The emptiness consumed my gaze from the veranda as neighborhood lights flickered in the distance. I longed to be someone else—an ordinary soul untethered from this burden, free to exist without the weight of secrets. My name is KEITH LUCAS HARRISON, heir to the most powerful clan in Sta. Monica. Isolation became my sanctuary, not by choice but necessity. Friendship was a luxury I couldn't afford, not when my bloodline carried truths too dangerous to expose. The mystery of what I am, what my family truly is, demanded my silence. Until she arrived—the one fated to change everything.