LOVE HAS COME AROUND

The dust that blew directly in his face was suffocating. Flying debris kept scratching his skin. He had to hold his breath, rummaging through the wreckage of the car like crazy.

The car was already reduced to tiny pieces. He found the electronic shackles he had forced Vivian to wear near the damaged car.

He had despised those shackles. Now the very sight of it was heartbreaking.

“No…” He was stunned and totally unprepared for the unexpected disaster.

The police and paramedics arrived soon. The scene was chaotic.

“Sir, you are injured.” A white-coated doctor took him out to check his wounds.

Despite the doctor’s advice, he grabbed a police officer who was surveying the scene of accident and said anxiously, “My wife, my wife is still in there. Please go find her. Why couldn’t I find her? Why…”

The police officer saw his desperation and confusion, yet he didn’t know how to comfort the poor man who had just lost his wife.

Several paramedics worked together to push the deranged widower into the ambulance.

The tremendous impact of the explosion had sent Christian temporarily insane. He yelled and struggled for a while, and then fell into a deep sleep.

The car explosion happened suddenly and it was his car. As soon as he woke up, he was questioned by the police.

Apart from his bandaged face and some cuts and bruises on his body, he wasn’t badly injured.

“Sir, since you are the injured party in the explosion, I’d like to ask you some questions.”

the officer was very serious, which suggested that

wearily raised his eyelids,

“Where is my wife?”

find Vivian, and

in the bed, the young officer awkwardly opened his mouth and hesitated to tell him

wife was killed

open.

that she is dead? She isn’t! She

hurt more and he couldn’t help crying

stand by the bed perplexedly. He hesitated before handing the report

hard to accept the fact that Vivian had passed away in

took

at Christian with sympathy. He seemed used to scenes

of the report. The words were

forensic report showed that DNA from the ruins

Thus the DNA residue would be the last

She was dead!

report word by word and over and over again

died because of him. If he hadn’t locked her in the car, she wouldn’t have lost her

for your loss.” The officer

on fire somehow. Based on the on-site surveillance, we

self-mockingly, recalling how desperately Vivian had

had hounded her