SECRET HAVEN (Hacienda Cervantes Series)

Chapter 15

SECRET HAVEN

CHAPTER 15

SORIN

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"WHAT WERE YOU thinking? Mula noong bumalik ka ay madalas ka ng matulala. Is there something wrong, Sean? It's so unlike you to fell off your horse!"

Hindi ako kumibo. Halos isang oras na akong sinesermunan ng kapatid kong si Cerys at pagdating nila Mommy, siguradong may sermon na naman. And I don't want to explain now then explain again later. Besides, I don't have anything to say to them. I can't tell them the real reason.

It's already been two months since I went back but I still couldn't forget Ellora — not that I am trying to forget her. What she did really made me crazy that sometimes, just merely thinking about it gives me hard on. I know, I'm pathetic for being like this. But who wouldn't? She's my first in almost every aspect of sex.

Most of the time, she's too vanilla but there are moments that I felt like she wants to get out of that shell... That she wanted to explore more and more and I hope she'd do it with me. Or to me.

Kahit kailan ay hindi pa ako naapektuhan ng ganito ng dahil lamang sa isang babae. I've been in Manila and other parts of the world and I have met a lot of different women — some expresses their interest in me and I do in a few. But Ellora is different. Pero hindi iyon dahil sa mga nangyari sa amin. I just...couldn't explain what it is.

I am aware of her presence ever since I started my training at Dad's company. Nagsimula ako sa pinaka-simpleng trabaho na maaari kong gawin and she was there...always giving me a five minutes heads up on what to expect.

We met four times outside my father's office but she really didn't pay attention to me because her attention was too focused on my father.

And it irritates me.

Though I am very confident that my father will never lay a hand on any woman, I still couldn't ignore the fact what a desperate woman could do.

My mother's a bubbly and beautiful little being — according to our father. And she really is. While Ellora's too plain and boring. She's beautiful but she's not a head turner. She doesn't stand out at all.

Not until that night when she turned herself into someone her opposite.

Si Maria.