I AM SORRY

‘But, as long as Quirino still has an interest in you and he is not married at this time, you can continue to be by his side. After all, he is a man and needs entertainment, since he is not allowed to mess with a nice girl from a good family.’

In other words, Quirino could play with her as long as he liked and when it was time for him to get married, Morana would never mean anything to him and could just be left behind.

He would abandon her, like the other people in her life. She couldn’t stand another abandonment…

That is the picture that Quirino's father gave of her in the brief meeting a year ago. The meeting didn’t even last for an hour, since he was a busy man and didn’t have more time to be wasted on her, but the impact of it lasted more than a year.

It was as if a dagger had stabbed into her chest every time Morana recalled those words.

So clear that it sounded so realistic to her ears that Morana believed it. She believed everything that he said to her and to put it bluntly, s