Sweet Surrender

Sweet Surrender: 30

Aldous

IT WAS WORSE. So much worse than I could have imagined. It's been six months without her. I missed her so much that every second of every day, I started to feel that my heart ripped out of my chest knowing that she thought that she's not important to me.

In fact, all of this is to protect her. Being with her puts her life in danger and I can't forgive myself if something happens to her. Hailey somehow taught me to feel something that has missing in my life for quite sometime.

A loud knock puts me away thinking of her. Nakita ko si Harvey ng dumungaw ito sa siwang ng pintuan ng opisina ko. Tinanguan ko ito at saka tuluyan pumasok. Maingat itong umupo saka inabot ang isang envelop sa akin. This past couple of months, Harvey is helping me look for some clues about the bombings on Hailey's apartment. I know, hindi iyon ginawa ni Lawrence though, he puts all of us in misery, he is still Hailey's family and Harvey's father. Naging mahirap para kay Harvey ang lahat ng pagbabago sa buhay niya. From a simple Asuncion to a Morales. No matter what is the bad blood between us, we can't deny that he is a Morales. He is family.

"Report yan ng mga taong inupahan ko para makapag imbestiga sa bomb scare sa apartment ni Hailey. From the police investigation down to the bystanders that night. I think this was planned for so long. They studied the area. Malinis ang pagkakatanim ng bomba sa apartment, alam nila ang oras at timing kung kelan walang masyadong tao sa paligid." paliwanag ni Harvey sa akin habang ako naman ay isa-isang binasa ang police reports.

I was never supposed to fall in love with my enemy. The daughter of the man who killed my Aunt. I'd made too many mistakes in my past. Like, getting tied up into a lie that I am enganged to her.

"Anything about Hailey's boss? Mga cases na pending?" Tanong ko rito. I need to know how exactly this people think and act before I execute my plans.

"Hailey's agency has been on the watch. No threats or whatsoever. Protected sila ng DSWD at ng privately own Security agency called Escada." patuloy pa ni Harvey ng sabi habang inaabot naman sa akin ang isa pang envelop. Details on this reports about Hailey's handled cases, the outomes and the updates. "I looked out security angency's profile. Escada is clean. Hindi man siya sing sikat ng Black Hawk, all the big guns on that agency went through an extensive training and personally hand picked by the owner."

In a bid to finally find their happily ever after, me and Hailey find ourselves on a journey of learning how to trust each other. She helped me begin a new future to move forward from a broken past, fucking pick up those pieces together. I vow that never will fucking happen bad to her. Even it costs me my happiness. She sacrifices too much.

"Thank you, Harvey." I'm impressed. Hindi ko akalaing magaling at mabilis niyang nakalap lahat ng impormasyon na iyon. I have my personal researcher involved as well just a backup because I don't know if he can pull this off, but he is good, actually, better than anybody that I know of.

"So, what now?" balik tanong nito sa akin, "The reports are there. Nothing's fishy about anyone, but still, we don't know who the fuck is targeting my sister!" inis nitong sabi. Dama ko ang pag pipigil nito ng galit.

"I told you, and I will repeat it again. I will not rest until I found them. I will do anything in my power until we know that Hailey is safe. I mean it." I keep a straight look to him. I know that he is upset despite of this reports that he gathered, wala pa ring sagot sa lahat ng mga katanungan namin. Wala pa rin kaming makuhang lead. Pero gaya nga ng sinabi ko, hindi ako titigil hanggat hindi ko nahahanap kung sino man ang taong iyon na nag tanim ng bomba sa apartment ng kapatid niya.