You Can Run But You Can't Hide My Contractual Wife

Chapter 458: What Truly Matters

“Sister, help me, please!” Trishia’s voice was helpless.

She was terribly in pain.

Arabella’s feet immediately stopped.

How could she possibly leave Trishia behind?

Her half-sister?

This was also what she hated about herself.

Arabella felt all her hatred toward Trishia had suddenly vanished and been replaced by mercy.

She had a big heart for those people who were not kind to her.

In this kind of situation, she had to think of herself first.

She had to save herself but why was her heart so heavy about leaving Trishia behind?

She could already feel guilt and dissatisfaction about herself.

“Arabella, you have to listen to me! There is no time. You go back there, you die!” Bill was already

shouting at her pissed.

His tone was impatient as he was not used to this kind of stubbornness of women.

It was only Arabella who could put this up and the only woman he tolerated.

“Bill, I can’t leave, Trishia! I’m sorry.” Without any moment of delay, Arabella ran back to save Trishia. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

For whatever it is, she could not leave her half-sister.

She didn't need anyone’s permission to save her half-sister as for Arabella, it was the right thing to do.

We all die anyway but the most important thing was the good things you did when you are still alive.

Even though Trishia was never kind to her, Arabella still believed that Trishia’s life was worth saving.

All lives should be valued and deserved second chances.

“Trishia!Trishia!” Amidst the thick smoke, Arabella tried to see any vision of Trishia as she followed her

voice.

With the smoke entering her nostrils, she started to feel dizzy and she found difficulty in breathing.

Now, she realized that maybe she just listened to Bill but she was also hopeful that she could still save

Trishia.

“Trishia! Trishia! Where are you? Let me hear you!” With her voice getting weaker due to her coughing,

Arabella still managed to shout. With her strength getting weaker, she would collapse at any moment.

“Oh! Hello there, dear, sister!” Suddenly, someone forcefully grabbed her neck from behind and pointed

a gun at her.

“Trishia! You are not…” Arabella didn’t need to see the face of the person behind her.

It was indeed her wicked half-sister.

“The problem with you is you are too good and stupid. Aren’t you aware of that, huh? Hahaha!” Trishia

laughed madly as she fooled Arabella once again with her best-winning acting performance.

“Trishia, we have to get out of here. Now!” Arabella sounded in a hurry strongly convincing Trishia.

“Oh, come on bitch! Going out there and staying here is no different. My freaking life is already ruined!

But I don’t want to die alone. So, you are coming with me! Okay?” Trishia sounded so terrifying.

One could easily say that she was in a suicidal state.

Trishia was determined.

“Trishia, as long as we live, we still have hope.” Arabella paused as she coughed.

This is bad!

If they would stay there, they would die of suffocation.

She needed to convince Trishia to get out of the area quickly.

“I know life could be very difficult. I was there, you are not alone Trishia but what matters most is that

we continue living and look at life positively, Trishia.” Arabella still didn’t want to give up on Trishia.

“Ah!!! That’s easy for you to say because you are not in my shoe! You stole everything from me! You

have everything I wanted and now, nothing was left of me! You deserved to die!” Trishia shouted

angrily.

“Then what about your, mom?” Arabella answered.

“She had her own family. She didn’t need me.” Trishia answered disheartened as she coughed.

“She was being held hostage by the Senator. Your mom is living like hell. Aren’t you concerned about

her?” Arabella knew Trishia would not care about anyone except her mom.

Trishia didn’t answer for a while.

She seemed to think deeply.

Then, her grip tightened on Arabella’s neck as her gun pointed at Arabella’s head.

“I can only fool you but you can’t fool me! Stop being so nice to me because I don’t have any plans to

change my mind! We die tonight, dear sister!” Trishia shouted angrily.

She coughed again.

Trishia knew she had no time to waste as the hall was collapsing.

When she was about to pull the trigger, “No! I refused to die!” Arabella struggled with all her strength

left and quickly got released from Trishia’s grip.

Arabella had pushed Trishia with her survival instinct and in just the next second, “Ahhh!!!” That was

Trishia's painful scream.

This time, she was totally in pain.

The steel bar of lighting and huge debris kept dropping.

As the thick smoke circulated, Arabella couldn’t see Trishia.

“Trishia! Trishia! For god’s sake where are you?” Arabella still refused to leave Trishia behind while

everywhere there was an explosion and fire was running wild.

The smoke now was mixed with heavy dust and Arabella found so hard to breathe but she still refused

to leave and was still willing to save Trishia's life.

“I got you!” Suddenly, an impatient voice sounded behind her and without waiting for her permission,

her body was lifted in the air.

“No! Bill! Put me down! I need to find Trishia! Put me down! Trishia! Trishia! Trishia!” A stubborn woman

needed a more stubborn man. Bill lifted her on his shoulder like a bag of potatoes while she kept on

struggling but he didn’t put his guard down.

Arabella could hate him later but he would not regret saving her life.

He would not regret saving the most stubborn woman he ever met.

Just in time, when they reached outside, the whole court collapsed and another huge explosion was

heard which made the whole place covered with scorching fire.

It was the most terrible disaster that happened in the history of Capital Z and this would be surely

unforgotten.

The next morning, Arabella woke up in the hospital.

“Mommy! Mommy!” Adam’s chubby round face greeted her eyes.

Seeing her son’s beautiful face and smile, she felt she was dreaming.

She even questioned herself if she died and if she was already in heaven.

What a nice view she had right now!

Her son, Adam had an angelic face.

“Mommy! Are you, okay?” Adam pinched her face when she just smiled but didn’t move.

She was like seeing something unnatural and it gave Adam a creep.

“Son?... Are you real? Oh, I thought I am dreaming!” Arabella was quickly snapped back to her senses.

She immediately hugged Adam.

She thought she would not have this chance again when she was inside the grand hall.

She thought, she would die there in suffocation or worst buried alive.

With her thoughts, she suddenly retrieved her memory.

“Baby? What time is it? What day? Where is your dad? Where is…” She suddenly remembered Trishia.

They left her.

That was her last memory of that day.

She knew it was impossible to happen but she still hoped that Trishia was okay.

She still hoped that Trishia survived and she was alive.

“Mommy, calm down, please. Daddy just went out. He would be here soon.” Adam’s tone was a bit

worried.

“Son, can you open the TV?” Arabella could not find her calm.

She was eager to know what happened on that day.

How did everything end after she collapsed?

She needed to know the truth.

But before that, she remembered something and suddenly hugged Adam. “I love you.” She whispered

lovingly.

Obviously, she was so thankful that she was still alive and got to be with Adam but there was a part of

her heart that was also sad because of Trishia’s fate.

Before, she thought, she had enough with life.

When everyone humiliated her, abandoned her, seeing her as a curse, when her mom got sick and she

has driven her away, when she blamed herself for being a failed daughter, when she saw his dad die

because she couldn’t hold him any longer in that cliff, when she was pregnant but she was in a strange

place without no one to rely on, a little money to survive, and the father of her son was haunting and

cursing her, Arabella wanted to give up in life.

She thought she was the unluckiest person living on earth and her fate was the cruelest but seeing

Trishia’s desperation, Arabella realized something important.

It wasn’t just her!

She was not the only person who was suffering and felt trapped in misery.

It wasn’t just her.

There was Trishia and there were many out there who suffered worst than her.

This caused Trishia to be so desperate on getting the things she didn’t have.

The things she thought would make her happy.

In short, she was desperate in achieving happiness because she was enough of living just for herself.

She felt alone and lonely in her little world and just wanted to be happy.

Everyone wanted to be happy but it was never a valid reason to hurt someone to get your own

happiness.

Trishia forgot what truly matters.

And that… to truly love herself first.

Accept her flaws and strive to be the better version of her old self.

Arabella wasn’t her competitor but her old self who didn’t want to grow and see kindness and the good

things in life.

Arabella couldn’t just help but pity Trishia and she couldn’t help to feel guilty too.

Somehow, she felt she had a lack of understanding toward her half-sister and if only she was given

more chances, there were many things she could do to save her.

She didn’t know but she could not help feeling guilty about Trishia.

“I love you too, mom!” Adam’s voice snapped her back to her senses.

Then after a while, the door opened.

Bill strode inside in his business suit.

She didn’t need to ask him his whereabouts for today, Arabella already knew it.

Bill was a busy money maker and this day would just be his ordinary money-making day.

“Adam, could you give us privacy for a moment, please?” Bill sounded so formal at Adam as he

loosened his royal blue necktie.

“Sure dad. But you have to promise me, you are going to be gentle on mom.” Adam sounded strict.

He was longing for his mom’s come back and he would go against his dad if he would make her

disappear again.

“Okay, young man. You got me.” Bill strode plainly as he strode toward her bed.

Adam hugged Arabella first tightly before he went to the other crib which was the entertainment place

just inside the main room.

Bill’s fierce eyes looked at Arabella.

She looked at him and felt that he was still angry with her.

She could not blame him.

If he didn’t come in time, probably, she died.

It seemed, she had to face his wrath.

He was getting closer and his footsteps made her tremble inside.

“Bill, I’m…” Arabella could not hold it.

She felt she needed to apologize for her decision.

It wasn’t only her life she risked there but Bill came back for her.

He could also die there.

They could die together.

No matter what, he did come back for her to save her and that all mattered.

“I’m…” Arabella uttered but it didn’t come to a conclusion as Bill quickly sealed her lips with his.

He kissed her hungrily.

She could feel his strong domineering lips wrapping up like they were unstoppable.

Bill’s hands suddenly cupped her face.

He kissed her like he dropped everything on his shoulders.

Is this why he asked Adam for privacy?

Bill savored her lips satisfyingly and his kiss was sending her his longingness of her and she liked it.

She liked it a lot.

She could not hide how she missed him too.

She could not hide how she was longing to be with him.

To kiss him and to touch him.

Arabella kissed him taking away all her worries.

She almost died there, they almost died.

But they lived.

They lived for this.

Their kiss got sweeter and none of them couldn't get enough.

When the kiss got too intense, Bill mellowed down.

He was aware that his son was just in the next room.

Just in time, Adam suddenly showed up with a smile up to his ears.

“Oops! Sorry dad, I… just want to ask mom… ah… okay! Nevermind! Just continue!” Adam didn’t

expect what he was going to witness. He was going to ask his mom if she wanted to eat fried chicken

as it was her favorite and he wanted to try an app online but then he was in bad timing.

Adam blushed as he quickly went back to his room.

Bill smiled at his son and his action.

Arabella blushed tremendously too.

She couldn’t believe her son witnessed that.

What a shame!

“Hey, your son is a grown-up. He would understand.” Bill felt the need to calm Arabella’s thoughts.

“No, what if…” Arabella’s tone was worried.

“What if what?” Bill asked curiously.

“What if he would grow up like you?” Arabella’s sounded more worried.

“Like me? Then, that’s great! Why do you sound so worried?” Bill asked more confused.

Arabella rolled her eyes before she answered him.

“Like you… where kissing girls was so normal.” She blurted out complaining.

Bill smirked charmingly. “That’s too personal! And mind you, I don’t kiss normally.” Bill refuted.

Arabella rolled her eyes again.

She could not help getting annoyed with Bill’s words and yes, he was saying the truth which made her

more irritated.

“Yeah, you… grrr!” Bill f*cked more and no kissing. “We are talking about our son! You are… you are!

Grrr! I don’t want our son to be like you, Bill Sky!” Arabella was so irate thinking about him.

“Are you guys fighting again, now?” Adam suddenly showed up again complaining.

“We are good!” They both answered at the same time.

Adam heaved a deep sigh and dropped his shoulders before he went back to his room.

After a while, Arabella found the perfect time to ask him about Trishia.

“Bill, how’s Trishia?” She asked solemnly.

Bill looked at her seriously. “She… she is dead.”