CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

Slip of the tongue.

Or maybe it came from her insides. 

But good thing, hindi nito narinig. Dapat ba siyang malungkot dahil hindi nito narinig ang sinabi niya? O maging masaya dahil hindi siya tuluyang isinuplong ng sarili niyang bibig?

"What? Hindi ko masiyadong narinig 'yong sinabi mo," sabi ni Harken at unti-unting lumapit sa kaniya. Bigla siyang nanigas sa kaniyang kinatatayuan. Something's pulling her closer to him but her body refuses. She doesn't want another propinquity situation that might lead her to do something stupid that she surely will regret. 

She gathered everything she has before she totally lost all of it. "Wala. Just never mind," she said while trying to convince herself that the noblest thing to do is to draw a distance between the two of them. Because he changed. He seemed like an entirely different person all of a sudden. 

Harken doesn't love her anymore. If he still does,