A broken heart fights back

“Grandchild, it’s already early morning. Please go home and get some sleep.” Vina remembered what her granddad said before she finally said her goodbyes to him. Admittedly, the beautiful and curvy young woman was already exhausted as she drove home in her compact white Prius yet she forced herself awake since she realized she was driving. It would not at all go well for her to get into an accident. After all, she was all that her grandfather had. It was truly fortunate that her elderly relative sought her out even after she was adopted by the Riveras when she was just three. Especially since Vina was no longer needed or appreciated by her adoptive parents. Once they thought they couldn’t have children before they took her from the orphanage where Vina resided from the time she was a wee babe. However, on that same year, her adoptive mom gave birth to Azura, her younger stepsister. It was a month later, when her grandfather finally caught up with her. Unfortunately, he was already living in a senior’s home after selling his old ancestral mansion and can no longer invite her to live with him. It was a good thing that her new parents would encourage her to strengthen her ties with her only living relative by driving her to where he resided every week. And as soon as she was old enough to drive and have saved enough from her meager earnings to buy a second-hand car, Vina has been regularly visiting her feeble but still jolly grandfather as often as she could. And these days, the old man’s blood pressure and diabetes have been quite alarming… Vina wearily pushes the depressing thoughts away as she parked her small vehicle in the mansion’s massive basement parking area. As she stepped out of the driver’s seat, the strawberry blond-haired young woman viewed her boyfriend’s black sedan parked beside the family limo and she sighed in relief and longing. “So Jay is here,” the curvaceous lass whispered to herself as she began to climb the wide stone steps beside the large dormitory-style servants quarters which led to their mansion’s spacious kitchen area. “I wonder why he didn’t call me on my mobile to let me know that he’s here? He must be bored out of his mind by now waiting for me.” But as Vina was about to open the door to her bedroom a strange noise from Azura;s suite which was just a few meters from where she stood, called her attention. The light brown-eyed female decided to take a quick peek in her stepsister’s room out of curiosity. She silently walked up the thickly-carpeted corridor to get to Azura’s private quarters and timidly knocked then pushed the slightly ajar doorway wide open. Vina could hardly see anything in the dark so she flipped on the light switch which was installed on the wall beside the open threshold. And the first thing Vina sees extremely shocked her to her very core… Jay and Azura were tangled up on the blond heiress’ bed while locked in an intense kiss. Worse, they were both naked as the day they were born! Vina gasped in intense dismay and appalled disgust then swiftly turned around to hastily run back into her room. She then hears voices from the corridor as she slams her door with all her might. “Vina, wait…” Jay hollered, very much aware that the sisters’ parents slept on the floor above them and would not be able to hear any of their racket. “Hey girl, it’s not what you think!” “Sister, let us explain…” Within minutes the two lovers, in hurriedly worn bathrobes, were already knocking on Vina’s locked door… The 27-year-old pre-school teacher slowly counted up to 10 in her head to gain some semblance of self-control before hesitatingly unlocking her entryway and turning the bronze-coated doorknob. Vina then reluctantly turned away so her two deceitful loved ones could enter. “Vina, I’m sorry baby but this is for the best,” Jay said tonelessly as soon as he stepped in. “It’s been a while since I’ve fallen in love with Azura but I never found the right time or the proper chance to tell you.” “Mom and Dad knows by the way,” Azura informed her in a tone that was surprisingly devoid of any emotion as she firmly held on to Jay’s sinewy forearm not caring how her stepsister would feel about it. “This is meant to be Vina since I need a man like Jay to help me in representing our family business to other major corporations. It’s a man’s world out there, after all.” Vina gritted her teeth to stop herself from yelling out the top of her lungs, “And for that, you both choose to act as if I don’t exist? That Jay and I never had something deep and meaningful for years?” the buxom maiden hissed through unshed tears that were presently choking her. “Well, it was more your parents’ idea anyway,” nonchalantly countered the cheating platinum-haired boyfriend with a careless shrug. “They personally talked to me about it and they made perfect sense.” Then a sudden vital thought came to Vina’s mind. She suddenly turned to Azura, who was the one most aware of what she was about to say… “What about your arranged marriage, sister? Aren’t you supposed to marry the son of our parents’ prime financier who funded mom and dad when first putting up our business almost a decade ago?” Azura smirked slyly, huffed smugly and crossed her slender arms across her double A-sized breasts before answering, “Oh that, they presented a better option if I agreed to marrying Jay. They said that since they are no longer dependent on their friend and promised any of their daughters for this pre-conceived arrangement, it would be best that you marry their friend’s son instead.” Vina stayed silent for quite some time as she processed what her underhanded stepsister just said… Out of everything that these untrustworthy pair had just told me, Azura’s last statement may be very hurtful yet it’s the one that made most sense. Well, since I no longer have a boyfriend and this stranger might help me with my grandpa’s medical needs, I think that I can be very much amenable to that “suggestion”. I’ll talk to my adoptive parents in the morning about this idea of theirs…