FINAL THE HOUSE THAT OUTLIVED US

For seven years, Amarielle Celestine Villafuerte believed that the cruelest thing life had ever done to her was take away her younger brother. She was wrong. Because the man who taught her how to live with that loss, Severino Gabriel Sarmiento, was also the man who knew the truth behind it. Minahal niya ito sa loob ng pitong taon. Seven years of ordinary mornings, whispered promises, and a future they had already begun calling theirs. She thought she knew everything about him-until an old cassette tape arrived, carrying the voice of someone who had been dead for years. And suddenly, the love she once considered her salvation became the very thing she needed saving from. But the truth was far crueler than betrayal. Because before Amarielle forgot what happened that night, she had made a choice. A choice that destroyed an innocent life. A choice Severino had spent seven years keeping buried. And when the past finally comes back to claim them, they will discover that loving someone does not always mean you deserve to keep them. He would choose her in every lifetime. She would spend the rest of hers wishing he hadn't.