My Ex Next Door

She nibbled on her lips while her eyes shut, suddenly ashamed that she\'s trying to sneak out.

"Wow! I can\'t believe my girlfriend is like this" she heard him saying, she turned around and gave him a smile but anyone could see that it was fake.

In just a second, the man was already in front of her, she snorted when Ken wrapped a hand around her waist and tugged her closer.

His gray eyes were narrowed as he looked at her, "What shall I do to you?" he uttered in a teasing voice.

Novie gulped repeatedly while trying to push him away, "We need to leave Ken. Danny is waiting for us" she tried to let go from his grip but her small and weak body could not fight.

"Aren\'t you tired? I can call him to schedule it tomorrow" he replied, still wouldn\'t let her go.

Novie sighed and decided to give up, he has a point, she\'s tired and all she wanted to do was to rest.

"Fine, call him then" Ken smiled at her and turned around to get his phone and she took that chance to leave the room.

As she walked to the hallway, her face whitened when she realized that Bea and Claire were standing next to the stairs and looking to her direction with a question in their faces.

She frosts and tried to find an excuse but she couldn\'t find any, her hair was dripping and she\'s wearing Ken\'s shirt and just came out of his room, the two could have guessed what did just happened. She cleared her throat and separated her lips to talk.

"I am..." she pointed at Ken\'s room while trying to find the next word she wanted to say.

"We don\'t really need the details" Bea chuckled and asked Claire if she wanted to go out.

Novie bites her lips out of shame while watching the two old woman leaving, she was just thankful that her family was not around or else she might throw herself to the stairs.

She turned around when she heard a door opening, she immediately ran to her room before Ken could see her in the hallway.

Minutes later, Ken opened the door to her room and by that time, she\'s already wearing her white shirt and denim. She ponied her long black hair and didn\'t bother to put makeup on.

"What happened?" she asked while looking at Ken through the mirror. The man walked to her direction with the coldness in his eyes.

He stood behind her and they stared at each other through the mirror, her eyebrow rose when suddenly Ken undid her ponytail and raked his fingers through her hair.

At that moment, the coldness of his eyes melted, while a smile curled up on his lips.

"This is better" he spoke in a melodious tone and put both hands on her shoulder.

"Danny said we need to go today since he will fly to Aldovia tomorrow to help his sister. Are you fine with that?" he spoke while stroking her hair.

She nodded and got up, "Let\'s go" she replied and extended her hand to him. Ken just looked at it with his head tilted in confusion, "Do we always held hands?" he asked.

Novie nodded as a response and with that, Ken accepted it and intertwined his fingers to her.

Before they leave the room, Novie\'s body frost when Ken suddenly stopped, he had one hand on his forehead while his face crumpled in pain.

Panic overtook her face, she put a hand on his chin and lifted it to look at his face.

The man groaned and shook his head, he stared at her as if he remembers something.

"I think I\'ve been here before," he spoke in an uncertain tone.

Novie\'s heart was pleased by the news, she held both of his hand and replied, "What did you remember? Tell me!" she demanded.

Ken giggled and patted her head, "It was vague, I feel like I\'ve been in this room with Daniella"

Novie\'s smile vanished and slowly her lips form a pout, "That\'s all?" she asked in suspicion.

Ken laughed once again and shook his head, "I seem to remember Evan was here too but it was just like a picture, nothing else" She sighed in relief.

"Well, that\'s a starts" saying that they both left the house.

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As soon as they arrived in the Su Villa, they hurriedly got out of the car and raced to the house, they know that Danny has been waiting for them for almost an hour.

When they entered the room, they saw the triplets on the couch sitting beside their father while Danny was standing by the window with his arms crossed and face shaded in black.

"You\'re both late" Danny spoke without greeting them. Novie lowered her head out of embarrassment while Ken remained cold.

"Traffic" Ken replied and greeted Evan and the triplets. When he thought the triplets will run to him like they did last time, the three throws him a quick glimpse and turned their eyes back to the television, while Evan tried to get up but his kids pulled him back to the couch.

Then he turned to Danny, "What are we going to do today?"

Danny looked at his watch and asked Novie to stand outside the door, Ken turned to Novie with confusion in his face but the woman had left before he could ask her a question.

"What\'s happening?" he asked Danny while the man was pushing his body towards the door.

"Stand here and when I say open the door, you will open it ok?" Ken nodded even though he doesn\'t have an idea of what was happening around him.

"Will this help me get my memory back?" he asked but Danny shook his head which made his face poker, thinking why would they do it, if it will not help get his memory back.

"Now, slowly open it" Ken took a deep sighed and about to open it when suddenly the door slammed opened and hit his face which made his body collapsed to the ground.

He stiffened when he felt the pain in his hips while liquid dripped from his nose, he touched it and saw the blood.

He was about to get up when he saw Novie\'s feet entering the house, and before he could withdraw his feet to give way, the woman steps on it which made him moan out of pain and by reflex he pulled his leg causing for Novie to fall to the ground.

Ken doesn\'t know what comes into him but his hand seems to have mind by itself, it immediately stretched to grabbed Novie\'s arm and pulled her closer to him. When he felt her weight, he lost his balance and fell to the ground once again.

"Ugh!" he grunted when his back throbbed, he opened his eyes and looked at Novie in confusion, wondering why she didn\'t get up.

"Are we going to lay here forever?" he spoke in irony, the woman giggled but didn\'t remove herself from laying on top of him.

"We actually met like this, I slammed the door to your face and step on your leg and pushed you to the floor." hearing those words, all the pictures that flashed in his mind made sense but his lips sealed, not saying anything.

"Really?" he made his voice sound dubious, the woman nodded and wiped the blood from his nose using the tissue Danny handed, still the woman didn\'t bother to get up.

Ken drew in a long breath and caressed her cheeks, "What did you say? Did you apologize?" he spoke in a low voice, ignoring Danny who was standing next to them with his emotionless face.

"I said. I am Novie McSalter, what\'s your name Mister?"

He chuckled as he tried to imagine his face that time, "Then, what did I say? Did I get angry?" the hand he had on her face transported and encircled around her waist, even though there was a pain at his back, he ignored it and listened to her.

The woman giggled and replied, "You said, Do you have a death wish McSalter" and then she laughed.

But Ken didn\'t smile, and believed her when she said those words. With one hand remained on her waist, Ken let his other hand stroke her hair while pulling it closer to his face, as their lips are about to touch, a pillow smacked their faces which made them look at the source.

"Hey! There are kids around!!" it was Evan yelling at them, they saw him covering Ethan and Leo\'s eyes while Alexa was staring at them with her mouth parted in shock.

In just a second, Novie got up and helped him to stand.

"Don\'t mind him, he\'s just bitter that his wife is not around on their anniversary" Danny spoke while looking straight at Ken\'s eyes.

"Hm… you two seem to enjoy each other this morning. Do you really want to get your memories back?" Danny asked while his eyes focused on him.

Ken rose an eyebrow and turned to face Novie beside him, "What do you think?" he asked her.

Novie was silent, then she smiled at him and said, "Up to you"

He twitched his lips while thinking, eventually, he sighed and looked back at Danny, "Yes I want" as he said his answer, Danny informed them of their next destination.