to have and to hold
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MatureComplete Sat, May 9, 202613h 53m
The day Eva Zapanta married Enzo Bautista, it wasn't love that bound them-it was a contract. The gown, the vows, the kiss... all pieces of a picture-perfect lie she never asked for.
To the world, he is her husband. To Eva, he is the stranger she wakes up beside, the man whose silence is heavier than any promise. And yet, somewhere in the stillness of their home, his quiet gestures start to feel like threads-binding her in ways she doesn't know how to name.
But when love is born from something forced, can it ever be pure? Or will it always taste faintly of surrender?
"How are you going to stay true to the vows you said at the wedding... when you weren't even the one who wrote them?"
Because some cages are built from gold... and some prisons are mistaken for love.
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