O N G O I N G TRIGGER WARNING: anxiety attack, rape content, self-harm, depressive episodes, traumatic flashback. Please read at your own risk. ***** "Maganda at matalino talaga 'yang si Jayla, kaya lang may scandal 'yan." These are the words that are usually thrown at Janica Leila Montejermoso, an aspiring lawyer who dreams of giving justice to the abused and neglected children like her. Due to her childhood trauma, Jayla grew up strong, determined, and indestructible. She wanted to prove to everyone that there are still more to life than being a victim of her childhood past. Not until her sex video with her long-term boyfriend leaked, which gradually break her already broken soul. Being with his girlfriend since they are born in the same delivery room, Niccolo John Cadiente is branded as "buntot ni Jayla"; and he's proud of that. He's a dreamer, he dreams of becoming a successful and competent doctor someday, a pediatrician specifically, while building his own family with Jayla. But what if he became the reason of the gradual downfall of his only love? Can they still guarantee that a victim's aftermath is still worth living after all? Or they will just let their hellish past swallow them whole?

It was a rainy night nang may nag-alok sa kanyang virginity para sa isang gabing kaligayahan. Bago pa man nagising ang lalaki, nilisan na ni Anika ang hotel para ibigay ang pera sa matapobre niyang madrasta at step-sister. Nasampahan ng kaso ang ama niya dahil sa pagnakaw ng 5milyon sa kompanyang pinagtrabahuhan nito kaya naghihirap sila ngayon. Isang araw, dumating ang dating boss ng kanyang ama para palayasin sila sa bahay. Nakiusap ang ama na wag kunin ang bahay nila. Pumayag naman ang batang CEO pero sa isang kondisyon, si Anika ang pambayad.

[THIS STORY IS A WATTYS 2020 WINNER UNDER ROMANCE CATEGORY!] Totoong tomboy nga ba si Mikaela Saavedra? O dala lang ito ng trauma sa mga lalaki dulot ng karahasan ng kaniyang ama? Paano kung umibig siya? At sa best friend pa niya? Take note, boy best friend. Subaybayan ang pagtuklas ni Mikaela sa kaniyang tunay na seksuwalidad. Credits to @scitusnim for the book cover!

Liazabel A. Cabildo has loved freely her whole life-even when it meant loving her best friend, Angelo, in silence. When the time comes that she had to move on, Lia leaves the country, believing distance is the only way to heal. Overseas, there was Clyde, Angelo's cousin-a man running from his own pain. In a place far from home, they become each other's quiet refuge, finding comfort in shared wounds and unspoken understanding. But love is never simple. He holds back out of loyalty for their family. Lia hesitates out of fear of breaking what should not be broken. Now, caught between healing and heartbreak, Lia must choose: Is love something you protect by letting go-or something you risk everything for? Can she free fall in to love when the man behind her granted prayers is her bestfriend's cousin?

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