Chapter 3

Edward went to his office instead of going to his condo.

He has a spacious office that even has a room where he can sleep in.

The room which he hasn't been using since he met her.

He shook his head.

He can't even bring himself to say her name because it hurts like hell to think about her.

He knows it's his fault for breaking up with her, but it still doesn't change the fact that his decision hurt him too!

The truth is, he lied to her about knowing the engagement just last week.

He had known about it even before he met her.

It was a duty and a responsibility that he accepted because of their family being what it is.

It was a marriage of convenience.

A business deal for two wealthy families.

They've been brought up that way.

He and his older brother, Enrique.

Their father also married Enrique's mother for convenience.

Yes!

They have a different mother.

He was a product of his father's affair with his mother, Catherine.

His mother died from illness when he was just a year old.

His father brought him in to his family  even with his wife's objection.

Enrique was already four years old then.

His brother never treated him differently.

But his step mother was a different matter altogether.

His father and his wife are the ones who are written on his birth certificate as his parents and not his real mother.

They made it seem like his step mother gave birth to him while they were staying in Germany.

He never felt love from his "mother".

While his father is indifferent to him.

He learned all of this when he was thirteen years old.

He always felt when he was younger that their mother treated him differently from his older brother Enrique.

So when he heard it from gossips among their household help, he decided to ask his father the truth.

He was shocked by what his father told him but it explained a lot.

He understood then that no matter what he did, his "mother" would never learn to love him.

He focused on making his father proud of him by excelling in his studies.

And now that he is handling one of their businesses he wanted to earn his father's approval by making his company successful.

A year ago, his father told him that he has to marry his childhood friend Elizabeth for their business expansion and he agreed.

He didn't object because he wanted so desperately to earn his father's approval even if it meant marrying someone he didn't love.

What did he know of love anyway?

No one has ever shown it to him.

Except her.

His plans of accepting the marriage his father decided went awry when he met her.

He was drinking with his friend Carlos at the bar when she met her.

He noticed that she seemed out of place there.

She has this sunny disposition that emanates from her being.

He just got out of the rest room when he saw a guy harassing her.

She kept smiling at the guy even as she avoided his touch.

He doesn't know what made him do it but he approached them and intervened.

He put his arms on her shoulder and asked, "Is this guy bothering you sweetheart?".

The guy was surprised by what he did and just left.

"Thanks, but you didn't have to do it! I  know how to handle guys like him!" and she wriggled her way out of his arms.

She smiled at him and he just stood there transfixed.

Her smile was so bright that it mesmerized him.

She turned to leave.

He held her arm so she looked back at him.

"Anything else I can do for you sir?"

"Edward! My name is Edward!"

And in that moment he knew that he would regret his decision to agree to a loveless marriage.

"Are you sure that you don't want to stay here?" Jinnie asks Maymay for the second time.

She nods and says with finality.

"Yes, I'm sure! Don't worry, I'll be coming to work later!"

Jinnie hugged her.

She dragged the suitcase full of her things and hailed a taxi.

She will stay at an appartelle first and search for an apartment on her day off.

She settled herself in her room and arranged her things.

She feels exhausted so she lay down on the bed.

She closed her eyes and tried to sleep but couldn't.

So she just stared at the ceiling of her room.

She recalled the events this morning and thought that tears would start to fall from her eyes.

But they didn't.

She felt an unbearable ache in her heart but her tears refused to fall.

She looked at her watch and decided to just prepare for work.

She lays down her waitress uniform on the bed.

Towel in hand, she went to the bathroom.

She took her time in the shower.

Standing ***** in the bathroom, she couldn't help but recall the countless times that she and Edward made love in the shower.

She started scrubbing herself vigorously as if trying to remove all those memories of him kissing her ***** body.

There's no use remembering those times.

They won't be happening again.

Ever.

She scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed.

She only stopped when her hands started to feel numb from scrubbing.

She rinsed herself and stepped out of the shower.

She got dressed and went to work.

At work, she was her usual jolly self.

You wouldn't know from the way she acted that she just broke up from her lover.

Elisse, her other friend, took Jinnie aside.

"I thought you said that she and Edward just broke up?" she asked confused.

"That's what she told me!" Jinnie confirmed.

"But why does she seem unaffected by what happened?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out too! I think she's just pretending to be okay!"

"Who's pretending?"

Maymay asks them with a bright smile on her face.

They didn't notice that she already approached them.

"No one in particular! We were just talking about the kdrama series that we watched!" Elisse reasoned out.

"Ah...anyway Elisse, a customer is looking for you in the VIP room!"

"Okay thanks!" then Elisse left them.

Maymay looks at Jinnie.

She knows that Jinnie will tell Elisse what happened between her and Edward.

"Stop worrying about me okay?" she smiles at Jinnie and walks away.

Jinnie sadly looks at Maymay's retreating figure.

She's even more worried now for Maymay.

She hopes that she can talk to Edward but she doesn't know how to contact him.

She wants to know the reason why he broke up with Maymay.

She wants to understand why Maymay is acting like she doesn't care.

She knows Maymay loves Edward.

And cynic that she is, she felt Edward loves Maymay.

She felt it.

You could feel it when you saw them together.

Theirs was a connection that was beyond words.

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