Love the Second Time Around

Chapter 1 He Is Back

I did not know that someone as happy-go-lucky and playful as Julius Keaton would be upset when he discovered, on our wedding night, no less, that I was not a virgin.

To be honest, I was struck by a moment of guilt then. Had I known that this would be a big deal to him, I would have gotten a discreet procedure at the hospital. It might have preserved the harmony of our marriage.

That night, Julius seemed moody as he asked me about “the guy.” He tried to mask his emotions but failed miserably. Who would blame him? After all, I was not who he perceived to be. Looking at the devastation written on his face, I could not bring myself to utter the name buried deep in my heart. Thus, I apologized meekly instead.

Maybe it was this incident that had caused irrevocable cracks in our arranged marriage. Yet, little did I know that a more dangerous crisis would befall our already rocky marriage.

I was a comic writer. In cruder terms, I had been freelancing in the industry for many years. Though I had never gotten a significant breakthrough, I earned enough to pay the bills.

However, a call from my editor, Shannon Harper, changed my life forever.

She told me that my first work, I Only Want to Be With You, had caught the eye of Galaxy Entertainment’s CEO. They were interested in buying the rights to my comic to make a movie.

to the VIP room on the fifth floor of the Feuilles Restaurant

for their

also perplexed at their interest. Why does it have to

offer that would not end with Shannon strangling me. After years of working

ponder the issue a moment longer before

back to me, he seemed to be looking at the scenery beyond the window in intense

seemed oddly familiar to me. In fact, it was

weird… Have I met him

behind and stopped when I was a respectable distance away. “Hello. Are you the

of my voice. Gradually,

he was. I could feel the blood rushing to my brain through my veins,

whole world was about to

expression? Have you forgotten an old friend? Let me

lurked in the depths of my heart, and the