Unconvicted

Unconvicted (Disturbed Trilogy Book #1)

Jayden Keith Garcia

UNCONVICTED
(A Filipino Noir / Slow-Burn Psychological Drama)

"Ang bata, hindi dapat matutong maghintay nang ganoon katagal."

Jayden is a man built out of grey paint and measured silences. To his colleagues, he is the "lead designer"-precise", efficient, and cold. To the detective who recruited him, he is the perfect "inquiry"-a lookout who sees every variable but feels none of the guilt. A tool that can be discarded when it outlives its usefulness.

Jayden doesn't live; he logs. He doesn't love; he calculates. He has spent fifteen years perfecting the "System" in his head to drown out the resonance of a childhood spent waiting on a curb for a car that never stopped. He is a masterpiece of numbness. He is a ghost that hasn't realized he's dead.

Then came Kath-a woman who carries her own quiet grief beneath a smile, who looks at Jayden like he's worth saving even when he can't see it himself. She is the warmth that threatens to melt the gears of his machinery.

In the eyes of the law, Jayden is innocent. He was never charged, never jailed, never convicted. But there are prisons the law cannot see-the silence he kept, the guilt he buried, and the debt that was always waiting to come due.

"Everything in this world displeases me, but above all, my own displeasure in everything displeases me." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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