“YOU’RE GOING to eat your breakfast here, Mr. Andreev?” tanong ni Manang Ligaya sa kanya.
Agad siyang umiling sa tanong nito. “No. It’s for Delancy.”
“Ay, kay Miss Delancy pala. Does she have ano po… allergies? I am going to cook this shrimp I bought this morning,” wika nito.
“I don’t know if she’s allergic to something. But, sure. Please make her something. Also give her a medicine for headache and some soup to lessen her hangover,” utos niya.
Sunod-sunod namang tumango ang ginang sa kanya. Tipid niya itong nginitian bago siya lumabas ng kusina. Sakto namang paglabas niya ay ang pagbaba ng dalaga mula sa hagdanan. Iniwas niya ang tingin dito ngunit nauna itong bumati sa kanya na may ngiti sa labi.
“Thank you for the clothes,” she said. “Isasauli ko ito mamaya. Thank you for letting me stay the night, N-ninong.”
His jaw clenched. And now she’s calling him Ninong like she did not do something last night that almost made him lost his last straw of self-control.
Tipid siyang tumango rito
