In Between The Sheets

Chapter 23

I gulped and tried to wipe the tears that are already streaming down my cheeks. "I didn't know, my father didn't inform me about this."

"No one knows aside from our family, Serene. My father stated in his suicide note that he doesn't want people to mourn for him because he doesn't deserve it."

"I-I'm sorry..." I said and started sobbing.

"You don't have to. I understand that you were hurt. Your mother's death inflicted a different kind of pain in your heart but the tragedy wasn't intentional. May mga bagay na hindi natin kontrolado. My father was devastated when mom died. He engaged in gambling and alcohol causing his projects to fall. Our company was in rock-bottom, we were out of funds and the stockholders withdrew their shares. He trusted his engineers but they betrayed him by buying cheap materials so that they can smuggle the funds. When the building collapsed, he participated in the investigation so that those engineers would rot in jail. He was proven to be innocent in court but he still blamed himself for what happened."

Tumango ako nang maalala ang police report na binigay sa'kin ni Papa noong nasa US pa ako. Hindi ko pinaniwalaan 'yon dahil nabulag ako sa galit. Ang buong akala ko ay sinet-up lang ng mga Anderson ang lahat para hindi madungisan ang pangalan nila. Hindi ko alam na may mas malalim pa palang kwento.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know..." I whispered between my sobs.

"Don't be. I was at fault, too. I blamed him when you left me and he was hurt. Feeling niya ata hadlang siya sa ating dalawa."

"H-huh?"

"It was written in his suicide note. Baka raw kapag wala na siya ay mapatawad mo 'ko..."

His thumb caressed my cheeks, wiping the tears that pooled down from my eyes.

"I'm sorry if I didn't follow you when you left. I was devastated, my life was falling apart. Hindi ko na alam ang gagawin kaya hinintay nalang kitang bumalik."

He held my waist and started drawing circles at the small of my back. I closed my eyes and bit my lips to prevent myself from moaning due to the sensation that he was giving me.

He whispered in my neck, "Kung sinundan kita baka mag-1 year old na ang anak natin ngayon."

I stiffened. My breathing became unstable and I couldn't look at him. Pinilit kong iwinaksi ang mata ko nang nagtataka siyang tumingin sa'kin dahil sa naging reaction ko.

"What's the matter?" tanong niya, tanging iling lang ang sinagot ko.

"May hindi ka ba sinasabi sa'kin?"

"W-wala!"

He cocked his eyebrow while lifting my face with his finger. Hindi pa rin tinatanggal ang tingin sa mata ko, tila ba hinuhuli kung nagsasabi ba ako ng totoo o ano.

"Are you sure?"

"Y-yes."

"You know that I don't like it when people lie to me," his tone almost weakened my knees. Kung hindi lang siguro nakaalalay ang kamay niya sa likod ko, baka kanina pa ako natunaw sa kinatatayuan ko.

From my waist, his hand lingered down my ass. It slips under my skirt, finding the band of my underwear and tugging it slightly.

"What are you hiding from me?"

"W-wala!"

"Really?"

He pulled down my underwear, making me shriek. He lifted my skirt up then he impatiently made me sit on the table. Hindi pa nakuntento at pinaghiwalay niya pa ang binti ko. Now, my sensitive bud is completely naked in front of him!