CARA’S P.O.V
“It’s all happening so fast…and it’s so exciting and so romantic…and so…soooo beautiful” I was so filled with happiness that I felt that I would burst with excitement as I spoke to my sister Joyce over the phone, spilling the secrets of my new romance. “I can hear your happiness and excitement through the phone Cara and you deserve every bit of it. So tell me more…What does he look like? Is he handsome? What is his personality like? Is he full of fun and jokes or is he stern?” she asked, sounding as excited as I was. “Well, I wouldn’t say that he is the most attractive looking man that I have seen, but Joyce, he is charming. He has the most cheerful laugh and most beautiful smile. He is stern yet humbled and he never fails to make me smile or laugh.” I was lost in my thoughts of him as I spoke to my sister, so lost that I didn’t even notice someone coming towards me.
“Don’t be a fool!” an angry voice grabbed my attention. “Cara who is that? Is everything okay? What’s going on?” Joyce’s voice filled with concern as she asked these questions. “I’ll speak to you a bit later Joyce,” I said and hung up. “What did I do?” I asked a very angry Lily, who started laughing hysterically. “What did you do? Really? Oh please Cara! Don’t act so innocent! Just drop the act!” she spat at me. “What are you talking about? Why are you so angry with me? Is this about Mr. La’vardo? If it is then I think that you have misunderstood a few things” I shot back at her. I’m not some uneducated imbecile that would just stand back and take her insults! I would stand up for myself and fight for my dignity and respect! “Oh really? Is that the case? What have I misunderstood? I overheard the entire conversation that you were having over the phone. DO you really think that he is going to fall for you? A maid? Don’t be fooled besides everyone will know that you are just after his money! A Little Ms.Gold digger, aren’t you?” her accusing words gripped my heart. “That’s not true! And I’m not just a maid, I’m his friend too! You are just jealous of the FRIENDSHIP between Mr. La’ vardo and I” I defended myself. “Friendship? Is that what it is when you have been pouring all your romantic secrets over the phone? Don’t be so naive! He would never love someone like you! You can’t match up even a little bit to his Eva! He is just using you to forget her! But his heart would never belong to you as it belonged to her! He would never love you like he loved his beautiful Eva! Her beauty was that of a goddess compared to that of a maid like you! For all the years like he was lost in her bright green eyes do you really think that he would find love in your simple brown ones. For all the years that he ran his fingers through her shiny blonde hair, do you really think that he would be taken away by your unkempt, overgrown brown broken spiral staircase hair? Kissing her bright red plumped lips, do you really think that he would be satisfied kissing your plain dry lips? WAKE UP CARA! He had a woman as extraordinary as Eva, do you think that he can love someone who is below average, such as yourself?” she laughed at me while driving my self-confidence and ego right down to the core of the Earth. “You seem to have been more in love with Eva than he was, describing her with such intricate details! Oh and don’t forget that you are just an ordinary maid as well! Stop holding your head so high like a goddess!” were my last words before I left the room, not allowing her to see the tears which I could not control…
‘Eva? Who is that? How come he has never mentioned her? Is it too late for me? Do I love him too much to turn around now? Would he ever love me like he loved her? Would he ever love me? Does he really feel the same way about me like how I feel for him?’ I thought to myself as I paced back and forth in the garden outside the mansion.
“Hey! Are you okay? I noticed that you didn’t have dinner with the rest of the ladies…are you having dinner with my brother tonight as well?” Emma asked, her hands folded against her chest, an eyebrow raised and a smirk on her face as she stood in front of me in happiness and confidence. “Emma! Who is Eva? Please tell me! I have to know, please, I beg you” I ran to her, my hands on her shoulders, shock on her face as she watched me in my most desperate state. “Eva?” she asked, turning pale as if she has seen a ghost by just hearing her name. “Yes, Eva! Emma…please tell me who she is!” I pleaded. “Eva…Eva is my brother’s fiancé” she said, my hands fell off her shoulders as her words crushed me. “Fiancé?” I repeated her words in disbelief. “Well…Ex fiancé” she corrected. “I haven’t seen her around since…well since… ‘The incident’. I overheard him talking to his lawyer about a divorce, but he never really said anything to me. And I was to afraid to remind him once again about that awful time by asking him about her or what’s going on between them” She explained. “What incident?” I asked, I needed to know. “Fine I’ll tell you” she sighed. “My brother was madly in love with Eva. He was so in love with her and her beauty that he couldn’t see the ugliness inside her heart. Until he came early form a business trip one day and caught her in bed with another man” She explained. “She cheated on Mr. La’Vardo? I don’t understand how a person can cheat on a man like him. In fact, I don’t understand how a person can cheat. There’s no sense behind it. ” I spoke my thoughts out aloud. “Yes and I know my brother. He is a really truthful and loyal man. He is a ruthless tycoon in business world and puts on a mask as being heartless at times, but Cara when it comes to love he is romantic and a true gentleman. He is a very sensitive person with a fragile heart. He changed a lot since he threw her out, he has grown harsh and has been filled with anger, so much of anger that he really did turn into the heartless person that he pretended to be. He lost himself in his work and shut the doors of happiness. But Cara when you walked through the doors of this mansion, it’s like you reopened the doors to his happiness as well. I’ve never seen him this happy before, not even when he was with her. He seems so full of life these days, he is glowing from the inside. He is happy and it feels almost like the sun has rose after many dark nights. He is our sun, Cara because when he is upset no one in this house can be happy. He is my only brother, in fact, he is my only family. He is all that I have, he is my everything and I would do anything that you want me to Cara…I would give you anything that you want, all I ask is for you to continue doing whatever it is you do that makes him happy” she said. “I really don’t want anything Emma. But Emma, he loved her so much…I was such a fool Emma. Emma – I – I have fallen for him. I am in love with your brother Emma” I confessed, my head hung low as I battled to keep my tears at bay. “To be honest, from what I have seen, the feeling is quite mutual” she said, giving me a smile but my brows remained furrowed with worry. “I don’t know Emma. I have never felt this way before. I had a boyfriend back home and I have been with him for 3 years, but Emma not once have I ever felt this way about him. Whenever I see Mr. La’Vardo a wave of happiness takes over me. I can’t think clearly because my mind is always on him, I struggle to fall asleep too because I’m always thinking about him and when I do manage to fall asleep then he comes in my dreams as well. I’m giddy and so filled with happiness that I feel like it would burst out of me…it’s like a flower growing inside of me. Being in love…it’s the most amazing feeling yet the most scariest as well because if all this happiness can come from just having Mr. La’Vardo in my life, then I would have to face the same amount or double this amount of sadness when he leaves and I don’t think that I would be able to handle that” I expressed my fear.
“Don’t worry Cara. Just enjoy these blissful moments. What’s meant to be will be and always remember that everything happens for a reason. Now let’s go inside and check if there are any leftovers, I’m famished” she said, easing all my tension, I followed her in…
XANDER’S P.O.V ‘The pain that Eva has caused is slowly starting to fade. I’m finally starting to heal. Cara is slowly starting to fill that void’ a knock on my door, broke me away from my thoughts. “Sir, should I bring your dinner?” one of my housekeepers, poked her head through the small open space in between my study doors and asked. “Yes sure and please do me a favor,” I said. “Yes Sir, sure Sir, anything Sir,” she said, walking into the room to listen to my instructions. “The spare room that is next to the master bedroom…make sure that it is clean and well enough for someone to start staying in” I ordered. “Sir, the empty room that is next to your bedroom. The ba-bab” she tried to confirm but didn’t want to say the words. “Yes, that one! I will be inspecting so make sure that the job is perfectly done. If I find a spec of dust, you will be packing your bags and your employment contract will be
XANDER’S P.O.V“Mmmm, this is absolutely delicious” she moaned after taking a bite of the pasta which I have prepared for us. “I guess you aren’t the only good cook between us, hey,” I said with a smirk. “Yes, seems like I have competition” she joked. “Wine?” I asked, holding up the bottle, waiting for her permission to pour it into her glass. “Er…actually… I have…I have never tasted wine before” she said, leaving me in a statue-shocked state for a few seconds until I found my voice again. “You never had wine before?” I asked thinking that I might have heard her incorrectly or simply misinterpreted, maybe what she was trying to say is that she has never tasted this specific brand of wine before. “Nope, I’ve never had wine before” she repeated the words that she had said earlier. “How old are you?” I asked, the bottled still in my hands. &ldquo
XANDER’S P.O.V“Someone is lacking behind today? Too much wine last night?” Cara teased as she stopped and waited for me to catch up with her. “No, no, that’s not the case at all. I trained you well” I said with a smirk. “Oh, is that so? You trained me well? To jog?” Cara questioned, my eyebrow raised, rolling her eyes at me. “Yes… it’s not my fault you had to be trained for everything” I annoyed her. “Excuse me? That’s not true. There are a few things that I can teach you as well” she said, a smirk on her face and her arms folded against her chest as she watched me pant in front to her. “Like…*huffing *puffing… what?” I asked. “You would see as time goes by, but all I can see right now is that one of us is aging by the day and it’s not me” she teased again. “Hey…that’s not nice. I’m young and as fit as a fiddle&
CARA’S P.O.V I can’t believe that I’m getting married in six months. I looked at myself in the mirror and happiness shone from within. Just two more months and I will be a married woman, I couldn’t get the thought out of my head. It was always my dream, a bride on her wedding day is the closest thing to a queen… but that’s not why I wanted to get married, I wanted to get married because I feel that marriage is one of the most sacred things in the world. I mean, how can it not be sacred when the main reason and source of marriage come from a magic so pure and so real…love! And I am in love, I’m crazily in love with Alexander La’Vardo, and the love that I feel for him, has me bursting with happiness. A few weeks ago not only my dreams of being a doctor and becoming an independent woman was crushed but so were all my dreams of getting married when I took on the job of a servant, who would have known that I would have been going from servant to wife? “I hope that you are
LILY’S P.O.V “What are we going to do now? This little goody-too-shoes b**** is ruining our plan!!! I’ve heard that he plans to marry the fool. We have to do something soon! We can’t let this happen” I said, fuelled with anger. “What do you mean? I thought that she wasn’t a threat. That’s what you told me, didn’t you?” She asked me, confusion in her voice however she was still calm and I was grateful for that. “I know Eva, but this girl…you don’t know her. In fact, I don’t think that anyone knows her. She has every one fooled. She seemed so innocent and stupid when I first saw her but look at her now, she has woven her way into marrying your ex-husband. What would we do now? How would you get him back now?” I asked. “Oh Cummon Lily, we both know that that Alexander La’Vardo will never be able to resist me. When I come back into his life he will forget all about this little naïve Cara. No one can stop me from getting what I want!” Eva’s words were bitter over the
XANDER’S P.O.V “Hello” I greeted, answering the phone in my office. “Xander?” the blood drained from my face, hearing her voice. “Eva?” I said, still in shock. “Why are you calling me? What the hell do you want?” I began to yell at her as I snapped out of my shocked state. “Xander listen, please. The woman that you are dating, Cara, she is cheating on you, Xander.” I laughed bitterly at her words. “Oh, Eva. Not everyone is a w**** like you and Cara is certainly not. How do you even know her name or that I am dating someone? Did you really grow so obsessed with me after I divorced you? You are sick Eva! You are sick in your head and you need help!!!” I said, my voice un-normally calm. “NO!!! XANDER PLEASE JUST LISTEN!!! DON’T HANG UP!!! Cara still has her hometown boyfriend” she said, her words came out fast, desperate to say what she wanted before I could hang up. “So you are a W****, a liar and a storyteller,” I laughed at her sarcastically. “Xander-” she tried to say somet
CARA’S P.O.V “So, are you going to tell me where we are going?” I asked Xander, getting into his sports car. “Cara, do you remember that night, when you got drunk with wine and said that you would follow me anywhere I go?” he asked, turning the key, his engine roared. “Yes, I remember,” I said. “but I was drunk then…remember?” I questioned him smartly. “Oh, so does that mean that you don’t love me that much?” he said, making a sad face as we rolled out of the long, curvy driveway. “So, you won’t tell me?” I asked again. “Hmmm, it’s quite obvious now. Isn’t it?” he said, more to himself than to me. The expression on his face was as if he made a discovery but still trying to figure out if his discovery is correct with his creased eyebrows. “What is?” I asked, curious to know what he is going on about. “That you, my dear Cara has never been surprised before,” he said, his tone playful but his eyebrows still creased. “What makes you say that?” I asked, amusement danced on my lip
XANDER’S P.O.V My soul was truly satisfied seeing Cara so happy. Seeing the bond between the two sisters reminded me of how close I was to my brother. “Joyce, this is Alexander, Xander for short. He is the guy I told you about, my fiancé” Cara said, her voice filled with excitement. “Ah, so we finally meet in person,” Joyce said to me, Cara’s face filled with confusion. “The pleasure is mine,” I said, shaking her hand gently and politely. “Meet in person? What? What are you talking about?” Cara questioned, her eyebrows creased in confusion but her smile did not leave her lips. “How do you think he got our address, hey Cara? Did he dream about it?” Joyce mocked Cara. “Well, I was so filled with excitement when I realized that he is bringing me home that I didn’t think about how he got our address” Cara explained, shrugging her shoulders. “Well there is my silly sister that I missed so much,” Joyce teased. “I see that you have grown quite a lot since I left, even though it has