Destined to Love the Billionaire

Chapter 39

CHRIS' POV

It's been three days and Ilia hasn't come back to visit. Nag-aalala na ko at kung anu ano na ang pumapasok sa utak ko. Her mom might be so angry o baka dinudumog na siya ng media kaya hindi siya makalabas. I don't know. I sent out Andy yesterday to look for her pero--

"Boss!!" Humahangos na pumasok si Andy sa kwarto ko.

I looked at him with bewilderment.

"What??? Why??? Asan si Ilia?"

Hinihingal pa siya na inabot sakin ang isang baronial envelope.

I took tje paper inside it at kusang nahulog ang isang sing-sing. I gasped when I recognized it was the one I gave Ilia weeks ago.

I opened the paper to see what's inside...

"Chris, I'm sorry. I love you. I always will."
-Ilia.

I couldn't move for a while.
I couldn't believe what I have just read.

S-She's... gone?

"H-Hindi... Where is she, Andy? Sabihin mo sakin. Bakit biglang ganito..." Nanlumo ako sa nabasa ko. She can't just run away just like that. She can't do this to me...

Sabi nya mahal niya ko...

"Boss... Hindi ko alam. Ayaw magsalita ni Mayan." Kitang kita ang pagkabigo sa mukha niya. It's obvious hebhas done everything he could like he would always do for me pero hindi ko pa rin kayang maniwala ng ganon ganon na lang...

I shook my head in this belief. She had just promised me.. Sabi nya babalik siya...

HINDI..

Napasabunot ako sa sarili ko...

I must find her...

Nanlalamig ako bigla sa tensyon.

"WHERE'S MY PHONE?"

"Boss sinubukan ko na rin siyang tawagan pero cannot be reached na yung number niya e--"

"GIVE ME MY DAMN PHONE, ANDY!!!"

He handed it to me in fear. Tatlong dial and the operator was all that keeps on answering.

"NO!!!!" I threw my phone at nagkakalaskalas iyon.

"Chris??? What's happening here?" Sakto ang pagpasok ni Khen.

"KHEN!! GET ME OUT OF HERE. I NEED TO FIND ILIA!!!" I took his arm.

"Why... Chris kumalma ka muna."

"NO! NOOOOO!!!" I cried. "Khen! Get me out of here!!! I need to find her!!!"

Nagpupumiglas ako at tinangkang tanggalin ang dextrose ko.

Only then, my cousin knew na hindi ako magpapa awat.

I went to Ilia's house shouting at their gate like a mad man pero walang taong lumabas para harapin ako.

I went on their family's fruit farm... Sa casa...but there was no Ilia.

It was raining. I was crying and shouting asking Carlos and Mang Carding to let me in. I was begging so hard...

"PLEASE!!!" I knelt in front of their big gates.

"ILIAAA!!!"

"TUPE..UMUWI KA NA. MAPIPILITAN KAMING TUNAWAG NG PULIS."

TUPE was what they used to call me.

I knelt down in the wet cold ground in desperation. Wala akong paki kung mabalot ng putik ang pantalon ko.

"ILIA!!!" I punched the ground.

I have done every stupid little things I could for her. And yes, this is what she did to me.

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I WENT HOME. CRYING. DEVASTATED. LOST.

DRENCHED IN MUD AND RAIN.

At the first step of mine in my room, I fell on my knees.

"ANG SAKIT SAKIT!!!

PARA MO KONG PINATAY ILIA...

AAAAAHHHRG!! BAKIIIIT!!!" I PUNCHED THE FLOOR. I needed to hurt somewhere else other than my chest.

I needed to feel pain in other parts of my body dahil halos ikamatay ko ang sakit sa dibdib ko.

Without any explanations, she just left. Wala. Ganon na lang yon. It was so easy to say I'm sorry I love you and the goodbye!

TANGINA GANON NA LANG YON!!!

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I was sitting at my dark bedroom's floor for hours. Nakatulala at umiiyak. I'm so fucked up.

Thinking of what an idiot she made of me.

My phone rang and it was Lance.

It was sent to voicemail.

"Chris. The Board of Directors held a meeting for your removal as the Chairman...Chris..." Malungkot ang boses ni Lance. "They elected me to replace you. I will give it back to you immediately after the issue subsides. We will move fast. Chris.."

I pixked it up.

"I'm okay Lance."

"No,, you are not! I heard from Khen what happened."

"Lance..." I cried again. "Fuck. She left me..."

"Dude..." May simpatya sa boses niya. "Santidad is 66% down. We have losses to win back. Be strong. We are Santidads after all."

"I can't right now.. I can't. Tangina. She left me at first sign of trouble. Tangina... Sana pinatay niya na lang ako. I am dying right now!!!"

I LOST EVERYTHING because she left me.

"CHRIS!!! Ayusin mo ang buhay mo. I will give the position back to you."

It's so easy to say. I can barely move with this so much pain..

"Magsasampa tayo ng kaso kay Dion. Let's have all your company audited.

Babawiin natin ang simpatya ng investors pabalik sayo. Chris!!!"

Lance is a strategist. The devil in Armani suits. Logical and not like me. An Idiot.

I tried to stop my sobs but the wound is too fresh.

All his business strategies just drown in the background of my pain.

" Lance... Ang sakit... Sakit...

It hurts so bad I'm going crazy." That was all I was able to answer.
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