After a long hard day, Rhea decided to take a hot shower once she got to her apartment. She couldn’t stay at the party after talking to her aunt who was back in Mexico because each time she received a call from her, she knew what it was all about. Taking a bottle of cold water out of the refrigerator, Rhea adjusted her night gown which was red and made her way to the living room to watch a movie since she couldn’t get any sleep because she had a lot on her mind, and hence she couldn’t close her eyes no matter what.
“Goodness”she muttered as she sat down and massaged her neck just as she heard a doorbell and with narrowed eyes, she glanced at her watch, and it was midnight. Who would come so late she thought and made her way to the door and once she reached there she peeked out through a small to see who it was and to her surprise it was Mario standing outside looking as tired as she did.
“Why are you here?”she asked immediately she opened the door and Mario with frustration ignored her and walked inside to the living room. Rhea rolled her eyes in irritating and slammed the door shut and locked it securely and followed him only to find him half sleeping on the sofa with his coat throw on the follow.
“Hey this isn’t your house okay”she fired up and picked up the jacket and threw it at him, Mario groaned as he managed to sit up and took the bottle from the table and gulped down half the water and exhaled audibly and glanced at Rhea.
“You look beautiful”he complimented without a care, but Rhea didn’t react much to his words because she was used to Mario voicing out his opinion more often.
“And what are you doing here?”she asked and sat beside him and Mario adjusted to a comfortable sitting position and sighed heavily as he ran his hand in his hair in frustration.
“Have you ever thought what would happen when the past threatened to repeat itself”Mario said hypothetically and Rhea arched a brow at him as she scanned his face and saw dark circles around his eyes and knew the man was having a rough time.
“No… did something happen?”she asked nonchalantly and Mario sighed again and leaned against the chair and tilted his head towards her, but Rhea didn’t know what he was going on about as she waited for him to speak.
“Tara is in town, and we all know what that means”Mario simply said and took a sip of his water and Rhea finally realized why Mario was looking all worked up because he of all people knew about the Tara Emiliano saga which happened in the past and left a lot of unsaid pain that destroyed three lives at least not Angelo’s life because Tara was in love with him, although she married another man chosen by her father.
“Right and Sia is not married to Emiliano… now that’s a glitch… I didn’t think much about this,”Rhea whispered and Mario nodded. Other than Rhea no one knew about the fact that Tara and Emiliano had a past together well it was one-sided since back in college when Emiliano, Tara and Angelo were just teenagers to say something unexpected happened.
“Do you think he still feels the same, Mario if so, then don’t you think Sia needs to know that the man she was married to now had once loved her elder sister”Rhea remarked in worry thinking about the scandalous scenes that would break if such secrets got out.
“I don’t know, I didn’t see any reaction from him back at the church when he saw Tara, but I know he despises her for what she did”Mario said because back t the wedding she had paid attention to Tara and Emiliano as well as Angelo who has no idea that the woman he loved had deceived his best friend by pretending to love him only to break his heart.
“Tara was wrong Mario, she played with Emiliano without realizing what her actions would do”Rhea knew just how everyone thought Tara was a saint yes she had changed now but back when she was young she used to act like a spoiled rich girl who didn’t give a damn about people’s feelings that was why despite being in love with Angelo she went ahead and toyed with Emiliano who was left shattered for Years to come.
“That’s what I fear, Emiliano somehow feels Sia would do the same… it’s crazy, but he feels insecure every time Sia is with my brother”Mario spoke and Rhea widened her eyes in awe.
“But he doesn’t love her so does Sia, so why?”it wasn’t old news that Emiliano and Sia hated each other so why would Emiliano feel insecure about a woman he didn’t love.
“That I also don’t know… let’s just wait and see where this goes”he had to try and make sure nothing bad happened because knowing how Emiliano was he was bound to worry. Although he was considered a Casanova, he wasn’t like that until Tara broke him apart and now things were so complicated.
“You are sleeping on the couch”Great got up and made his way upstairs to her bedroom and Mario smirked.
“Scared that you would lose control with me around”he shouted after her and heard Rhea scoff with multiple curses that had him chuckling in defeat as he carefully laid down on the couch supporting his head with his arms and closed his eyes to get some sleep and the night passed just like that.
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Meanwhile it took time for Emiliano to get Sia off him because in a drunk state she was nothing but trouble, currently they were in his house, of course he had a house of his own and only stayed with his parents because of his granny who always blackmailed him to live with them but now that he was married to the little fox he thought having a house of their own would be good for torturing her.
“Troublemaker”he muttered and walked out of her room before switching off the lights and prepared to go to his room which was far away from Sia’s just as he requested Trey to do, and now he has to make sure the little one was comfortable as well. He specifically asked the helpers to decorate Diego’s room beforehand, and now it was all ready.
“Sir… He’s sleeping now,”Lulu said as soon as he saw Emiliano walk inside the room and Emiliano nodded for her to leave and Lulu did as told and left. She was thrilled that granny chose her as Sia’s personal servant, that way she would be close to little Diego.
“Cute, but your mother isn’t”he murmured as he watched the little boy sleeping in his crib peacefully and Emiliano clenched his fist in anger.