The Love That Passed

Third Person’s POV

The citizens have been furious about the news. There were a few who were still favoring Derrick but most of them were angry at him. They were mad at how he treated his wife, especially when they found out that he was with another woman on their anniversary.

Senator Dean first welcomed him as he arrived home. He was furious seeing how much his daughter cried because of the news. “How dare you hurt my precious daughter!!” Sen. Dean shouted after.

“Dad!” Mia exclaimed, she was shocked to see her sensible father hitting and shouting at someone. She knew her father to be calm and cool.

“I am very sorry, my princess. I don’t know what comes to my mind that I let you marry him. I thought he was nice and sincere to him. It is all my fault.” Sen. Dean told Mia.

“Everything on the news is not true,” Derrick said, trying to gain his trust again.

“You can tell that to anyone who will believe in you, but not to me. You better get out of my sight now before I forget that my daughter still needs me.” Sen. Dean replied and looked at Mia, who had stopped crying. “I’m really sorry, my princess. Lets get you a divorce.” He added and hugged his daughter.

“Dad,” Derrick said, but Sen. Dean looked at him angrily.

“Don’t you dare call me dad, you b******! You’re going to pay for what you did to my daughter.” He said and called the guards to throw him out of his house.

Derrick went to his house and stayed there to think about what he should do about the scandal. He didn’t know how his relationship with Stacey came out. He believes that she was not the one responsible for it so he was determined to know who it was.

“Derrick,” Stacey said as he answered her call. “I can’t leave the apartment, the reporters are still down here.” she informed him.

“Don’t leave there yet, there is food there so you will be fine for a few days.” he told her.

“Why is this happening? Who did this to us? I made sure no one knew about us, really. My dad hated homewreckers so much and when I called him he said he doesn’t know me.”

“Can you shut up? Just do as I say for the time being. Don’t come out yet and I am going to send someone there if ever you needed anything.”

“Where are you?” Stacey asked,

“Home, Sen. Dean wanted me and Mia to divorce,” he told her.

“What?” Stacey exclaimed. “Then people will think that you had an affair. That shouldn’t happen. What about the presidential election? It was almost sure that you were going to win,” she added.

Derrick knew that, that’s why he planned to do something just to stop Sen. Dean to file that divorce. He decided to talk to his wife and he knew that she loved him, so he would persuade her not to agree with her father.

He had planned everything and the only thing he needed to do was to see his wife. But how can he do that when Sen. Dean was preventing that from happening. He doesn’t let Mia answer his call and he throws his cell phone out of frustration.

“Whoever you are who did this, I will make sure to make you pay!!!” He shouted as he started to lose his cool. He couldn’t think straight now that his candidacy for president was at stake.

Staying in his house is what he could only do at the moment. He couldn’t show up at any place because he knew that reporters would surround him and would surely ask him about Stacey once again.

He was in his living room so he turned on the t. v. only to get surprised once again. “A well-known senator that has been caught cheating this morning will now have to face a graft and corruption case.” The news anchor said.

“Arghhhhhh…” he yelled and threw the remote on the television and had it broken.

“Who the f*** are you??” He asked angrily to no one. He was feeling frustrated that he couldn’t do anything at the moment.

“Tell me Stacey, is this your own doing? Because I told you that I don’t love you, you did this to me?” He asked angrily.

“What are you talking about? I’m still in our apartment and can’t leave at all. The reporters were still outside the building,” Stacey replied. She wanted to get angry at him because of what he told her, but she was still thinking about her dad.

“Then who the hell is doing this to us?” Derrick asked angrily.

“I already told you, I didn’t tell anyone about us.” She said in a low voice. She had been crying all day and she didn’t want to think about what her dad would do to her.

They think of a possible person who could do that. Stacey strongly believed that it was Jared, but because Derrick didn’t want to believe it, she didn’t push through with that thought.

“Just stay there and don’t ever get out.” Derrick said after, and ended their call to make another one.

“Yes, Sir.” The man answered.

“You better find out who did this to me and I want the result as soon as possible.” He said. He didn’t need to explain to the man what he meant because news about him was all over the news and he had a feeling that it was all over the internet as well.

” OK, Sir.” The man replied immediately. Without Stacey knowing, Derrick had some men who worked for him dealing with some illegal activities. It pissed him that he had just started about 2 years ago and the threat of taking it down was evident.

“You need to find whoever he was or we will get busted. I don’t know if he or she knew about us so we need to stop him before that happens.”

“Copy Sir,” the man replied and they hung up. Derrick had his back on the couch and closed his eyes. The organization he had dealt with was not something he could offend. He started to worry about his life, thinking someone knew about his dealings with them because he was sure that they would erase him from the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, Jared didn’t go home and called Colleen instead, telling her that he would be coming home a little late. Noah and his team were executing their plan. He was happy thinking that they would be able to help the country in making Derrick’s acts exposed.

Jared was in his office when Noah called him, “Tomorrow morning, we will expose his illegal dealings.” He said.

“I had been waiting for that,” he replied, and Noah laughed at him.

“He had to deal with them one at a time but we didn’t want him to think of a solution,” Noah replied.

“I want him totally broke, Noah.” Jared told him.

“And that’s what we’re going to do. I don’t think that the organization he had dealings with will leave him off the hook once he gets busted.” Noah informed him and that was enough for Jared. “You’re not home yet?” He added.

“Yeah, I didn’t want Colleen to think too much.” He replied,

“You love her that much now?”

“I think I have been in love with her for the past two years already, but I just ignored it. She was kind and she looked beautiful when she smiled and laughed with Betty. She just didn’t know that I was watching her.” Jared said, “Seeing her smiling and laughing with Dr. Gerard made me feel threatened and jealous. She had never smiled at me like that and she gave it freely to that doctor.” He added.

“Then make the most of her remaining days. I didn’t want to make you feel down, but I want you to be ready. You are lucky that you still have time to make it up to her.” Noah told him and he went quiet. He didn’t want to think about Colleen’s condition because he couldn’t help but feel guilty.

“And man, stop feeling guilty already. I’m sure your wife didn’t want you to feel that way either.”

“Thank you man,”

“All the time, and be ready for tomorrow’s surprise,” Noah said, and ended their call.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

Jared was left thinking about his wife and started to feel sad once again. From time to time, he had this kind of feeling towards Colleen that hurt him. He regretted his arrogance 2 years ago and he was sure that he’s going to bring it to himself for the rest of his life.