CHAPTER 44 ALINA TESORO I USED to think that love was simply a word. However, someone entered my life and taught me the meaning and importance of that verb. It was wonderful at first, and there were no words to describe how thrilled I was. But those same words will also shatter and ruin me and my quiet life. Now that I hear that word, I can't help but laugh because I can't even imagine myself falling in love again. The wound it left on me was so painful and deep that even as time passed, it could no longer be healed. So the very thought that I would love again and open my heart again was out of my mind. So hearing this man say how I make him feel happy, even just watching me from afar, makes me creep for some reason. “Yna, nababasa na si Lander oh! Baka gusto mo ng bilisan mag

