Kombat 98

Malaking halaga ang kinakailangan ni Colleen Perez para mabili ang bahay na kanyang nais para sa kanila ng kaniyang kapatid. Ngunit dahil hindi sapat ang kanyang ipon ay pumunta siya sa bangko para kumuha ng loan. At ang housing loan lamang ang available para sa halaga na kinakailangan nya. Hindi naging madali ito dahil hindi pa siya pasado sa kwalipikasyon. May kinakasama o dapat kasal na ang maaaring maka avail lamang ng loan na ito. Dahil dito tinanggap niya ang alok ng kakilala niyang lola na makipag blind-date sa kaniyang apo at pumayag sa alok nitong kasal. Ang hindi niya lang inaasahan ay boss niya sa trabaho ang magiging ka blind-date niya at agad siyang pumayag sa idea na sila ay magkaroon ng isang contractual relationship sa loob lamang ng isang taon.

“It won’t be a straight death from where you’re standing.” I blink, turning around. “What?” But he doesn’t give me a reply. At least not yet. Instead, he takes hold of my arms in his large, gloved hands, and pulls me to him so that we are standing toe to toe. “What are you doing?” I whisper. This new position has brought us closer. So close that if I stand on my toes, and he dips his head down a bit, I’d probably have the best kiss… “If you fall from here, the possibility of you dying immediately is 98% at the very least,” He begins as I stare at him with my mouth slightly agape. “Falling from where you stood before is about 35% lesser. You’d die eventually, maybe after a night or two of trying to revive your shattered bones, but not immediately.” Having made his point, he steps back from me and climbs down the somewhat elevated platform. “Did you just make way for me to kill myself?” I murmur, feeling like I’m losing my mind all over again. What kind of a man is this? *** Sonia’s life is going great one minute and then takes a spin for the worse when she is betrayed, gets pregnant and worse, is told that she will be getting married to Italian mafia heir, Anthony Romero, who doesn’t mind raising another man’s child. She abhors the idea, but having also recently been disowned by her father, she has no choice but to accept the marriage proposal if she wants protection for herself and her child. But she has questions. Why would a sane man from her world want to raise a child that isn’t his? Surely they’re ulterior motives in play.