"𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞."
- 𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙖 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙖
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Maybelline Thana "Baby" Andrada has spent her life praying for a prince charming--a man strong enough to free her from the terrors of her life. Each day, she kneels, hands clasped, whispering her plea to the universe and to every god watching her, hoping for salvation in the form of a tall, handsome stranger.
With less than a year until she's forced to marry a man she despises, Baby's obsession consumes her. Every sign, every omen tells her he's near, but when a fire traps her in its deadly heat, she nearly laughs at the irony.
As smoke fills her lungs and her whispered prayer fades, a figure breaks through the flames--an enigmatic man named Arson who pulls her from death's grasp.
But when she wakes, he's gone without a trace, leaving her haunted and desperate to find him again. And when she does, he turns her away, his indifference chilling her. But rejection only deepens Baby's obsession.
Bound together by a web of secrets, missing people, and dangerous threats, Baby is determined to make Arson hers.
Because for her, Arson is no mere savior--Arson is her twisted salvation. And Baby will stop at nothing to make him the key to her escape.
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TRIGGER WARNINGS AHEAD. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Language: Taglish (Tagalog and English)
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Writing: October 30, 2024 - April 24, 2025
Published: November 11, 2024 - April 25, 2025
arson, my twisted salvation™
the hades folder: file no.2
NEKO
In the past four years, Raki poured her heart and soul into one thing-her son, Aldrius. At 17, the life she once knew shattered, her dreams faded, and the future became uncertain. She had no one except her Grams on her side because her family disowned her because of disappointment. The child's father however, was a different plot - someone she never met again after the night of March 31st.
Now, 21, she is forced to return home and leave the quiet life she tried to build so hard for her, and her son in Madrid. However, when she comes home, she learns the painful truth that everyone tried to hide from her, and a very heart wrenching news-her best friend is dead. She died after coming back from visiting her in Spain four years ago. She felt the sense of responsibility to uncover the truth behind her death that leads her to the man she never expected to be him - the person that always piqued her son's interest, and the one her genes didn't even stand a chance with, the person with a "shining, shimmering, splendid" abs.
He is very real and not just a fragment of her past that she tried so hard to forget- the twist is? She thought he was just some stranger and also caught up that night, but all along he is someone she knew.
Torn between the guilt of being the last person her best friend visited before she died and the fear of him finding out about their child, Raki decides to finally face and dig the past she forcefully buried. She entered their home as a cook, however not only she uncovers the truth behind her best friend's death, she also uncovers the whole untwisted truth and reality in that mansion.
Will that truth finally unleash the ties that binds her to her past and keeps her from moving forward in the present? Will she finally have answers to the questions that lingered in her mind in the past years, and finally find the real peace and love she deserves?