Chapter 96 - The Truth Behind The Video 2

"Don't get me wrong, Zheen. Andrew has really something in his head. He recorded scenes of me and Adrian during our music video recording. We were featuring a love song I personally write so there were flashes of bed and kissing scenes as suggested by the director. He edited those trial takes that we had and made it appear like we really did it. "

" Of course, the video would surely go viral and it would be impossible for me to explain the truth to everyone."

Then, she reluctantly added. " The stigma of my mother's deed had already affected me so terribly. I didn't want to add it on the shame I was already struggling to endure. "

Allie hurriedly stood up and went inside the bedroom to pick up her phone. Ajie stood up to follow her, too worried that they were misunderstood. Seeing that she came back right away, he sighed in relief.

She then opened the video that Andrew sent him five years ago and showed it to them.

"That video broke my heart into pieces until yesterday. " She said, giving them a weak and sad smile.

Ajie and Cherry recognized it right away. They stared at each other and the odd behavior of Allie yesterday flashed before them and they now understood why.That also explained why she said that her husband was cheating on her.

"That psychotic! I'll really crush him into pieces if I see him again! " Ajie exclaimed angrily while all those detestable things he did flowed back into his mind.

"He really was the great mistake that happened to my life. So ashamed of him. " Cherry's eyeballs almost puffed out in anger.

Looking pitifully at Allie now, thinking how it intensified her miseries, he hugged her again. "I'm sorry, dear, that I have not been able to protect you from him. Next time, please tell me everything. Should I remind you always that communication is the key to a successful relationship? "

Ajie's words fell like an acid into her heart, making her cry hard in his comforting embrace, feeling relieved by the burden she had been trying hard to endure for years. She knew there was no one else to blame for it but her. She had kept too many things to herself, defeated by too many of her unfounded fears.

Indulging in the comfort of being cared and understood, of being in the arms of someone she had been longing for so long to be held again, it took long for Allie to stop crying.

Somehow, Ajie noticed that Cherry looked restless again and that she kept on glancing towards Allie. "What's wrong again, Che? "

Allie immediately sat up, alarmed by Ajie's concern. Her thoughts immediately went wild in guessing what could be wrong again with Cherry.

"Che? Tell us what is it. " Allie urged her on, seeing that deepening restlessness and guilty expression she displayed.

"Zheen, what shall we do? I had called up Sir Hayri and informed him that you were lost. " She confessed, her face reflected her fear for acting out recklessly.

"Calm down, Che. We'll think of a way. "

Ajie shook his head in anger and frustration in the fact that they seemed to act like hiding criminals. He felt useless, as a husband, who could supposedly be her protector.

"Get up, Zheen, and change. We'll go to the next city and pretend that we are on a date. "

Allie's eyes lit up. She still wanted to enjoy a night with her husband before Hayri would come back in the morning.

"Good idea, Che, but I have to call him up so that he won't catch for the next plane just to turn upside down the whole city of Istanbul to find me."

A glint of pain registered instantly in Ajie's eyes. She was his wife but it seemed Hayri owned her and took up his place in caring and protecting her. "Is that how he loves you? "

Allie saw the pain and she pulled his head and kissed his eyes. "I would be lying if I'd say no. He cared for me so much that he won't even allow me to go anywhere without him. "

"It hurts, you know. "Ajie looked away and Cherry began crying. She was a witness to how Hayri cared for her.

"I didn't want this to happen, Jie. Just please give me a little time. "

She was about to throw herself back at him but Cherry stopped him.

"Zheen, hurry up. Sir Hayri is calling me now. " Cherry showed her the incoming call displaying in her phone.

"Let me answer it. "

Cherry handed her the phone and Allie immediately hit the accept button and turned the speaker on.

"Hayri..."

"Zheena! Where have you been? You're scaring me to death! "

" I just went out to the mall and left my phone because I'm charging it. "

" Are you sure? "

"Hayri, you worry so much. I'm not a child anymore. "

"Okay, then. Can't wait to see you tonight. "

Allie looked up worriedly to the two who were watching and listening to them.

"Hayri, I and Cherry are going out with her friend so I won't be home tonight. "

Hayri seemed reluctant in letting her go but gave way in the end. "Okay, then but I'll fetch you in the morning."

"I'm bringing my car and Zheena is with me. "

"I can't wait to see you again, you know that. "

"Let's talk again in the morning. Bye, then. Take care. "

"Okay, take care as well...Zheen? "

"Yes? "

" I love you and missed you so much. "

"Thank you. "

When Allie hang up, Ajie's face already looked like a crumpled paper. Allie suddenly did not know how to appease him.

"Adrian, do you love me enough to be able to trust me? "

"Allie, I can't help it. I feel so bad. " He pouted and his mood became terrifying. All of a sudden, he wanted to send everything in the room flying out of the window.

"Now, you understand how it kills me when I learned about your plan to remarry. "

"It's a blessing in disguise. If not because of it, you couldn't have the courage to reveal yourself. "His voice was already raised up, scaring Allie to her core.

Somehow, Allie got amused at the thought of it. Such were the ironies of life. Some decisions have to be faced with threats before one can take an action in regards to it.

"I love you, Adrian, sooo much! " With this, she pulled down his face and began kissing him.

Somehow, Ajie's heart was like a cotton, easily softening out to her sweetness. Lost in paradise which only the two of them had explored, a voice behind them suddenly put them to a halt.

"Stop it! "