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If This Won't Last ✅

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Ruth Summer, who was left by Enzo,  decided to leave everything behind in Manila and went to Bohol for thirty days to take a break. Then she met Grayson who captured beautiful photos of her-including her heart.

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Ruth Summer Rosales' life crumbled right in front of her eyes when her six-year long boyfriend Enzo decided to break up with her for a very valid reason. She was  wrecked and unmotivated to do all the things she needed to do so she decided to take a break, resign from her job and leave Manila for a month.

There she caught Marc Grayson de Vera who took photos of her without her knowledge. She thought that he's one of the typical pervert guys that anyone can meet anywhere but she proved herself wrong. He is a decent man and a professional photographer.

She lets herself be with him as she learns the beauty of Bohol province while they share little details about their life . . . including the things that are not likeable about them. She stayed by his side day by day. He makes her feel loved and appreciated once again.

Until she realized that she's no longer hurting the same way anymore . . . that she's claiming her undisturbed world once again in Grayson's arms.

But just when she thought she's finally having it once more, events from the past unfolded and reminisced when she decided to open the locked room and saw what life Grayson had before they met. 

She was, once again, reminded that her real life resides in Manila . . . and it's very far from how perfect her life is in Bohol with him. But she knew she can't be with him.

She was, once again, reminded that she'll only be there for thirty days . . . and it's up to her how to make her memories and moments with him last.

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