Chapter 27

"Uulitin ko.. I'm Camilla Belle Buenaventura Ynares and she's Senyora Juanita Buenaventura. She's my Lola, the mother of my mother and the mother of your father, Shantal."

W-What? The mother of my father? Paano nangyari 'yon kung kilalang kilala ko ang pamilya ni tatay? How did it happened when this old lady's from the Province while the parents of our father is from here in Manila?

"A-Anong ibig mong sabihin, attorney?"

She sat beside me and smiled genuinely. "I mean.. we're cousins! Your father and my mother are siblings and.." tumigil siya saglit para akayin ang matanda at pinaupo palapit sa akin. "... she's the mother of them.. our grandmother.."

I chewed my bottom lip. I know.. I understand that pero ang hindi ko maintindihan.. paano nangyaring kamag-anak namin sila? Buenaventura's so far from Ortega!

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