MISSION & SECOND LOVE

CHAPTER I – Husband has a Mistress

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CHAPTER I – Husband has a Mistress

I 

Criselda’s attention has been caught by the flash report in the TV news.

“My God another murdered woman has been found in her apartment with twenty-three knife stab wounds in her heart part.” Almost every week, a new murder case has been reported for the past three months. The murderer is still at large.

Criselda’s cat-like hairs all over her body rose up and she quivers. Hah, what is happening to the world now?

As her son suddenly cried, she runs to their bedroom to check on him. “Hello my baby, why are you crying? Mommy is here.”

And her son just like that stopped crying and motioned by extending his two cute arms, requesting from her to be carried.

Hurriedly she got him from the bed and carried him into the living room.

It’s almost eight o’clock in the evening but her husband is not yet home again.

Criselda Santanina was trying to decipher things. Her husband Rodelio has been lately always short of money. He always arrived home so late, explaining that he made some overtime works. He is a Hotel Manager. They have only one son but he cannot almost provide for their expenses lately.

They have lots of expenses; car and house amortizations at the bank, educational plan of their son, credit card debts, some financial help with each of their families, groceries, bills, and a lot more. But her husband Rodelio would only give him around twenty thousand or less in a month for around five months now. Previously, he would give her around eighteen to twenty thousand per payday, meaning every 15th and 30th of the month.

With worries and doubts, Criselda decided to start to make some investigation about what her husband is doing lately. She has a hint that most probably, her husband is having an affair again just like before.

Every time her husband would say that he will be coming home late due to work overtime; she would make it a point to stand by nearby the hotel he works and watches him as he leaves the hotel.

She was surprised to know that her husband usually leaves the hotel at exactly five-thirty in the afternoon. For several times, she decided to follow him. Then she found out that her husband is always meeting a woman in a secluded old cheap hotel far from where he works. The hotel is even too creepy because of its oldness. Its walls need some repainting. Even its front side has untamed plants and grasses.

Full of indignation now, she followed him even inside the hotel and there she saw the woman followed him after he was able to book for their room.

The hotel is too relaxed in their safety measures that Cresilda was able to follow the two up to their rented room. While following them, she secretly took a video until they both entered the room. She is wearing a mask and abaya, which is Muslim clothing and she paired it with a niqab. The niqab veil is covering all her face except her eyes’ area.

She waited for almost three hours until the two lovers walked out of the hotel. She again took a video until she was able to totally make a close-up shot of the woman. To her surprise, the woman’s face is familiar to her. She then realized that she was the agent who helps them when they bought their house. Her name is Julia Andayanin.

Cresilda immediately researches the woman’s family and to her further indignation, she found out that the woman is married and even has two kids who are almost in their teens. Worst, her husband is an engineer working as an overseas Filipino Worker in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While her husband is working hard in the Middle East, she is having an affair here in the Philippines. Oh, what a woman! Cresilda almost swore some bad words against her.

One night, Criselda was already at the cheap hotel where her husband and her mistress usually do their dirty deeds. After a little wait, her husband came and the woman followed after a while. It was the best time that Criselda was waiting for.

Near the reception area, Criselda blocked the woman and slapped her. The woman including all of the people in the reception area were so shocked.

Then Criselda slapped the woman again and strangled her hair while shouting, “Slut, you are such a slut for having an illicit affair with my husband and the fact that you are also a married woman with children made you the worst slut ever!”

Watching and hearing Criselda, a man in the reception area suddenly became so angered as shown in his face. She knows the man whom this slut, an adulterous woman has been meeting almost every day in their hotel. The man’s eyes narrowed.

From a distance also, a bellboy suddenly stopped and gritted his teeth.

Rodelio, who was about to enter the room that he booked for him and Julia, heard the commotion. The room that he booked is on the first floor only at the far end part. Upon seeing her wife, strangling Julia, he immediately entered her rented room and safe keep himself there. He did not come out until after one hour when he thought that his wife might not be around anymore.

II

Few days after the incident Julia and Rodelio met again at the secluded, old and cheap hotel. The room assigned to them is on the third floor.

“Rodelio, this hotel is too creepy. We need to look for another hotel especially that your wife already knew this.” Julia stated after they finished having wild s*x. She is now hugging the naked body of Rodelio.

Rodelio nodded, “Yah, Cresilda is too silent lately. She is not talking nor even tried to look at me.” He told the naked woman beside her on the bed.

“I am afraid, she might attack me in the office; it will be a total embarrassment on my part,” Julia said bothered.

“I suggest you do field works most of the time so that she will not catch you in your office,” Rodelio suggested to which the woman agreed.

Rodelio was first to come out of the room and left the hotel. After a while, Julia came next. She really felt her hair standing while walking going to the elevator. She remembered that while passing through the men’s comfort room a while ago, before entering the room booked by Rodelio, she even heard a noise therein, it’s like someone was crying, but the comfort room’s lights were all turned off. Who on earth would stay inside that comfort room without turning on the lights? She walked faster until she reached the elevator.

Julia waited outside the hotel looking for a taxi. She looked at her watch; it’s past ten o’clock in the evening already. After a while, a taxi stopped in front of her. She got inside. “Going to Binangonan Sir, Greenwedge Village,” Julia told the driver who immediately speed-off.

The driver opened the stereo of the taxi and the song of Rihanna, entitled “Unfaithful” filled the entire car.

The driver with a deep voice suddenly asked, “Have you ever cheated on your boyfriend or your husband Ma’am?”

Julia was surprised by the question. She swallowed her saliva and harshly answered the driver. “Just drive. I don’t want a nosy driver.”

The driver laughed with a devil sound and murmured “Slut, adulterous woman”.

The driver thereafter carefully fixed his masked; pinched a bottle and then Julia smelled something like perfume.

After a while, Julia’s eyelids grew heavy until she falls asleep.