* released January 2014
Nagngingitngit si Czarina nang malamang pumayag ang mahadera niyang kapatid na magpakasal sa pinsan ng abogadong amo nito, kapalit ng malaking halaga.
Kaya siya napadpad sa opisina ni Atty. Darren Feliciano. Para makiusap sa lalaki na kumbinsihin ang pinsan nito at bawiin ang alok na ‘sideline’ sa kapatid niya. Wala siyang balak mang-away, promise. Mahinahong pakikipag-usap lang kung magiging matinong kausap ang abogado at kung wala itong kinalaman sa kalokohang iyon; bagaman duda siya sa huli.
Ngunit naparalisa ang utak ni Rina nang makita ang lalaking balak niyang awayin—este, kausapin.
Si Atty. Feliciano ang tipong maiisip ninuman na iniregalo ng Diyos sa kababaihan….
Trivia:
* The idea for this story came from a movie I watched but that was about this rich girl who offered a troubadour a ‘living’ by posing as her fiance. They also had friends who objected to their connection and my version centers on these two.
* Magsingal in Ilocos Sur is where my paternal grandfather hails from. I’d been there, too, quite a number of times so when I described the farm, I was thinking of my relatives’ place.