One last time - Chapter 332

“I-It’s boss—” Lucifer stopped midway and lowered his head, he had no idea how he was supposed to deliver the news to Silvia.

“Kevin? What happened to him?” When he did not say anything, she snapped, “Will you tell me what happened?”

“The place where the boss had gone for the award function, it was bombarded a while ago,” he answered.

Silvia’s body felt numb and chills ran down her spine when she heard the news. Her heart felt cold and her legs turned weak, she had no idea how to feel and how she was supposed to react to the horrible news she had just heard. It felt like a nightmare, it was something she didn’t even wanna see in her dream but it had actually happened in reality.

When she straddled, Lucifer quickly caught her hand. “Madam please calm down, we aren’t sure what exactly happened there and maybe he had already left the building when this happened. Chirs and Rocky are already there, I am sure we will hear about boss really soon.” He had no idea whether he was trying to pacify Silvia or himself. When he heard the news about the blast from Kevin’s father, it struck him like lightning. Kevin was not just his boss, he was more like a friend and guardian to him. But when Herpi told him to inform Silvia about it and bring her to the mansion straightway, he pulled himself together and gathered all the courage he had to tell her about it.

“Big boss has asked me to take you to the mansion and—”

Cutting him off, she snapped, “I wanna go to Kevin, t-take me there.”

“You can’t go there, it’s—”

“I don’t care, take me there or I’ll go by myself.” Wiping her tears with the back of her hand, she rushed out of the apartment.

“Madam wait—” Lucifer shouted before rushing after her.

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The City Hall.

The siren of the ambulance, the sobbing of the family members of the deceased and the footsteps of the people who were bringing out the injured people out of the hall was the only thing that could be heard. Wounded and dead people were being pulled out of the building, it was so chaotic that one had no idea what he was supposed to do.

Squeezing in through the crowd, Silvia tried to rush in the premises of the building but was immediately stopped by the policemen. “Miss you can’t go inside.”

“You don’t understand, m-my husband he was inside the building, I need to look for him,” Silvia snapped.

Taking a deep breath, one of the officers informed, “Not many survived, those who did have been rushed to the hospital and those who couldn’t make it have been kept—”

“Silvia? What are you doing here?” Rocky inquired before rushing towards her. Turning towards the officer, he remarked, “She is with us.”

Grabbing Rocky’s arm, she stuttered, “D-Did you find Kevin? W-Where is he?” When Rocky lowered his head, she grabbed his collar, “Why are you silent? Tell me where he is?”

“He isn’t amongst the people who were rushed to the hospital, Chris is looking for him in the other—” Closing his eyes, Rocky took a deep breath. When he received the news about the blast, he quickly rushed over along with Chris and started looking for Kevin with a hope that he was okay. After looking for him at the hospital and amongst the people who had survived, when they did not find him anywhere the officer incharge asked him to check in the deceased section. With a very heavy heart, Chris went forward with their men and other officers to look for him in the other section with a hope of not finding Kevin there.

“What do you mean by Chris is looking for me in the other section? Are you trying to say that my Kevin is dead?” she yelled.

Grabbing her shoulder, he tried to calm her down. “Silvia you have to stay strong and they are just checking for formality, our Kevin is okay and—”

Just then a guard stopped right in front of him. “We found him.”

“Found whom?” When the guard did not say anything, Silvia shouted, “What is he talking about Rocky? Whom did he find?”

When she saw a tear roll down Rocky’s cheeks, she covered her mouth and vigorously shook her head. “No no no, that can’t happen—”

Pulling her into his embrace, he comforted her, “Stay strong Silvia.”

Pushing him away, she snapped, “No, you all are lying. How can he be dead? He-He promised me that he would come back home early.” Turning towards the guard, she commanded, “Take me there, I will prove all wrong.”

When Rocky nodded his head, the guard guided her towards the spot.

….

When they arrived at the spot, Chris was sitting on the ground in front of a body which was fully covered with a white cloth.

Rushing towards it, Silvia removed the white cloth before the medical people could stop her. She closed her eyes at the sight of the fully burnt face which was beyond recognition. Slowly opening her eyes, she realized that the man was wearing exactly the same clothes that Kevin was wearing before leaving the house.

Grabbing the man’s wrist, she gently caressed the wrist watch which was exactly like Kevin’s. Throwing her hand in her mouth, she vigorously shook her head. “No this can’t happen,” she muttered before bursting into tears. How should he leave her alone just like that? What happened to all those promises that he had made to always live together? What happened to never making her feel lonely and sad?

Wrapping his arms on her shoulder, Rocky closed his eyes and took a deep breath. It wasn’t just a shock for Silvia but for everyone.

“We also found Mr Austin’s walet in the body’s pocket, here is the identity card,” the officer informed.

Pushing Rocky away, Silvia wiped her tears with the back of her hand and crawled towards the body and started unbuttoning the shirt. Chris tried to stop her but she jerked his hands away…….

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