CHAPTER 16

“SIGURO ka bang ayos ka lang?” The man who helped me, Ivandale Salcedo, asked.

He is a police officer on duty earlier. According to his report, he saw me being followed by those two so he followed us. Kaya rin siya nakagawa agad ng aksyon. Nasa presinto na kaming dalawa ngayon. Because of what those two did, attempting to assualt a person with a deadly weapon and a reckless endagerment with a motorbike, Ivandale was able to interfere for the two obviously wants to harm me.

Sobrang bilis ng mga pangyayari. I couldn’t believe that my own mother tried to do something that can actually harm me. Mula pa kanina ay hindi ko makalma ang sarili ko. It was suffocating to know that someone almost killed me. At dahil pa sa utos ng sarili kong ina. Kaya pala nalaman ng mga tauhan ni Mr. Tuengco kung nasaan ako, o kung anong mukha ko.

Because my mother set it all up.

“Miss Flores? Ayos ka lang ba talaga?” ulit na tanong ni Ivandale. Napakurap-kurap ako bago natanto na hindi ko pa pala nasagot ang