Once a Wife [English Version]

Chapter 46

HUFFLE woke up around the afternoon, she was still feeling weak but the doctor said that it is normal. She was advised to stay until tomorrow.

Gryffin and Slyther arrived around 6 PM, telling her to go home and have some rest while they would look after their sister.

"Where's your Kuya Raven?" She asked the two while feeding Huffle, "I would like to talk with you before I go,"

"He was just waiting for Ate Abby's father," Gryffin said. They have figured out that she's not really Cynthia and Dominic's daughter.

"Why, My? What do you want to talk about?" Slyther asked as he put a hair clip on Huffle's hair because she feels itchy when it falls on her face.

"Are you okay, Mommy?" Huffle held her hand as Gryffin sat beside her bed.

She looked at her children and caressed each of their faces, "Mommy would like to apologize," She sighed, "I'm sorry if I neglected you..."

"My..." Three of them reacted, "That's not true..."

"No, anak. I have too, I am really sorry" she insisted, "The pain was too much for me to handle that I didn't realize I was hurting all of you, too"

No one speaks a word but their eyes are enough to see what they wanted to say.

"I'm sorry if your lives were put into danger because of me,"

"Mommy, it's not your fault ---" Gryffin disagreed.

"No son, it's my fault," she insisted, " I planned to take your father back; I planned to steal him from his wife" she confessed.

All of them got surprised by her revelation, "But how about Papa?" Huffle asked, "Don't you love him anymore?"

"I do, Huffle... I love your Papa so much,"

"So, why did you do that?" Slyther asked quite puzzled. They're not too young not to understand this, better to tell the truth now.

Maricar gathered all her strength, "T-to hurt him. To h-hurt them," She swallowed so hard and sighed before continuing, "I did that to take revenge against your Dad and his wife because I blamed them for the baby that I've lost.. that we've lost" a tear fell from her right eye, "and because of that, you were hurt... Because of my selfishness, I almost lost you... I'm so sorry..."

Her three children cried with her, "I'm so sorry... Forgive me..."

"My, you don't have to apologize to us" Raven, who was standing along the doorway, said, "Because we understand you, we love you like how you understand and love us, "

"We forgive you too, Mommy" Slyther added, "We're not really mad, it's just that maybe you wanted to hear it..."

"They're right, My..." Gryffin held her hand, "No matter what happens, you're still our mother and nothing would ever change that,"

"We love you so much, Mommy..." Huffle added and smiled, "We're here for you. We're all in this together,"

Who wouldn't get carried away and cry? She was blessed with four mature and kind-hearted children. Maricris is so right, how could she forget God's love? How could she miss that? Her children are here to prove that God loves her so much!

"We won't leave you," As if on cue, she heard the voice of the man she has hurt the most, he looked tired but adoration was still in his genuine eyes.

Tristan was standing there with plastic of ice cream on his hand. She's so sure now that it's nobody's birthday and Tristan might read what's on her mind, "We have to celebrate because my princess and her knights are safe and sound,"