Taming the Playboy CEO

The evening sun was down with redish moon active in its bight of light, Mariana sat  while staring into an empty space off from the window. Just a little few poles that lies ahead of the gardern a from the window. The garden seemed green and alive yet her glimpse over it yields no postive impression; as if there isn't life in it.  Just because, She was so lost in her thoughts and beclouded with old memories of she and Alex. Her state, is as if she lies beyond this present world, and at that moment she felt excited.

The euphoria felt could be rated higher than ever experienced after the departure of Alex.

     Tall, energetic, handsome with gentleness were the features of Alex. Alex happened to be Mariana's first and true love. She has lovely wished the rest of her life ends in company of her new love. They  dated  and were in relationship close to five years. The experiences they had over the years, were far beyond the four letter words of love.

She felt like she was bonded to him and him to her.

Still lost in her world of imagination, she didn't hear when the door of the room  was opened nor did she hear the footsteps of the duo that faced her now. Facing her Mom and younger sister, Mom told her that she needed to come out of her thoughts and leave the past behind me. My younger sister, who now looked like an elder sister to me now, crutched down to where Mariana was seated and squatted down before raising her head to look at her .

Taking a deep breath, she  heard Choice saying, “Big Sis,you know that all this pain, grieving ,and sorrowing  won't bring your Alex back to life,you really need to face the future. You and I know perfectly well that Alex always wants the best for you and will not like to see you in this condition. I Know you love him dearly but there is nothing either you or anyone else can do about it,so I am begging you for the sake of Alex and your family just let this go and move ahead with your life”. 

      As much as I knew that they were not far from the truth, I just couldn't understand why my mind couldn't accept the fact that he's gone. Something kept screaming in my head, liar! they are all lying, he's alive,how could he leave me without saying goodbye, but I kept trying to convince myself that all that was my wild imagination and nothing else and I needed to get over this.

After deciding this in my head,I looked up to my sis and mom and told them that I'm ready to give up the pain and I will try my best to get over Alex. But I quickly reminded them that I wasn't making any promises. I could see the happiness glittering from my mom's eyes as I just shared my head and headed to the bathroom. Almost getting to the bathroom door I heard my mom saying, not so fast darling, Cole is coming to take you out for an outing, so you need to freshen up and get yourself into this dress and prepare to head out.

Mariana couldn't help but chuckle as she took the dress from her mom and placed it in the bed while changing from her  tile slippers into my bathroom slippers to get into the bathroom. She fastened her  footsteps as she just wanted to be away from her mom. She got into the bathroom and closed the door behind me. When she thought that she had escaped from her mom, she heard her calling out to her from my bathroom to be fast, she could only yell back by replying to a Yes Mom while taking a dip in the bathtub.

Away from Beth's mansion, Cole was seen humming joyfully. 

Its face was full of joy, passers-by couldn't help but look at his direction as his joy was obvious and could be said that he won a lottery.

He entered into his Royce rolls and zoomed off to the Beth's mansion to pick up Marina for an outing.

He was the only one that knew the reason behind the uncelebrated happiness.

When Cole reached his destination, which was Beth's mansion, he stayed in the car to dress himself up a little before going  for the door.

He rang the bell and Choice came to answer the door. Cole was welcomed warmly into the house and given a seat to settle in while she went up to let Mariana know that Cole was there.

Mrs. Beth ordered the housekeeper to serve Cole while he waited for Mariana but he opted for water only which was given to him.

Mrs.Beth also went up to attend to her daughter.