When secret agent McLaren Lane starts dreaming about a little girl, buried memories from his past resurface--a past shockingly intertwined with Celine Villarica, his friend with benefits. He realizes that everyone has secrets like him--it's just a matter of finding out what they are.
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McLaren has learned to live with the lies he was told growing up. He was close with his family, he has a good job he enjoyed, and he liked the company of his friend with benefits, Celine. But when a little girl starts haunting his dreams, turning them into beautiful nightmares, McLaren is determined to find out the truth behind his vague childhood. But secrets come with a price--Celine is also hiding something from him. Out of respect for each other's privacy, McLaren never pushes Celine to share with him and vice versa, but when love is added to the mix and the past starts to catch up to them, they realize that their lives are more connected than they thought. Can they trust each other enough with their memories, or are secrets really meant to be kept--and buried?
DISCLAIMER: This story is written in Taglish.
COVER DESIGN: Regina Dionela
A freedom to choose who she wanted to marry was the only important thing that Xarra Salcedo asked for to her parents. But fate was really against her will. Because her father decided to set her into a fixed marriage no matter how much she disagreed to it.
To avoid being in a wedlock with the man she didn't even like, she escaped.
Xarra had learned that probably it wasn't the stars that holds our destiny, but ourselves. Because when she got the chance to be with Aeon Stewart--a drop-dead gorgeous city mayor, he opened her eyes to the reality that there was always a reason behind everything that happened in one's life.
Even though her feelings for Aeon was genuine, she couldn't just forget that she was set marry someone else. The only way she thought that could work to free herself from her soon-to-be-husband was to find another man who could impregnate her.
Would Aeon help her to do her plan?
Or would the man refuse her crazy proposal?
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MATURE CONTENT: R-18 | SPG