Into the mystery

Sebastian and Jin-joo's place

Inside Petra's bedroom

After staring at the photographs and wedding ring for multiple times, tears rolled down Petra cheeks. Ignoring the fact that she was tearing up, she trailed her right thumb on the images.

The state of emotion and sensation she was in, made her shiver a bit as the pains inside of her was too much to bear. Petra has been going through the big book of her past. The book contains both her wedding pictures with Grayson and that of 5 years old Sebastian and 2 years old Nelly's birthday parties.

Drops of tears fell out of her eyes down to the photographs which were on her laps as she shut her eyelids. Tight-lipping her lips, she sobbed her soul out bitterly.

Then parting her eyelids as she sniffed her nose while trailing her fingers on Grayson's image. On the photo, he held her in his arms in addition with a bright smile. She was wearing a white trumpet wedding garment while he was on a maroon tux and dark blue cufflinks.

Everything seem so perfect about them in the photograph. From the way he held her like the wind was going to steal her from his arms to the way he kissed her lips. Petra still couldn't forget about that lovely moment even if she tried so many times. Her feelings and heartstrings seems to stuck up right there.

No matter how many times she had tried to resist him, his touch and the moments of him from her mind, she finds herself drawing closer to him the more.

Petra vigorously nodded. No! If this was truly appointed by fate, then why did he betrayed her with another woman? Though it wasn't his fault but why did he chooses another woman over her? Back then, he believed and trusted the other woman more than her. He threw her out of their marital home and now she's having something with him?

Her eyes traveled from the photographs to the little table in front of her. On the table, she had kept the ring before going through the photos. That ring signifies their wedding thirty years ago. She can fully flashed back when Grayson broke her heart with the divorce papers and asked her to leave with the kids. And when she stubbornly stayed back, him and the other woman had her and the kids to suffer.

She gave up and took her ring off her finger after going through that hell. But why didn't she throw the ring away? Why did she kept it for over twenty years? Why?

Petra asked herself those questions. She completely had no idea or reasons why she had kept that wedding ring all these years. Was it because it was an expensive diamond ring? No, not at all. Even her personal money can buy that or she could trade it out and keep the profit. But no! Something made her keep the ring all these years and that thing was 'Love'

The fact that she had tried to keep up and pretend never to fall in love again doesn't clarify the unconditional feeling she still had for him. Yes, she loves him. Petra still loves Grayson but why the act?

Each time she denies him and knock him down whenever he proposes, she goes back into her room to tear up. What is this? She asked herself several times it happens.

He his fully back, in spite what happened in the past. He is sorry and needs her back in his life again. Only she can wash away the sorrows that had eaten deep in his heart. Only she can convert every pains to happiness in his life but why is she still leaving him in the dark?

Picking up the ring, Petra balled it in her left palm and shut her eyes as another tear drops seem to fall out again. When the pains were too unbearable for her, she let out a soft but loud cry. She has been trying to holdback the urge of crying out loud but as it is right now, she can't take it any longer. She can't pretend to be aromatic when she's romantic. She can't keep up with the act. She can't be persuading him for sex when she knew very well that she loved him for just herself alone.

Placing her balled fist on her chest, she held it tight for a very long moment. This ring has been kept secretly within her. Not even her kids knew about this or else, Sebastian would have scattered the whole house for it and dump it inside the ocean.

Whenever her kids asked about the photographs, she would always takeout the ones containing hers and Grayson's and then she'll only display the ones having her kids.

It had been a very tough time history for her when she got divorced. Life had been much better when the other woman haven't chimed in. Even as at that, Petra loved and cared for the other woman's son just like hers. She never maltreated that boy neither had she shu him away from her kids.

But the other woman, being the new wife as at then, usually forged unseen things against Petra and Grayson always intend to believe whatever the other woman said.

At the time when the suffering became more worse and difficult for them to breathe or do anything under the same roof with Grayson and the other woman, Petra took her five years old son and two years old daughter out of the mansion into the mystery.

Fortunately for her, Grayson's kindhearted younger brother Collins who were absent-minded of the maltreatment and suffering all those times, took her and the kids into his mansion.

Petra had gone in good contact with his wife Laura so it was like a sister to sister support for Petra. Petra's life began to outshine bit by bit when she realized her kids joy and happiness out-coming again. Her kids will play all day and have fun with their little cousin Ryan who was the same age as her son Sebastian.

Gradually by gradually as time fades away, her kids started developing hatred for their biological father whenever their mother narrates the whole stories to them. Though she didn't wanted to, infact she lied to them severally that their father had died after Nelly's birth but Collins as in the younger brother to her ex, was always against that. And he cautioned her to tell the kids the truth when it's the perfect time.

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