Liora's world has never been gentle. After her mother died, she learned to survive behind a mask, enduring the quiet cruelty of her stepmother and stepsister. Peace in that house always comes at a price and this time, the price is her freedom. To keep the fragile peace, Liora agrees to marry Roman Kade, a man who never cared to know her, a man who only wanted a wife. "Maybe I'm meant to marry first and fall in love later," she whispers to herself, clinging to the hope that love might grow where it has never been planted. But Roman is cold and self-absorbed, blind to the woman she truly is. And then Alexander Lucien Voss enters her life like sunlight piercing a room long left in darkness. Gentle where the world has been cruel, attentive where she has always been invisible, Alexander awakens something Liora thought she had lost forever: the belief that she is worthy of love. But loving Alexander means living in the shadows. Liora already belongs to another man, and every glance, every stolen touch, every whispered word becomes a secret she carries like both a blessing and a sin. Caught between shadows and desire, Liora must face the question she fears most: if Alexander discovers the truth, will he still choose her... or will she lose the only man who has ever made her feel truly alive?

(Short Story) She watched her best friend break in the worst way, helpless as the girl who once laughed beside her chose to end her pain with silence. That moment haunted her, a memory she couldn't outrun. The guilt of not saving her, not seeing the signs, weighed heavier than grief ever could. So she made a promise: to avenge her. Fueled by sorrow and rage, she hunted down the ones who have bad intentions. As time goes its's turning herself into something unrecognizable. A killer. A shadow. But as the blood dried and her list grew shorter, she was left with one question: Had she truly kept her promise, or had she lost herself along the way?

UNIVERSITY SERIES #6 Past experiences. Broken hearts. Present tragedy. Those are the things Kierra Ynares from UST Architecture and Shan Lopez from DLSU Psychology have in common. No matter how wretched their similarities are, they still found ways to escape... to look forward to tomorrow, and keep everything that happened yesterday behind.