One More Chance (COMPLETED)

Part 11

THE car exactly stopped at the entrance of villa building, and James drifted his gaze to his sleeping wife. They were now in Ivan's villa in Tagaytay for his birthday party tomorrow, and it was his request to bring along Nadine to his party. Watching her in that state, his fingers involuntarily reached for the strands of hair and tucked it gently behind her ear. Slowly it went down to her porcelain cheek before her fluttering eyelids startled him. James immediately returned to his position when she stretched her body and yawned in drowsiness.

"Where are we, James?" she asked in sleepy tone, but he stepped out from the car without answering her question. Nadine tried to stay awake by slapping gently her cheeks while James busy took out their luggage from car. The surrounding was unfamiliar to her, but later she knew where they were when a group of people walked out from villa to welcome their arrival. Her eyes widened in surprise and before her brain could process what was going on, James opened the door and led her out from her seat.

"Hey, buddy! Welcome to my villa," Ivan said brightly, which made she felt awkward with the sudden reunion after five years. Alana who was also there, clenching her teeth in fury when saw Nadine's hand still inside James's grip before Ivan boldly seized it from him.

"And you too, Mrs.Reid. Welcome to my villa," ignoring the risk that he was going to face later, he ended it by pressing his lips against her soft hand. Noticing the jealousy and surprise on James's face, the others chuckled in amuse, and she immediately pulled it away from Ivan's grip.

"You won't mind about it James, will you?" just to see the jealousy on his face, Ivan really risked his life for it, for he absolutely knew that James couldn't tolerate his jealousy at all, especially if it related to Nadine.

"Thank you, Ivan. It is really nice to meet all of you again," she said awkwardly with eyes sneakily glanced at James. His face was serious, and she afraid the unpredictable scene just now would ruin his mood. Ruin his mood? Back in old time, James would feel jealous if there was any man tried to get closer with her including his friends, but now impossible he would feel so when she was no longer inside his heart.

"Hey, Nadine Lustre. You got much prettier over these years. If you are not James's wife, I will surely date you," Ryan suddenly interrupted with intention to make James mad, and surprisingly, he didn't know how he was still able to tolerate with them although he almost reached the dangerous level of his jealousy. While the men welcomed Nadine here, Alana pouted her mouth in annoyance when they praised her faking beauty all the time.

"It's already late. Come in, you guys must be tired. James, put that luggage down. The maids will bring them to your room," Ivan pulled Nadine into the villa, and she gasped in amaze once she was inside it. The space that designed by experts was lavishly decorated with expensive furniture inside it.

"Nadine, there are many rooms inside this villa," Sam said excitedly as he really anticipated to see James's reaction.

"So, what's the problem if this villa has many rooms?" Alana interrupted annoyingly as she disliked the way they treated her. Why she was treated liked a princess when she was the one who caused the pain to James? Nadine frowned as she had no idea why he told her about it.

"Hehe, I mean you can choose to stay in the same room with your husband or not," his words made she dropped her face in ashamed. Look all of them knew about their marriage, so there was no reason to pretend as loving couple.

"I...," before she could answer, James grabbed her hand and caused she lost her words due to surprise.

"She will sleeps with me tonight, in the same room," Nadine completely surprised by his answer, for she never expect that he wanted to be in the same room tonight. Meanwhile, Alana suppressed her jealousy and hatred toward that bitch by clenching her first. Yeah, she hated that woman! Since they met for the first time, she already hated Nadine!