"I FUCKING LOVE HER!"

"SO, finally we met," Patricia said when he invited her to his office at Scott's Cafe's head office that same day.

Andrew just smiled then made the woman sit down. “There are things I just want to discuss personally with you,” he said.

Patricia laughed softly and then seductively crossed her beautiful and smooth legs. "I guess, about your contract?" she picked up the cup of coffee and drank.

That was when Andrew straightened up and then stared straight into the woman's eyes. "I want to apologize for everything I've done to you," the young man begins.

Patricia's eyebrows met along with the rapid clouding of her eyes. "What are you talking about?" her perplexing question.

Andrew took a deep breath then kept staring into the young woman’s eyes. "I'm quitting show business, Pat. I'm not going to renew my contract to the agency," in a low but refined tone, that was what Andrew said.

*****

"MA'AM Lana, someone is looking for you," said Lana's secretary that afternoon.

From the paper she was reading, the young lady glanced at Rowena who was still standing at the door of her office. "All right," she said without bothering to ask her secretary who it was.

"Good afternoon," was a woman's voice so Lana looked up again as Rowena pulled the door shut.

Lana felt intense coldness all over her body when she recognized who was now standing in front of her. None other than Rhyza, the woman Andrew had been in a relationship with.

"I would like to formally introduce myself to you first," she started staring straight into her eyes. "I'm Rhyza Alejandro," she said after announcing the title she won at a prestigious beauty pageant.

Lana on the other hand did not react to what Rhyza said and instead, she pointed to the chair in front of her to offer the woman to sit down.

"I will be frank with you," she said calmly in a tone that seemed to ask for her name.

"Lana, just call me Lana," she said in a professional tone.

The woman laughed foolishly and then spoke again in the same tone. "Lana, I want you to know I'm pregnant and Andrew is the father!"

Lana was shocked by what she heard so she couldn't speak right away.

"What? Did I surprised you?" she laughed softly. "Andrew doesn't want to talk to me, so I decided to see you instead. Maybe you understand why I want to fight to get Andrew back from you and your daughter!" she emphasizes the word daughter.

*****

"NO! You can't! You can't do this!" Patricia said angrily then stood up. "And what's the reason why you want to quit? You are at the peak of popularity Andrew! You are very famous. You're going to throw it all away for that worthless woman who after all is just a fan of yours?" the long litany of Patricia.

"Hey, watch your words, Patricia!" when he heard what she says about Lana, Andrew quickly felt angry.

Patricia laughed sarcastically. "Why? Isn't that true? She's just a fan who agreed to have sex with you because the truth is she's been fantasizing about your body for a long time!"

And that's when Andrew's patience finally ran out. "I already told you, don't insult Lana!"

Andrew saw the intense fear on Patricia's face as he did that. "I know it's hard to understand my decision, but this is where I would be happy. I'm getting married and I want to start a new life with my daughter and my future wife privately and quietly. I would like to tell you that the president of the agency already knows about it, and he respected what I wanted, I hope you do too. "

It was then that Patricia began to cry. "You bastard!" she pointed her finger to him angrily. "I gave you everything! But why did you love her instead of me? Why?!" she started crying.

Andrew immediately felt sorry for the woman, so he stood up to hug her, but Patricia did something else. She immediately clung to his neck then pressed her lips hard on him for a torrid kiss.

"Patricia, stop!" furiously, Andrew said then pushed Patricia away from him.

"I love you! I'll do everything Andrew if you want me to be nice to that woman and your daughter, I'm very much willing to do that. Just don't leave me, don't do this to me please?" Patricia's pleading cry.

"Since the beginning, it was clear to the two of us, wasn't it? All that happened to us before, I want to apologize to you. That was wrong, I shouldn't have done that. And if I could just go back to my past. If only I can retract everything that I did, these things won’t happen. And I'm sure I won't do all that, for eventually, I won't hurt anyone, like what's happening to you now," Andrew said truthfully in an apologetic tone.

"And you're sorry for everything that happened to us? You're stupid sonofabitch! I hope you'd die! You're an animal!" Patricia started punching him in the chest.

"Stop!" he said holding the woman's two hands to stop her. "I'm sorry, but yes. Because all of that was wrong. Wrong and unreasonable. My need as a man or even my popularity will never justify everything I've done. Because after everything, one thing is for sure, and that is how I feel and how I truly see the woman I am going to marry," Andrew finally decided to tell Patricia that because even though it was painful, he knew that would set the two of them free.

Quickly stunned, Patricia stared at him for saying that. "W-What?" said the woman again with her voice shaking.

A kind smile broke from Andrew's lips in the hope that he would somehow alleviate the feelings of the person in front of her.

"There is nothing else that I want to do now in my life but to be a good father and a husband to Andrea and Lana, Pat" he admits.

"Damn you!"

"Yes, I know I deserve that, that's why I apologize to you. Because I know I hurt you. I hope you understand me, and I hope you'll be happy for me if what you say is true that you love me," Andrew in a pleading tone.

Patricia laughs madly.

"That will never happen. I will fight for you and make sure that I will take you back! I will not allow you to be with her! If I only knew that this is how it would take, I would have long ago cut off all your mania and flirtation with other women!"

"Stop! There's no need to fight Patricia because we don't feel the same way! I'm not the man for you. Someone will come more than me and he will give the love that I can never give you," Andrew explained then sighs heavily.

"Tell me the truth Andrew," this time Patricia wiped away her tears and stared at him with her forehead raised. "Why would you marry that woman? Because you have a child? Is that it? Is that your reason?"

With that question, all his self-control finally reached its climax. "I'm going to marry Lana because I love her Patricia! Because I fucking love her!"