Where Devotion Turns Violent (Gunshots & Velvets Enfilade #1)

They were both still young when the world stole their childhood. Too young to understand loss, yet old enough to carry it. They were never given the chance to know what it felt like to be children, to run without fear, to laugh without weight behind it. Responsibility and survival replaced games and bedtime stories. While other kids learned how to dream, they learned how to endure. The world took their innocence early, and left them with scars that looked like maturity.

Kallivane was just lucky enough in the only way that mattered. Dacien never made things rough for her. He took on the weight of the world instead, working without rest, doing whatever it took just to give her the life she needed. Kahit na hindi niya naman talaga responsibilidad ang babae dahil sumama lang ito sakanya kahit na binalaan niya na ito.

What they went through did not stop them from falling for each other. Hindi sila lumaki na magkapatid ang turingan kahit palagi silang sabay na kumakain sa iisang mesa. Things changed so sudden when they reached at the legal age. Even if they tried so hard to hide it, tama nga talaga sigurong walang sikreto ang hindi nabubunyag, dahil sa isang iglap lang ay parang naging normal na sa kanilang dalawa ang mga bagay na tanging mag-asawa lang ang gumagawa.

What damnation crawls toward them from the shadows of tomorrow? Do they have the strength to claw through every punishment the world has carved for them? Or will they bleed out and accept it: that they were never written in the stars, only scrawled in sin as each other's curse?

G&VE #1: Dacien Vale Amarantti