Mrs beltran turned to her child and slapped her. "This is not the child I gave birth to. This is not how I raised my daughter. What have you turned into? A little devil, Huh? This is madness. You are going crazy already. Chad is trying to explain everything that happened that night, but what did you do? You bit him until he started to bleed and not only that, you also threatened him with death. What has gotten into you?" Mrs beltran yelled.
Listening to her mother's words, Rachel felt guilty. Chad was really trying to explain things to her, but she wouldn't listen. She looked at his arm and it was still bleeding. She felt embarrassed, but she did not still give up.
She stared at Chad angrily and said, "I was not expecting you to cheat on me. You should have just told me that you don't love me at all"
Chad moved closer to touch her, but she dodged him and ran away.
"Rachel, please come back" Chad said and wanted to run after her, but Mrs beltran pulled him back and said, "Let her leave. She will come back to her senses later, but now, you have to treat your wound" Chad looked at her and forced a smile on his face and nodded his head. Mrs beltran smiled back at him even though she knew that behind his smile was a bitter sadness.
She took him inside and helped him dress his wound. The bite was so deep that Johanna could not even look at it anymore. His shirt was drenched with blood which was still oozing from the wound. Johanna got him another shirt to change into and took his shirt to wash it. Mrs beltran asked him to explain to her what happened last night at the hospital and he did.
Later at night at Torres mansion.
Mina was on her bed in her room playing game on her phone. There was a knock on the door. She sat up in bed and said, "Come in"
The door slowly opened and Mr Torres came inside. Mina placed her phone on the bed and asked, "Uncle, do you need anything?" she got down from her bed and walked over to him.
Mr Torres waved his hand. "Sit down. I want to discuss something with you"
"Oh..." she sat down on her bed and Mr Torres sat down beside her. He let out a deep sigh and lowered his head. Mina was confused. She did not understand why he was acting like this. "Uncle, Is there any problem?"
Mr Torres raised his head and looked at her. His expression was sad and his voice was low. "I heard what you did"
"What did I do?"
"What you did to Chad and Rachel"
Mina's heart started beating so fast.
Mr Torres heard what Mina did and he was dissapointed in her. He'd never expected her to do something like that. To him, Mina was always a good natural girl. She was well mannered. Although Mina might like expensive things. She wore heavy makeup everyday and put on expensive clothes.
"Why did you do that?"
Mina did not respond. She lowered her head and listened to him.
"You know Chad is really in love with only Rachel. Do you know that? Rachel might not be as rich as we are, but Chad loved her dearly and I support him. I am just so disappointed in you Mina. We treated you like our very own daughter. Do you know how I felt when I heard what you did?" his voice was becoming louder and louder as he said so.
Mina raised her head and tears began to drop from her eyes. "I-I...am..." she paused and continued. "I am very sorry uncle"
Mr Torres stood up and lowered his head to look at her. "If you...really love Chad, then you will have to leave him because he does not love you" with that, he turned and left the room.
Mina sat on her bed and cried quietly. Everybody is against what she did. To her, she is only doing the right thing.
'Why is Rachel the only one? Why can't they just accept me for Chad?' she thought.
She clenched her fist and said, "I will make sure Chad will forget about her soon. Just wait for few more days and Chad will be mine"
At the hills.
Rachel sat on the hills silently, gazing across the river below the hills. The bright moon on the starry sky was dazzling. The sound of the crickets and flies can be heard along the gentle breeze blowing on her. She remembered the photo sent to her and tears rolled down her cheeks. She tried to get it out of her mind, but she couldn't. She hugged her knee and buried her head inbetween and continued to cry.
"Do you need water?" a gentle, soft voice sounded beside her. She raised her head slowly and turned her head to look at the man. The man wore a sweet smile on his face and a bottled water was on his hand. Rachel gave him a cold stare, knowing her face was getting red. She took the bottled water from him and flung it away.
"What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you to stay away from me chad?" Rachel asked and turned her face away.
Chad did not respond.
Rachel turned her head to look at the man beside her and he was still smiling.
"Are you crazy?! I told you to stay away from me!" she yelled.
Chad's gaze traveled over her face and then found her eyes. Her eyes were bloodshot and her face swollen from crying. Even though her eyes were red now, they are still the most beautiful eyes in the whole wide world to Chad.
He reached out his hand and wiped the tears from her eyes with the tip of his fingers. Rachel slapped his hand away and shouted, "Go away from me Chad. It is Mina you love not me. Right? Go to her and leave me alone"
Chad could hold the heartbreaking no longer as tears fell from his eyes like streams. He reached out his hand to hold her hands, but she evade his touch.
"You have got to believe me Rachel. She forced a kiss on me. I am telling the truth"
Rachel could not hold back her own tears. Seeing Chad cry made her cry too. She wanted to believe what he'd just said, but she thought of the photo again and got angry. She stood up and wanted to run away, but Chad grabbed her hand and pulled her back to him. He wrapped his arms around her securing her body against his.
"Chad please let go of me" She said as she tried to pull away from him.
"No. I won't"
Then a strong breeze blew and ruffled their hair and all of a sudden, lightning stuck and thunder clapped in the storm clouds, and rain began to pour down heavily.
"Chad let me go now. I don't love you anymore" Rachel shouted over the sound of the heavy rain.
"I won't leave you because I love you"
In seconds, their clothes were drenched and their hair becoming plastered to their face. She tried to pull away from him, but his embrace was too strong. One part of her mind was whispering for her to push him away, but the other side was shouting that it doesn't matter.
"Don't leave me alone Rachel" he kept on whispering that to her ear.
At the Torres mansion.
The wind strongly blew the curtain and thunder growls without warning from the sky. Mina stood up from bed and looked through the window. Chad is still not back. She has been waiting for him and thinking of how to explain to him how much she loved him. She will do her best to get him to love her.
A knock sounded on her door and it interrupted her trains of thought. She turned and saw her mother coming inside with a tray and a bowl on it.
"Mina, what are you doing there?"
"Waiting for Chad" she said in a low voice.
Mrs Sharon stared at her daughter for few seconds before dropping the tray on the bed and walked towards her.
"Do you still believe that Chad will love you after what you have done to him?"
Her question made Mina tremble.
It's actually the truth. Will Chad still love her?