Two months earlier...

Lucy heard a familiar voice behind her. It sounded like her friend she met five years ago. 

"Lucy?" He called her. 

She stops yelling at nowhere and turned her head towards him. 

She was shocked to see Gale. What a coincidence that they met again at the place where Gale discovered to use for problems confession. 

"You? You're here. I bet you had many problems and mistakes to confessed here!" Lucy told him while her eyes were covered with tears. She quickly dried it with her palm.  

Gale took a deep breath and smiled at her. 

"Maybe. I just got here. It's nice to see you again here. I'm sorry about last time because I didn't have time to meet you before I go back abroad." He explained to her and Lucy finally understand why he just vanished. 

" Well, it's all in the past. I'm glad I see you again. It's time for me to go. It's your turn now." She said and about to go when Gale grabs her arms. 

"Please, stay." He said but Lucy wasn't into talking with someone right now. She just wants to find a place where she can have a good rest and peace of mind. 

"I'm sorry but I need to rest. I just got out of---" she stops when she realizes that Gale had no idea what she been through for five years in prison. If she told him that she's been in jail, maybe he will stay away because he will think that she's a criminal. 

"Nothing. See you when I see you. Bye." Lucy let go of his grip and wave her hands at him. 

Gale just sigh. He can't stop her by force and besides, they're not so close to being protective of her. 

Lucy walked in the hallway of Tagaytay tourist site when a gunshot echoed somewhere. She felt a stung on her shoulders and belly. She bent her head to check and her eyes widened when her dress was soaked in blood, her fresh blood. 

She felt dizzy and weak until she instantly collapsed on the ground. 

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Eloisa POV

Today was Lucy's discharge at the prison. No one can get out alive to me. I must call Brian to tail her and finish her today. Kent and I will live peacefully if I get rid of her. I know that my husband still has feelings for her and I can't accept that his heart belongs to her. I must erase her out from our lives. 

"Hello, Brian, did you follow her?" I called him. 

"Yes, she's right in front of me. My gun is now pointing at her. Should I a hot her now?" Brian ask my permission. 

I looked around to check if someone heard me. I focus on my phone again. 

"Do it now!" I ordered him without hesitation. I don't care if she's my close friend back then. I just want to take her out of the scene. 

I firmly close my eyes when Brian shot her. I heard it with my ears the gunshots, the sound of it echoes in my phone. I am startled when a hand grips my shoulders. 

"Honey, I heard you're talking to someone? Was it dad?" It's Kent asking me about my caller. 

I turned off my phone and told him that it's a call from my friend Cindy.

"She asks me if when are we going to visit her. She told me how Gale broke her heart." I simply lied to him. 

Cindy wasn't the only girlfriend of Gale proposed with but there's a lot of them. I know I'm one of them but I was drunk and loveless that night when I saw Lucy's photo in Kent's wallet. It broke my heart so I ran away and get wasted until I decided to call Gale to fetch me. 

It's still crystal clear in my head. 

          ~~~

Flashbacks

It all started with a kiss on her cheeks until she started to like it. Gale escorted her inside the inn like her husband. 

"One room please!" He said to the receptionist and she gave him the key. 

"Room 505 sir." She said after giving him the room key. 

"Thanks." He answered back and help the drunk Eloisa inside the room he paid for one night. 

He slowly put her on the bed and about to leave her when she holds her hands and pulled him above her.

"Do you think I'm drunk? What is your plan? Are you going to just look at me for the whole night, my brother-in-law?", Eloisa began to tease her by slipping her hands inside his shirt. 

Gale was a guy and even she was his brother's wife, he can't deny the fact that his manhood is hard enough to reject her. 

" Is this what you want?" Gale said and in one second, their lips are now entwined to each other. 

"Hmmm", Eloisa moans in every kiss they shared. 

Gale stop kissing her and told her that what are they doing was wrong but Eloisa insisted. 

Until forbidden desires happened. 

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" Shit!" He screamed when he saw Lucy's limp and bloody body on the grasses. 

He hid behind the huge trees when he saw someone holding a gun then drags her body and placed it inside the black car. Gale slowly hops inside his car while he can't believe what he just witnesses in front of him. It's a murder. Someone killed Lucy and now the killer took her body. He followed him and it feels like they traveled forever. Gale feared that he might lose Lucy. He doesn't know if she's still alive with the gunshot or not. 

"Please, stay alive. I will save you!" Gale mumbled. 

Brian found a secluded place where no one can find her body. 

He quickly digs the ground and buried Lucy's corpse. 

"Goodbye, Lucy!" He said and looked around to check if someone saw him. After checking around he left the poor Lucy. 

Gale quickly ran to the place where Brian buried Lucy. He doesn't know what to do. 

While looking for something to dig, a heavy rain came and Gale's prayers were answered. 

"Please, don't give up Lucy. I'm coming!" He muttered while his knees on the muddy ground and his hands were busy digging up the ground. 

He started to tremble when he still can't see Lucy's face. 

"Fuck, where are you, Lucy?" He's now getting nervous. He must save her no matter what. This poor girl must survive. 

A sigh of relief crossed his face when he felt a human skin. Finally, he found Lucy. 

He quickly took her out of the hole and quickly put her inside the trunk.  She's pale as a corpse. He called his doctor to hurry and meet him in his cabin here. 

"Hurry. There's no time!" He ordered and after he came inside his cabin, he cleans her. He checks her shots and there's one on her left shoulders and the other one was the most critical. Her wounds on her belly were deep and the blood won't stop. He's relieved that she's still breathing. 

Finally, doctor Killan came and he quickly prepared everything for Lucy's operation. 

Two weeks later...

Gale took a sip of coffee inside his cabin while waiting for Lucy. She's healing and regaining her strength so quickly. 

"Good morning!" Lucy greeted him while trying not to make any movement to harm her wounds. 

Gale helps her to sit on the chair. 

"How are you feeling?" He asked her while looking at her beautiful face. 

Lucy still can't forget her tragic experience with the person who shot her. She can't believe that after her stay inside the prison, her enemies won't let her live. 

"I'm fine. Thanks to you. I don't know how I can repay you!" She told him but Gale had an idea so no one can hurt her anymore. 

"No one saw me I took you from your grave. Lucy is dead. If you live like her, they won't stop until they kill you." He told her so Lucy asks him his plan. 

Gale confessed to her everything about his identity. She knew that he was Kent's stepbrother. At first, she won't believe him but when he showed photos of him and her ex-lover and the father of her son, she believed him. 

Gale was the one who suggested that they will be joined forces to take revenge on the couple and Lucy to accept it. 

"What do you want? How can I keep my identity as Lucy?" She asked him and took one sip of milk into her mouth. 

Gale took a deep breath and hold her shoulders to look at him. 

"Marry me. Be my wife. We will change your name to Greta Stone. You will be rich and famous like me. No one will hurt you anymore." Gale said and promised to help her until his last breath. 

Lucy was hesitant at first but Gela told her that their marriage will be fake and he will provide rules in their relationship. As long as no body contact and strings attached, their deal will be safe. 

"Deal?" Gale confirmed it to Lucy while raising his hands for a shake. 

"Deal!" She accepted his offer. 

"From now on, I will call you Greta!" Gale confirmed.

And Greta Stone was born in the appearance of Lucy Mason. 

Eloisa and Kent heard that Gale was now happily married to a girl named Greta. It's been three years since they last met him at Dilan's second birthday party and after that, they lost contact with him. 

They just received an invitation letter from Gale and Greta for the anniversary celebration of their famous penthouse called Zeus Palace. It's been a year they first built it and all investors were now laying on a pile of money especially Lucy who was Greta now and Gale. Their building became popular and even the Kings and Queens Hotels are now on the list of getting bankrupt that's why Eloisa and Kent immediately left the states and decided to stay in the Philippines for good to personally manage their company. The Ace Wine Corp whom been managed by Alexander wasn't in good condition too. 

"Shall we go there? I'm so excited to meet his wife." Eloisa raises her tattoed eyebrows at her husband. 

Kent who was busy playing at Dilan heard her and answered back. 

"Yes, of course. Even Gale and I had a terrible misunderstanding before, I'm so happy that he still thinks about us!" He said and played their son again. 

Eloisa set a smile on her face while texting Brian about Lucy.  She's sure that Lucy was dead by digging the hole he made when he shot her. 

"Let's meet tomorrow before the party." She texted Brian and hoping that she's dead. 

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Gale and Lucy, we're busy preparing for the anniversary of their penthouse. They were inside their mall looking for Lucy's gown and Gale's suit for the important event. 

They close the mall for the whole day every time they went shopping and do groceries. 

All of their employees were falling in line while waiting for their bosses who were still inside the fitting room. Some escorted them for picking of dresses and some do their groceries with a list with them given by Lucy herself. 

"Put this all in the bag. Your madam likes it all!" Gale ordered their employees.

All of them put all the clothes, jewelry, shoes, and makeup sets, which almost filled thirty bags. 

"Madame is lucky! I wish I can be like her!", one of them feel jealous while putting everything she chose in the shopping bags. 

Lucy was done and she waited for Gale to finish his selection of clothes and other personal things. She waited for him in the lobby. 

A few minutes later, Gale called her.

" I'm done, honey. Shall we go?" He asked Lucy and she stands up from her seat as a sign of yes. 

She put her arms around his and they walked together going inside their Lamborghini car. 

"It's time to open the mall!", he ordered them before they left. 

The couple decided to have dinner outside after they went shopping because it been weeks since they last saw and enjoyed each other's company. 

Even they're known by everyone as Mr. and Mrs. Stone, inside the mansion, their relationship wasn't real as couples. They have a contract and deal with all of this. Once their plan works, both of them will go on separate ways. 

" Cheers?", Gale raises the wine glass at Lucy. 

"Cheers!", She mumbled and hit their glasses together. 

Lucy suddenly became serious and her mind started to think things again from her past. She thought of her son Austin and it breaks her heart to know that she almost had him that day inside the mall but she flinched when he said his name was Dilan.

She remembered giving her som name of Austin. 

" Hey, are you thinking about him?", Gale meant about her ex-lover Kent, his stepbrother. 

Lucy quickly shook her head. He was wrong because she cursed Kent and erased him in her mind, heart, and life. 

"No. It's about my son. He's a big guy now and I hope I can talk to him with a lot of time." Her eyes began to be saddened. 

Gale holds her shoulders to support her grievances. He knows how devastated Lucy was. 

"You can meet Austin tomorrow make sure that no one will find out that your Lucy!", Gale told her. 

" Of course. I'm Greta Stone and I don't even know the girl Lucy Mason. I just resemble her." She replied at Gale and both of them made a wide smile on their faces. 

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6:30 pm

Zeus Palace Anniversary 

Sparkling gowns,  colorful masks, expensive suits, class high heels, and exotic menus can be seen inside the famous penthouse of the Stone couple not mentioning they have two Stone in the family who had famous businesses. 

Eloisa, Kent, and Dilan just arrived at the party. The whole place was been decorated with a bouquet of daisy flowers and shimmering Christmas lights with surprised fireworks after the event. 

They're wearing masks because the theme of the party was a masquerade. All visitors must wear to be eligible in joining the said celebration.

Eloisa was wearing a coated cream slit dress with a matching white stiletto. Kent dresses in a simple black tuxedo while their son Dilan partners his white long sleeve with a black tie and checkered grey pants. They looked perfect and a happy family. All press and media were restricted to get inside to avoid chaos. 

All guests were there and they just waiting for the head of the party to comes out and start the event. 

When they heard a female voice echoing the wide hall, Eloisa had goosebumps all over her body. The voice was familiar and it's impossible to be her because she just checked her decayed corpse this morning and she almost pukes when worms eat her rotten body. 

"It's impossible. No, maybe she had the same voice as Lucy. Of course, some had the same voice. Anyone can mimic someone's voice." She was talking to herself. 

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. Tonight, we will witness how our business started from small to bigger! I hope you will enjoy our mini video clip on our business journey!", it was Lucy who called their attention. She was standing behind the red curtain with Gale. 

She was wearing an A-line red evening gown with details at the back. She partners it with her black animal print stiletto. Her long black hair just hanging behind her back made her even more elegant and gorgeous. 

Gale was wearing a grey suit with stripe black and white necktie on it. His hair was combed upward and he looks fresh on it. He looks like Leonardo De Caprio in his style. 

All the guests applaud after Lucy's speech. Finally, the curtain rolled up and the Stone couple were behind it. All their eyes were locked on the main organizer of the party who was the owner of the said penthouse. 

Eloisa and Kent's intrigued too to see who was Greta Stone, who said to be Gale's wife. When Greta slowly take off her masks, Eloisa turned pale when she saw Greta's face. She was like the reincarnation of Lucy. She felt like her body softens like jelly and her heart felt heavy like someone put a weight on it. 

Even Kent was surprised to see Lucy right in front of him. 

" Lucy?", Kent mumbled. He can't believe seeing Lucy here at this event. This is not real. How can she be Gale's wife? 

Eloisa walked back looking for someone to be lean on. Kent noticed her.

"Are you okay, honey?", he asked her while supporting her arms and body not to fall. 

" Can I go to the bathroom, first?" She said and Kent let her go. 

While Eloisa disappeared in the crowd, Lucy as Greta set a smirk on her face. 

"Yes, be ready for what you did to me! Both of you will suffer the consequences!", she whispered. 

" It's her! She's the woman who gave me ice cream!", Dilan suddenly muttered which made Kent ask his son if he knows anything about her 

He crouch and talks with Dilan. 

"Did she call you son?", Kent wanted to know if she was Lucy or not. He lost contact with her when Eloisa changes his phone number and when he tried to use a payphone, Lucy's phone can't be reached too. 

Dilan shook his head. 

" No. She asked me where are my parents then I told her that I want ice cream and she came back with one and gave it to me. She's kind and I like her!", the child said happily.

While everyone listens to the couple's speech, Eloisa was in the bathroom staring at herself in the mirror while gripping her hair. 

"No! She's dead. It's not Lucy. I'm certain she died that night. I saw her corpse.", She keeps saying it while putting a smile on her face. 

She washes her hands and calls Brian before she went back to the party area. 

" Show me a picture of Lucy's rotten body. I saw her replica here but I can't tell yet if she was kind of which or something!", she said on the phone and quickly turned it off after leaving the restroom. 

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Lucy was dead and that's the truth.  

10 hours before the party

Eloisa POV

I set up my alarm on my phone at exactly five in the morning. I slowly drag my lazy body out of our bed when Kent woke up with my sudden movement.

He impatiently opens his eyes to see what I was doing.

"It's too early. Where do you think you're going?", he asked me while I was preparing myself to take a shower. 

I sat beside him and planted a kiss on his lips. 

" I'll go jog to stretch my legs, honey. I felt my body seems to get weaker after we get home." I mumbled.

Kent was still sleepy so he let me go. 

"Just come back before Dilan woke up l, okay? You know he's looking for you every time he woke up." He reminded me.

I just wear my sweet smile at my husband when he said about our son Dilan but the truth was I hated him so much. When I see his face especially his eyes, it reminded me about Lucy. 

He's not mine to protect and defend. I only took him so that she will left but nothing. 

"Sure, I'll be back!", I replied. 

I promptly texted Brian where he was so that he can guide me to the place where he buried Lucy alive.

I could feel the cold wind brushing my face when I rolled down my car window.

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Even the weather in the Philippines wasn't the same as the winter season of the states, the damp air on her skin was a bit strange. She feels anxious and she doesn't know why. She wrapped her arms around her shivering body when Brian hastily sneak on her window and she startled in surprise.

" You shock me! Get in!", she commanded him and put on her eyeglasses. 

Brian was wearing simple summer shorts and a plain white shirt with eyeglasses too. They navigated the roadway to Tagaytay tourist spot where he buried Lucy after she got out of the prison almost two months ago. 

"Are you sure she's dead? Did you find anyone suspicious around you? Did someone saw you?", Eloisa asked him many questions to make sure that Brian did a perfect assault. 

He set a wide smirk on his face. 

" Of course, I killed her! I buried her and until I hop inside the car, no one was around!", he replied. 

Eloisa quickly burst out into laughter and then stop to focus on her driving. Finally, they reach the place, and Brian directly escorts her to Lucy's grave.

"That's it. Check it!", He said at her and without hesitation, Eloisa gets the shovel from Brian and digs the hole deeper and deeper until she found Lucy's corpse. 

You can't tell if she won the lottery or won a house and lot by her expressions. She looks crazy when she gently wipe the tears from her eyes. 

" I'm sorry, my friend but it's for your good. Well, don't worry, your son is safer with us! Sayonara!", she shouted in the atmosphere because of her happiness. 

After she checks her decayed bodily, she adds 50,000 pesos to Brian's bank account. 

" Here. Get lost and Good job anyway!", she said after leaving Brian alone. 

He just took a sigh and lit one cigarette on his hands. 

----

"Lucy?", Eloisa can't believe what she just saw right in front of her. 

She thought Lucy was dead and she confirmed it but how can she get back to life as nothing happened. And now, she's back as Gale's wife?

Kent almost drops his jaws to see Lucy again. It's been five years when Eloisa cut off his ties at her. He was dumb and fool that time because all he thinks was himself, the money his father-in-law invested at his dad's company, and the Kings and Queens Hotel owns him too. It's a gift from Eloisa's dad to both of them. 

He seems like he saw a fairy, so sweet and innocent. She's still gorgeous ever but he can't believe that Gale found her and hit on her to be his wife. He knew his stepbrother very well and it's nonsense that she was his wife and he changed her name to Greta Stone. 

Eloisa and Kent keep their mouth shut when Gale and Lucy we're approaching them. Eloisa didn't make any blinks. 

Lucy walked like a supermodel in her evening gown and you will see the difference between Lucy Mason and Greta Stone. 

Greta Stone is a highly sophisticated and smart girl while Lucy Mason was a useless and naive girl. 

Kent's eyes were also locked at Greta's enchanting beauty. 

" That's her. She's the one who gave me ice cream!", Dilan shouted but Eloisa told him to stay quiet. 

"My brother, I'm so happy that you came with your family!", Gale greeted them while both of them were stunned to see Greta's presence. 

" Anyway, this is my lovely wife, Greta. Greta this is my brother Kent and his wife Eloisa." He shifted his gaze at them and Greta reaches her hands for a handshake. 

"Nice meeting both of you." She said but Eloisa narrowed her eyes on her. 

"Greta? Don't you fool us, Lucy? Gale do you know that this girl was fake!", she said but Kent stops her. 

" Eloisa, you're making a scene!", he told her but she won't listen.  

Lucy knew she would react like that and she loves seeing her behave like a moron in front of her. 

"What are you talking about? Who was Lucy? My name is Greta Lewis, the only daughter of James Lewis who started the car brand Lewis Porsche!", she informed them and they were shocked to hear it. 

Eloisa came closer to check everything about her and she had a mole on her upper nose where Lucy didn't have. 

" I can't believe that we saw Lucy's replica in your presence. Gale, how did you find her? I thought she was Lucy!", Kent was shocked too. 

Kent put his hands around Greta's waist and pulled her against him.

"Of course, I'm Gale. We met in States three years ago, right baby?", he asked Lucy as part of their plan. 

Everything we're planned when Eloisa and Kent came to the party. They knew that they will be star-struck by Lucy so they find a famous man to be her dad and some paid friends. No one will find who was Greta is. 

Greta giggled and set her sweet smile at Gale. 

" Of course, you're so sweet back then!", she told him while her eyes were stealing a glance at Kent. 

"Smile today and you will cry tomorrow!", she whispered in her head. 

" I never imagine that my husband had a hot brother!", she winked at Kent and Eloisa saw it. She glared at her husband when she saw that Kent looks star-struck at Gale's wife. 

"Nice meeting you!", Eloisa reach her hands for a shake. 

" Same here. I hope we can have a tea time together, sister?" Lucy told her and she made a fake smile. 

"No problem. I can't wait to know more about you, Greta." Eloisa's eyes were studying her. 

"How can she reincarnate like her new self? I feel relieved that she wasn't Lucy because Lucy Mason died and Kent had no idea about Lucy's death and disappearance. 

Gale saw Dilan who was hiding behind his mom and he called him. 

" Come here, big boy! Meet you, aunt Greta. " He took the child and put him in his arms. 

"Uncle, is she my aunt? She's pretty! I wish she will give me an ice cream again!", he keeps saying it but Eloisa didn't bother to listen to her child. 

Lucy keeps holding her tears not to cry but how can she hide her feelings when her only son was just right in front of her. She was excited to hug and talk to him. Maybe it's time to use her new identity to be with her child even for just one night. 

" Can I borrow him for a while? I want to tour him here!", she asked permission from Eloisa and Kent, and they both nod their head. 

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At last, she reunited with her son after five years of losing him.