The Jerk's Wife

Excerpt: The Billionaire's Forbidden Love

(ALPHA 2)

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Just got home.

Napasinghap siya nang malampasan ang kalawakang hardin ng Simpson. Its a green green grass of home. Just like a song but the meaning of it was totally opposite. He smiled bitterly, still it's a home for a wrecked family they had before. Not even the amount of money can fix it. It's been years since he visited this place. Not typically home pero... He invested an enormous of bad memories here. Ito ang mansyon kung saan lumaki siyang maraming magulong alaala. Kung saan madalas niyang naririnig ang sigawan ng mga magulang. Puno ng kapintasan. Mga panloloko ng kanyang ina. Nasaksihan pa niya isang beses na may kahalikan ito sa basement ng mansyon sa personal driver nito na siyang kalaguyo din. He never forgot that. That was the time he started hating his own Mom.

He was bullied and accused a lot of things dahil sa isyu ng kanyang ina. Ilang beses na din siyang nakipagsuntukan sa paaralan para ipagtanggol ang sarili at pamilyang nilalait ng karamihan. Ni wala nga halos panahon ang mga magulang na harapin sila o bigyan ng atensyon man lang. Buti na lang may kapatid siya. Denzel is his best buddy, best companion and best advicer and in everything. No matter how his mother tried to reach out for them, for him it was just for the sake of people judging her around. The last time he remembered being on his family together was when he was ten years old. Their family vacation in Austria. Ang kasunod no'n puro na iskandalo at pangangaliwa na  ng ina.

Lahat ng mga yon ay isang  parte lamang ng madilim at mapait na kahapon.

He sighed. It had been a year since his father decided to settled with someone that he didn't know nor he didn't much cared about. It was a secret solemn wedding. And he just found out about it from his cool brother. Nakilala niya ang pinakasalan nito after few months of their wedding. Hindi na din siya umatend dahil hindi na niya gugustuhing masaksihan ang kabiguan muli ng ama. That woman of him, was just a little intriguing. So he decided na paimbistigahan ang asawa nito. A widow with two daughters. Boutique owner and salon owner. Just common. And no other than that. May simpleng pamumuhay, enough to pay all her bills and so on. Ang bunsong anak nito ay pinapaaral lamang ng tyuhin sa labas ng bansa. Not interesting. Same background with his mother, an underdog. Probably, mga taong hooker at nag-aabang lang ng tatagaing mayaman para umangat sa buhay. Lahat gagawin pagdating sa pera. Oo andon na siya sa bagay na nanghuhusga. It wasn't right to judge people without knowing him/her first. But.. life is just a cycle of judging and being judged with someone else. Pag-uusapan at pag-uusapan ka talaga kahit di ka naman kilala. Nasanay na din siya sa ganung buhay. He's a public popular figure and everyone was judging him from his past and of course sa lahat ng ginagawa niya. And you know what? He doesn't care. As long as he's doing his own life.

He parked his expensive car on a spacious parking lot. Pagpasok niya sa foyer ng mansyon napansin niya agad na nag-iba na ang interior design nito. Lumiwanag at nagkaroon ng kulay. May renovation na nangyari, he's sure of that. Memoryado na niya ang bawat pasilyo ng bahay dahil buong buhay niya itong kasama on his adolescence stage.

"Hijo! Bumalik ka!" Salubong sa kanya ni Nanay Sally. Ang matagal na nilang mayordoma. Tuwang tuwa siya nitong sinalubong at niyakap.

Napangiti siya. Ito na rin ang nagsilbi niyang ina simula noon. Kaya mahal na mahal niya ang matandang ito for taking care of them. Gumanti siya ng yakap at hinalikan ito sa noo.

"No, nay. Gusto ko lang bumisita. I'm not going to live here. So, how's everyone here?" He clarified. Ang sadya lang naman niya ay makita ang ama kung masaya ba ito o mesirable sa piling ng kanyang bagong asawa. Nakilala na niya ito noon and he just walked out after that. Alam niyang nabastos niya ang madrasta pero wala siyang pakialam gaya ng nakagawian.