Ad Infinitum

Chapter 33

©mugiichan, 2015

A Surprise Present

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Thaddeus

"Seoul, South Korea it is. Right, babe?" She murmurs whimsically without preamble. I am already irritated by her victorious laugh as soon as I swiped the answer button on my phone. I should've have answer it. Goddammit! "How lovely and romantic place to go, eh?"

"Margaux..." I warned her. "Not now."

Though I warned her not to give me a massive headache, she's Margaux. She's very stubborn as always. "Kinakamusta lang naman kita, masama ba iyon, babe?" She tries to imitate a teasing voice.

"We both know what are you trying to imply, Margaux. Don't try to manipulate me on the palm of your hand." I murmur low, and sighs irritably. "I'm just wasting my time talking to you. I'm hanging this up."

"Oh, how's your lovely vacation with the bitch, dearest Stuwart?" I hear her say before I could turn my phone away from me that made my blood boil and the anger starts to consume me. She crossed the line again.

"You don't dare call her a bitch!" I shot back, trying to control my uprising anger. I never liked liked the tone of her voice, most especially the way she calls Saab.

"Ah, it's true then. You had a vacation with Saab instead of attending our convention." If I could strangle her to death just to shut her ass up, I already did. I just can't take her attitude anymore. She's just too much to handle. "You should told me then that you want a vacation instead of the convention. We both know that I can make our nights hot and stea-"

"Shut up, Margaux!" I roared as I put to an end our call. I placed my thumb and my middle finger against my temples, massaging them. I'm having a headache when it comes to Margaux. She haunts me, bringing the past and tries to take me back to her. I leaned on the wall for a moment and close my eyes, trying to make my anger and headache subside.

Since that day I didn't show up to that convention in Thailand, Margaux tried to contact me every now and then like there's no tomorrow. I'm having a headache of how should I get rid of her, to stop her delusion. Can't she just understand that I don't like her anymore? I don't love her anymore! All I want is to cut her ties with me, everything that connects me to her. I want to put an end mark of what she thinks about us, whatever she calls it. We may had shared the same feelings before, I may have thought that she's the lady I want to spend the rest of my life with, yet sometimes I could say that I should be thankful that fateful night happened. I've been so drowned for that love, and that love who eventually mould me into a cold, ruthless, and an arrogant character.

"Thad, is there someone whose the main reason of changing your attitude and was it because of Margaux, by chance?" Mom asked me.

I kept my mouth shut as I sat on the coffee table by the pool side. No one asked me about my relationship with Margaux, and what's the real score between us. I almost confess to her that I have feelings for her, that I love her, that she is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with though she made a mistake; breaking the trust I had given to her.

"Thad..." Mom spoke again and this time, I opened my mouth and interupted her.

"Yes, it's her." I mumbled softly.