The characters from the game belong to Capcom.
A/N:I'm not english native speaker, so you might find some typos or grammar mistakes, I do apologize for that.
He let out a sigh, "You'd better take a seat…" he said heading to his chair and then dialed to his secretary don't allow anyone disturb him
The blonde woman was thoughtful and intrigued with the suspense of her husband and sat on the chair in front of his desk, "Who is that woman? I saw her when I went to the toilet room"
"Her name now is Laura Lamonte. She came with her husband to renew a contract his company has with the BSAA…"
"Is there anything going on between you?"
He gasped, "No… I hope not"
"What do you mean by you hope not?"
"Isn't she familiar to you? Despite the blonde wig and green lens and the plastic surgeries?"
She frowned thoughtful, "There was indeed something about her, but why all this stringing along to tell me who she is in fact?"
He took a long and deep breathe, "It's Laureen…"
Evana could not believe her earing. That name, those memories. She knew his feeling about the brunette's death and she respected their history, but her history with that woman wasn't pleasant. Was his ex-wife one of his secrets? Secrets – a habit he seemed to have acquired – a habit she learned how to seemly ignore or in the least, she wouldn't question him.
"How long do you know it?" she had to ask, she had to know; that was a secret she couldn't just ignore and not be affected
He exhaled, "Since the Mikro incident"
She parted her lips, but the words didn't form in her brain and inevitably they wouldn't come out. She simply shook her head with a mix of feelings. A long silence.
"Would you ever tell me about her or you really enjoy her being your precious secret?" she couldn't help feeling hurt
"It's not what you're thinking"
"You don't know what I'm thinking!"
"She's not my lover!"
She laughed, "Of course she's not. She came first!"
He didn't like her tone, he has always been faithful to her, "If I had any intention of keeping her, I wouldn't have had the trouble to have divorced" he replied under impulse
"If you say so…"
"Come on Eva, let's not start this subject again, but I hate when you doubt my feelings for you"
"I don't doubt your feelings for me, I'm sure you have them… But that's not what I was really thinking"
"So what were you thinking?"
"I was wondering that because of your feelings for her you helped her sustain her forged death but why you didn't trust me again to tell me something so important? Wasn't enough the example of mess we had about Piers and Yana?"
He let out a sigh, "You're right. But I'm actually doing an investigation and I didn't want to concern you in vain if I didn't get concrete results… and not about me having feelings for her"
"An investigation?" she asked in puzzlement
He nodded
"Investigation of what?"
He bit his lips, looking down to get the courage to speak it out.
Evana could read the importance of the matter in her husband's silence and body language, which made millions of things to pass in her mind.
"Laureen has a child… I met him at Mikro"
She swallowed. She only had one question in mind, "Is he yours?" she couldn't help the fail in her voice
He shook his head as he shrugged, "I don't know. That's what I've been investigating. I tried to ignore it, but seeing Laureen here triggered it again, so I had to ask"
"What did she say?"
"Actually, she didn't."
"Because I interrupted you?"
He shook his head, "Not exactly… She said many things and nothing at the same time. In the end, I don't have my answer"
She looked down, squeezing her hands. A wave of deception was invading her. She shouldn't be disappointed. He admitted he had tried with his then wife Laureen, after all she was the official one. She had the right, he had the right to sleep with her whenever they wanted and it wouldn't be wrong… But he lied. He wouldn't be so concerned if there wouldn't have such possibility.
The phone of his office buzzed. His voice was at a distance she couldn't really hear whatever he was speaking.
She felt bad. She felt like trash – again. A home breaker – again. She felt like she had built her happiness over the misfortune of someone else, Laureen and her son. The thoughts of Laureen's words wouldn't stop echoing in her head, her despair in losing the man she loved. The family she dreamed. The family she lost and fought with everything until the very end.
Amnesia or not, she was aware she had been his lover… she remembered her own dilemmas still back in Bohma. Inertly, she always felt he had someone else, yet, she gave herself to him – over and over again. She bought that fight consciously and unconsciously.
Consciously because she had the feeling that he belonged to someone else and she knew, he didn't belong to Bohma.
Unconsciously because she had never had the intention to break his home – or any other. But in his case she fell in love with him. Her feelings for him were stronger than her reasoning. Living daily with him made things extremely hard to not ceding to those feelings burning like a volcano inside her. She just hoped that the day he was gone, his wife or family wouldn't need to know about them and she would be forever the forgotten lover. His forever secret – even if she had kept his child with her. Her secret.
However, things weren't that way…
Evana stood up from her seat and looked around, the furniture, the window. She looked at him talking on phone. It was an important call. There was still the impact of his retirement announcement. He would be busy during that process, as he would have to arrange everything before leaving.
He looked back at her. Broken gazes. Broken feelings. Broken promises. Broken vows.
They were together long enough to know what those gazes meant in the absence of words. A time to process the news. A break to digest everything that was in the table and implicit about that matter. Cheating or no cheating – it didn't really matter.
The blonde woman walked to the door and left the cabin. She walked through the corridors as words of Laureen and Stan echoed in her mind. She walked and walked leaving the corridors behind, the personnel behind, the elevator behind, the doors behind, the huge building behind.
She called a cab and waited without looking behind. In the radio was playing an old song…
Say something, I'm giving up on you
I'll be the one, if you want me to
Anywhere, I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you
And I am feeling so small
It was over my head
I know nothing at all
And I will stumble and fall
I'm still learning to love
Just starting to crawl
Say something, I'm giving up on you
I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you
Anywhere, I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you
And I will swallow my pride
You're the one that I love
And I'm saying goodbye
Laura and Matt returned home. Strangely, Laura kept a disturbing silence during the whole trajectory. That wasn't typical of her. Several things bombed her head. She was in the verge of her self-control.
Matt parked the car in the garage of their mansion and answered an important call. Laura didn't bother to wait for him and entered the house. Nathan was with her mother, so she headed directly to the bathroom to take a long bath to relax and think. She had a lot to think.
Matt finished his call and looked for his wife. Her quiet demeanor intrigued him. He entered their bedroom and saw her clothing spread over the bed. Clothing that he was intrigued of her wearing them, but she had told him she wanted a quick change of hair without having to dye her own and the lens was something she always wished to have born – with green eyes. He accepted her explanation and in his opinion, there was nothing wrong about that. He walked to the bathroom found her resting in the bathtub.
"What happened?" he asked in concern and sat on the border
"Nothing, why do you ask?"
"You're so quiet today"
"I guess I'm PMsing"
He frowned, "I didn't know you had PMS."
"Yes, I do… sometimes. You don't need to worry, I'll get back to normal tomorrow" she forced a smile of assurance
He shrugged, "Alright… I'll have to get used to that. Do you want any chocolate, candy or something?" he asked as he had heard women had that necessity during that period
She shook her head in denial, "No, thanks. I just want to be alone"
"Okay. You will have time to be alone because I just got a reminder call that I have a booked business trip for Spain tomorrow"
"Really?"
He nodded in confirmation, "But I won't stay for too long. I hope you won't feel so lonely with your Pms and my absence"
"I'm already used to your absence…"
He laughed a bit, "Yeah, but I promise I will compensate you when I get back"
"Don't worry about it. I understand. Really! I do understand it's your job!" she reassured him with a smile
He leaned over and kissed her, "Thank you for been so good and understanding with me"
"You deserve it, Matt. You are a great man and I'm lucky to have found you"
He smiled to her, "And I'm lucky to have you and Nate in my life. He's like a son to me"
She smiled and disguised her awkwardness, "He really does consider you a father to him"
"You know…"
"What?"
"Lately I have been thinking about it. You never told me what really happened to his father"
She swallowed looking down in distress, "You never asked…"
"Yeah, true. Will you tell me what happened to him?"
"Matt, my love… It's complicated to explain that, but you should know that he's a personal project of mine. So he doesn't have a father and that's why from time to time Nate buzzes about it. He's too little to understand such things"
"Personal project? What is that supposed to mean?"
She exhaled, "He was made artificially… if you know what I mean…"
"Oh…I see…"
"Yeah…"
"I thought he was the son of your ex-husband and he was crappy enough to not be a father to him"
She gasped, "What? No way! My crappy ex-husband doesn't deserve to be the father of my son and thank god he's not!" she said in distress
"Well… Anyways, did you talk to Chris Redfield about that matter?"
She frowned in confusion, "What matter?"
"Our plan! The field equipment"
"Oh! Right!"
"You didn't?"
"Actually, my love, I really didn't."
"Why not? I saw you together"
"Well, because of his wife! You know this is a subject that demands details and all, but his wife entered the room interrupting our conversation and she didn't have a good expression, so I preferred to leave because I thought they had urgent subjects to talk about… you know…"
"Oh I see…Maybe she got jealous"
She laughed in distress, "Maybe… who knows…"
He inhaled and then exhaled, "Well, I got their new contract and need to work on that, so that matter can wait my return from my trip"
"Yeah, absolutely"
He smiled at her seductively and started unbuttoning his shirt, "Will your pms mind if I join you now or do I have to wait my long return?"
She smiled back, pulled him to her, "Actually my pms loves your white chocolate", kissed him passionately, and helped him unclothe.
She wasn't lying about that. She did enjoy the revival of her sexual life with her new husband, despite it not be so often due to his constant trips. But well… she was used to that style of life too.
Thank you HerpDerp and Xaori for your words :D
Yes my friends, I do agree... no more lies Chris! But Chris! Why do men have this bad habit of not giving important details that make all the difference without needing to be asked? Just tell the whole story in one shot and prevent questions that will bother later and feel like a questioning! Avoid that! xD This annoying habit makes most women ask more questions than they should and be labelled of annoying ~_~"
We are curious by nature and that's why soap operas are so good for us! xD Ok, I'm kidding xD
Yes my friends, I do agree that back in the days they would be acting differently, so I'm glad you guys could see that :D
I'm happy to know I've been understood and I managed to show their maturation xD
And here it goes another note... today is October 10th, yesterday I got some news that might change my life schedule forever! So, I'm quite worried and running to finish the story before 23th! _
At least, one future chapter is completely ready! But there are still some left, ugh... So yeah, this one was shorter but it wasn't because of that, it's more because of what I have for future chapters mauhauhua, so I didn't want to prolong it too much xD
Plus, my and my bad usual math made me remake the numbers and even correct the previous chapter when I wrote in Chris' speech that he and Eva were together for 8 years plus, but no! it's 7 years plus xD LOL It's funny that when I wrote the chapter I had done the math several times and resulted in 8 several times xD hahahaha But I know! 13 to 20 will never end in 8 xD I dont know from where I took the 8 xD But it's like they say, 2+2 equals 5 because there's a hidden 1 among them xD hahahaha (this is an old joke I heard in my school days...don't know if it's true xD)
All I hope is that you liked the chapter and captured the essence and as the usual...
Stay Tuned :D