In an elite mansion was a husband and a wife. Both in their middle age. While the wife was crying ocean of tears, the man was pacing back and forth. They heard the news of what happened on their island. The wife was crying at the possibility that her daughter might be dead but the father was worried that his daughter might have mentioned him to Andrew. While they were in the living room, the door suddenly bust opened. Eric and some men dressed in all black suit entered the room. The man knowing who he was quickly tried to run away but Eric without blinking shot him in the knee. "Ah... Ah... fuck." He cried. The woman was startled at what happened in less than a minute. "What going on?" She asked. Eric look at the woman's face and realised she knew nothing about what was going on so he explained everything to her. The woman broke out. She walked up to the man and slapped him hard on the face. She began to hit him hard on the chest while crying. "Why? Why did you do this? Why are you so wicked? How could you do this to your own daughter? Was the pain you caused her not enough? Why do you have to make her suffer like this? Why... why are you so wicked?" The man out of anger pushed his wife away, making the woman's body fall hard on the floor. His action angered Eric even more that he walked up to the man and gave him a hard punch in the stomach. He went up to the woman and helped her up. When he saw the woman's face up close his heart skipped a beat. She looks so familiar, like someone he has known for his entire life. He shook the thought out of his head and asked, "Are you okay?" He asked but the woman just stared at him. Just like him, she was also drawn to him. "Ma'am are you okay?" Eric repeated. "Yes... Yes thank you." Eric nodded and let go of her hand but as soon as she tried to stand on her own, she felt a sharp pain in her ankle and she almost felt but Eric caught her in time. "Ahh...my leg. She cried. "Here, sit." Eric made her sit on the couch. He examined her leg for a while before saying, "Take him away. I will take care of her." The men were surprised but they did as told. Little did they know Eric was more surprised than them. He didn't know why he was so adamate on helping her. He didn't know her. And besides, there were sevens in the mansion who could take care of her, but he didn't seem to trust any of them.
When the men left, Eric instructed one of the maids to bring him the first aid box. After some minutes, Eric was done with taking care of the woman's leg. He helped the woman up to her room. "Take care of yourself. I have to go now." Eric said. "Thank you so much, son." Eric's heart skipped a beat again for being called son by this woman. He smiled lightly and gave a nod before walking out of the house to his car. When was about to open the door, he got a call from one of his men telling him they were attacked and the man got away. "Did any of you get hurt?" Eric asked. "No sir." "Good. We will find him again?" Eric told and ended the call before entering his car.
Since Phubert was shot, he couldn't do things on his own like before. Stephanie wasn't there to help him so the only person who was left to help him was Edna. She was staying with Phubert in his apartment. She had just finished cooking supper and went to call Phubert in his room. When she knocked on the door several times and Phubert didn't come up to open it, she opened the door on her own and went inside to check on him. Phubert had his white T-shirt one side worn. Edna raised an eye brow before saying, "why didn't you call me to help you? You shouldn't stress yourself like that. You don't want to get well soon." Edna held his left hand which was perfectly fine and walked him to the bed. She made him sit down and help him take the t-shirt off. "I wanted to take my bath before I eat supper." "Let me prepare a bath for you then." "I already did that." "Without telling me?" "I didn't want to stress you out." "You didn't want to stress me out? Phubert that is the reason why I am here. If you could do things by yourself, I would not be here in the first place. Stressing myself for you is the reason why I am here." "Okay, I won't do that's again." Edna sighed. "I will just go and set the table when you are ready call me to help you put on your clothes back." Edna left the room leaving Phubert feeling all guilty.
After some minutes, Phubert came downstairs holding his t-shirt for Edna to help him put it on. Edna didn't have to be told before she helped Phubert with his t-shirt.
That night when they went to sleep, Edna was awoken by the painful groans from Phubert's room, which was next to hers. She stood up and hurriedly went straight to Phubert's room. Phubert didn't lock his door in case of such emergencies so it was easy for Edna to go inside the room. When she entered the room, Phubert was holding his right hand which was wounded. He rolled back and forth on the bed with sweat covering his whole face. His leg move down and up as if he was severe pain which he was.
Edna quickly run climbed the bed. "Phubert what is wrong?" She asked. Her heart beated rapidly in her chest fearing something bad might have happened to him. "My shoulder...it hurts." Hearing his complaint, Edna quickly went for the first aid box.
After treating him and giving him some painkillers, she felt relief and ready to leave but Phubert held her hand, stop her from leaving. Confused, she gave the man a questioning look. "Please stay here with me." Edna was was taken by surprise. She didn't expect that. "I...I can't..." "Please Edna..." She sighed and hesitated for a while before giving in.
When Edna laid back on the bed, Phubert concealed his face in the crook of her neck. He took in a deep breath of her scent which made him calm and comfortable. Edna felt ticklish by Phubert's hot breath and tried to pulled away a little to give them some space but Phubert wasn't having it. He pulled towards her again, diving his face back in the nape. Edna pulled her heaad away to complain but her words got stuck when her eyes met with Phubert's. Their gaze locked in each other's eyes for what seems like forever before Phubert pulled Edna's head to his and kissed her so passionately. Edna was surprisingly didn't pull away from the kiss. She instead responded to it by wiping her arm around his neck.
After so many years, she still could not wipe away the man from her heart.
In Stephanie's ward, andrew sat in a chair while holding Stephanie's hand. He had his head on the hospital bed, asleep. Suddenly he felt his hand being squeezed. He jolted awake and found Stephanie sweating and crying in her sleep. "Please don't leave. What about the kids? What will I tell them? Please you can't do this to me. Andy don't leave me again. I still love you, please don't die, please no, no!" "Lily, I am here. I am not going anywhere. I won't die. Wake up lily. Look at me, I'm right here." Once Stephanie finally opened her eyes and saw Andrew, she threw herself on him. "Please don't leave me. I have forgiving you, please don't die." Stephanie begged with her body and voice shaking. "It's fine. I'm not dying. I won't leave you and go anyway. I love you. Here lay down." Andrew said but Stephanie refused to let him go so Andrew had to lay on the small bed with her. He made Stephanie laid on her back while he laid on his side with Stephanie with holding him. Andrew caressed her hair, trying to calm her down and get her back to sleep.
On the weekend in the Cruz mansion, Eunice and Edna could be seen sitting in the living room. They have been sitting there for more than thirty minutes. Eunice was about to complain when Michael entered the room... with a girl. "Hello, girls." The two women weren't paying attention to him, but the girl behind him. Michael understood their stares so he explained, "I found her at the beach. She has complete amnesia so I decided to take her in with your approval?" "I have no objection." Edna said. Michael stare at Eunice, waiting for her to talk. She just stood up, walk up to the girl and hugged her, saying, "Welcome home Sil."