Hostile Takeover
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Cora Montenegro is an aspiring CPA-Lawyer who wants to make it on her own.
She's working as a bookkeeper in a small accounting firm while taking her six-month review for the CPA board exam. She had plans----pass the board, work in the Big Four or at least, get a stable job, enroll to law school, and finally become a lawyer.
Her purpose? She still doesn't know. Gusto niya lang.
When it comes to love, she doesn't give it much of a thought for she has no need for emotional distraction as of now. Although she has a boyfriend, Lance, there wasn't much of a connection between them. He's just.... a past time...
Hanggang sa makilala niya yung isang pulubi.
Yung pulubi na matangkad, malinis, mabango, matangos ang ilong, kakaiba yung mata at kakaiba yung buhok.
He seemed so weird for her.
She needed a roommate to minimize her expenses, odd enough, the pulubi needed a room to rent.
And little by little, that pulubi turned roommate took over her life....
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In a world where she comes first in everything, there is Elias Isolde, the one who always puts her second in anything. Worse, despite her relentless effort in her studies and her willingness to do whatever it takes to top the class, she still cannot beat him. He who seems effortless, unbothered, and untouchable. From rankings to exams to extracurriculars, he dominates it all without even trying... and that's exactly what she hates most about him. Will Rushaun find her way back to the top, or will she remain just behind him, sulking and glaring for what could be?
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