Maria Cleo Quijano a junior journalist hungry for one big break. She has spent months being invisible in the newsroom—coffee runs, background notes, stories no one remembers. Until her senior gives her a shot that could change everything: get proof of a high-level illegal transaction set to happen in secrecy. If she succeeds, she gets promoted. If she fails, she stays at the bottom forever.Cleo takes the risk.What she doesn’t know is that the deal is already compromised.Sid Baldemont arrives expecting betrayal. He received intel that someone leaked the transaction, and his men have gone silent. So he moves fast—personally—ready to shut it down before it collapses into chaos.But instead of an empty location…He finds her.Cleo Quijano—capturing every moment she was never supposed to see.Because Sid doesn’t tolerate witnesses.And Cleo just became one.
One night will change the life of Morisette Lebastro when she wakes up in an unfamiliar room, where an old man is already touching her thigh. In a panic and out of fear, she kicks him with all her strength and escapes. However, she is immediately chased by the old man’s men, forcing her to take refuge in a nearby room.
But what she doesn’t know is that the room she enters belongs to Xavier Zy Castellavire, a well-known billionaire business tycoon. Behind that identity, however, he is also the leader of The Obsidian, an organization that stands against powerful syndicates.
Morisette may have escaped the hands of the old man who sold her—but can she also escape the hands of Xavier Zy Castellavire?