Unexpected Heat (Achilles Islands TRILOGY) [M-Preg]

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CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

PARANG NATULALA si Denryl sa nasisilayan. A woman just casually hugging his boyfriend.

Maraming ideya ang pumapasok sa kaniyang isipan kung sino itong babae. Maybe she is his ex? Maybe she's an obsessed ex of his? Maybe she's his current girlfriend without her knowledge that she's been cheated? And worst of the ideas.

Agad na pinutol ng babae ang lakap nilang dalawa ni Laurentius at side-profile lang ng babae ang kita ni Denryl. The woman is vaguely familiar with him.

"Sweetheart, why didn't you tell us that you already came back in the city? Your dad and I are worried that your secretary said that you extended your vacation," parang sermon na sabi no'ng babae. "I have missed you, sweetheart."

"Mom, I am fine. You saw me now, happy?" parang urat na saad ni Laurentius sa babae.

M-Mom? That's his mother?

"Oo, kaya please sumama ka sa amin ng dad mo for dinner tomorrow night. Your brother has been here for weeks already. We should have a family dinner together, after years of Luziano being away," mahabang salaysay pa nito.

"Mom, you kicked and disowned kuya dahil lang sa sekswalidad niya."

"Nah-uh. Your father did, not me. Tanggap ko kung ano man ang nakakatandang kapatid mo dahil anak ko siya. Sa aking puke siya lumabas, eh," sabi pa ng babae.

"That's too vulgar, Mom, may kasama tayo sa kusina."

Nang napunta kay Denryl ang mga tingin nila, kaya agad naman siyang napa-iwas ng tingin sa kanilang direksyon. Hinarap niya ang niluluto, dahil nahihiya siyang harapin ang mag-ina. Akala niya babae ito ni Laurentius, it was just his loving mother pala. A woman he once called a mother on a certain important day of his life . . .

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I did it! Graduate na rin ako sa wakas, masayang isip doon ni Denryl habang nakatayo malapit sa upoan kasama ang ibang mga kaklaseng ga-graduate din sa araw na iyon.

He's in his department's toga with a genuine smile plastered on his face. He cannot contain his happiness since he's achieving another milestone in his life; graduating. After this, he'll move out from that hellish house he calls home with the abusive inhabitants. He'll move in with Jeimson.

All his batchmates are obviously in the same state as him. Ready to take on the world with a diploma.

They marched, sang and did things graduates would do on such occasion. Then, the time where taking their diplomas has arrived.

Nakita niyang masayang kinukuhanan ng litrato ang mga schoolmate niya kasama ang magulang nila. Nakita rin niya ang isang close na kaibigan sa section niya na nakangiting kumuha ng litrato kasama ang ina nito. Saglit niya itong tinitigan at napabuntong na lang sa sarili.