It was morning, and Mari started having her nighttime again. She started breathing heavily and moving around. The dream was the same as always and nearing the end she started screaming but there was one thing that was different in the end Mari finally saw the face of the man, and it was...Mari opened her eyes and saw the same face looking down at her worriedly. Mari sat up and backed away panicking.

"Did you have the nightmares again?" Adrien asked concern.

"In my dream, I saw the face of the man, and it was you Adrien! It was you!" Mari yelled crying.

Adrien tries to touch her shoulder, but Mari moves away from him again and backs up to a wall. "Let me explain." Adrien said gently slowly stepping closer to her.

"NO! DON'T TOUCH ME!" Mari yelled moving past him and running out from the room and apartment.

"Mari wait!" Adrien yelled after her as he quickly put some pants on before running after her.

Mari ran through the beach in her nightgown breathing heavily. "It can't be it can't be." She stops running out of breath, and she hears Adrien calling her name in the background. "In my dream, I saw Adrien's face." She goes on her knees. 'I must have put his face there because Adrien isn't like that man." Mari saw a shadow in front of her she looked up and saw Adrien. As he went on his knees too Mari put her hands on his cheeks." I saw your face, but he wasn't like you.' Mari put her hands down. "He didn't talk like you about love." She takes his hands. "And his hands only did harm. He was so different from you. Why did I see your face?"

Adrien holds back his tears. "Mari I-"

"It couldn't be you. How could I think that if I love you while I despise that man? No it can't be you but why did I put your face in the nightmare? Why?" Mari hugs him, and he hugs her back tearing up. After a while, Mari breaks the hug. "I feel embarrassed for thinking that. Please forgive me for yelling like a crazy woman for you not to touch me and for running off. I was just in shock seeing your face as that jerk. I don't want to dream that anymore Adrien. Remember that I wanted to know who that jerk was? Not anymore now that I can love with the soul. Now that I'm happy I don't want to turn back to how I used to be. I want to be full of love the love you taught me." The whole time Adrien was quiet and Mari saw the sadness in his eyes. "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"


"Miss I want to see the doctor that did the operation on me." Ruby told the nurse who brought her breakfast. "I need to know when my bandages will be taken off."

"I actually came to tell you that the doctor will take your bandages off this evening." The nurse replied. Ruby smiled happily.


"Hold me Adrien...why aren't you doing it? It's about what I said right? Forget about my nightmare and cue me, so I don't have it again I know that you'll be able to." Mari said softly.

Adrien shakes his head. "No Mari I can't"

"You're mad at me right? Please forgive me." Mari said sweetly.

"No it's you that needs to forgive me." Adrien replied.

Mari looked at him confused. "Me? Forgive you for what if you have only done good things and even saved me from jail twice. You taught me to love and made me your wife."

Adrien slowly nodded. "Something told me that I owed you, and you're my wife thanks to a lie." Mari looked at him confused again. "Mari now it's me who is scared." He said tearing up. "Scared that you won't forgive me, and I'm afraid that my love and the love that has grown inside you won't be enough to defeat the hate and that this dream that could last forever breaks...if only one night a few years ago, I wouldn't have come across a field drunk and find a poor powerless teenage girl...I'm afried my regret and guilt aren't enough...Mari you're nightmare isn't just imaginary...the face of that man was mine..." Mari grasps and covers her month. "The man of your nightmare is me."

"You're a heartless coward!" Mari yells harshly.

"I deserve everything you say. I deserve your hate." Adrien said in tears now.

"YES, I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" Mari throws sand at him before standing up and running off. She bursted out in tears and falls back on her knees.

A few minutes pass before Adrien walks behind her. "Mari-"

"Go away I don't want to see you." Mari said not looking at him.

Adrien goes on his knees. "Let me explain."

Mari turns to face him. "Since when do you know it was me! Tell me!"

"Since I took you to my office, and you told me about your past." Adrien replied.

"And you still let me marry you and have our wedding night?!" Mari pushes him to the ground.

Adrien sits back up. "Mari I knew that if I told you the truth you would reject me, and I wanted an opportunity to repair my wrong doing and for you to forgive me."

"ME forgive you? NEVER!" Mari yells.

Adrien looks at her sadly. "Mari I love you."

"And I hate you! I hate you. I hate you!" Mari starts hitting his chest multiple times before stopping and looks at him sadly. "I thought you were good I believed in you. I loved you. I who was afraid of a man's touch, and it was you all along. You lied to me."

"To save our love. Mari behind that terrible truth is a sweet and beautiful one. The truth of my love for you. After last night, you should know to what point and how I love you. Not by a love of instinct but with a sweet and pure love. Look in my eyes and tell me that you can see what my love is asking you for. Please forgive me." Adrien said softly.


Mathew wrote a note to Ruby and handed it to his mom. "Please hand it to Ruby mom."

Elena nodded. 'Sure dear but please eat your breakfast." Mathew nodded as Elena left the room and went into Ruby's room. "Good morning Ruby."

Ruby smiled. "Good Morning."

"My son sends you this." Elena hands her the note.

Ruby takes it and reads it. "It says 'Good Morning how was your night' it doesn't say anything else. How is he doing Mrs. Elena?"

"The same." Elena simply replied.

"The same good? Has he gotten up yet?" Ruby asked. "Is he able to walk yet?"

"He's fine and no, he hasn't gotten up yet neither has he started walking." Elena said a bit nervously.

"Remember what I have asked you. Don't let him come see me. This evening my bandages will be taken off, and I'll be able to go see him and he will be able to see me too." Ruby said with a smile.


"My love doesn't tell you anything? Is it not enough for you to forgive me? Mari I really feel guilty is my regret not enough?" Adrien asked looking at her.

"I can't love you anymore." Mari simply said.

"Don't say that you still love me." Adrien said softly.

"It would've been better that you never told me the truth that I never knew you were him." Mari replied sadly.

Adrien shakes his head. "No I couldn't keep hiding that, please forgive me."

He reaches for her hand, but Mari moves back. "Don't touch me."

She stands and started to walk away, but she doesn't take more than 2 steps before she collapses to the ground unconscious. Adrien hurried to her side. "MARI?!" With no answer from her he picks her up and runs back to the apartment and lays her on the bed. Mari starts to get conscious again. "Mari." She looks at him and jumps a bit startled. "Do you feel bad?" She dorsn't answer, and he touches her forehead. "You have a high fever we need to put that down. I'm going to get some medicine." Adrien quickly puts a shirt on and runs off.

Mari gets up and drags herself to the edge of the bed and sits up. She sees one of the flowers of her bouquet, and she picks it up. "It's dying just like my love that only lasted one night." Mari remembers when she first officially met Adrien and starts crying. "God why did you put him in my path again? Why did you make me love him? You know I can't forgive him...he will come back I don't want him to find me here. I don't want to see him again." She stands up and ran out from the apartment. Mari walked down a sidewalk and stopped a woman walking pass. "Excess me Mrs. do you know where the airport is?"

"Four blocks away." The woman replied.

Mari takes off the ladybug necklace Fu gave her. "How much will you give me for this?"

"You want to go home?" Mari nodded. "Keep your necklace you seem like a nice girl. I'll help you get home."


"Mari I brought you-" Adrien started walking to the room, but once he didn't see her; he looks inside the bathroom. "Mari." He went back to the room. "She left." He ran out and searches for her even calling the police to look for her. After hours of searching, he goes back to the apartment with sadness. He picks up the flower she threw before she ran off, and he sat on the ground leaning back on the bed. He started crying silently. "Where could she be? Where?" He grabs his phone and calls the police again. "Officer it's Adrien Agreste again could you find something?...A plane ticket with her name on it to Paris?...Thank you." He hung up. "She went back to French."


"What can I do for you Lila?" Edward asked Lila when she entered his office.

"I had a desire to talk with someone, and I thought of you?" Lila said sitting on a chair.

"Well, the woman who just left was my last patient, so I'm all ears." Edward replied.

"That's good...so have you heard of Adrien? I heard that he's staying at an apartment you have in LA for his honeymoon..." Lila said softly.

Edward nodded. "Yes but he hasn't contacted with me."

"If only you knew how I am feeling. Knowing Adrien married that girl ripped me apart." Lila said faking sadness. "He abandoned me to marry her. He didn't care about my pain or embarrassment."

"I understand how you feel something similar or even worse happened to me since I was abounded in the church on my wedding day." Lila slowly nodded. "The worst part is that Adrien might not be happy with Mari."

Lila looks at him confused. "Why?"

Edward shakes his head. "Sorry it's intimate stuff between the two that I can't reveal. Something that happen in both their lives in the pass."


Adrien walks inside Ruby's room. "Hay Adri what are you doing here and Mari?"

"I'm here to see you, and Mari is still in LA." Adrien replied not wanting to tell her what happen.

"You left her by herself the day after the wedding? No way go back to her what about the honeymoon?" Ruby asked.

"I'll return tonight and there will be time for that later right now there are more important things like your health." Adrien replied.

"You don't need to worry about me. I have to pay for my own mistakes and no one else." Ruby replied

The doctor walks in. "Ready for the bandages to be taken of?" He asked with a smile.

"So soon?" Adrien asked surprised.

"Yes it's the first one so let's get started." The doctor gently starts unwrapping the bandages.


Mari walked inside her old home Fu's house crying. Fu who was organizing teas for some clients looked at her confused. "Mari? Is that you? What are you doing here?" Mari didn't answer she just hugged him.


"And we are done taking the bandages of." The doctors said taking the last strand of bandages off.

The doctor the nurse and even Adrien just stared at her for a moment. "Why are you looking at me like that? What do I have in the face?!" Ruby asked desperately. Adrien went to her side trying to calm her down so the doctor could clean her face.


"Weren't you in LA?" Fu asked confused and worried for her. "What are you doing here in Paris? And your husband?"

"I don't know." Mari simply replied sitting down on a chair still in tears.

Fu also sat down. "Please tell me what happened."

"I abandoned Adrien." Mari confessed.

"Don't tell me you already had problems." Fu said surprised.

"I can't stay with him Fu. He's a cruel jerk." Mari said crying harder.

"What was the argument with your husband about?" Fu asked curiously.

"Remember my nightmare Fu?" He nodded. "Remember that it was about a man chasing me and harming me?" Fu nodded again. "Well it wasn't just a nightmare it happened in real life." Fu looked at her shocked. "The nightmare is what happened to me a few years ago before I met you. I couldn't remember his face, I would wake up before seeing it, but now I did. I had the nightmare in LA, and I saw his face. It was him. It was Adrien Agreste."

"Why didn't you tell me before that your dream was real?" Fu asked hugging her again.

"Because I was embarrassed and the worse part is that he knew, and he still let me marry him without telling me the truth. That's what hurts me the most for that I will never forgive him ever." Mari said looking down.


"How did it go with Edward?" Isabella asked once Lila returned.

"Good I confirmed that they are in LA at an apartment he has there. Though I saw him worried about the marriage between Adrien and the street rat. He was starting to talk before stopping himself, but it seems something dedicated happened before the marriage what do you think it is?" Lila asked.

Isabella shrugged. "Who knows but either way we should let Audrey know."


"Doctor I worry about her face." Adrien said to the doctor as they left Ruby's room.

"The process will be long and difficult, but hopefully she will be the same as before." The doctor replied.


The phone rang in the Agreste household, and Audrey answered. "Hello?" There was no answer. "Who's calling?...Chloe?...Chloe is that you?" Audrey asked, but the line gets cut.


Maya was drawing in the back garden when Adrien walked up to her. "How's my little princess?"

Maya looked up and smiled. "DADDY!" She stands up and hugs him. "You came back...but where's Mari?" She asked curiously.

"She might not come back." Adrien replied honestly.

Maya frowned. "No please bring her back she's my new mom now."


Sabine sat on her knitting chair reading the words of her latest blanket that read 'don't forget about me.' Tom looked up from the book he was reading. "What's wrong dear? Why so sad?"

"You know better than anyone Tom. It's about everything spoken about poor Mari. That she's a thief whom stole Lila's boyfriend and so on all to torment her. " Sabine replied looking up at him.

"And like always you're on her side instead of defending Lila, who is your daughter." Tom replied.

"Well now to top it up Audrey speaks bad about her, and I don't find that fair." Sabine said sternly. "I think I got to know Mari well while she was living with us, and I have a different view of her than Lila Isabella, and Audrey have of her. She was always sincere and sweet to me. Incapable of hurting anyone."

"You should be the first to be against her and support your daughter who was abandoned." Tom said.

"Forgive me Tom but I can't. I don't know why but I could never be against her much less let her know." Sabine said honestly. "I sometimes feel Lila so harsh so demanding that it cost me to think she's my actual daughter."


"With the tea you just drank, you will feel much better you should rest too." Fu told Msri sitting next to her as she laid on her bed.

Mari nodded. "It is best that I forget about him." She took her wedding ring off and threw it across the room. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. "It must be him." Mari said worriedly.

"Than I won't answer." Fu replied.

"No open it but if it's him tell him you don't know anything about me." Mari replied. Fu nodded and left her room to open the door.

Once the door is open Adrien walked inside. "Is Mari here?"