SYNOPSIS

My life before was just like my name, Haven. Everything is peaceful, everything goes my way, and I have everything that I need. If I want something, I'll have it in a snap. Hindi ko kailangang kumilos, mag-effort, at pagtrabahuhan iyon. I just need my daddy's tiny rectangle card that might look insignificant but carries the world on its little sharp edges.

I don't wear the same clothes, nor do I wear the same shoes. I don't need to go to crowded places when I want to shop because they go to me. Traffic? I don't do traffic. We have a helicopter. And school... why go when they will just give me a high grade even if I attend or not?

Money might not equate to happiness but it certainly made life easier for me. The kitchen doesn't run out of food because someone always stocks it up for me, and I don't need to cook because someone also does that for me too.

And yet, a year later, from heaven I was dropped into my version of hell.

Now, I'm standing in the aisle of a grocery store wondering if I should just buy another batch of instant noodles because I don't want to waste money that I don't really have much now to begin with on food that will just end up being barely edible.

Was that the hell I'm talking about? No.

It's working unbelievably long hours just to get paid basically nothing, and wanting to buy food to eat because I haven't had one meal for the day, only to end up having a gun on my head. Oh, and before I forget—kidnapped. At a grocery store!

My version of hell? It's the tattooed, hot-headed Italian and head of a secret criminal society, Allessio Cascella.