Fake dating. Real feelings. Terrible timing.

Two hearts caught in the quiet drift between ambition and affection. As they sprint toward the finish line, they are forced to ask: Are they running together, or slowly drifting apart?

What was never spoken still lingers...

Razor-sharp corporate consultant Mika runs on black coffee and efficiency. Brent, the head baker at his family's traditional Filipino bakery, runs on butter, artistic chaos, and experimental flavors. They are opposites in every way, and their daily, snarky critiques are the only predictable thing in their lives.

She was never afraid for herself, never, she was afraid for her parents for they have such a wrecked daughter. A daughter ever since a child, was robbed of her true identity, a daughter now facing the horrible loss, a daughter with a never dying grudge for herself, a daughter with self-loathing much powerful than that of her love for herself, or anyone, the one she calls a new family. She knew her parents don't deserve her, no one does, but now she has sworn to herself that she is to do everything in her will for they never failed her.