No Reason But Us

Chapter 58 : Fruit Loops Cake

In the Munro house, Adrian could not help but drown his sorrows with some beer in the kitchen. Not one, but there were three lying on the table. He was staring at the news online on his laptop that the man he hated was engaged, and there were photos of Leon and Eva being a happy couple like they were the famous royal family.

Envy was taking over his body to see that his nemesis' life was soaring. However, the wonderful life he created from betrayal and murder was falling apart right before his eyes.

"Don't celebrate yet, Hal," he grunted as he tightened his grip on the beer bottle he was holding like he wanted to break it if he could. "If I'm going down, you're going down with me."

All of a sudden, his wife came, carrying a couple of grocery bags. "Hey, honey, I'm home," she said to him, then went to the kitchen until she saw the beer bottles on the table. "You've been drinking!?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Adrian slurred his voice. Even his eyes were red.

Marie was disgusted by the mess he made at a time when she had to go to the office, and then she saw what he was sulking at. Her ex-husband and his new woman were written in a news article online after bumping into them the other day.

"That's enough of that," she huffed and quickly closed the laptop down, then started picking up the empty bottles.

"I was still reading that. Why did you do that?"

Marie just darted a firm stare at him. "Adrian, please, pull yourself together," she pleaded with him. "I understand you are going through a lot with this trial, but obsessing over Hal won't do you good. Do you understand me?"

"You're just jealous that Hal is going to be married to a woman who's twice more gorgeous than you," Adrian rambled. "That's why you closed my laptop."

From those tactless words, his wife slapped him in the face. "How dare you say that to me?" she yelled. "I have been by your side all these years, and this is what you think of me."

Adrian became even more enraged that he got up from the chair and threw one of the bottles at a wall, which made his wife so scared of him that she covered himself, thinking that she was going to get hurt again. Luckily, he wasn't, though he just glared at her.

"I don't need this, I'm going out," he grumbled, then rushed out the door afterward.

"Where are you going?" Marie chased him. "Adrian! Adrian! Where are you going? Get back here?" It was too late, the bitter man left with his car while drunk, which made his wife worried for his safety.

Sometime later, Adrian just drove by the convenience store, but he did not get out of the car. He just felt like he wanted to get away from everything that went wrong in his life. The crimes he did were coming back to him, and he had no way of out of it either.

Fury overwhelmed him so much that he just pounded the stirring wheel and roared out of anger inside the vehicle. As he kept releasing his rage, he heard cars, vans to be exact. That was when he saw a few young people coming out to buy some more snacks for their movie night.

So the man had to keep quiet so nobody would see him acting insane in his car. Although his windows were tinted anyway no one could tell who was inside anyway.

He watched numbly and somehow recognized one of them. It was Felix. Not only that, he spotted the two girls, Rita and Oddey, exiting the van to get inside the store.

Seeing the young lady who broke his son's heart ticked him up even more. Remembering how his son became crushed when he had to show him the truth of his Juliet and the fact that he was the adopted daughter of his enemy.