Five years. That's how long a contract signed by our families binds us. One house. Separate bedrooms. No love story. I'm Mio, the quiet girl with a heart full of unsaid feelings. She is Rei, cold as snow, untouchable, and already in love with someone else. But to the world, we are wives, sharing vows written for a future that was never ours. She calls me her wife in public, but in private, I'm just a stranger who cooks her breakfast. Still, I stay. Still, I orbit her like a lonely moon caught in a one-sided gravity. I love her in silence, in stolen glances, in moments she'll never remember. And she... she keeps her distance. Always so close, but never mine. How long can a heart wait in orbit before it crashes? How do you let go of someone you were never really holding? This is a story of longing, heartbreak, and a love that aches quietly. Because sometimes, the deepest kind of love is the one that's never returned.

TAMED • WRITTEN IN TAGLISH • SAPPHIC ROMANCE STATUS: COMPLETED DATE STARTED: July 2018 (Chapter 1-20) DATE RESUMED: April 2020 DATE FINISHED: December 07, 2020 (5PM PHT) Zamantha Karssen Abvelino is a sponsored student, concealing her talent and struggling with a deflated self-concept. Her world flips on its axis when a formidable teacher, feared by all, enters her life and brings a brand new set of barriers. Professor Rhio Ritchel Sandoval is an untamed authority on academia. She is an enigma. Brilliant and celebrated as a woman and an educator who commands the attention of every student who crosses her path with her razor sharp intellect and a personality as complex as the subjects she teaches. Their love affair is a fevered dance of becoming. Two straight women bending toward something dangerously new, a passionate romance that defies gravity and expectation as they tame themselves they never knew existed.