A handsome tanned-skinned man with beautiful sea-green eyes was lying leisurely with his legs crossed and his hands folded behind his head. His eyes were closed although he wasn't asleep. While he was lying down a butler entered his room. The butler trembled in fear with each step he took. Even though the handsome man heard his footsteps he was unbothered. The man knelt on one knee and began talking;
"My lord! An eclipse appeared on Anum Island,"
The man opened his eyes with a smirk and answered;
"Finally! It sure took long enough for it to finally appear." He cackled and left the bed for the bathroom.
"Get my clothes ready I will be visiting the hospital for a meeting shortly." The middle-aged man did as he was instructed and hurriedly left the room.
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It was raining heavily outside and there were no cars on the street except for the traffic lights flickering in the darkness of the night. The Daily Guard Media House was in the middle of the story buildings by the side of the road. The doors of the media house slammed open and a young girl was thrown outside by some macho men and a man dressed properly in a cheap suit;
"Stay out! And don't ever return to this organization again". The girl stood on her knees and begged as tears filled her eyes, begging to gush out. She tried to hold all the pain she felt inside her chest but she couldn't. She sniffled and as she looked at the man, tears she didn't know she was holding spilled over and rolled down her cheeks like a river escaping a dam.
"Mr. Pete, please don't do this to me. I will be better. Give me another chance... one more chance, please. I will be the best journalist you've ever had." Mr. Pete took a long stride to stand only a few steps away from her, then he threw her purse in her face forcefully and angrily. Mahina flinched in pain at the sudden action.
"Miss Mahina nobody will ever want to hire an incompetent worker like you. Take it from me. Give up on trying to succeed as a journalist and take on the job of a waitress that will fit you well... now please leave my premises before you draw unnecessary attention" Mahina gasped, her eyes fell on the flowing water on the ground and she threw her hands in the air before landing them forcefully on the ground. It was still raining heavily and she was completely drenched with water. She cupped her face and thought of how life had treated her unfairly and she asked herself;
"What sin have I committed to deserve this? Mother! Uncle! why did you both abandon me in this cruel world? I can't go on like this, why didn't you just take me, that way we could have been together and happy in a different life." Mahina sniffled as she gathered herself together and stood up. She walked silently in tears down the isolated road with street lights flickering in the dark.
Life was not like this for Mahina in the past. She used to be her mother's treasure and her uncle's princess. It all started in the summer when she was fourteen years old.
FLASHBACK
A mother and daughter were under the big dining table in the mansion at night, having a tea party. They were giggling excitedly. Little Mahina picked up her tea mug and said to her mother;
"Mrs. Reyes do you care for a cup of tea?"
"Oh yes my dear if you don't mind" she smiled at little Mahina's endearing ways.
"So tell me Mrs. Reyes how do you like your cup of tea? Do you want two cubes of sugar or just one?... I know! My mummy doesn't like her tea with sugar so I am sure you also wouldn't care for any." She giggled as she handed a small teacup to her mother.
"I must say It's aromatic and very refreshing, I love it." The mother and daughter's conversation continued until the entrance door of the main house creaked. Little murmurs filled the air. The murmurs were becoming audible with each step the strangers made. Cautiously, Mahina's mother, Mary drew her daughter into her embrace and said to her under her voice;
"Keep quiet sweet pie!" In a low tune, she gestured by putting her finger on her lips. Mahina held her mother tightly with terror written all over her face. Mary's face changed from fear to disgust as she was gradually recognizing the voice of the man speaking.
"Brown!" Came the menacing voice again talking to her husband. She tried to figure out who could be frolicking with her husband in their home but she couldn't recognize the voice. "Who could be flirting with my husband by this time in our matrimonial home?" Mary wondered deep within her.
At first, when she heard her husband's voice she was slightly relieved and she was about to leave from hiding under the table. But when she heard her husband's guilty defensive words she stopped in her tracks:
"Keep quiet! My wife and daughter are sleeping; I don't want to wake them up..." He shushed the woman. Mary suddenly felt the urge to scream to release some of the pain that was building up inside her. But a part of her wanted to listen to what her husband and his mistress were saying. Even though it was tearing her apart, she held everything inside and listened.
"What? Are you being serious now? You are worried about your wife and daughter... What about me? What about our two daughters Ava and Ella? She has only one daughter for you, but I have two and another on the way." At that very moment, Mary felt her walls of defense crashing down. Her chest tightened and her breathing slowed down, she carefully helped her daughter to sit on the floor. She warned her not to leave there, and she got up and left from under the table.
"Reyes, what is going on here? You have other children apart from our daughter?" she looked at him anxiously for his reply. Her eyes were already red and her hands were sweaty from fear and anxiousness. Brown was shocked by his wife's sudden appearance. He wasn't expecting her to be awake and at the reception area. He was confused and didn't know how to react to all the drama happening before him, he tensed up and became emotional.
He knew he had to defend himself by all means. He didn't want to look like the bad guy so he swallowed hard and decided the best means of approach was to tell the truth and own up to his own mistakes;
"Yes! I have two beautiful twins with her, Ava and Emma. What did you expect? That I'd be waiting for you forever to bear me children? We were married for ten years, ten years! We had no children. Our businesses were doing very well. Our empire was becoming well known throughout the nation, and you had no child, not even a single one for me. The news was beginning to spread about me spreading my seeds on an unfertile land. And that my associates will be the ones to end up inheriting my empire because my wife is a desert... I knew I had to do something and that was when I met Karin. The two of you got pregnant at the same time. Just when I was beginning to regret my action thinking I was too hasty...She gave me two healthy children and... you gave me one unhealthy child. It was then that I knew my decision was the best."
Mary bit her lips until it was almost bleeding as a result of the pain she was feeling. All her life, she has loved one man and that was Reyes. She loved him so much to the extent she was willing to do anything for him, even if it would cost her life. At that point, Mary felt so little because of her lack of early fertility, she somehow found herself blaming herself for everything. She was helpless. There was no one around to tell her it would be alright. And there was no way she would allow something like that to affect her sweet little angel. She didn't know what to do. After a while of silence, she said;
"I didn't know you thought of me that way... what about all the promises you made to me? You said you would love me in the rain and the sunshine for eternity. You said we were one body and my pain will be your pain and yours mine. Do you feel it Reyes? Do you feel my pain from your betrayal?"
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Mary was in pain and agony as she spoke to Reyes. But he looked unaffected by her words. It was as if he was glaring at her in mockery when she spoke to him. She sighed painfully and wiped her tears away as she set her eyes on him again.
"You are so naïve, Mary... That's the problem with you. Men say that all the time to woe the girl they are pursuing and I am not any different…"
While he was still talking Ava and Emma left the car where they were waiting for Karin and Brown and got inside the Mansion. Eva ran and hugged Brown after catching his glimpse.
"Daddy! Why are you taking so long? We have been waiting for you?" Mahina who had been crying for a long time under the table finally came out. The first person she looked at was her father, then she looked at Eva and then at Emma who was clinging to her mother tightly.
When she turned to look at her mother, her mother was already falling to the floor. Mary collapsed on the ground holding her chest tightly in pain. Mahina covered her mouth in shock with her two hands and fell to her knees;
"Mother! Mother! Please wake up, what is wrong with you?" Mahina's eyes were filled with tears and pain in them.
Brown, Karin, and their two daughters just stood by watching as little Mahina was struggling to wake her mother up. Karin on the other hand was almost about to burst out laughing at the collapsed woman on the ground until she got a glare from Brown.
"Mother! Mother! Father! Please come and help my mother she's no longer moving." Mahina's tears were dropping profusely on her mother's face. Little Mahina couldn't think straight, she was confused by her mother's state.
"Princess move to the side, let me take your mother to the hospital"
Mary's loyal guard gently moved Mahina to the side, picked up her mother hurriedly, and rushed her to the hospital.
Mary was rushed into the emergency room but before the doctor could check on her she gave up the ghost. The doctor came out and announced the news to little Mahina;
"Little miss… I am sorry... your mother passed away". A few steps away from her were her father and her stepmother. They had just arrived when the doctor announced her mother's death. She sighed and tried to recall the train of events and how it got to this point.
It was almost unbelievable to Mahina that her mother died just because of a heartbreak from her father. She wanted to believe that there was more to her mother's death but no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't find evidence that there was more to her mother's death. Drops of tears fell from her eyes continuously without the slightest sound heard. She wiped her tears away, but new ones just kept flowing, no matter how many times she wiped them away.
A while later, another man in a lab coat approached Mahina and asked her;
"How would you like your mother for her burial? Cremated or her dead body?" Was that even a question to ask a young girl like herself, she thought... how insensitive are some people? She gathered all the strength she could muster up and answered;
"Cremated!" her saddened gentle voice pierced the doctor's heart. Realizing how harsh his questions were he apologized:
"I am sorry," said the man and he bowed a little before he left her there despondent.
There was no one to console her nor to tell her everything would be alright. She was just one little girl who thought she had everything she could ever desire in life. A mother who loved her dearly and a father who looked out for her, until some moments ago when everything turned upside down.
Where was she to go from here? She was extremely confused to think straight. She was devastated and felt alone in the whole wide world. She hugged herself sadly as she stood in a corner in tears. Shortly a man brought out her mother's remains inside an urn and handed it to her. She collected it and hugged it tightly as she made her way to the exit. Her mother's men ushered her into the car. It was a silent drive to her mother's ancestral temple where she was to perform her mother's final rites. Her mother was no more. All the memories she had of her mother were just a reminder that she existed. She felt antsy throughout the drive but remained determined to carry out her mother's final rites.
Upon their arrival, there was already a car parked at the corner of the temple. It was her father's car. She didn't pay much attention to it. She carried her mother's remains and walked up the stairs leading to the temple in contemplation. She got into the temple and set her mother's remains in her place. She placed her hands together in a prayer form and let out all the pain to flow from her eyes. While she was at it, she felt a strong hand placed on her shoulders. She opened her eyes and saw it was her father. He didn't even kneel to pay his respects. He just stood there and said to her;
"When you are done with your mother's final rites, don't bother going back to the mansion. Here is your uncle's number. Your mother's brother's number. Call him to come pick you up from here. I am going to set things right by marrying Karin. We will raise our children together with her as one big family."
"Father, what about me? Am I not your child as well?" Was the most painful question Mahina dared to ask her father. In the hopes of reminding him that she was also his daughter and that she was very much alive.
"Maybe you are! But you are a mistake. What am I supposed to do with a sickly heir like you? I am sorry we brought you into the world... but know I reject you as my child. You are disowned." The place was silent. Mahina didn't utter a word again. She just stood looking at the man appalled by the train of events.
That day her father and stepmother travelled away to an island and got married there. While Mahina's Uncle, Damian, took her in and raised her as his child.
END OF FLASHBACK
Mahina screamed and slumped on the side of the road as rain continued to fall on her profusely, with no mercy. Her bones ached from the cold weather, she was struggling with the symptoms of her ailment. She slowly closed her eyes and waited for the worst to happen.
Just when she thought it was the day she would finally join her mother and uncle, she suddenly felt as if she was being carried. At that moment she believed in the saying that 'while you think you are planning your life the universe is planning something different for you.' She could hear the small chatter of people around her even with her eyes closed. Although she wished they left her for death.
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