You Were With Him

"Am so sorry Nicolas, I have to do this to protect my family and my reputation. I hope you forgive me" he bend down and pick Nicolas phone.

Elvira opened her eyes turning side ways, she realised Nicolas was still not home. She went to the kitchen and took a glass cup to drink water, it slipped and fell from her hands. She bent down to pick the broken pieces.

"Ah...." the broken pieces pierced her thumb making blood flow out. She went to the room and brought out the first-aid kit from the cabinet. She dab iodine on it and bandage her wound.

Miguel looked at the CCTV camera across the street. He put Nicolas phone in his pocket, leaving Nicolas to die in pain

"You might be able to get away now but not forever because good will always prevail over evil" he said and shut his eyes. Miguel turned to see the lifeless body before he entered his car and drove off.

Elvira phone rang, she looked at it ID; unknown number. She picked it...

"Is this Ms Elvira Bautista" the caller asked

"Yes speaking" she answered quitely

"Your husband was rushed to the hospital"

"What? My husband? Why? What happened to him? she was scared to death

"I think you should come over, it's hope general hospital"

"Okay, I will be there"

She stood from the bed and changed into another dress since she was putting on her pyjamas. She left the house and took a cab to the hospital.

.....

At hope general hospital.

Elvira rushed into the hospital and headed towards the reception.....

"Good evening, I heard Mr Nicolas was rushed here, may I see him please"

"Ms Bautista" she turned to look at the person that called her.

"Officer, what happened to my husband? Where is he now? I want to see him" anxiously, she asked.

"Your husband was shot"

He was putting on a blue dress

"What? Shot? How?" tears drop down her cheeks

"We are still investigating on this matter" he said calmly.

"I want to see my husband"

A nurse took her to the morgue. She got to the entrance of the door and turned to face the nurse....

"Where is my husband?" and then the nurse said, "He is there" she pointed at the lifeless body placed on the table covered with white cloth.....

Nicolas was just with her some hours ago, and now he is dead. Why is God being so unfair...huh? In all the people in this world, why Nicolas? Nicolas has never offended anyone; even if he is not a saint.

Let's now accept the fact that Nicolas is gone, but what about Elvira and her little kids? How will thoes children live without a father.

She walked to where the body is. Her hands were shivering. She opened the cloth and Nicolas white face appeared. Tears circled in her eyes, waves of pain unimaginable shot down her spine, causing every muscle in her body to contract as if she'd been shocked with twenty thousand volts of electricity. Her back arched up at an unnatural angle. Her hands and legs began to shake.

"Nooooooo, This can't be, Nicolas please wake up" she wailed and produce endless streams of tears.

The nurse ran to her, "Ma'am, my condolences but please this is a hospital, it will affect other patients here"

Elvira was not in the mood to listen to any one. She is in a bad state now. She continued wailing in tears. She remembered when she first met Nicolas, he was handsome and calm, then, they became friends. He proposed to her after some months and they got married.

She could remember his vows on the alter, "Elvira, I promise to hold you and to cherish you, you were my reason back then, my reason now, my reason now, my reason every day. If you grow weak, I will be there to fight your battle for you. No one can separate us; only death. I love you Elvira.

Those sweet memories kept on coming back. He promised to fight her battle but he is gone.....

Three hours later.

Still depressed, Elvira called her mother to give her the bad news. Ever since they got married, Nicolas has been treating his wife and in-laws well. She was sad when she had that Nicolas is dead

"Officer, you said my husband was shot right? Have you gotten the murderer?" she wanted to see the person that killed her husband and slap him and then ask him why he killed her husband.

"The problem is that his phone was taken away and the CCTV cameras around the area the incident happened has been tampered with. Those criminals are really smart, they took his phone so we won't know his last contact and the CCTV...."

"So you don't have any lead" she began to cry again.

"The only lead we have now is his autopsy"

"Those bastard, they will never find peace" she cursed.

"Elvira"

As expected, Miguel and Dino will show up, pretending not to know anything.....

"I just heard what happened...my condolences but any lead" he pretended to care.

"None, Mr ocampo, we are only depending on the last lead; autopsy" the police answered.

Miguel moved to Elvira to console her but she immediately stood up and turned her back on him.

"Were you not with Nicolas before he died?" she asked angrily

"Yes, we were with him but.... "

"But what? Huh...answer me.....you left him to die there without helping him" she immediately cut in before he could finish his sentence. Her tone was cold, he could tell that she was passing out her anger on him.

"No, we were just in the bar and then we patted ways after drinking. I don't lie what happened" he lied

"I will hold you responsible for his death. If you had not invited him to go out with you.....am sure, my Nicolas will still be with me" tears dropped down her eyes

"We are sorry" Dino could not say anything else but apologized

"Before he died, he told me that...."

"Ms bautista" the doctor called, stopping her from completing her sentence.

"Your finger prints were detected on your husband which means you were the last person to touch him" he said and handed the results to her.

"Ah.... How is that possible? I can't kill my husband" she was speechless.

Elvira sure has a point, she could not possibly kill her own husband. What happened to the test results