A/N: Credits to Eagles for using their song "Love Will Keep Us Alive" (1993)
CHAPTER 35
"What do you mean?"
There was a heaviness in the air between us now, something that made my pulse quicken. He took a breath before speaking, and I waited.
"I didn't make it through law school just working part-time," he admitted. "It was impossibly difficult. There were times I thought about giving up."
"Hindi ba tinulungan ka ni Immanuel noon? What do you mean by that?" puna ko sa kaniya.
He nodded slowly. "He did help me. But when I was younger, before that. I couldn't have survived school without... your parents."
My eyes grew in a fraction. The way he mentioned my parents shocked me.
"My father was furious when my mother left him. All that rage, all that pain, he directed it at me because I
