Astonishing Us

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I woke up with Ridge's hugging me beside my wide hospital bed. He was staring softly at my face and smiled at me when he saw that I am finally awake.

I stared back at his green emerald eyes. I missed him. I miss my man so much.

I looked down at my belly when I felt his hand over it.

"The baby is fine..." He said that made me look back up at him. Gumaan naman ang pakiramdam ko sa balita niya.

I lifted my hand to caress his cheeks, nakatitig lang ako sa gwapo niyang mukha hindi pa din makapaniwala sa mga nangyari. I couldn't stop asking myself if it is all true and what really happened, and Ridge being back to the Ridge I know seems like found out what is running to my mind.

He kissed my forehead and pulled me into a tight hug, before started telling me everything.

"I just found out I am really a Montegara few weeks ago when I encountered Rogue. Dad Admitted that he is really my biological father— no more like I just accepted the fact that he is really my father and the one who cheated on with Mom and left us when I was a kid was Mom's fiancé, mom got pregnant with me even before the so called arranged marriage, the I so thought my biological dad refuse to marry mom but he doesn't want to give up mommy to Dad, he doesn't want a happy ending to happen, turns out it wasn't a normal arranged marriage, that Mom's fiancé bought her to her parents, he is obsessed but Mom happened to fell in love with dad. Mommy got pregnant again with Rogue a year after me, but Rogue was kidnapped the moment he was born. Mom didn't tell me I have a brother because Of course it still hurts her, and she doesn't want hurt or stress me out neither thinking about it," he is combing my hair as he tells me the story.

"Rogue was kidnapped by mom's ex-fiancé and raised him alone after he left us and Dad got us, he manipulated Rogue, tells him mom and I left because mom's love me more and her lover, dad. He grew up thinking his real dad was mom's fiance. Mommy doesn't have any clue who was the suspect until now that Rogue showed up to ruin my life," napabuga sa ng marahas na hininga saka ipinatong ang baba sa balikat ko na kinapikit ko.

I miss that feeling. It was always been his favorite type of cuddle. I just realized how much I've missed him all along, and how I was so tired because of what happened for the past few weeks until now that I am able to take rest emotionally and physically inside his arms.

"But Rogue didn't just come to do what Miccus told him to do, to ruin me. He done it in behalf of Jaime. It became much easier for him when he fell in-love with your ex-lover Jaime. It fueled his anger when he found out that the woman, his beloved used to be a lover becomes my fiancé. Jaime wasn't sure about his feelings for Rogue, he was sure about his sexual identity, he is straight, that he turned down Rogue numerous times. And Rogue mistook it with Jaime still haunted by the break up you two had, he was so mad at you and me at the same time. So, he planned things out. And it becomes much easier when Snow showed up. Snow is my ex who was the reason why I stopped using social medias. She came back claiming that you stole her spotlight in Modeling Industry and promised to steal me back and to steal the spotlight from you. I don't have time to entertain her, sabog ako kasi nasa hospital ka tapos may kung ano-anong isyu na ang kumakalat kakadikit n'ya sa akin, kaya kung ano-anong sinasabi n'ya ay binabara ko na lang o sinasakyan ng pabalang kung ano man ang pinagsasabi n'ya. Then Snow and Rogue met when I dragged her out of the hospital. I didn't saw Rogue, but I heard Snow calling my name and laughing, I thought she was just crazy talking to air because I didn't bother to look back at her it turns out Rogue showed up to Snow to do what he planned."

"... It was Rogue whom with Snow in the sex video, right?" I asked.

He nodded his head.

"Hmm-mmm. You should've seen how shocked I am when I saw the video because I feel like I am really watching myself, that's when I asked for Zero's help, he is my cousin and he got a connection with someone who has a power to know where the video came from and that it is edited. But the whole Montegara clan was shocked when they found out it wasn't edited, my grandfather was more than prepare to ask his men to drag me back to Greece for punishment for staining the name of our Clan I'm more than prepare to show them it wasn't me though, but then everyone from the clan got a message from Rogue, it was his picture, tongue's out with middle finger and a caption 'Am I qualified to be a porn star now? Having fun ruining brotha and his fam ugh' I'm telling you bubbles at that moment I knew that if is there another universe where we grew old together, he has received a lot of beatings from me."

Muli s'yang napabuga ng hininga, "I wanna still believe it that he is just manipulated and blinded by love."

I looked at him and remembered Jaime. Pigil ang wag makaramdam ng matinding galit ay marahan akong bumuntong hininga.

"... Is Jaime also behind it? May kinalaman ba s'ya?"

He stared at me for a second as I saw jealousy crossed his eyes before he opened his mouth.

"I wanna make him a bad person in your eyes, tell you yes but I still do not know yet, I am still unsure about it. He may be part of it or not, I could tell he was genuinely worried about you when the issue exploded, and that he doesn't have any idea it could be Rogue and not me because I believe Rogue never showed his real personality to Jaime, Jaime could believe that Rogue couldn't even hurt a mosquito while he thinks of me the other way around. When I kneeled in front of both of you. He said he saw Rogue in me when I kneeled begging for him to give you back to me, he told me Rogue also kneeled in front of him begging him to give them a shot. I don't know because everything happened after he forced you to talk to him, I'm mad and jealous at him but I cannot just point him out when I cannot prove it yet that he was one of those people who tried to ruin us."

Ridge chuckled that made me frown. Napatitig s'ya sa kisame habang ako ay napatitig naman sa ngiting nasa labi n'ya.

"He didn't hand you to me because he feel pity about me, he gave you back to me wanting to see Rogue, when I told him that night that Rogue is planning to commit suicide after he succeed ruining me and that because Rogue believes his life's purpose is only to ruin me and after that he will be just nothing. He wanted to stop Rogue and when he was telling me those, I saw something in his eyes, Bubbles," He looked at me.

"He mustn't have realized it yet because he is confident that he won't sway that way, but he is unconsciously in love with my younger brother."

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