Lahat ng Kabanata ng WIN ME, ATTORNEY: The Man I Should've Never Met: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

The morning air was crisp, the city streets bustling with life as if oblivious to the schemes unfolding in its shadows. Yna Reyes sat at her cluttered desk, files spread across the surface like a chaotic mosaic of leads and evidence. Her mind raced, parsing through every report, witness statement, and surveillance note she had collected over the past weeks. Something felt off, though she couldn’t yet place it. Her instincts, honed over years of navigating high stakes investigations, flared. Patterns that should have been clear were faint, almost imperceptible. And yet, the faint inconsistencies tugged at her curiosity. She had learned long ago that in a case like this, the truth often hid in the spaces between facts, in the pauses and silences no one noticed. Yna leaned back, rubbing her temple. The first so called “break” in the case had come yesterday: a witness whose testimony seemed too convenient, too perfectly timed. She’d been eager to speak, offering details that aligned ex

By mid morning, Yna was outside the small legal consultancy office she had pinpointed. From across the street, she studied the building, noting exits, shadows, and the faint reflections in the windows. Her senses were on edge; someone was watching. She didn’t yet know who, but the feeling of being observed prickled at her skin. Inside, a man shuffled nervously with a folder. “Ms. Reyes?” he stammered, glancing at her before returning to his papers. “I… I have the documents you requested.” “Sit,” Yna said, voice calm but firm. “Start from the beginning.” He swallowed hard and began, names and dates spilling out in a rehearsed cadence. But as he spoke, Yna noticed the anomalies the hesitations, repeated phrases, slight mismatches in timelines. She tilted her head, pen moving across her notebook. “Why would someone leave these contradictions… deliberately?” she muttered under her breath. When he finished, Yna closed her notebook slowly. “Thank you. You’ve been helpful,” she said,

Morning arrived softly, as if the city itself was hesitant to disturb the fragile calm Yna Reyes had barely managed to find. Sunlight slipped through the curtains of her apartment, warming the edge of her bed, pulling her slowly from sleep. For a brief moment, she lay still, suspended between dreams and waking, her mind blank peaceful. Then reality crept back in. Amarah’s face surfaced first, uninvited. Not the woman she had met again recently, but the girl from years ago quiet laughter, shared silence, warmth that had once felt like home. The memory blurred before Yna could hold onto it, dissolving the way it always did, leaving behind only unease. She exhaled and sat up. “Focus,” she murmured to herself. Her phone buzzed on the bedside table. A message. Gabriel: Good morning. I hope today is kind to you. Yna stared at the screen longer than necessary. She hadn’t expected the smile that tugged at her lips. It was simple. Unassuming. No pressure, no expectation hidd

The town felt like a pause the world had forgotten to interrupt.Yna Reyes stood by the open window of the cottage, morning air brushing against her skin as sunlight filtered through sheer curtains. The sea stretched endlessly beyond the trees, calm and unbothered, as if it existed solely to remind people that not everything demanded urgency.She breathed in slowly.For the first time in weeks, her thoughts weren’t racing. They drifted unstructured, quiet, almost shy.Behind her, she heard movement.“I didn’t mean to wake you,” Gabriel said softly.“You didn’t,” Yna replied, turning slightly. “I was already awake.”He paused at the doorway, holding two cups of coffee. “I took a guess. Milk, no sugar.”She smiled. “You remembered.”“I pay attention,” he said simply.She took the cup from him, their fingers brushing. It was brief, accidental and yet her chest tightened at the contact.Th

Later that night, Gabriel lingered at her door. He didn’t enter immediately, waiting for her to respond. “Yna,” he said softly. “May I?” She hesitated, conscious of her space, her privacy, but also keenly aware of the comfort she found in his presence. After a pause, she nodded. “Okay.” He stepped inside quietly, moving with the utmost care. He sat on the edge of her bed first, then slowly leaned down, brushing her hair from her face. “Mind if I… stay?” he asked gently, his voice almost a whisper. She swallowed, nerves flickering. “I… I don’t mind,” she admitted. Gabriel smiled faintly, resting against the headboard. Yna shifted slightly, unsure whether to move closer. The tension of first vulnerability, first trust, and first intimacy made her chest both heavy and light. “Good,” he said softly. “I’d like to be here… j