Sandejas Legacy #3: Chaining Lockets Sandejas Legacy continues... "He's still chained like a locket, not to me...but in someone else's neck." Crest Veronica Sandejas is the high-maintenance fashionista heiress of Atty. Iñigo Sandejas. The ultimate kikay of the century, she loves shopping, glittery things, booze, and parties. She believes in living her life to the fullest because she can only have it once. She loves spending money; she loves hanging out with friends and partying all night that her father could already imagine white strands of hair on his head. She's a happy-go-lucky woman, but behind those smiles lies the loneliest woman you'll ever meet. Crest was living the life until she met that man with seductive gray eyes and a strict, cold face, Lt. Lorcan Keith Dmitrov, the man who would turn her life upside down. She thought it was the start of her own happy ending, but soon realized she was not in a fairytale with rainbows and butterflies. Instead, they're in a dark fantasy, scary and twisted. When the secrets from their past start unraveling and monsters start chasing them, what if the ends of the links locking them met? Will they be able to free themselves from the chains tied to them?

It hurts the most when the person that made you feel special yesterday can make you feel unwanted today.

Ever since she was a child, Stephanie had felt Paul Jake's deep-seated hatred toward her-a resentment she never understood. He never hid his disdain, making it clear that she would never be part of his family. Yet, despite his coldness, she couldn't stop herself from loving him. Bound by an agreement she couldn't refuse, Stephanie must marry Paul Jake-the man who despises her-at the request of the very person who raised and protected her. She knows he loathes the arrangement, but in the end, he stands to benefit from it more than she does. "You will just warm my bed at night. That's the only purpose you will have in my life." His cruel words cut deep, but Stephanie accepts them without protest. If being his wife-his bed warmer wife-is the only way to stay close to him, then so be it. She's willing to endure his hatred, if only to love him in the only way she can.

If we were to talk about making the first move, boys are usually the ones who do it, but not in the case of Ireena Razon. For her, it was a now or never situation. Given that it was her last year of high school, she felt she had to do everything. You only turn 17 once in your lifetime, and after that, you can't afford to make foolish decisions anymore, she thought. Little did she know, this "foolish" 17-year-old decision she was about to make would shape the rest of her life. Book Cover from: Su Minh in Pexels