CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

Mariing pumikit si Hendell at tahimik na nakiramdam. Right there and then, she knows she is in danger. She's thinking of fast options para malusutan niya ang dalawang lalaking unti-unting lumalapit sa kinaroroonan niya. 

Palakas ng palakas ang mga yabag. She's silently praying that someone will appear and distract them from going where she's hiding. But the probability is low. Kaunti lang ang nagdadaan sa likod ng bar at kung mayroon man, baka wala lang ding pakialam. 

"Lumabas ka riyan kung ayaw mong masaktan," ani ng isang lalaki. Rinig na rinig niya ang malakas na tibok ng puso niya lalo na noong marinig niya ang tunog ng pagkasa ng baril. 

Strangely, a year ago, she was waiting for this scenario to happen. She wanted to die in a gunshot, a dramatic gunshot. But that was before when she has no reason to live. Punong-puno ng takot ang kaniyang puso dahil ayaw niyang magtapos ang buhay niya na maraming katanungan. Marami pa siyang