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" Stop this car now! Harry tell your Driver to stop the car. Why would I trust you again? You've hurt once, how sure am I that you're not gonna hurt me again! " Mrs Kathleen yelled at Him.

"Stop the car now!" She repeated.



Mr Anderson looked around through the window and discovered that they were at a Relaxation centre where they could stop at and talk it out.

The thought of women running over to him flashed through his head but he made his mind to chase them away.



"Please Kathleen. Ok halt the car Joe! " He told his driver..

"At that Relaxation centre nearby " He directed him.



"Relaxation centre? You're day-dreaming and meeting you again is my worst nightmare" She scorned.



"I don't know where to start from but first I must say I apologize about our past"



"Why are apologizing? That you lured me and impregnated me and ran away.. " She barked at him.



"Were you ever pregnant for me? " He asked innocently and she smirked angrily.



"Oh now I get it. You are acting like nothing happened between us. Ugh, you should have preferred to act like you don't know me either"



"Seriously Kathleen. I didn't know you had a baby for me! "



"Harry you're such a big liar. I called you, I told you and you at denied me right! " She yelled at him.



"You called me and told me" Yet he asked her?



"We aren't playing games. Seriously why am I still here discussing with a deceiver" She rolled her eyes and turned to the door. Trying to open it herself and get out of it



"Jeez! There's a reckless driving lorry behind us" His Driver announced peering through the front mirror.

He reached his hand for the brake and steering but the lorry was already close by each to their vehicle and out of fear, he couldn't drive.



"Aaarrrgh" Kathleen and Harry screamed.

She closed her eyes and held Harry really close.



They expected the car to turn upside down or probably to move in a great speed and hit another. And there would be a brutal accident but there wasn't.



They opened their eyes and looked through the glass behind them and noticed that the lorry has halted right at the back of their vehicle. If there's a tiny forward movement from the Lorry, their very expensive car would get damaged and they might even get hurt.



"What a relieve" Mr Anderson said.



If only the lorry-driver knew he was in the car..



"I'm sorry Sir. I was so shocked to even roll the steering wheel" His driver apologized.



"Aren't you thinking that if an accident must have occurred, you are not exempted" He said and looked down at Kathleen who was still leaning on his chest and breathing really fast.



She's yet to recover from the shock.

She's still the same Kathleen he knew when they were in high school.

She called him a deceiver yet in times of trouble, she held on to him.



"Looks like, the lorry driver is coming to apologise" His driver announced.



"Just drive. I don't wanna speak with him. I don't even what him to know I'm in this car" He said to his driver who obeyed without any complain.



He let Kathleen lean on him, covering her for with his suit and staring at her face nonstop. Suddenly, she stopped breathing too fast and opened her eyes and flinched.



"You are something worse. My life itself doesn't even want a thing to have with you. Just because you are with me, I nearly had an accident" She yelled at him.



"We are in this together Kathleen. Please, Please and Please. Let's talk this out" He pleaded.



"Why? Tell me why I should be here talking to someone who almost ruin my life..not almost, you already ruin me Harry" She shouted at him with her eyes teary and in the next second, a tear slid down her cheeks.

Harry began to feel guilty, he was unintentionally Guilty. Tears flow down from his eyes too 'cos he couldn't help but to cry.



"Joe, Please stop the car immediately and leave us alone" Mr Anderson said to him.

Joe is his Driver, who knows if he is a spy besides, this moment, they needed to be alone.



Joe obediently pulled the brake, made sure the glasses were closed.. They were tinted anyways, so no-one from outside would see through it.

Then he got out of the car and left the two middle-aged love birds alone.



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"I never knew my Dad had a collaborated contract with some of his colleagues at another country, N.Y. It was unexpected, we woke up one morning and he rushed us to the airport. He already got the visas, tickets and everything ready. I didn't run away from you, I never dumped you. I was really in love with you" Mr Anderson briefly said



"You lair! You dumped me because you though all I wanted from you was your money. I gave you my dignity..Oh yeah, we both didn't want the baby. I wasn't expecting it too but what else would I do since pills wouldn't work on me. You are denying not to be aware that I was pregnant for you, I told you, I called you, you picked my call just once, you heard me, you disconnected the call, I called severally but you didn't pick it anymore Why? because I already became a waste right? I couldn't even reach or find you" She whimpered profusely.



"I swear, I went to the N.Y empty-handed , not even with my phone. Dad was with it throughout, he told me I didn't need it anymore. He didn't tell me why he threw my phone into the burning fire. Would I ever leave you when I'm completely in support of young couples -Relationships?" He said.



Mrs Kathleen sniffed and tried not to believe what he was saying.

"Can I have enough time to think the whole thing again but don't expect a response from me" She said bluntly.



"I put to bed eight months after, Audrey is her name" She said reluctantly because he needs to know that she delivered his child.



"Audrey.. " He muttered as the name rang like a bell in his head.



"She's in Wearous High School. Yes, I didn't want her to lack a thing. Geez, why am I telling you this? " She mumbled.



"Would you please tell my daughter that she has a father. Can I get to meet her? " Harry asked her.



"Give me sometime to think it over and over. Harry, I'm afraid to trust you again. Once bitten, twice shy"



"Kathleen, I'm ready to take every responsibilities but if you don't want me to, punish me... I. .i deserve it" He stammered and covered his face with his palm, kind of ashamed of himself for some unknown reasons.



She looked at him sadly and emotionally yet she changed the topic unwillingly as if she wasn't interested in the initial conversation.

"I went to the school to report a teacher, he's not even worthy to be called a teacher"



"Mr.. Gary? "



"Yes! You know him!? "



"I just found out about the nasty things he does, I was going to fire him already" He said and Mrs Kathleen huffed;



"Not just - to fire him. He didn't hurt my daughter but for the sake of those people he has taken advantage of. I really want him arrested" She told him.



"It's not beyond what I can do" Harry said.



"Without a proof! Oh, there is" She uttered remembering someone.



"Can.. I.. Can I be of help? " Harry asked her.



Mrs Kathleen scorned realising that she's slowly getting into a long conversation with him which she didn't want to, she wanted to teach him a lesson badly but what's the worth of teaching him a lesson when the whole explanation he gave seems real and doesn't seem to deserve a little hatred.



"How is your Dad? " She asked him.



"The strict old man gave up the ghost when I was in my late twenties. You won't want to believe that he still yelled at me at the age of Twenty-five to do nothing but to concentrate on how to take care of his various companies. Well, I did anyways. Here I am now" He told her.. At least, they were able to speak this lengthy.



"Yes.Here you are, with a wife already" She smirked.



"I'm presently with no woman in my life" He said.



"But you have a son... "



"He is .... "



"Wait a minute, you have a son. His name is Si.... "



"Simon"



"Oh no! " She exclaimed covering her. mouth.



"What is it? "



"Au-Audrey is in a relationship with her brother" she blurted.



"Wait! Same? Same Audrey? No, it can't be"







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