Lila´s Game

easure, the fruit of months of serving coffee with an angel's smile and a dangerous gaze, was finally complet

was a beautiful contradiction: tenderness wrapped in desire, sin disguised as purity. She knew the effect she had. She saw it in the glanc

hat narrow, dusty street in Cebu and handed hi

ixture of sweetness and promise.

t bow, as if he understood he wasn't

t this week,

d time to turn around when a hooded young man burst into the store. Wit

re, sparkling, intoxicating. Her heart was pounding; her senses were sharper than ever. The thief was slipping through the market ve

r. From their boiled corn stand, their gazes m

y!" Aroon bellowe

ody glided with feline precision, while the more

s echoing through the alleys. The thief turned down a particularly narrow one, where the l

ams. Thanom arrived right after, direct and lethal, delivering a sharp blow to the thief's side. T

y from the heat, from the exertion... from the tension. She knelt immediately, not out of fear of losin

broke free from Aroon, pushed T

d, and grabbed a wooden box,

ors rushed in to restrain him. Aroon and Thanom r

what she had just won. Some bills were dirty, others damp, but they were still there

u..." she

An invisible bond. A be

looked at each other, aware of what

The First

y, she stopped in front of a small corn stand. She was wearing a short skirt and a loose blouse, too light to hid

irst to approac

d, with that smile of his th

elted cheese. Lila accepted it wit

came to s

. He never said much. But his gaze wasn't silent. It w

plan to do here?"

licking her lips before b

my own

istled,

unds amb

la?" Thanom asked finally

ave them a soft smile, one of thos

ave to leave everything

between the three of them. I

ES

ng, Lila looked at them intensely. That intensity

ved was that neither of them said it out loud. But they both felt it

aw passion. Desir

Restrained silenc

middle. And she liked i

oose? Maybe neither of

hing was c

be the reason tha

idn't kn

I alre