Kabanata 47

“I’m sorry,” muli niyang usal.

Itinaas ko ang aking kamay upang mahawakan ang kaniyang pisngi. Tumayo ako mula sa pagkakahiga at hinwakan ng tuluyan ang magkabila niyang pisngi.

“You should not stand up yet, you’re not feeling well aren’t you?”

“Ayos lang ako Juancho, now that you’re here,” ngiti kong saad.

“You’re making me feel really guilty.”

“Pwede mo na bang sabihin sa akin kung bakit ka nagkaganon?” 

“I… receive a death threat,” panimula niya.

Tama nga ako, may malaking rason sa likod ng kaniyang mga aksiyon. But if the threats were for him I know he would not act this way, so were the threats…

“They were sending threats with you in it.”

“You were blackmailed?” gulat kong tanong.

“That day, before you went out to go to the flower shop, do you rem