Yna’s stupefaction was confirmation enough for the doña.“You see?” She had pushed away at Brad and was straightening her dress. Her gold bracelets were making tinkling sounds like chimes on her wrists as she patted at herself, as if she was trying to pat dirt from being near her. “And don’t you even deny it because Brad here bought you. He paid for you! For the amount of ten thousand pesos! How cheap are you?” She spat again but on the ground now because Brad was standing between them. “You had your hand on the coins and you wanted a barrel! If you think you can have that, you are delusional, puta!” “Tita, that’s not how it went... please...!” Brad was in a panic now. He was trying not to drag the woman back to the car though he tried in vein to push her, but she wouldn’t have it.“Will you stop it, Brad?!”“Tita, did you forget that Tito Sylver doesn’t know we’re here? With the noise you’re making, someone can hear and find out what the noise is about. He’s not going to be happy. W

Tommy came home earlier than usual, and when he did, he went straight up to her room. It was like he knew something already, because as soon as he came in the door, his face was at her face.And when she tried to turn away, he held her head on both sides, and he saw what she was trying to hide from their mother.“Ate…!” he whispered in a strangled voice. It was like he was the one who got beaten up. There was a wealth of emotions on his face.Then he started to cry out of sheer anger, his handsome face crunching up before he brought his face down her lap so he could hide the noise of huge sobs trying to escape from his chest to reach downstairs.She held her brother. “Sshh.. don’t let Mama hear you. I’m packing so we can leave.”She could see Tommy’s huge effort to stop crying. But he was shaking his head.“We can’t leave! Kuya Eric isn’t here yet. He’ll think of some-thing. Ate, we can’t leave until we’ve talked to him, or he’d be angry at you!”“Tommy… the neighbors would know by n

“Mama!”Before she could think, Yna had rushed to her mother and bent down on her knee in front of her. She tried to hold her close. “Mama, please… whatever are you talking about? Don’t say it! Never say something like that, please?!”That was when her mother finally looked at her, her very eyes full of suffering and pain. “I have known… for a while. You two children always whisper to hide problems from me, but that last weeks, you two have been acting so strangely that I knew something happened. At first, I didn’t understand what the words meant, but eventually… as I eavesdropped more, it seemed like…” She frowned as she stopped abruptly, as if she was trying not to sob. She raised her face to Eric. “I couldn’t believe it. I just couldn’t comprehend how something like what I heard them say could happen to my daughter. But that day I caught you two in the kitchen kissing… I could believe it somehow.” She looked back at me. “That you have actually sold yourself to a man to pay for my b

“Honestly, I can understand if the poor child panics at this point,” Papa said after how quiet the kitchen had become after Arianna rushed out then her mother and Tommy left to follow her. “Your mother can fucking overwhelm anyone, and she’s just a girl.”Eric was on his feet and he would have run after her, too, if he didn’t remember the panic in her eyes, the fear and confusion marring her whole face, and the pain that was in her voice when she begged to be alone. So he wasn’t sure if he should follow her.Instead, he closed his eyes and lowered his head.“Am I doing the right thing?” he asked the two men quietly. “Or am I pushing her too much? Rushing her relentlessly?”“There is no such thing as rushing to a man when he wants a woman,” his father replied. And Eric turned to him, thinking he was still making light of the mood, but he was seriously looking up at him from where he sat across the table from him. “Ask Castro here. It’s good to see that his own rush twenty-five years ago

Yna started to feel excited about making love with him the moment he slipped inside the room, but she didn’t know how wet she was until he buried himself inside her, to the hilt… smooth and quick. He followed this with a self-satisfied, awed groan.“I miss that feeling so much,” she told him in an awed whisper. Then she closed her eyes and moaned when he pulled himself out to push back in again. Incredible sensations assailed her, stirring embers that heated her whole body and made her nerves pop.“Baby… you always feel like I’m sinking into heaven… so tight and hot that you make me crazy. This is going to be… my quickest…”She nodded over and over, whimpering at the next full thrusts until he was kissing her again to hold any noise they make inside their mouths. He was pacing himself now, moving his hips in such a way that she felt the most pleasure from his thrusts, and it wasn’t very long before she felt the force gathering.And before she knew it, the ball of hot pleasure imploded