via shook her head, hoping the pain would fade away. The muscles behind her eyes seemed to tense up. The throbbing felt painful, blurring her vision. She tried to open the drawer, searching for the pain relief medication prescribed by Eijaz. Instead, her rolling chair identally pushed back, and her foot unintentionally stepped on the hem of her skirt, causing her to fall onto the floor on both knees.


    “It feels like marrying your own niece. I prefer women who aren’t too much younger.” That was dwin’s voice.


    Every memory that entered her head only made via’s head hurt more. Her vision was blurred. She tried to shake her head again, trying to push away all those memories so they wouldn’te back. But it was futile. She saw Phoebe sitting quietly on the sofa. There was no intention from her to move and help.


    “Two months, via. That’s all that’s left. Let him go, let him be with me. A woman who’s clearly more suitable for him than a wed woman like you.”


    via couldn’t see clearly what the woman was doing. The door mming shut with a loud noise only intensified her headache.


    She retreated to the shadows that she knew were part of her past. ire’s wedding, Adaline singing with her melodious voice. The figure of dwin thirteen years ago greeting her with his characteristic smile. His mischievousughter. Ignazio, Francisca, Falisha, Geremia, Abigail. They all shed before her like scenes from an old movie.


    via didn’t hear her own agonizing cries. She didn’t even realize Abigail’s presence, who arrived breathless and knelt in front of her.


    “For God’s sake, via! Snap out of it!” Abigailmanded, trying to pry via’s hands off. “via!” she shouted again. via stood frozen for a moment, looking at Abigail with empty eyes before darkness enveloped her.


    Abigail was shocked. Phoebe’s presence surprised her, but seeing via’s condition was even more startling. Abigail quickly grabbed the desk phone and called one of the male employees before shifting her gaze to via’s illuminated phone. Soon, a uniformed employee arrived.


    “Carry her,” she ordered. Then she walked behind via, who was being carried on the employee’s back.


    Abigail opened the front door of the car, instructing her employee to seat via carefully. She fastened the seatbelt and adjusted the backrest until via could leanfortably. Then she turned to the driver’s seat and pulled her car out of the parking area.


    “Hello, Uncle. Where are you?” She asked on her phone, which was on speaker mode.


    “I’m in a meeting, what’s up?”


    “via fainted. I’m on my way to the hospital,” Abigail announced generally.


    “Fainted? Why?”


    “I don’t know. We’re almost there, gotta go.”


    Abigail parked her car in front of the ER, asking anyone there to help via out of the car. “Please, she suddenly fainted,” she said to a nurse in uniform.


    “Did she suffer a blow or something?” the nurse asked. Abigail just shook her head in frustration because she really didn’t know. When she arrived, she saw via sitting on the floor and hitting her head. The nurse asked her to step back when the attending doctor came to examine her friend’s condition.


    “It seems the patient experienced shock. We can examine further when the patient wakes up. So far, her vital signs have returned to normal,” the doctor said. Abigail nodded. She waited for via to wake up by her bedside. Not long after, dwin arrived, panting.


    “What’s going on?” He asked panicky, alternating between looking at Abigail and via. He seemed to be wearing a neatly tailored suit. Apparently, he had just attended an important meeting.


    “I really don’t know, Uncle. I stopped by the cafe, right when that woman came down from the second floor. When I entered the room, via was already lying on the floor, and shortly after that, she fainted.”


    dwin examined via carefully. His wife’s face looked pale but calm, as if she were sleeping. via opened her eyes shortly after. She saw dwin and Abigail alternating. “What happened?” She asked softly.


    “Via?”


    “Sweetheart?”


    Both of them called out via’s name simultaneously with loud voices, causing via to squint due to the throbbing pain in her head.


    “Where am I?” That was the first question that popped into her head.


    “Are you okay? What are you feeling right now?” dwin leaned down towards her, observing her face.


    “Uncle?”


    There it was again. dwin felt something strange. Especially now, the look in her eyes seemed to revert back to ten months ago. Mncholic, no longer like it was just a few moments ago.


    Even thest time they parted ways when dwin escorted her to the cafe, the sparkle in her eyes seemed cheerful. And that cheerfulness now seemed to dim. There was only one possibility that dwin knew. His via was back. His wife’s memory had returned.


    Dear Diary


    Dear Diary,


    There are too many words I can’t express.


    About happiness, and fear I feel at the same time.


    A fleeting memory of the past brings my soul back to where it belongs.


    Brings my sanity back to its ce.


    The fleeting happiness I felt yesterday is now nowhere to be found.


    Love?


    Even my subconscious knows that the love I have for him is so immense that this body refuses to reject his presence.


    This heart refuses to reject his affection.


    But once again, I realize. That the happiness I feel is only fleeting.


    The longsting happiness I found in the end is now traded for choices I cannot make either of them.


    All the choices aimed at me in the end will only hurt me.


    Then what should I do?


    I’m frustrated.


    Torn apart?


    That word doesn’t even begin to describe what I feel.


    Far… far more painful than just a word…


    Can’t they let me live life ording to my wishes?


    Can’t they allow me to be happy in my own way?


    Can’t I pursue my dreams without beingbeled selfish?


    I love him.


    By God, I love him so much.


    If I could, I would run away with him.


    To find another side of the world where they don’t exist.


    Where it’s just him and me.Text content ? N?velDrama.Org.


    But what can I do?


    Another side of my heart cannot lie. Because to me, they are equally precious.


    I believe in Your destiny, Lord.


    I am sure there will be a rainbow after the storm.


    There will be sunshine after the night.


    There will be happiness after all the sadness.


    But when?


    Don’t let me be someone who constantly doubts You, Lord.


    Don’t let me close my eyes to Your goodness just because I’m tired of waiting patiently.


    I beg You, Lord. Show this servant the way.