Pawned (Gold Digger Series #2)

Epilogue

I fisted both my hands as I looked at my own mother's lifeless body inside the coffin. I was trembling and I felt like the only thing that would calm me was to throw a fit. I badly wanted to flip all the chairs and table, if only this place wasn't a chapel.

I wasn't ready for this. No one was. My mother...my image of strength and gentleness in one...died for a very unacceptable reason.

It was a few weeks ago when I felt the sudden change in my mother's behavior. She still acted like nothing was wrong. But I could feel it. I could see her puffy eyes in the morning. I could feel her light getting darker each day.

"How dare you show up here like you did nothing wrong! How dare you ask me for help after killing my mother!" sigaw ni Kuya Aissen pagkatapos lumapag ang isang suntok kay Papa.

Hawak siya ni Dreu para pigilan pa ang pagtatangka ni Kuya na sumugod. Nanatili akong nakaupo, pilit na pinipigilan din ang kagustuhang bugbugin ang sariling ama.

The old man did not show up the whole wake, which I was grateful for. Baka ako ang nakasuntok sa kanya kung sakali. He did show up though during the interment, with a bad news about the company and he needed Kuya Aissen as a sacrificial lamb.

"I didn't like what happened to your mom--"

"Oh fuck you for betraying Mama! And fuck you for fucking a whore!"

Kuya Aissen confirmed the circulating news among the househelps. Diana Ruiz Dela Siervo caught my father fucking another woman in his condo. All her life, she dedicated it to her husband and children only to be betrayed like this in the end. Did she deserve this?

No. And I might not be one to put myself above the law, but for my mother I will be.

"So that's the girl?" I asked Selene as I looked at the petite half Japanese girl through the window of my car.

Hindi ko noon inisip na gantihan ang babae ni Papa. Para sa akin, ang matandang iyon ang sumira sa pamilya. Siya ang may asawa. Siya dapat ang nagpigil ng libog niya.

But then four years after, Selene here told me that she knew who my father's whore was. And if I want a revenge for my Mama, I can slowly get it through targetting the daughter.

"That's Yassi Hernandez. She's also a whore, like her mother. Her targets are those rich male students, regardless of age. She's a certified gold digger like her mom," Selene spitefully said like she knew the girl so well.

I nodded while observing the girl who's now laughing with a guy from the same college. I frowned when I saw how she flirtatiously squeezed his hand.

I mentally rolled my eyes at the sight.

She's pretty, yes. Reason why even the nearby boys were stealing glances of her. She has a long black hair, almost reaching her full round butt. Her skin is like that of milk, delicate and soft looking. Her eyes almost disappears even with a small smirk and her red lips...

"Okay," I said and before my mind even bring me to other things, I asked the driver to maneuver away from the place.

I went back to Manila after that and continued studying. Selene continuously bothered me about that revenge and everytime I would tell her to just wait. Of course, I would have my revenge! And I want it in the most ruthless way possible...that was my Mama they took from me.

But there were days I felt like I was seeing that girl randomly in school, in bars or even in the office. I only saw her once but her angelic face kept on flashing in my mind all the time.

Kaya naman pasimple akong umuwi ng Solano para hanapin ulit ang babaeng iyon. Hindi siya mahirap hanapin. Sa labas ng school ko siya madalas makitang naglalakad na may kasamang lalaki.