Chapter 22 – Parting WaysThird Person POVKiara opened the car door and settled on her seat while Phoenix went around to the driver’s seat and started the engine, driving out of the parking lot.The road was clear from traffic since it was already past midnight, most must have been sleeping already.For a moment, the ride was silent, as if they were trying to assess each other. Kiara was determined to avoid him already for she knows that she does not deserve to be hanging out with a person like him. She was just so out of his league.While for Phoenix, something else was bothering his mind. He has to leave the country for a few months, for a month or two but he was not sure either if it would get extended or might go for three months long. He has to leave and it was such a foreign feeling for him that something was holding him back, someone was holding him back and as if telling him to stay an

Chapter 24 – Watch You In SecretThird Person POVDuring the graduation ceremony, it was only Kiara who did not have a parent or relative waiting for her, people who would congratulate her, someone who would give her flowery necklaces, and smile with her in a picture. After the ceremony and everyone was enjoying themselves with their families, taking pictures all over the garden outside the gymnasium, Kiara could not bear seeing them, those happy and well families.She lifted her hand and stared at her diploma, and her heart was squeezed at the sudden thought of her loss of the Latin honor. Outside college, the field of architecture is a competitive profession, surely there are a lot other architects out there searching for a job, looking for architectural firms who will take them based on their performances, experience, and of course, they would as well check the applicant’s education background. And the la

Chapter 26 – Attempted RapeThird Person POV“W-what… What do you mean my time has been paid Madame?” Kiara asked but deep inside her, there was a familiar hint of what was happening.No one had ever paid her time for her to stop working before, except for him… Phoenix Van Ramirez.Madame Tel just looked at her with a knowing stare and she ordered her to leave the stage.“Leave the stage now, someone had already replaced you.”Kiara looked behind her and indeed, someone had already taken her place in the pole.“B-but…” Kiara stepped down the stage first before she continued,“W-was it h-him? Is he b-back?” Kiara asked, her voice shaking due to a mixture of confusion in her emotions, she wanted to be happy and excited that he is back, but then, she also wants to contain whatever she was feeling about his return.

Chapter 28 – Angel In DisguiseThird Person POVWhen Kiara woke up, she was already in her bed since when Phoenix woke up early in the morning, she carried Kiara and transferred her to her room before he left. She sat up on the bed and her eyes found a miniature of the Eiffel Tower on her bedside table. She figured that it must have been left Phoenix since she does not own the miniature either and such sophistication and expensive look of it, she can never afford it.A silver gray envelope was beside the Eiffel Tower, She picked the envelope up and opened its flap and found a card in it, she pulled it out and read the letter that said,~ “You talked about the Eiffel tower before… thought you might like it. Congratulations, Architect! So proud of you.” She put back the card inside and placed it back on the table as she next picked up the Eiffel tower miniature and examined

Chapter 30 – To See You AgainThird Person POVWhen Kiara got her license, during the night she would still work in the Desire night club, but during the day, she would go out and apply on several architectural firms, sending out her resumes and attending initial interviews.However, among the four architecture firms she went to, she was declined even though they saw her credentials and that she has good grades and standing in the University, and in addition she also had attended several national seminars and contests, yet they still turned her down because there are those who are better than her and ones and who holds the Latin Honors in their resumes. And in one architecture where she could have been got hired, the position was snatched from her by a fellow architect who has a connection inside the firm and did not even bother going in an interview anymore. Kiara was already in the final interview if that archit