She Is Zarcaen's

CHAPTER 44

AUDRESYNE

I glanced at the familiar mansion in front of me. It feels like just yesterday when I used to come here because he wanted to see me. Pero ngayon iba na. I just went here not for him but for her. 

I still remember the last time I went into this mansion, pagkatapos makita ang di kaaya-ayang senaryo ay umuwi akong basag ang puso. But seeing the mansion and its owner in front of me together with my sister is like reminiscing about the promised ashes, he promised that we'd never be apart but it turned out to be a disaster.

But even if we had a disastrous past, I never saw it as my nightmare. He may have made me experience being cheated and made me feel easily fooled, but nothing will change the fact that everything happens for a reason. I had to be hurt in order to wake up to my reality. The disaster turned out to be a blessing for me. 

I came home with a blessing.

"Ate..."

I rolled my eyes. "Don't call me that," I said irritatingly. My butler guided me to walk through the stairs of Sandrou's mansion. Naroon sila sa may pintuan ng kanilang bahay naghihintay sa aking pagdating.

Pumunta dito kaninang umaga sina Mom at Dad para bisitahin si Eullasyne. Hindi kasi siya pinapayagan ni Sandrou na maglakwatsa dahil maselan ang kaniyang pagbubuntis. I want to find out what's happening. Hindi magiging maselan ang pagbubuntis ni Eullasyne kung walang ginawang masama ang lalaking ito.

I didn't inform them that I had plans to come here in the afternoon. I wanted it to be a surprise sana. But I think Mom already texted them. 

"Damn!" mahinang mura ko pagkatapos umakyat sa kanilang sampong baitang na hagdan. "Why are these stairs so fucking high?!" reklamo ko sa kanila. 

I am fucking six months pregnant and my stomach is getting bigger every passing month! Hindi ako ganu'n kadaling mapagod dahil purong nasa aksyon ang katawan ko noon, but that doesn't mean I'm strong! Mabigat ang tiyan ko at paiba-iba ang mood ko kaya madalang lang sa akin ang maging kalma!

"So? Everything's fine in here?" malamig kong tanong pagkaupo ko sa couch nila. 

Sabay kaming nagpapa-monthly cheek ups ni Eullasyne, I just found out last month that her baby is not that stable anymore. Maselan na ang kapit. At hindi ako makakapayag sa nangyari. She's already 8 pregnant, isang buwan na lang sana pero nauwi sa ganun. 

"A-Ayos naman dito, Audresyne."

Nagtungo saglit si Sandrou sa kusina upang sabihan ang maids na maghanda ng snacks para sa amin.

"Tell me fucking honestly, did that motherfucker hurt you?" walang pasubali kong tanong na ikinalaki ng ganiyang mata.

"H-Hindi naman—" I cut her off.

"One lie or else, I won't gonna talk to you again."

She gulped and she bowed her head, her eyes shifting to her hand, nervously playing with her fingers on her lap. She sighed. "I-I... just.."

"Does he always make you stressed? Did he hurt you physically? Emotionally?" walang tigil kong tanong gamit ang mariin na tuno.

Umiling-iling ito. "He didn't hurt me physically, p-pero palagi ka naming pinag-aawayan. He keeps talking about you, he keeps comparing me to you. He let me feel how he still loves you even though he has me already," humikbi ito at pinahiran ang luha. 

I gritted my teeth in annoyance and anger. That jerk! I told him don't hurt my sister, hindi man niya ito pinaktaksilan ng pisikalan, pinagtaksilan naman niya ang damdamin nito.