Chapter 81
KIENZO POV
“Governor.” I got surprised Governer is my client. My secretary didn’t inform me, this is weird.
I left my child with their nanny.
“Attorney Kienzo, nice to meet you again.” I shook hands with him.
“I came here if you can hold my daughter's case.”
My forehead crease; I only know Poques is still the one and only child.
“Poques?” I made sure of it.
“She encountered a problem. She kills someone accidentally and uses drugs, which will use against her.”
The Governor that I sent to jail years ago.
I am not feeling okay with this Governor. I think that he has always had a plan.
“Had you heard about Dosenian Lu?” He smiled at me.
I nodded as an answer.
“He is a lawyer, but he’s in jail now.”
I haven’t checked about the case of attorney Dosenian.
“Governor, I am busy with my children, and as of now, I am not accepting any case, but I can recommend you to the famous lawyer in our firm. He already won a lot of cases.”
I do not want to handle a case relating to him; this Governor moves differently; he has unique tactics. I am a lawyer, not a politician; I must be careful because I have my children.
“I am not strong when it comes to you; you didn’t accept my case. Hmmm, I wonder if you made me sent to jail before, and you can fight at me in court.” He laughs.
He made a voice like a joke.
“I’m just doing my job, Gov.”
“I can pay you to triple the amount, and I can give you a lot of properties if you win my daughter's case.” He’s trying to get me thru his wealth.
“As much I want to help you, I can’t.”
I am a dignity lawyer who can work for the money and have those properties in my hard work.
“I can give you a position in politics or be a judge.”
“I appreciate you for choosing me to be your daughter's lawyer, Gov. I promise my wife that I’ll just make a consultation.”
“I hope you won’t regret this, Attorney.” He said sincerely before he left my office.
“Sir, Schuyler keeps crying; maybe he has a cold.” Nanny of Schuyler reported when she entered my office.
I get my son from her.
“Hey, baby.” I looked at him, and I tried to make him stop crying.
“You look like your mom.” I talk to him.
He’s so tiny.
Damn, I can’t believe that I have children. I once dreamt of this scene.
“Do you want milk, or do you want to see your mom?” I keep on talking to him.
His eyes are open, and he is staring at me.
“Rian, can you make an appointment for their pediatrician? Schuyler seems to have a cold.” I command Schuyler's nanny.
Fifteen minutes later when Enzo called me.
This asshole is always in no timing, we are on the way home, and I am going to visit Claire.
I answered his call.
“Damn, Kienzo, where are you?” His voice is shaking.
Is he crying?
“In a law firm, why?”
I heard his sobs.
My forehead creased; what happened? What’s wrong with Enzo?
“Claire… Claire, that taxi she took got exploded, and she’s dead on arrival.”
My world stops.
KIENZO
“And that’s our love story end, love.” Kienzo wiped his tears.
“Happy 7th death anniversary, Claire.” Kiki bitterly smiles, looking at the name of his wife written on the grave, your never-ending care and jolly that I never get tired.
He caresses her tombstone.
Our memories were full of happiness.
“I’m sorry if I didn’t get your justice. Our children are now seven years old, yet I haven’t given you justice. I hold of case and won them, why yours, I can’t give your justice?” Kienzo’s voice broke.
Why does this time happen?
I heard that you are gone now.
“I miss you… I miss you so much. I miss your naughtiness. Our children miss you too. You never saw them grown.”
Kienzo doesn’t stop his tears.
“Until now, I still don’t know who made you into a car crash. I hope I send you off.” His voice was full of regrets.
The taxi she rode was fast to drive, and the driver intentionally bumped the cab.
Everything was a plan.
He doesn’t have a suspect who will do to his wife.
He can’t sue the taxi driver because he died with his wife. The car crashed, and his wife’s body burned.
“Claire, you told me you never leave because you love me.” His heart broke.
You said that you wouldn’t leave me alone?
Why are you suddenly there? In the afterlife?
“ I still remember your last words, ‘Bye, babies. Bye, my hubby!’ If I have any idea that was your last words, I must record it and still hear your voice.” He chuckled while crying.
He swallowed to speak clearly.
“Claire, babe, wife, please come back. You told me that eve universe broke us apart the lord will let us meet again. I waited. I’m waiting again. I’m still hoping that you are still alive, that you come and we will meet,” Kienzo wiped his face because his eyes were getting blurry because of his tears.
“I had been waiting for you for almost ten years.” He looks at the clouds.
He won’t get tired of waiting for his wife.
“Claire, wife…come back to me; I will resign as a lawyer because you are my priority and most important in my life.”
One cold air hugs me.
A sign that you are saying goodbye.
“Did you know that I am having hate towards you because you left me again out of a sudden? I am okay watching you from afar, but why? Why did you leave me?” Kienzo sobs.
“I hate you, and you should appease me as you have always done.” He hardly spoke.
“It gave me a second chance to be with you, but why was it only in a short period? That’s not enough; he gets you so early.”
“Are you happy in the afterlife? Are you happy with Manong Rodger, Bolat, and our baby? That we weren’t able to see? Claire, do I deserve this?... I lose a lot of important people in my life, including you. You told me you wouldn’t leave me; where are you now? Come on, stops making me wait.”
Kienzo wiped his tears.
“Maybe, in another life, we will be each other arms again… and I will wait for you again and again and again… love, I am going, okay? I will visit you next time. I love you and guide us.”
He looks at the tombstone for a long before he stands up. Every step he makes, his heart gets heavy.
Until it still pains him, it’s like it happened yesterday.
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“OMO, that was a sad story.” One of his students commented.
“Sir, you should apply for a teacher early, so you don’t lose your wife. Who wouldn’t think that your wife might still be alive until now.” One of his students said.
His students force him to tell them the story of his love, and they ask why they are not seeing him with his wife together with their children.
He had visited his wife's grave because of her 7th death anniversary. He went to see Claire first before he entered the school.
He was going to marry her in church, but he married her without breathing; he still married her at her funeral.
Their first marriage was on a beach, and the second one was in his condo. The third was about in the church but ended in a funeral.
He chose to be a law teacher instead of pursuing to become a prosecutor.
“I guess it’s your wife’s sister who did it.” One of his students says his opinion.
“I guess it was the Governor that sir Kien rejected.”
Kiki smiled at his student's conclusion. They had been fighting about who was behind it.
“That was so painful. You are a lawyer, yet you can’t give your wife the justice she deserves.”
“Ouch! Suffering, pain, sorrow, disgust.” The others reacted.
“You made me tell a story again. Tomorrow we will go to have a recitation regarding today’s discussion.” Kiki informed them.
“Regarding your love story, sir?” they joke to him.
“Mr. Macabigtag, you will be the one who will recite tomorrow,” Kiki said strictly.
“Sir!” He complains.
He dismissed the class.
“Uncle daddy!” He looked at the kid entering his classroom.
“Ay Kassandra Worcestershire Gschlachtenbretzingen Velasco is here.” One of his student commented.
“Class dismiss.” Kiki finally said, and he carried Gschlachtenbretzingen outside the room.
“Where’s Schuyler and Kyla?” He asked his niece.
“Kyla is bad; she is fighting with me.” She complains to him.
“Kyla slaps me. I am going to tell this to my dad!” Worcestershire Gschlachtenbretzingen.
“Why does Kyla slaps you?” Kiki asked her and put her. She's getting heavier.
“Eh, uncle dad, because she was washing my iPhone and told me it was dirty. Then I talked with her.” She frowned.
“Daddy!” Kyla called him while running to him.
“Hello, daddy!” Kyla greeted him happily.
“Dad.” Schuylerkissess him in his cheeks.
“Then slaps me. I am going to tell you too, my dad! Bleh!” Worcestershire said to Kyla.
“Cianna Kyla, I don’t like what you did,” Kiki said seriously to his daughter.
“Daddy! Let’s go to uncle Enzo! Hihi! I will report with Worcestershire,” Kyla naughty answered and pulled him into the parking lot.
He could do nothing but go to Kenzo at the law firm. Memories bring back.
They just got to the law firm quickly.
“Daddy!” Worcestershire called his dad when they reached his office.
“Uncle dad!” He heard Kyle.
“Dad, CK was noisy.” Schuyler frowned. He was not used to being noisy.
Kienzo chuckled and messed up Schuyler’s hair.
“It seems she got your mommy attitude,” Kienzo whispered.
“Daddy! Cia broke the iPhone my mom gave me," Worcestershire complained to its daddy.
“I didn’t break it! You must thank me that I clean it for you!” Cia answered her.
“You break it; it won’t break if you didn’t drown it in the water,” Worcestershire answered calmly.
“Do you want me to water you so that you will shut your mouth?!” Cia widened her eyes at her.
Enzo left the kids. He can’t do anything at Ck because she likes teasing her cousin. A mix of Kyle’s attitude and Claire's.
“You have a long name!” Cia complain.
Enzo approaches his twin, who is in the small living room of his office. Kienzo was standing at the sliding window while looking at the air.
“It’s her 7th death anniversary. Have you visited her?” Enzo asked him.
The kids continue to argue.
Kienzo nods at him.
“Maybe we can continue our love story without a cut in another life,” Kiki said and sadly looked at the clouds.
Enzo taps his shoulders.
“I will give her justice. The Velasco firm will give her justice,” Enzo assured him.
They have a hard time gathering evidence because everything is a plan.
Who is the stupid driver who will crash the car and drive fast?
Kienzo sighed, “maybe we should stop… we don’t have evidence, and maybe it is destined to happen that way.”
“Are you sure?” Enzo asked him.
Kienzo nods. “We’re just making it complicated. It’s an accident.”
Enzo didn’t comment.
“Ciaaaa!”
Enzo looked at his daughter when she shouted.
“Cartulary, stop shouting.”
“Cartulary " means a collection of charters or records, especially relating to an estate or monastery title. You named Kassandra Worcestershire Gschlachtenbretzingen, but you never called her to her name.” Kienzo commented.
“Chandria doesn’t want the Cartulary.”
Kienzo chuckled, “why your daughter has a long name?.”
Enzo's face becomes sour, “Chandria's mood swings traumatized me.” Enzo jokes.
“I made her name long. She might be the first and last.” He doesn’t want to call her Kassandra.
Kiki shook his head because of the reason of his twin.
It was long and hard to spell and pronounce.
Kienzo's daughter CK keeps on complaining to him that Kass's name is long and hard to pronounce.
They continued to talk about stuff.
Enzo is happily married to Chandria. Keran is married too, with three children; they are not with him because he is living in the other country, he decided to settle there.
He misses Kyle. If he is still alive, maybe he is already married too.
Maybe, if Claire were still alive, they would be happy.
KIENZO POV
Claire, wait for me there; we will continue our happy, ever after story. You may not see our children grow, but they grew as beautiful kiddo. Cia got your attitude, while Sky got your eyes.
Claire, in this life, I am still waiting for you. I hope you will come back and our paths will cross again.
Wife, I miss you. I miss you so much. I want to be with you there, but our twins need me; they are still kids. Our twins are asking about you; they want to see you. I’m sorry if I can’t do you justice. Sorry if, until now, I still could not give justice to your death. I’m sorry for being weak.
Claire, may our love story end so fast, but I want you to know that my love for you is eternal. Until our path cross again. See you in another life. Wait for me there; we will never be apart again.
I am Attorney Kienzo Vladimir Velasco, a law teacher and the father of Cianna Kyla and Schuyler Velasco. The case is now officially closed, and I am finally signing off.
