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Known as the only daughter and soon-to-be CEO of Russel Clothing, Inc., Dana Russel made it to the top of Powerful Businesswomen’s List every year. Everything was going well but when her father died, her ascent to the business throne made her a devious and cold person, always hungry for success. She never lost a deal nor a client, and the company has boomed into one of the biggest moneymakers in the country. Everything seemed perfect, but not really.

Being labelled as the Young Lady Tycoon, everyone assumes Dana’s living the ideal life but underneath the surface, hers is a rollercoaster ride. With no friends and family members to talk to, she only has a pile of papers and a fat bank account to comfort her at night. When she faced struggles that are way beyond her control, she met Ivor Lynch, the stranger who helped her once when she was in a difficult time and the owner of “He Brews”, a coffee shop just across her company. A college dropout, he managed to buy himself a space and start from scratch. Coming from two different worlds and having varied interests, the two discovered a fresh start for friendship… and something more. Balancing her role as a head of a company and establishing a successful relationship with Ivor was harder than Dana expected, making her choose between the two. In a world where you can’t be both and to choose one means losing the other, is Dana ready to let go of the only thing she loves the most?

Her Way of Things

That night, everyone else in the house went out for a grocery. There was a near supermarket uptown, as what Ivana said. By 8pm, she and her parents were getting out of the house, borrowing Ivor's car. I was sitting on the couch still, Ivor on the door, leaning in to wave goodbye to his family. When the headlights started and drove towards the gate, I was left with the fact that for a couple of hours, I would be here with no one else but Ivor, which is fine, if only he didn't see me cry earlier because I was overthinking.

He finally closed the door and locked it. Before they went out, we had dinner of beef stock soup and grilled squid. Unlike what happened during lunch, dinner was quieter. I bet it was because they were planning to get out to the supermarket that they saved time.

"are you tired today?" – suddenly, Ivor was beside me. no, not really beside me. There was a justified amount of space between us.

"yes. Kind of. You?" – I asked back

Stars are Out