"How I wish I was the girl you loved, Enzo." - Celine Celine never meant to fall, not for her best friend. But the heart rarely asks permission. In a bond built on laughter, loyalty, and late-night honesty, feelings begin to bloom... quietly, dangerously. Enzo, on the other hand, still clings to a promise made by someone from his past, a childhood love who vowed to return and marry him someday. Torn between memory and the present, he turns away from Celine's heart before realizing too late that home was always beside him. As Celine begins to piece herself back together, Enzo starts to unravel. This is a story about timing, missed chances, and the unspoken truths between two souls caught in the in-between. Will love find its way back? Or will they remain as what-ifs in each other's lives forever? What do you think? Is it too late, or is this just the beginning? Disclaimer: Any places, names, actions, moments, and other matters within the story are fully made by the playful and colorful imagination of the author. In addition, I apologize for my non-grammatical sentences. I'm not perfect and still trying to improve it. >> Language used: Tagalog - English >> Credits to the real owner of the story cover! ♡

Guillian Azari Silguero is a bold and independent woman who spent most of her life on the restaurant she managed. Her life was full of hatred against her father for choosing his mistress and for leaving. She loathes him more when her mother committed suicide after their annulment and blames him for all the pain she's been through. She was living her good life alone but it all suddenly changed when her father came back with his new family. It made her insecure and jealous that she can't watch them living happily while her life was all miserable. She wants to do something. She wants to get revenge. Her eagerness of ruining her father's family intensifies when she met her half sister's fiance named Gregorio Louie Lazcano Jr., a businessman and a father of a fourteen year old boy. But for her, he's nothing but a perfect toy to play with. Would he give in? Would he fall for her? What if he found out about her real intention? Would he forgive her? And... would she stick to her plan even if she found herself slowly drowning?

River Shail Embuscado is an innocent young lady who only wishes for her own happy ending and a prince charming that can save her from the evil twin stepsisters and cruel stepmother. They always give her hard time but it was not enough for them, they want to do something that can ruin her life. Unfortunately, she was invited to her best friend's eighteenth birthday party and unaware about her stepsisters plan. They drugged and trapped her inside the room of a man that she hasn't seen for years. Her best friend's brother, Maximus Midnight Valencia, a thirty years old former-playboy and only heir of the Valencias, a man who's far different from her ideal man. What would happen after their intimate night? Would he ignore her? Would he take the chance to play with her? Would he find out about her hidden feelings for him?

Kataleya Sylvie Armenteros is a young bartender who works in a high-class club and a mysterious girl raised in an orphanage since she was just an infant. When she turned eighteen, she decided to ran away from the place where she grew up and found herself living her own hard but peaceful life. Not until one night, she unintentionally shot someone to protect herself and had no idea that the man she hit by her own bullet was one of Ridge Zacarias Lazcano's trusted men, the leader of an illegal organization. A powerful and intimidating man who was known for his family's good reputation in politics that no one would ever dare to mess up with. The night Kataleya shot one of his men was like...jumping into the depth of blazing hell. How will she deal with him if she suddenly wakes up in his own territory?

Chaleesi Barbara Saldivar is a damsel in distress and a family oriented who grew up in a poor family, left her hometown at a very young age and worked in the city to provide the good life for her family. Her life in the city was fine as what she had expected it to be, but her plans faded when she received bad news from her mother. She needed a huge amount of money for her father's surgical operation. She has nothing to give so when a stranger offered her money to borrow, she didn't hesitate to accept it little did she know that it will take her freedom away. She had no other choice but to work in Mariposas' Paradise as a stripper to pay her debt. Then, the owner of the club wanted her to do more than just stripping, he was insisting her to be one of the prostitutes of the club. And since she was desperate to get away, she joined the Mariposas' auction night. But it never crossed her mind that someone would undoubtedly spend ten million pesos for her in exchange of something she wasn't aware of. And that someone is no other than Atty. Lucian Kye Villanova, a successful corporate lawyer who's looking for someone to heal his sad and miserable life. Two people with opposite personalities and have different views about life. He works for himself, she works for her family. He wants marriage, she wants money. Can a lawyer dominate an independent woman?

Samantha Seroona Gambreza was once contented to stare Lewis Zyberge De la Reevas from a far during their college days. Not until a shaking news shaken her admiration from a far. She gave up everything just to end up and to be with Lewis Zyberge. Pushing her parents into their limits, she succeeded in luring the scion of the De la Reevas clan into marriage. She was a devoted wife but a battered one. Does her desperation paid off after knowing that she might be living a tormented life as a wife? Or were the bruises, wounds, and painful battles in the arms of the only person who can tore her heart apart will be the only reason to start her life a new. Far from damages and far from betrayals, she is running after everything bearing the child of a beast. For she is that tormented wife, crying for escape.

Sandejas Legacy # "Sandejas Legacy continues..."