Chapter 76

Enzo is now facing Chandria’s employees.

All of her employees are bowing their heads to him. He is standing in front of them, wearing his blank face and cold stare.

He heard their conversation when he was at the shop door. They are too busy with their discussion that they do not notice him.

“Now tell me, who the fuck are you to judge my wife?!” He shouted.

So, this is why Chandria occupied, thinking these past few days deeply.

That’s why she keeps saying annulment stuff, and he should have the freedom to choose his bride, that she flirted him with nonsense things.

“Now, talk about her in front of me!” Enzo angrily shouted at them.

When he sends home his wife, he goes straight here.

“Sir, we are gossiping about her.” One of them answers him.

“Really?” He sarcastically asked.

He is showing no mercy.

“Since I am your boss's husband, I have the rights here, too; all of you are fired!”

“Sir!” They reacted in disbelief.

“Sir, don’t! Have mercy on us!” Most of them are begging him.

“Pack all of your things! I do not want to see your faces in three minutes!” Enzo is breathing heavily.

He entered Chandria’s office to call his twin; he ignored her employee's cries and begged him. He will ask for help from him.

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“That I said to you, I am right! If Enzo didn’t bring you here crying, you two fought.”

“Mommy is hard-headed. Do you have ten heads? First, brother Enzo didn’t make her cry.” Kyle pouted and scrabbed his head.

“I am not talking to you!.” Mama bear shouted at him.

“Then, who are you talking to? Those curtains? Or the plants inside the house?”

I wiped my tears; Enzo brought me here so I could be with someone and talk. I am feeling stressed talking to Kyle; he keeps on fighting back.

“And don’t be soy sauce in their relationship, mom. You belong.” Kyle said while chewing chocolate.

“Do you want me to slap you?!” Mom widens her eyes at him.

This mother and son keep on arguing every day, nonstops.

I am feeling stressed about their arguments.

“I’ll go to the garden,” I inform them.

“It’s hot there.” Mama bear told me.

“It’s okay.” I insisted; I just wanted to be alone and see plants to feel better.

“Kyle, go with her. My friends and I are going to meet at the mall.”

“I don’t want! You always hang out with your friends and go shopping; why don’t you stay home and clean the house!”

“Ah, do you want me to slap you to shut your mouth?!”

I decided to leave them; they won’t stop to argue.

“Lol, what do you think of me? You can’t cheat on me, I have two lawyers and brothers, and your fucking contract is fake!.... Asshole!”

Keran is here too?

“I don’t fucking care! I won’t lose anything because second bother Kienzo is here!” Keran shouted at the other line. He is talking to someone over the phone.

He seems angry.

Maybe, he’s talking about his business.

They are both siblings that are hot-tempered and serious in life.

“Chandria?” He asked me when he saw me standing near him.

I nodded my head and slightly smiled at him. He looked at my womb, which grew bigger.

“Your womb is getting big.” He commented while still looking at it.

“It’s like yesterday; your stomach is still flat.” He chuckled.

“Are you Okay?” I asked, and I sat on the wooden bench here.

“I don’t know.” He shrugs and laughs.

“How’s being a married woman?” I was stunned by his question.

“It’s Okay, and it’s working… Enzo treated me so well and took care of me. He is guiding me in my pregnancy and never leaves me.” I said happily to him.

“I’m enjoying our marriage.”

“D-do you still love me?”

I didn’t answer his question.

Do I still love him?

He suddenly laughs sarcastically.

“The saying is true that treasure while it is there, and you will know the value of it when it disappears, and someone else is taking it off.” He sighed deeply.

What does he want to say?

I clenched my fist.

I didn’t like what Keran said because I had been hurt by him millions of times. He is pulling me every chance he has.

“Do you love Enzo?” He asked me severely and did not blink.

I didn’t answer his question because I still don’t know; all I know is I am getting comfortable with Enzo’s company, and we are doing great together, especially in our marriage. I am happy with what we have. Enzo is one of those people who are essential in my life. He never hurt me.

“I thought you were deeply in love with me?”

I don’t understand him; what does he want to say?

“Keran, I don’t understand you.” I am getting confused by his words.

“Chandria, I know I am stupid and an asshole to your before, but I warned you, damn! I don’t understand myself! I want to get you back and steal you to Enzo; I long for your presence. I lost the woman bringing me delicious meals and patiently waited for me in my condo. Damn it.”

He pulled his hair.

“I tried to love you. I love you even a little, but damn!” He has a hard time saying his feelings.

“Damn it; you are only mine, right? I thought it was okay for me that brother Enzo married you. I can’t take seeing that you are happy with him and you are together. The day of your wedding hurt me to hell!... Chandria, I like you.”

My world stops.

I don't know how I should react.

Does he like me? He wants me, but he doesn’t love me.

When does he tell me that now? Those words that I waited for years ago.

Why does Keran say it when it’s already too late for both of us?

“Keran… I’m married to your Brother Enzo,” I said, almost crying.

“I know, I know. If I realized my feelings early, maybe if you didn’t marry Enzo, damn it, Chandria comes back to me, please?” He walked near me, and I saw some tears in his eyes.

“I am eager to get you back from my brother Enzo. I was an asshole and stupid. I didn’t realize early that there’s a woman that patient on me that she can’t leave me even if I push her a hundred times.” He voices out his feelings.

“I regret everything. Come back to me, choose me again. Cook and bring a delicious meal to me again. I promise I will invite you to my house to come in, and I won’t let you wait for me and get wet in the rain.”

That was my experience with Keran.

I can’t stop crying because of what he said to me.

His voice is pleading.

“And I also won’t change my passcode in my condo, and you wouldn’t wait for me outside and sleep on the ground floor.” He holds my hand tightly.

“Keran, I still love you. My love for you is still the same.”

I wipe my tears.

“But I am already married to Enzo, and we will have a child.”

It’s too late.

“I will win you back and the baby.”

He looks at the womb again.

“We will take care of it and raise it well. Please, come with me. Let’s run away.”

Keran is crying.

“Please, Chandria. I will treat you better. Give me another chance.”

I feel sorry for Keran.

“You love me, right? If you love me, come to me.”

How about Enzo? In the eyes of the Lord, we are married, and our marriage is sacred.

“Keran…” I am speechless.

“Enzo doesn’t love you. You don’t love each other.” He shook my shoulder.

“Choose me instead. Come with me.”

I wiped my tears and sobs. Maybe it is not wrong if I choose where I will be happy.

“Yes, I will come with you, Keran,” I said finality.

We will be happy together.

Keran smiled at me widely as if he had won millions of money. And I didn’t expect what he would do next.

He kisses me.

Keran is kissing me.

My eyes open while he is kissing me.

I was so shocked.

Keran never kisses me like this.

I gasped when I saw Keran lying on the floor and looked at the person who did it to him.

“Enzo?” I said, scared.

He is staring dangerously at us while he is clenching his fist tightly.

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THIRD PERSON POV

“Attorney Kienzo Vladimir Velasco, right?” The senador asked Kienzo.

“Yes, I’m Atty Kienzo.” Kiki gave a serious answer, and he accepted the handshake of the Senador that he had sent to the jail before.

Money can buy justice.

Kiki hated the injustice system and didn’t let someone pay him. He is not biased and is a lawyer to those in need who can’t afford justice.

The Senador is so powerful that he bought justice.

Kienzo disagrees with having the death penalty. The justice system in the Philippines is too weak; maybe the innocent might be the ones they kill. The ignorant will suffer, and the mastermind will live a luxurious life; they should fix the justice system before implementing the death penalty. The upper class can turn the justice.

The upper class was the only one feel the tax.

Justice must give to everyone. He is a lawyer and will fight for what is right, and those who sin will suffer.

Kienzo is already a Lawyer, and well-known lawyer and has won many cases and received a certificate, trophies, medals, and recognitions, but he is having a hard to find evidence of what happened to Claire before; they need to pay for it because he almost lost Claire.

Kienzo is already close to becoming powerful, yet he can’t give his wife justice; how about those innocent that can’t afford an excellent and proficient lawyer?

Many people encourage him to run and be part of politics, but he doesn’t want to be involved in dirty transitions.

Kienzo prefers to be a professional liar.

Even though it is not his will to throw away and stop finding justice for what had happened for two years, he listens to Claire. She was fitting that the important is they are happily getting back together.

“Oh, I’ll never forget you, attorney,” Senador smirked at him.

He was a governor then, and how did he become a Senator?

Kienzo clenched his jaw.

What is this Senador doing in their firm?

“My daughter Poques told me about you; you are already married.”

“Yeah. You are close with your daughter, Senador.” Kienzo replied.

“I’m fetching her. Had you seen her?”

“I haven’t seen her.”

“Don’t you like my daughter's attorney? It seems my daughter like you. My daughter like you.” Senador said it in a joking way and laughed.

“I’m a married man,” Kienzo said without blinking.

“We can talk about it,” Senador suggested.

“I was joking. You never change, still serious all the time.” He laughs again and taps his shoulder.