Owned By The Ruthless Mafia Boss

Chapter 8

Days, Week, Months and Years passed. Season changes, years begins and end. Everything is changing quickly in those span of times except for two things; Ibixa's longing for her family and Ender not showing himself to her.

Five years. It's been five years since the last time she saw him. She couldn't get any miserable than this, she thought.

It's her last day in college. Finally, after the long, exhausting and brain-damaging years of trying to survive and fit in college, she's graduating. Her graduation day will be more perfect and memorable only if she'll get to celebrate that day with her family, but she know that it's really impossible. Dinasaur coming back to life is more possible to happen.

"Ibixa." Her blockmate, a good-looking french guy hold her for a while. She quickly shoved his hand from her hand before her bodyguards sees it. Ibixa took a new step backward to maintain the distance between her and the french guy.

She fixed the strap of her birkin bag then glued her eyes on his gray pools. "Yes?" The wind blew and her bangs gets a little messy that she didn't mind.

He scrape the back of his nape and flashes a shy smile. "I was just wondering if... If you'll allow me to become your date for graduation ball---" Ibixa chokes on her own saliva after hearing it. She coughs simultaneously and looked away.

She saw her bodyguard coming but she signalled them to stop. She can handle this. Rejecting fella who's trying to win her through her years in college became her expertise already. Although her husband never showed up and give her no attention except for their rare phone calls, Ibixa remain faithful out of respect. She is still holding in her belief that marriage and vows, though she didn't say one is sacred.

"You know that I'm married, right?" Ibixa asks as an openning remark. He smiles bitterly and moves his head, confirming that he really knows about it.

Ibixa keeps her warm and friendly smile visible. She tucks in her hair on the side of her ear and sighed. "Then, I bet, you already know my answer."

"But----,"

"It's nice talking to you." Ibixa cuts what he was saying off.

"Another case of man with his shattered heart." Ibixa heard a familiar sweet voice mumbling that.

She looks at her left and sees Piper walking with her. The young lady of pure Mendeleev's blood snakes her hand on Ibixa's arm. With years that they spend together. Ibixa started to share this strong bond with Ender's sister. She instantly gains a spot on Ibixa's heart.

"It's your free day today. Let's hangout." Piper moved her brows mischievously.

Ibixa's phone buzzed that garnered her attention. Her face brightens after she sees that Ender replied on her text message

From: Ender

No.

The blazing happiness that keeps her energetic for today died. That's his response for her question earlier. Even if she knows what his answer will be. Still, she tried asking him if he can make it to her gradauation day.

"What did he say?" Piper glances at her phone. She pressed the button on the left of it and the screen died. Ibixa shook her head after she throws her phone back on her birking bag.

She fix her long hair again. "Let's do that but without them." She eyed her two bodyguards that is waiting patiently for her at the parking lot.

Piper took a black scrunchie from her wrist and then tie her hair with it. Thrilled, the two of them couldn't hide their smiles and giggles as they mix in with the huge crowd just so Ibixa's bodyguard won't see them leaving the university's premises.

"This way," Piper said. She gazes at her with her confused eyes. She watched her co-PCU students hail a cab near the waiting shed. They should walk there too for taxi, she thought. Before she can even tell Piper about it. The lady drag her to ride in a public vehicle called jeepney.

Through the small open window of the public vehicle. The two of them peep. They hide themseleves immediately after they saw Ibixa's bodyguard running towards the gate, chasing them down.

Piper and Ibixa burst out of laughter. They rested their head with each other and breathe in the air that their body lost.

"Good old days. I remember doing the same thing when I'm still in my high school year," Piper muttered remeniscing her memories.

Ibixa felt her phone vibrating. She gapes at Piper and showed her phone. Ender is calling. Her bodyguard must have told her that she left the university without them.

Piper snatches her phone and turn it off before she gave it back to her. Feeling nervous and anxious, she couldn't stop herself from having different thoughts.

"He will be very angry. I broke his rule," Ibixa whispered. She looks at the window again. They're on this jeep for quite some time. They're still in Metro Manila though, she's sure of it because their ride is stuck in a traffic jam.

"As if he'll do something to hurt you. I mean, he's in California." The same idea gave her the comfort to enjoy this escapade.

Piper and her get off at the Neon street. It's a fashion district where they can find stores and boutique of luxury brand that every woman loves.

"Golden craft." She read the store's name inside of her mind. Because of the store's glass wall, she knows already that Golden craft is a place where she can buy jewelry.

Piper signalled her to come inside too and so she did. Her sister-in-law pulled her towards the display of pairs of rings.

After seeing it. Ibixa found herself staring at her ring finger. She's married but she don't have a ring for it. She suddenly wonder if Ender would like to have a couple ring.

She pouted her lips and look for more until her eyes landed on a pair of silver ring. She doesn't know why but she badly wants to have it for herself and for Ender too.