Being a Substitute Wife
"Three million Audrey, I'll give you three million just pretend to be me for six months" I bit my lip when my partner said that. After a very long time, we met just now and this was his opening to me. I mean I was really tempted to accept because we must need the money for mom's immediate surgery but because 3M seems to be too small for the size of the favor she is asking for. “Only 3M? With the size of the favor you ask for, that's all you'll give in exchange for everything, no deal, after 8 long years when you didn't show us mom, you're coming here just to offer me something like that? Did you think that what you are asking for is easy? And one more thing, where did you get the courage and confidence to think that I will accept your offer, right?" My long litany made him suffer. No matter what, he was so damned that he thought he could pass me his money. "Oh please, my dearest sister, I know you must need 3M, so don't act like that and just accept yourself because you won't be able to operate on your mother" Look at the shamelessness of this woman if she can speak you would think she is not Mama's daughter the pain is really bad with this witch's bangs why did she have to give birth to me looking like her my gosh. "I'm going to repeat it because you don't seem to have heard, I said NO. DEAL. it's not easy what you're doing and I'm a loss on your three million so just find another girl who looks like you to pretend to be you" I will stress because I know he won't stop me. "Fine name your price if I increase the offer will you do it? And I will only be gone for another 6 months, you are very choosy and all you have to do is to pretend and don't let anyone know that they are dealing with you and not me" I washed my own face because of what he said. He really knows my weakness. But it's risky because the favor he's asking for is hard because it's hard to be plastic like him, another thing is if I accept it there's no turning back and I don't want to be ruined because of his nonsense. But if I don't, the chance of survival of our mother, who is in the hospital now and sick because every minute that passes and she is not operated on, will decrease, the chance of her survival will also decrease. That's why I just held my breath because of that thought and since I have no other choice, I'll just do what Andrea wants. “Fine 20M I will do whatever you ask me to do in six months” "20 million? You gotta be kidding me, it's only a six-month agreement, isn't it, and then you're demanding 20M" How can I tweak it so I'm still the demanding one, he's the one who needs it. "Demanding? Can you even hear what you're saying? It's not easy what you're asking for, you g*ga, I'll get married for you and you still can't give me 20M? What if something bad happens to me because you marry someone we don't even know? What about Nisha and mom then? So if you can't do it, just find someone else" After saying that, I'm about to leave, this conversation is going nowhere because we're going to argue and fight here if I stay here for too long, it's better if I just leave and find a foundation that can help us and I'm wasting my time I to him. “WAIT! Go ahead and call for 20 million but I can only give you 10 million right now when I return half of it just please be my substitute for 6 months" "Deal happy cooperation sis" I know all this will not be easy but for mom and Nisha I will do everything. Even playing with the devil. I am Audrey Del Rio and this is the story of how my simple and orderly life became chaotic because of my twin...
Chapter 13
Calvin's POV
I sigh as I come inside the Pho3nix bar that was owned by a friend of mine Jace Dela Cerna I don't know what these crazy fools ate and made me come here.
"Hey guys, the Captain is here!!"
Nate shouted when he saw me. Yes they all call me captain because apart from my batch mates, we were members of the varsity team in high school and I was their captain and even after we graduated and had our own lives, we are still friends.
"CAPTAIN!" others shouted at the same time, causing the attention of almost everyone here to go to us. But I'm used to the noise and stupidity of these g@g*ngs.
"Captain, you think you can survive us ah" the owner of the place, Jace, said meaningfully as soon as I sat down, handing me a newly opened bottle of beer. "I invited you all to my wedding even though we all know that I was forced to be there and you? You got married just recently and you didn't even invite us, well that's not right"
"I agree Cap'tn, we know that you are the most thrifty of all of us, but it seems that you are too frugal when you didn't even feed us with your wealth, but you are stingy—"
Mark didn't continue what he was going to say because I hit it hard enough to call me a miser, the meanest of all of us here. Honestly, only half of the group is here and I think the others won't be able to make it because they might be busy too, but I'm sure I'll end up meeting you again knowing this idiots knowing this idiots won't let me go for free tch.
"And then? How many sacks of rice do you want and I'll make you eat it now Palacio"
"Hehe, it's the Captain, it's not funny, and one more thing, why didn't you accompany the dish with rice?" I just showed Mark my middle finger to shut him up, this one is also talking a lot.
"So what is your issue with me getting married? Also, it's not what you think we're not familiar with each other so why should I let the world know about him?"
That's true that woman is too complicated, she's hard to understand and seems like she's hiding a lot. She also seems different from the one I've met once when we were just talking about the wedding plan so it seems like you want to investigate her. It's easy for me to get old with people even though I only met her once, the wife who stays with me had different mannerisms and body language than the Andrea that I saw back then, I even had a date with her once and for some reasons they are different.
"What is it not what we think? Are you also a victim of the 'fix marriage curse' that Dela Cerna made popular?" Raze asks as he drank his beer. "Luh why did you point to me as the culprit of that arrange marriage curse? Is it my fault that your parents are making decisions and interfering with your love life?"
Jace objected because in our group there is this so called 'fixed marriage curse' that started with Jace Dela Cerna who was the first to marry us. As of now he's been married for almost 7 years but as far as I know based on the entertainment news about his wife, Karina is about to divorce because this friend of mine is actually a g@gø and half. I don't know many details about it but since his wife is a well known actress in the country rumors about them are really on the news pages.
"Are you really Captain too? You're already four." Dylan Wong, who had been silent until now, said that he is also one of the alleged victims of such a curse. He followed Jace. But what is the fourth? Who is your third?
"Well if you're going to ask who was that third one it was Alcantara, another one you married without even inviting and until now that one still hasn't come home from Thailand"
Determining this to Argrus Alcantara who is not here at the moment, he is also one of our friends who is usually missing in action so we have almost no news.
I didn't stay there too long because I promised grandma that I would go to dinner with them and I also went to Andrea's condo unit building to get her car she said she has some business to take care of with that Lilianne so I get it for her.
I don't even know why I'm doing these things for him? I am breaking my own rules just because of an annoying woman who did nothing but to question and pester me.