Lahynna was on her way down the front porch when she heard the familiar noise coming from the lawn area.
And she was certain her group of friends was there in their vast ground. She saw Lanryd, her brother, who hurriedly went outside of the house with his bowl of potato chips. Their parents? Well, for sure, her father must have gone to work. He was the head researcher of a process food company. While her mother, maybe she was doing the laundry.
“What’s with the rush? And what’s going on?” she snouts the direction through the lawn area.
“Ah… there’s the DOTA 2 tournament. Our team joins the championship.” Lanryd answered.
My eyes grew wide in excitement. “Really”
Lanryd just nodded and continued going outside. He runs fast through the lawn. Sure he was also excited about the tournament.
Her brother's gang usually hangs out in their house. Well, the group consisted of different ages. There’s Lanryd's age; there’s her age. Some were older than her, and some were younger. There are also ladies in it. And there was her cousin, who was already a mother at a young age. That’s Eina.
But then, everybody got the same thing in them. All of them were gamers.
Nah… old habits were hard to die.
She barely went into their city in Bohol. It’s for her sake to avoid the hurtful memories. But then, it was more painful to be alone. Being alone just triggered her to reminisce the memories she should not be thinking about anymore.
Lahynna went straight to the lawn to have a view of the game. Excitement hurriedly crawled her system. It’s been a while since the last time she joined the game. Lots of things happened in her life just recently. She was thankful she surpassed everything without getting her illness worse.
She had Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Her blood wasn’t pumping normally. That condition was inborn, but they just found it out when she was in college. She had some severe attacks, and her parents were avoiding it from happening again. Her doctor also warned them that she might go into a severe DCM case the next time she got an attack.
Lahynna stopped walking when she saw the familiar figure. She grabbed her chest firmly. She had been through a lot of different pain every day, and she doesn’t know how she managed to live still.
Everybody from the lawn was shouting in joy. Maybe the group won.
“Hey, Hynna. It’s a surprise to see you out from the cave.” Eina greeted her.
She looked around for a moment and was looking for Eina's baby. But her eyes found Rubick. The man was playing with the kid who seems to be more than two years old. It felt like a knife was stabbed right in her chest. The kid was supposed to be hers. It should be their kid that Rubick was playing with. She was supposed to be at Rubick's side. She was supposed to be the one with him… in the house he brought in the center of this city.
It was supposed to be her…
Lahynna fought hard to kill the ugly feeling. It was not good for her health.
Rubick stands up, holding the kid in his arms, and hands the boy to Eina.
He was still that tall, over six feet, and standing so attractive. Still lean, but she knew that behind his semi-fitted polo were the powerful muscles on his chest and shoulders.
Rubick had a beautiful body even before. But it seems like every time he visits DJP-Main—the main branch of De Juego Pharma, things go differently. He used to appear with so much improvement. And recently, she noticed how perfect his sculpture was. He might be hanging out in a gym, that is why. His shoulder seems to widen and sculpted nicely. His skin was lightly tanned, and it doubled his attraction. Tripled it with his snob and silent appearance.
God! What did she miss?
“Have to go. You should go home after the game.”
If Rubick's voice was sweet when he was with the kid, it was icy-cooled when he talked with Eina. Lahynna stayed where she was while watching the three. Even though she only saw the side view of Rubick, she could still see the expression on his handsome face.
He was pokerfaced when he sneaked at the game and was full of reservation when he bid goodbye to his son and wife.
The son and wife should be her and their son.
Her heart was making a commotion inside her chest when Rubick gave a glance in her direction.
His eyes were unfathomably sad; it seemed to slice her heart. His handsome face was devoid of emotions, but his eyes said it all. He was such a lonely handsome man. And she doesn’t know who’s to blame for all of it.
Rubick started to walk near her. Lahynna choked her breath when Rubick was just an inch near where she is. She was looking straight in his eyes, and so he was. But when he finally came opposite her, he acted like he didn’t see her. He went straight to their gate.
Rubick got inside his black four-wheel parked in front of their house, and she hadn't noticed. Her heart seems to explode in misery and pain. She missed him terribly. He doesn’t even stop for a while to greet her.
Lahynna fights her tears and sobs. He wasn’t the same man who would look at her with so much love and adoration. Rubick treated her just like a wind he didn’t see. And if the annulment process had ended, it would only mean that they were already done and over.
Rubick was rich. And it puzzled her that he never made any action to shorten the process. Because of that, she somehow hopes that Rubick hasn’t changed his mind. That he somehow didn’t want to cut ties with her. She still has hope.
Lahynna pulled her husband away from her. Even though Rubick had given her many alternatives for their situation, she never agreed to any of them. Instead, she pulled him away from her. Rubick tried hard to win her again, to convince her that they should fix their marriage. But she declined him.
“Eina and Rain can live with my mother, and I’ll provide for them. While us… let’s go back to what we are, Belle. Let’s bring back the old us.” Rubick pleaded.
“And then you will raise a bastard? You'll go to your house with Eina. And then went on with me because it was the husband’s responsibility to come home to her wife?”
“What the hell, Lahynna Belle!? Don’t you call yourself an obligation! I want to be with you for the rest of my life… You are the one I want to grow and live with, not them!” Rubick snarled at her. He was as if fighting his anger.
She coldly meets his eyes.
“And you told me you would never repeat what he had done before? But the alternative that you were giving me was the exact thing your Dad has done to your Mom. The only difference is that your aunt is the third-party while mine is my cousin.”
Rubick’s mouth fell open. Pain crossed his eyes, and it slayed her. Yet, she needs to stand strong in front of him.
“No, Rubick. I don’t want to end up like your Mom. She loves your Dad, and because of that—”
“Damn you!” Rubick yelled at her.
His eyes were red with threatening tears. But just a while, and his voice lowered. He gives out a frustrated sigh. Lahynna felt that it was the start to get her sentence…
“You didn’t trust me anymore. I haven’t realized it quickly. There’s nothing for us to go and look forward to.”
And now, Lahynna was suffering the results of her decision. Because honestly, she was painfully missing him.
“Hynna?! Come here! We won! We already won!” Lanryd was freaking in excitement.
She forced a smile at her brother. It’s been six aching months. Six months had passed, but the pain didn’t go away. How was it going to fade when she always saw Rubick at the main branch of DJP?
She was actually planning to change her job. But somehow, she doesn’t want to leave the company.
She doesn’t want to leave Rubick. She tried to regret what she had done because she was also suffering from the pain it causes to both of them.
But then, the thing that caused her pain was also the thing that she knew was right.
She could not afford to get selfish. She can’t….
“Their great, Hynna. Our group is the best!” Eina said with pride and joy while holding her kid in her arms.
Lahynna wanted to get angry with her cousin Eina. Or maybe she envied her, and that envy turned into anger.
And she also doesn’t know where Eina took the nerve to show her face to her after everything she had done in her family?
Lahynna ignored Eina. She could not bear seeing her. Though her parents told her she must face the people who had hurt her with dignity, she could not force herself to be happy for them.
“Where did you join? Sentinel or Scourge?” She forced a smile on the gamers.
“Scourge.” Damon answered. His eyes were still on the laptop.
“You should pick the goblin, Damon.”
But Lahynna's mind wasn’t in the game anymore.
It was running with a man who got in his black Audi. It is the weekend, which means Rubick was going into his mother's restaurant.
What if she gave a visit to the restaurant?