CHAPTER 35: THE AUCTION

I stopped from opening the door when I heard her loud wail.

….

Or was it laughter?

That’s right. She’s not crying. She’s laughing. And she’s laughing hard.

My muscles froze when I also heard a man’s voice.

Mira is with another man inside our room?!

Is that why Manang Olga is looking at me weirdly when I came home? I couldn’t decide whether she wanted to prevent me from going upstairs or she wanted me to go upstairs quickly.

I gritted my teeth to keep myself from cursing loudly, but my trembling hands give away the fury and intense jealousy I am feeling right now.

So much for ‘misunderstanding’.

How can I misunderstand the meaning of what I’m hearing?

“I will not stop until you say yes,” the man was saying inside.

“Hahaha! Stop, you jerk!”

That isn’t the voice of someone who is miserable. On the contrary, she’s so happy.

I tried to recall if there was even a time in the past that Mira laughed like that when she’s with me. I cannot think of any.