Awake At Last

Hera Vida Lopez never meant to fall in love, but in the quiet corners of an office and over shared breakfasts at a karinderya, her heart betrayed her-drawn to Troy Villanueva, the kind and steady Senior Graphic Designer whose laughter felt like home yet whose golden ring marked him forever unreachable.

This is a story of forbidden affection, of borrowed time that always runs out, and of the bittersweet wars fought in silence between yearning and surrender.