All Chapters of Beautiful Mistakes: Chapter 21 - Chapter 26

Every tick of the clock felt like a countdown to Wenshie. Ang katahimikan sa loob ng master’s bedroom sa Tagaytay safehouse ay tila unti-unting sumasakal sa kanya. She paced back and forth, her heart hammering against her ribs like a trapped bird.Kanina pa naka-lockdown ang buong mansyon. She had watched from the window as Khier’s security detail doubled their patrols, standing like iron statues in the cold Tagaytay mist. When Khier called her on his way back, his voice was so cold, so devoid of life, that it terrified her to her very core. He had told her everything—the fire at the port, the ambush, and Hermes...Hermes was dead.The childhood friend she grew up with, the man who had desperately tried to win her back in all the wrong ways, was gone. Wenshie squeezed her eyes shut, letting the tears finally spill over her cheeks. She felt a sickening mixture of grief, guilt, and absolute terror. K was a monster who had no boundaries, and according to Khier, the psychopath was heading

The deafening blast of a gun sliced through the pitch-black darkness of the study room, vibrating violently inside Wenshie’s eardrums. Sa isang saglit, tila huminto ang buong mundo. She expected to feel the white-hot, piercing pain of a bullet tearing through her flesh, expected her vision to fade into nothingness habang dahan-dahang umaagos ang kanyang dugo sa malamig na sahig.But the suffocating grip on her mouth suddenly vanished.Isang mabigat na katawan ang bumagsak sa sahig sa kanyang tabi na may kasamang kalunos-lunos na tunog. Wenshie stumbled forward, her bare feet slipping on the smooth mahogany floor, bago tuluyang napaluhod sa takot. Gasping for air, she pressed her back against the side of Khier’s heavy wooden desk. Ang kanyang puso ay walang tigil sa marahas na pagtibok, tila ba lalabas ito mula sa kanyang dibdib sa tindi ng kaba.Through the dim, gray light filtering from the foggy Tagaytay sky outside, she saw a shadow slumped on the floor. Ang nakahandusay na lalaki

Ang tunog ng putok ng baril ay tila nagpatigil sa pag-ikot ng mundo.Isang nakatutulig na katahimikan ang bumalot sa makitid at madilim na eskinita ng BGC, habang ang usok mula sa dulo ng baril ay marahang humahalo sa malamig na hangin ng gabi. Ang amoy ng pulbura ay humalo sa amoy ng basang semento at dugo.Wenshie’s hands were shaking violently, her fingers still clamped tight around the cold grip of Khier’s spare gun. Ang kanyang paningin ay nakapako kay K.Sa loob ng ilang segundo, nanatiling nakatayo si K, ang kanyang mukha ay bakas ang gulat at hindi paniniwala. Dahan-dahang ibinaba ng lalaki ang tingin sa sarili nitong dibdib. A dark, thick stain of crimson was rapidly blossoming on his white linen shirt, directly over his heart. He let out a wet, rattling gasp, his gun slipping from his fingers and clattering onto the wet asphalt.“W-Wenshie…” K whispered, his voice cracking, spitting out a mouthful of blood. “You… actually…”Bago pa man niya matapos ang kanyang sasabihin, ang