Chapter 23: I Can't

I became busy sa work, two days passed already. I wanted to make it up to the both of you for being busy and not being able to atleast take you two out for a coffee. Inuna ko siya kasi mas malapit 'yung location niya. You're aware that I work only 15 minutes away from her condo unit. She texted me early that day na wala daw siyang lakad so I already expected she'd be home."

"And she wasn't?" paghula ko.

Tumango siya. "What blew my head off was the fact that the guard forbid me to go to her unit. That was the first time visitors are forbidden to enter the tower. Bagong implemented raw na rule. I tried to contact her pero she wasn't answering, right? I approached the receptionist to at least give her unit a call 'cause she wasn't answering my call.

I was so shocked to find out from the girl that Saskia never came home. Hindi daw nag-register ang card niya sa last two days."

Napatakip ako sa bibig ko sa gulat. This relives that same feeling in me whe