Semua Bab His Darkest Pledge (Entice Series 3): Bab 1 - Bab 6

HIS DARKEST PLEDGE WRITTEN BY: TATTERDEMALION This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. No part of this story may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the author's permission. Also, I want to remind you that this story is unedited. I'm always updating typographical, grammatical, and spelling errors in my chapters, so please bear with me. Before you read this story, I just want to say thank you. I hope you'll stay with me until the very end... CHAPTER 1 Maraming bagay sa mundo na hindi mo dapat itapon, kalimutan, lalong-lalo na ang takasan. Dahil kapag ginawa mo? Hahabulin ka ng konsensya. Hanggang sa hindi ka makatulog sa gabi, hanggang sa maging dominant iyon sa isip mo, hanggang sa isang araw—magsisisi ka na lang kung bakit mo iyon ini

CHAPTER 3FLASHBACKUmalis na kami ni Dad nang gano'n gano'n lang. Hindi ko man lang nalaman ang buong pangalan ng lalaking pakakasalan ko. Just "Lance Vetara" and "Kingsland"—a first name and a company. That was all I knew about my future husband.Ngunit may mga pangyayari nga talaga na hindi mo inaasahan. My Dad was caught by police that night. Nandoon ako kung saan niya binaril si Ate Cherry at si Tita Nessia.He shot two people and police shot him twice—one bullet hit a vital part of his body.The paramedics worked on him for twenty minutes before they stopped, before they pulled the sheet over his face. He didn't make it.He was declared dead on arrival.Isang maulang gabi na hindi ko alam kung ano ang gagawin ko.Tita Nessia died because of Dad's carelessness and anger. Si Ate Cherry naman ay nakaligtas, ngunit hindi ko siya kayang harapin dahil sa takot na baka ibuntong niya sa akin ang galit.I didn't know who to cry for. Si Tita Nessia na naging mabait sa akin? Or Dad, despit

CHAPTER 5Noong nag-aaral kami ni Luna sa nursing, matindi ang naging frustration namin. It was worse for me because Kuya Limuel was the one paying for my education. Even though he never asked me to, I pushed myself relentlessly to excel and avoid failing even a single subject.We weren't minors anymore. We used to feel this overwhelming thirst for... needs. Studying to become nurses brought intense frustrations, and sometimes it was impossible not to seek some kind of escape.Luna said that some of my classmates were engaging in their sex lives, lalo na noong fourth year daw kami. She also mentioned that she and her boyfriend were doing it too—said that with all the stress from hospital deployments, exams, and tentative grades that needed fixing because of failures, those kinds of thoughts would just creep into their minds."Para lang siyang release valve," saad niya nang graveyard kami sa shift. "Alam mo 'yon, kapag sasabog ka na dahil sa program na ito, at least that's something yo