Following the light (the lovers series #3)

Ilaria is from Canada and went to the Philippines, to searching for safety. She found it in Clive - the boy next door who taught her Tagalog one word at a time.
She learned "ingat ka" first, because he said it every time she left.
She learned "pahinga ka na" when the nightmares came.
She learned "mahal kita" last, because she was too scared to mean it.
She came to the Philippines to hide.
She stayed because Clive made a foreign language sound like home.