INKTASTIC
"Baby, I'm flying to Australia."
W-what?! You'll go here?!"
That wasn't panic. That was a man getting caught.
Doc. Blake Vianna Fuerro came from nothing.
She celebrated her 1.02 GWA with spaghetti and 10 pieces of fried chicken - all her parents could afford. She studied under a flickering bulb and promised her white coat would repay every peso, every hunger, every "anak, kaya natin 'to."
Love was supposed to be her prize.
Riv Corvin: Medicine student. Her boyfriend of three years.
The same boy who called her friendless in the library, said sorry, and ran.
The same boy who's been "loving" her from Australia through a screen.
She spent her savings to surprise him.
She found him in bed-with someone else.
She flew home with a diploma, a stethoscope, and a kill list.
Then a gun kissed her temple on a bus.
Him-Bleeding out, eyes like a trigger. Mafia.
"Gamutin mo 'ko, Doc. Or no one else lives to see you save them."
She came from a family that ate instant noodles for dinner - not a family that buries bodies.
But her hands moved anyway. Poverty taught her to survive. Med school taught her to save lives. Even his.
"You don't know who I am," he hissed when he stopped bleeding, "but I pay my debts."
He did.
He saw the photos. Riv and another girl. He saw the girl who chose textbooks over meals get played by the boy she fed her heart.
Now he's back-No gun. Just a ring.
"You saved me at gunpoint, Doc. Now let me return the favor," he smirks. "Marry me. Let's make the boy who called you friendless watch a poor girl buy his downfall."
She ran from poverty her whole life.
Now a king of the underworld is handing her the crown to end the man who made her feel worthless.
One flight exposed a cheater.*
One bullet bought her a debt.*
One "I do" will bankrupt his future.*
He called her friendless when she had nothing.
Now she has a mafia boss. And she's collecting.
loving you was my first crime.
Marrying him is my last verdict.