Tamed [Sapphic/GL] (EDITED)

SPECIAL CHAPTER IV

RHIO RITCHEL: SINCE FOREVER

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I am not sure if it is the right time to make an update, but I know stories can be a source of comfort when things get heavy especially with the super typhoon passing through. Wherever you are, I hope you’re safe and warm 🤍 (11/09/2025)

12.8 MILLION READS. 312k votes. 1.25M comments 个.个 Hindi ko na mahintay mag-13M para i-drop ito. Last time I checked, it was around 5M reads pa yata ito, nakakagulat kayo! You guys did that. Thank you for loving this story with me ♡ To celebrate this milestone with y'all, here’s a short special chapter of RHIO'S POV sa first meet niya with ZAM. Maraming requests about this kahit before pa ako mag-hiatus kaya here na finally. This scene (chapters 1&2) is so special to me, it’s literally their first time meeting as just… people. No professor, no student, just strangers being loud with their ‘who are you and why are you annoying me’ energy, who haven't realized fate already seated them next to each other... since forever.

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DO YOU ever get that feeling where life just tossed you into this massive sea without a map? Everything you once thought would stay... gone, just like that. Darkness with in. And there you are, thrashing just to stay afloat, arms burning, chest tight, breath stuttering. You keep kicking, keep fighting, like maybe effort alone can save you, but the more you struggle, the deeper you go.

Then at some point, you stop fighting for that life. It’s just you and that heavy kind of pain. Nothing else more. Until the only thing that reminds you of your existence is pain, endless pain.

It's been moons since I started wandering aimlessly like a ghost, drifting through the leftovers of my own life. Sometimes I feel like I'm just here, pretending to be me.

"Our Sachii's doing better and better everyday. At his appointment yesterday, he was starting to respond to my commands and it was such a relief. It's not much, but it's definitely a sign of progress, hun."

My mother and my ex boyfriend didn't survive the car crash while Sachii was gravely hurt. He's not the same old grumpy doggo anymore. He may have forgotten some things, including his training, even my voice sometimes or me as his own human... that breaks me a little each time. I'm just glad he's still with me. He stayed. And maybe that’s all that matters in the end.

Sachii, he's my unpaid therapist. My constant. I wouldn't have survived it too without him. I watched him struggle for quite some time. I didn't give up on him the way he never left my side. We rebuilt our bond. Little by little, we tried to jog his memory. It was painfully slow. Eventually, he was finding his way back.

"Mom... it's getting harder without you here. D-don't worry, I'm trying to stay strong and make it through each day," I said and hugged her picture in front of her ashes. I managed a weak smile. "Gosh, I've missed you so much... until when I am going to suffer like this without you all?"

If I had really known things would end up like this, I would've chosen her every chances I got, over school, over studying, over everything in this world. There's so much regrets in my heart. I tried to gaslight myself that it's not my fault but truth just couldn't escape that she's gone because of me. The guilt just eats at me everyday and it's okay, it's my fault anyway and I am going to carry this until I die.

"Alam mo ba? I'm teaching in Cambridge after messing up your husband's most important investor meeting this year." I chuckled and remembered how I managed to do such thing. My father was so freaking mad at me.