Chapter 3：Fifteen Years Later

Kira's shoulder dropped as she listened to the doctor.

"She has stage four breast cancer." The doctor said.

"W-What?!" She blurted out.

Kira couldn't believe her ears!

'No! Impossible!' she said to her self.

"This is the result of her biopsy."

"That's impossible! how could it be?!" Kira is in denial.

She couldn't believe it!

Why does it have to be her aunt?

She has a healthy lifestyle!

She is a good person!

How come?!

Of all people, why her?

"She knows her illness, but she wants to keep it as a secret."

Kira didn't understand the doctor's next words.

She felt like her world collapse!

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Kira walks to the ward while in a daze, she has heavy footsteps, she felt so down!

She thought, it was just a simple illness, she did not expect that her auntie has cancer!

Kira stopped on the ward's door and silently watched her auntie who is talking to her best friend Lea Agustin.

Kira felt like crying, Auntie Helena is the person who adopted her after her parents died.

They may not be blood-related, but she gave her the love and care of a mother.

She couldn't afford to lose another love one again.

She doesn't know what would she do if her auntie...

Kira shook her head, 'No! She won't let that happen to Helena!

Kira tried to calm her self before she continued to walk and approached Helena and Lea.

"Auntie..." She called her auntie in a faint voice.

Helena turns her head and smiled at Kira, but it slowly faded when she saw her swollen eyes.

" Kira, dear, what happened? Why your eyes are swollen?" Helena asked worriedly.

Kira walks closer to the bed and sat down in the chair beside it.

She lifted her hand and held Helena's hand.

"Auntie, why you did not tell me?" She asked worriedly.

Helena understands what Kira mean to say!

She lowered her head to hide the guilt in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to worry you..."

"Auntie, you're the only family that is left to me. I don't want to lose you." Kira said as tears started to fall to her face.

"Auntie, let's do the chemotherapy!" Kira suggested.

Helena looked up to Kira, "Chemotherapy?" she repeated.

"Ennn..." Kira nodded her head and she wipes her tears.

"But it's too expensive! We can't afford it." Helena said.

"I will find a way auntie, what is important is that you will get better," Kira said.

Yes! She will do everything! If it is the only chance to extend her auntie's life!

She would do every possible way to be able to sustain her auntie's medical needs!

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The next day Kira went to the bank to apply for a loan.

She needs a big amount of money.

Her earnings as a primary teacher in a private school isn't enough to provide her auntie's medical needs!

Her auntie needs to start the chemotherapy before the cancer cells spread all over her body!

"Good morning ma'am!" The teller greeted her.

"Good morning, I am here to apply for a loan, I wonder where I can get a form?" Kira asked.

"Could you please wait a minute ma'am." The teller took a piece of a loan application form and gave it to Kira.

"Thanks!" Kira said as she took the form from the teller's hand.

Kira filled up and answered all the questions before she returns it to the teller together with all the requirements.

After a while, the teller told her to call her after three days if her loan is approved.

Kira nodded her head and said thank you before she gets out of the building.

She hopes that everything will be alright!

Kira gets back home from the bank.

She found her auntie sitting on the sofa, beside her is Lea.

Lea is the same age as her.

"I'm home!" Kira said loudly when her auntie and Lea didn't notice her arrival.

Lea and Helena turned their heads to the door's direction.

"Kira!" Lea blurted out.

Kira walks towards the living room.

She pecks on her auntie's cheek.

"May I talk to you?" Helena asked as if she has an important thing to say.

Kira notices her auntie's expression.

She looked up at Lea but Lea just lowered her head.

Kira looked back to her auntie.

"Why?" She asked.

Helena patted her hand on the sofa as if telling Kira to sit beside her.

Kira sits down beside her auntie.

"Kira, you don't need to do this," Helena said.

"What do you mean, auntie?" Kira asked with her brows knitted.

"I heard that you applied for a loan for my chemotherapy."

"I'm sorry best, I just can't lie to auntie." Lea apologized.

Kira just sigh!

"Kira, I am old already, I have already done my part in this world," Helena said.

"Auntie, I told you, I will do everything just to extend your life. Please, don't say things like that!" Kira is about to cry.

Helena touched Kira's face.

"Sssshhh...Don't cry, alright?"

"Auntie, just promise me that you will fight, we will fight together, I won't leave you alone," Kira promised.

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The next morning,

The black Mercedes Benz stopped in front of a bungalow type house.

The back seat's door opened and came out a tall man with broad shoulders and a handsome face.

He has the aura of a strong and influential man.

He is wearing a business suit!

The man takes off his sunglasses and looked at the house in front of him.

The driver of the car walked towards the gate and pressed the doorbell.

Inside the house...

Kira is getting ready for work when she heard the doorbell!

Kira stopped what she's doing and opened the front door.

She stretched her neck to see who's on the gate.

She saw a man wearing a black suit, he looked like a bodyguard in the movies that she watched.

Kira walks closer to the gate but she realized that the man in black isn't alone!

There is someone else with him!

The other man is wearing a navy blue business suit.

Well, she can't lie!

The man looked good, he has thick eyebrows, tantalizing eyes, small nose bridge, thin lips, and a cleft chin!

Kira froze for a moment, the man may look good but he looked so intimidating!

" Good morning, how may I help you?" Kira asked the man in black.