what she ate at lunch because she was drunk and she was not used to drinking, but because of the problem she was having, she was forced to drink.
Jean was there. She did not know the woman, and her face was not familiar to her.
“Mrs. Tan, are you all right?”
“Do I look okay? I’m not okay.”
“But why? Do you have a problem?”
“I have a big problem, so don’t find out first.”
Jean just took Neva to a guest room so she could rest there.
Roel and Gio arrived, and Althea met them. Althea smiled and hugged Gio. She was happy because they accepted her invitation. Her dad didn’t know she had invited the Reyes family.
Althea lets Gio and Roel in. Robin saw them immediately. He asked himself. Is Gio Althea’s boyfriend? How did it happen that Gio and Naneth, his ex-wife, were together and close?
~~~~~
“Hello Naneth, a letter came home yesterday that I didn’t open because it might be important for you.”
“Is that so! Thanks. Where are you now? Aren’t you off now?”
“Ah! Dominic and I left. We just have something important to go.”
“Oh! That’s good. You’ve wanted to be with Dominic for a long time, haven’t you?” Naneth annoyed Kyla.
“Hmm, you’re not that bad. We worked hard. We don’t have time to date, haha!” Kyla laughed.
“Oh! Really?! All right, be careful on the trip. Just let me know. Ah! Is that what you told me, that Gio has an order for you? What is his order?”
Kyla didn’t answer. She immediately cut the call so that they wouldn’t talk for too long.
“Why did you turn off the call?”
“She asked Dominic what Gio ordered us. I can’t say that we will go to the province to investigate.” Kyla replied.
“Ah! Of course you did the right thing.”
Naneth opened what was in the envelope. She read it; the letter stated the approval of Robin’s annulment; she jumped for joy. She wanted to inform Kyla in case her phone was turned off. She called Gio, but the phone was also turned off. So she thought she would only tell the good news on Monday. She looked up at the ceiling as she lay down. She told herself that she was finally free.
~~~~~
“Oh! Robin, are you here?”
“Shouldn’t I ask that? Why are you here?”
“My friend Althea invited me.”
“Are you a friend?! Althea mentioned to me you should be partners. Is that true?”
“The information you heard is just wrong. Althea is not my girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, yes, but in the present, we are no longer.” Gio replied.
“Oh! So! Why did you even accept his invitation?
“My dad likes it, so I respect that. Do I still need to explain to you?
“Did I say?!” suddenly there was tension between Robin and Gio, thankfully, and Althea arrived.
“Oh! What’s happening here? Will you meet again?” Althea asked.
“Yes, for a long time, ah! By the way, Althea, why did you tell Robin that I’m your boyfriend? You’re making up a story I don’t know about.” Disgusted Gio said.
“Oh! I’m sorry, Gio. Didn’t mean to do that. Didn’t we become boyfriends?”
“Yes! Before, but not now. So don’t assume. How many times have I told you we are done and we can’t go back together?” Gio replied while leaving.
Althea was embarrassed in front of Robin. She didn’t think that Gio would humiliate her like that. Althea’s good mood vanished. She just left Robin and followed Gio.
“Wait, Gio! Don’t you dare embarrass me in front of dad’s business partner’s son?”
“Ah! That’s why he’s here, because he’s with his dad. It turns out that your dad is a partner in our rival company.” Gio replied.
“Dad decided then I stopped him, but that’s what he wanted, so I left.”
Roel went to the veranda while he waited for Althea’s dad, who was busy talking to other guests.
He noticed a woman with half a mask on her face. She was talking to another guest. He notices it staring at him.
Jean was looking at the man standing on the veranda. His face was familiar to her, so while she was talking to the other guests, she looked at the man. She recognized the man from this side of view and his face was already transparent. She was shocked to see Roel. She suddenly thought of her past.
“I feel sorry for you, don’t separate my son.” Said Jean.
“Boss, what are we going to do with the mother and daughter?”
“Give me your gun.”
“But boss! Are you going to shoot the mother and daughter?”
“What else can I do to silence this woman?”
“Don’t… boggss! That was all she heard from loud gunshots. Until she was conscious away.
She was thrown into the man’s river instead of being buried in the ground. Fortunately, someone saw her. The wife of the acclaimed stepmother she is now. So she was also very grateful to the couple. Soon after, the wife of the one who adopted her passed away because of illness.
“Hey! Ms. Jean?! Are you listening to what I am saying to you?” the person she was talking to asked. That’s where her senses returned.
“Ha! Pardon?! I’m sorry, I was just thinking. Is it okay for me to leave first?”
Jean left, she followed Roel. But he was talking to another guest.
“Oh! Uncle, you’re just here. I’ve been looking for you before.” Said Althea.
“Yeah, I’m just breathing.”
“Come on, dad and Mr. Tan. Maybe you’re him, aren’t you?”
“Oh! Yes, Abigail. ”
“Is it okay for you to face Mr. Tan?”
“Ah! Yes, let’s meet him too.”
“Excuse me, dad, this is Mr. Roel Reyes, father of Gio Reyes.” Introduce Abigail.
Gilbert turned around, and he was shocked. He did not expect to see Roel that very day.
“Nice to meet you, everyone,” Roel said, smiling. Gilbert could not speak. He thought Roel was dead because a few years ago, they had no communication.
“Mr. Tan, are you alright?” Robert asked.
“Ah! Yes, I’m okay. Just wait. I’ll just go outside. I need some fresh air. I’ll be back.” Gilbert left to avoid Roel. Robert and Roel were having fun talking.
Gilbert’s mind is confused about how Roel came back, and he is still the owner of his rival company. He could not believe that an uneducated servant had his own company. He was so angry that he wanted to punch Roel.
“Dad?! Is there something wrong?”
“Ah! Robin’s son, nothing. We will go home.”
“But dad! Mom is gone. I’m looking for her so we can go home.”
“Ha! Why? Where is she?”
As they walked home, Gilbert bumped into the woman in a half mask. He was even angry because it hit him. The woman looked up. Gilbert stared at her even more nervous when he saw the woman.
“Excuse me, miss, did you see my mom? She is wearing a black dress.” Robin asked.
“Ah! Mrs. Tan, yes, she is in the guest room resting. She seems to have been drinking a lot more alcohol.” The answer of the woman.
“Okay, thank you!”
Gilbert was silent. The woman’s voice was familiar to him. He remembered his voice.
“Please! What are you going to do to me, Gilbert?”
“I’m going to silence you because you’re useless to me.”
“What?! But what about our son? He needs the care of a mother.” Said the woman.
“That’s right, Jean, take your child to the pit. I don’t have a child. You are the mother.” Jean fired a gun at the same time.
“Hey! Dad, what is happening to you? Why are you stunned again?”
“Let’s go, Robin, let’s go say goodbye to Mr. Robert,” Gilbert replied.
“Okay, I’m just going to mom. You go to the parking lot first. ”
That night ended with Robin’s parents restless. She couldn’t understand what was happening to his parents as he felt it saw a ghost.
~~~~~
Monday
“Sir Robin, a letter has arrived for you.” Said their housemate.
“Oh! Thank you, nanny, it’s mine.” He opened it and read. He suddenly felt sad because Naneth’s annulment had already been approved. He didn’t know what his response would be to that decision.
Abigail called to him. It wants you to talk to him. Robin agreed, because he also wanted to talk to someone. They met at a hotel restaurant near Abigail’s house.
The two also had a long conversation, and Robin told the story of what happened at the gatherings. Abigail was just listening, and when she told her about the approval of Naneth’s annulment, he was suddenly sad.
Abigail felt that, so Abigail held out his hand. To calm Robin’s mood. The two of them stared at each other.
At the other table, someone was watching the two of them taking a picture, but it was not yet known who had ordered that man.
It was no accident that Althea was also there because that hotel was owned by them. Althea saw Robin was with a woman. She went to them to introduce himself.
Althea was beautiful, tall, and well-shaped, with a healthy chest. So was Abigail.
“Excuse me! Robin? Is that you?” Althea asked. She kissed Robin.
“Oh! Althea, are you here?”
“Yes! This is our hotel.”
“Really! What a coincidence?”
“Won’t you introduce me to your partner?”
“Ah! Yes, sorry my cousin is Abigail.” Introduce Robin.
“Oh! Cousin, I thought your girlfriend?”
“No, we’re just cousins,” Abigail answered.
“Okay! But why do you look so sweet?” astonished said, Abigail.
“We’re very close.” Abigail’s defense.
“Oh! Okay, nice to meet you again, Robin. I’m leaving.” Goodbye Althea.
Abigail’s mood changed, and she felt a little jealous that it shouldn’t have happened.
What will happen to Abigail and Robin?