Under the Bar

Bar Series #2

Imagine knowing exactly what you want to be from the time you were a child. Hans Nero Cordova did. With a family of lawyers behind him, paslit pa lamang siya it was clear for him that law school was his destiny.
Everything in law school was as expected sanay na sanay na siya dito, He knew how to excel and meet every requirement with the determination. But then Gabriel Rameses Agustin entered the picture, a brilliant and driven student who quickly became Hans's academic rival. Nuong una'y parang laro lamang, a competition where luck seems to favor him and leave Gabriel scrambling. But something deeper is brewing beneath the surface. When they decide to study together, spend late nights pouring over cases, and even share mundane chores, He began to feel it. Gabriel is special to him, special above anyone else. Alam niyang may something between them, something neither of them dared to fully acknowledge. The only thing is that, Hans knew very well that Gabriel was straight-or at least that's what he thought.
Years passed, and the two lost touch but fate had other plans. When Hans, now a lawyer, took on a new case, he was stunned to find that he would be representing Gabriel's wife in her annulment proceedings. The past came rushing back, along with all the unresolved feelings, the buried emotions, and the lingering pain of a friendship that had ended too soon.
Now, with the stakes higher than ever, Hans and Gabriel are forced to confront the past and the truth of what they meant to each other. Can Hans and Gabriel find a way to break through the barriers that have kept them apart, or will the weight of their history be too much to bear? Will Hans and Gabriel find a way to break through the complicated ties that entangled them, or will they be bound by the roles they've been forced to play under the Bar?