Parallel Universe: The Great Escape (Between Us #1) (COMPLETED)

Chapter Thirty-Four

#PUTGEChapter34

"Where am I?"

I closed my eyes trying to calm myself not to freak out. Maghihintay ako sa susunod na gagawin niya to know if she doesn't remember anything now. Again, Ethan was right that it's possible na matagal pa pwedeng tanggalin ang bala sa ulo niya.

"And...who are you?"

I tried so hard to smile at her even though it hurts to face the reality. She looks at me innocently. It felt new to me, I feel like I'm facing a different person in front of me who is my wife after all.

How do I tell her that innocent face of hers that she has a family? How do I tell her that she's a member of Vaisseaux Sanguins? How do I tell her that she used to kill people?

And how do I tell her that she used to love me?

"I'm Kale Rio Tuazon, your doctor," a husband of you and a father of our kids.

"Ah...I can see that in your pin," a smile formed a bit on her face the smile on my face dropped when a tear fell from her eyes down to her cheeks.

Gusto kong punasan iyon pero pinilit kung umatras dahil ayokong maalala niya ako.

"Well, you don't have to see me being like this." Natawa siya at pinunasan ulit ang mga luha niya, "How long I've been here?"

9 months, almost a year. I'll remind myself that you woke up on January 31st with tons of lost memories.

"Ms. Yapchengco you've been asleep for 9 months, today is the 31st of January."

"Oh...I almost forgot my surname, well can I ask about my name too?"

"Ms. Lavinia Reign Yapchengco," I think this is the fakest smile I have ever shown to her just to cover up my frustration.

"Do I have a family waiting for me?"

I am. Our kids too.

"Yes, I'll call them right away. I'll send someone here too to check on you...I have to go," 'cause our kids need me.

I don't know why I sound like I have to ask her that I'm leaving. She doesn't even remember me at all.

"Can't you just stay here for a while habang hinihintay sila? I still have a lot of questions to ask," mas lalo kong hinigpitan ang paghawak ko sa door knob sa sinabi niya.

Gusto kong iwasan siya. I want to decline her request but I remembered our reality that she's still the woman I love and she's still my wife after all.

The plan was to avoid her and love her from afar but what is happening to me? I'm still doing that plan I'm just letting this pass.

"Okay," I replied and sat down on the couch pretending to read something but I was actually looking at her whenever she wasn't.

'

"Dad, we know how hard mom is and there's no other way to stop her from that,..." hinihingal kong sagot sa ama at nagmamakaawang humingi nang tulong na pigilan ang aking ina sa kanyang masamang balak na parusa para sa 'kin.

From clean to stained business. I was born in a world wherein I meant to kill people, bad or not, I have to kill them. Not just by killing people but also making dirt money by helping the drug lords in the country to produce more of them, covering up the kidnappers who took human organs to donate to some hospital, and ours needed more of it and they had no choice but to cover up their wrongdoings.

I can still feel the guilt inside me whenever I kill, except for killing the baddest enemies, our own gang that was founded 121 years ago was on the good and bad side. Sometimes we protect but mostly we're not doing it right because we were surrounded by traitors.