One More Chance by Jaycelle Rodriguez

Chapter 178: The Revelation

"So what do you want to tell me?" I asked her the moment I sat down across her seat inside the coffee shop. I've already ordered some drinks and pastries before walking to her chosen table.

She lowered her gaze and I frowned when she sighed.

"Sam..." Fidgeting her fingers, she then started opening her mouth but then stopped and sighed again.

"I won't eat you, I'm not a monster, Lucy," I tried to throw a joke to lighten her mood because I noticed how tense she was in her seat.

"I'm sorry for all the things I've done to you..."

I took a deep breath. I didn't expect to hear those words from her.

"If you're only here to apologize, then I forgive you. The damage has been done and there is nothing I can do about it anymore."

"No! You should fix your relationship!"

I blinked in a slight shock when her voice came a little bit louder. She even straightened her body as she looked at me with those big round eyes.

"What are you talking about?" I asked her, wry smile immediately slipped from my lips. "How am I supposed to be able to fix it when it's already been broken --- when you've already broken it?" Even though it sounded like a joke, the sarcasm can still be heard from it. "I'm sorry," She apologized again, looking down at her fingers... again.

"Why don't you just tell me what you want or what you wanted to say so we can already talk it out? Oh, wait--- what do you have this time? Don't tell me you now have a video?"

"No, Sam, actually, I'm here to apologize," I raised an eyebrow. "Sam, it's all my fault," she stated making me stare at her with a deep frown. "Those pictures and all the things I said at the café were all lies."

My mouth dropped in mid-air as I tried to take a deep breath. My mind was still processing what she had said when she added the following lines.

cheat on you, Sam. They were all lies. I just made up those lies and even those photos I gave

anything... well, honestly I couldn't form a word inside my head. To say the shock I felt was an understatement it

you gone insane?" The first question I blurted out after a few

of you and your relationship,

formed around my eyes as I remembered how Luke tried to explain himself to me these past few days but

I tried to swallow the lump that had formed in my throat but it was so hard when my heart was screaming Luke's name. "How dare you? How could you do

eyes at her. "Do you hear yourself, right now, huh? How can you

head and apologized again for I don't know how many times since earlier... I

ask you to

she bit her lower lip as she now began to shed tears. "He didn't know I

"No, Sam---"

did your conscience

deep breath. "I owe my father's life to your boyfriend,"

in the Philippines, But two weeks ago Luke discovered that Dad had been embezzling a lot of money from the products they sell and using it in some illegal businesses. His people were also replacing the products they give to

for everything dad owed him, Luke took dad's

he was having a heart attack, he got into an accident the same day. His car collided with a ten-wheeler truck." "Oh, my!" I gasped, my mouth hanging in mid-air in shock. Even though I know what they had done was something we couldn't let go of,

day, so he was immediately rushed to the hospital. So far he is still in a

it, how and

is still paying

a loss for words at that

hand that was resting on the table tried to take it back but I was stopped by her next words. "Luke loves you more than anything in this world. I know it. He didn't do anything to hurt you and he didn't cheat on you... he never did when he was

happened to our

know about him, I mean, about what happened to him when he was in the Middle

into an accident when

straightened my seat. "What do you mean he had