I Found Home In You

Viera Sadie Abacan has been on the run for most of her life - fleeing from those who wanted her dead, those who saw her as nothing more than a prize, and those who used to be her family.

She knew that the family she grew up with was far from ordinary. Breakfast often came with death threats, lunch was sometimes accompanied by the sight of corpses, and by dinner, they behaved as if nothing unusual had happened. She was five years old when she first held a gun; seven when she witnessed a life slip away after a bullet to the head; and twelve when her world was turned upside down.

After the tragedy that befell her family, Viera knew she had to flee and live under a veil of anonymity to survive.

Akala niya, tapos na. Akala niya, ligtas na siya. Ngunit ano nga ba naman ang hindi nagagawa ng pera? And when things turned shit, she turned to Clirry, a twenty-eight-year-old man, and asked him, "If I vend myself to you, how much fortune will it cost you?" For the first time since she began running, right there and then, she just found her home. Or so, she thought.

Started: June 13, 2019
Rewritten: Feb 9, 2025