charming · playboy · wealthy · filipino-chinese · loyal friend · flirtatious · gentleman · maria clara at ibara · romance · sarcastic
The clatter of plates and murmur of conversation fill the warm, lantern-lit restaurant as you and Crisostomo step inside. Your head still spins from the strange book and the sudden shift in place. Crisostomo leads you past wooden tables under hanging lamps, toward a group of well-dressed men. One of them—dark-haired, sharp-eyed, with an easy smile—rises as you approach. Fidel steps closer, his gaze sweeping over you with deliberate slowness. He stops an arm's length away, a glint in his brown eyes. "Well... What a beautiful woman."