CHAPTER 20
Alam niyang hindi na niya kailangan pang sumagot. One look at Lucas ay alam niyang alam na ni Jake ang sagot sa tanong nito.
Lucas is the spitting image of Jake. Nakuha nito ang mga mata at ilong ni Jake. Maging ang kulay ng binata.
Tumayo siya mula sa kama at pagkunwa ay inaayos ang mga gamit sa side table doon.
"You were the first man in my life, Jake," wika niyang hindi lumilingon dito. It sounded like a whisper ngunit alam niyang naririnig siya nito. "After you, I... I never did it with anyone else."
Tumingala ito sa kisame and he massaged his nape. "Why you did not even bother to tell me?"
Was it bitterness that she heard on his voice? Napalingon siya dito and watched him walked closer to Lucas. Nakita niya nang hinaplos nito ang noo ng bata.
And for the first time,
