Chapter 34

Alice pampers herself with a very relaxing bubble bath. She thinks back to the time when Roman brushes of her hair and giggles. She��s feeling ��hot�� all of a sudden, Wearing only a towel, she goes to the kitchen to drink some cold water to cool down. She��s startled when without warning something flashes out of nowhere. Turns out it��s only Roman, liberally taking pictures of her using the new phone he bought for her. She is fuming at him for taking liberties, but he defends that the sales lady told him the phone is best for taking pictures and just wanted to try it out. Besides, he wasn��t complaining when people took pictures of him in the museum, so it��s basically a no bigger issue. She argues it��s only because he was sleeping all those time.
Alice draped in layers and layers of clothes. It��s to prevent Roman from having dirty thought she says She warns him not to make compromising promises to her parents anymore, because eventually, he won��t be able to retrieve it back. She also reminds him to do things for her like: knock be coming through the front door and make sounds when he walks.
Because of the recent accident, Roman tells Alice not to involve herself in finding the enemy anymore. However, she misinterprets and gets upset, asking if the phone is meant to be a break up gift. He grabs her wrist and promises to pretend as her boyfriend until they find the enemy. It��s just that he wants to keep her safe. Quickly, Alice anger disappears and somehow she��s hypnotized by his angry look. He can only flick her forehead to get her attention.
Jacqueline, finally calls Alice. She tells her that she was with Bill and they watched the sunrise together. Alice whines that while she was having her second near-death experience, Jacqueline was just playing around and having a fine time with her ex-boyfriend. Jacqueline isn��t a bit interested with her drama words saying that since Alice is complaining endlessly, she must be fine and hangs up.
At a restaurant , Roman and Phillip talks for a little bit. Roman probes if Phillip has offended anyone. Phillip relays that it��s inevitable since he��s a businessman, but he believes it��s not that severe to the point of killing him. However, he reveals that he has a cousin who just returned from the States. He doesn��t want to think bad about his cousin but the latter will inherit everything if he dies. Anyways, it��s only a suspicion and he doesn��t have any proof. He turns the table and ask if Alice has ever offended anyone. Roman remains silent with that thought.
Alice was about to go to the police station for her statement, when Roman volunteers to come with her, but she declines. She suggests that he lie low for a while since Hilton and Bill are hot on the trails. It will do him good if he stay away or better yet, just don��t leave the house. Adding that she��s already tempted to buy a dormant corpse for Bill, just to stop their searching. But Roman differs. He will only raise suspicions if he does that. The best way to hide is live normally. Like now, he has a reasonable background, a beautiful girlfriend, and an ordinary life. Who would suspect him? Alice agrees that he has a sound reasoning, especially the part the he has a pretty girlfriend.
Bill and Hilton meet once again for their regular dormant body updates. Hilton frankly tells Bill that the case is getting cold. It happened months ago, and hence, no one will remember. Anyhow, if Bill is correct in inferring that the dormant body awakened, then it must be long way gone by now. Bil then criticizes Hilton's lack of enthusiasm in solving the case. He then retorts that it��s not that he doesn��t want to help but rather, he doesn��t find enough reason to look for it.
Roman returns to the scene where Roman and Phillip was attacked. He may not be very vocal about his feelings, but he sure is pissed that his enemy stroke when he was unavailable. He can only hope that Alice will be fine while he��s looking for the enemy.
Alice had a really bad nightmare. She dreamt of a young Roman having a happy family of his own, while she on the other hand has grown old. She wakes up and falls on the bed. When Roman helped her get up, she starts to strangle him.
The next day, a new car was parked outside Alice house. She tells the driver to park somewhere else, but to her surprise, it��s Richard. Turns out Roman bought a new car for her. Since she returned Hilton's car and has been using taxi for transport, people are suspecting that she��s broke and is paying off gambling debts. Unlike before, Alice remains calm and unresponsive with the rumors and dismisses it with just ��people will believe rumors than the truth��. Richard is taken aback by her statement and remarks that she��s slowly adopting Roman uncaring attitude.
Alice thinks of ways to thank Roman without prompting any romantic hopes. After setting with ��thank you but we are not suitable for each other��, she phones him. But then because of his passive, cold behavior, she can��t seem to bring herself to say those lines. After the call, she wonders why she ever liked a 500 year old nerd. She then justifies her feelings as gratefulness and vows not to let him find out or he will never leave.
While waiting for her shoot, Alice waits inside her car. Some actresses happen to be passing by near the area and begin gossiping about her. She isn��t really interested in their
Gossip but when they talked about Jacqueline having an intimate photo with another man, she riled up. Richard then calls for her and the actresses became aware she has been eavesdropping. She comes out of the car and yells that they are so good at making up stories that they should be scriptwriters not actresses.
Alice phones Jacqueline, supposedly to warn her of the brewing rumor. But then, she��s too late because paparazzi already flocking outside Jacqueline's house. Alice suggests that they go abroad, but Jacqueline uncaringly dismisses the thought because this is her life as an A-line actress. Alice rolls her eyes at Jacqueline's snootiness. Somehow Jacqueline knows what she did and tells her not to roll her eyes or someone will take her picture.
Alice goes to the lake town to visit Roman There, she discovers her fake boyfriend is a popular attraction for the sports gym, evidenced by girls swarming over him, equipped with placards and all. She meets with the owner and has a nice chat with him outside. She is clearly being possessive of Roman as she denounces the owner��s plan of opening a new all-female class and using Roman's good looks to attract students. But the owner defends it��s all just for the sake of business.
Alice comes back to the dojang just in time to see Roman sending off a mother and her son home. Of course, already knew she was shadowing them all the way to the house. When returns to her tracks, she finds Roman waiting for her on the stairs. He��s quick to clarify that it was an innocent act and she��s just overthinking things. But Alice remains that for a man who lived for a considerably long time, he must have known that sending someone home has another meaning. But he ignites the fire, telling him that it doesn��t matter if ever indeed it has, since the Mom has no husband.
Hilton starting to believe that Roman might not be involved in the murder after all. He's alibis add up and there is no compelling evidence to implicate him with the case.
At home, Alice is still not over the sending off issue and is seeing that Roman acts cool and insensitive about it. She undoubtedly woke up in the wrong side of the bed and finds every possible excuse to start a fight with him. For instance, she scolds him for not waking her up. Of which, he calmly answers that he just wanted to have some more peace and quiet in the early morning. She then yells at his annoying way of squeezing the toothpaste from the middle.