Wyatt Roberts is the chief executive officer of a well-known food enterprise in the Philippines. He already possesses everything, including wealth, good looks, and a healthy body. However, there is one thing he lacks: love. When his girlfriend betrayed him, he became cold-hearted and never loved again, believing that there was no happy ending to a love story. He is emotionless and has a slight aversion to his employees. He immediately terminates their employment. None of his employees attempted to voice their dissatisfaction with his decisions until one day a woman arrived, and she was the only one who dared to speak out against his mistreatment of them. His cold heart melted over time as Effie Cynara altered his perspective on life. He gradually fell for that woman, despite his hesitation out of fear of being hurt again. Will he be able to resist his feelings for the girl despite the fact that he knows what happened to him could happen again, or will he succumb to his feelings for the girl and fall in love again?

Kathleen Fae Camongol is one of the most powerful brilliant doctor of the country. A lot of women wished to be like her because of her beauty, brain and wealth. Maraming tao ang nag hahangad ng buhay na mayroon siya pero hindi nila alam na siya mismo ay nag hahangad ng ibang buhay. Ang kanyang puso ay sarado sa nakararami, hindi siya nag titiwala agad, para sa kanya ay sarili lamang niya ang makakatulong niya. Isa pa, ang puso niya ay sobrang nanlalamig dahil sa pangungulila sa ina, pag hahanap ng mga sagot at pag hahangad ng pagmamahal. A lot of people made her feel that they are only there for her because they need her and she believed it. Her trust and love is not for anyone, para sa kanya ay hindi niya kailanman 'yon maibibigay kahit kanino man. But one day... someone came and that someone had the courage to make her take that chance she feared the most.

Thunder Devaux is a 27-year-old dominant businessman who owns the Devaux company. He is good-looking and has tantalizing green eyes. He's an irresistible beast that every woman begs for his attention. He was drunk when he had a one-night stand with a stranger who made him head-over-heels in love without knowing her name. He doesn't know everything about the woman he fancies in his dream. He tried to look for him but to no avail. Little did he know, the woman she had a one-night encounter with was his secretary. Riya Venice Fortalejo is a 25-year-old drop-dead gorgeous woman and a secretary of Thunder, the man she gave herself into a one-night stand. She struggles with finances, so she looks for a job to support her ill-tempered aunt so she does not get driven out of her place. She got hired in Devaux company as Thunder's secretary. Thunder didn't recognize her, much to her dismay. But she's hopeful one day that Thunder will be able to remember her as the woman he had a one-night encounter with.

~~my entry to the friends-to-lovers- trope/cliche~~ GENRE: Erotic Romance (M/F) LANGUAGE: Taglish ( sprinkled with Hiligaynon and Akeanon dialogues) DISCLAIMER: This work is for MATURE ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY. It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes between two consenting fictional characters of legal age (under Philippine laws). Some readers might find the graphic descriptions of sexual acts and highly sexualized dialogues offensive. Thus, reader discretion is advised which means that when you read this work, you (yes, dear reader, you) made a conscious decision to consume material content of a sexual nature. You chose to read this. No one forced you. Then again, there is HEA to be enjoyed. So, enjoy! ***** Date Started: June 9, 2021 Date Finished: September 27, 2022 Date Reached 1M Reads: December 1, 2023 Date Edited for Publishing: February 1, 2024

His death really took a toll in my life. Pain. Regret. Guilt. Anger. I was devastated when he was gone. I couldn't believe that my own best friend could do something horrible like that. Yosh and Ted. We are B1 and B2. That was our name at Circuit Agency. There was no explanation why he betrayed the agency that trained us, and let those innocent agents to be killed along the way. There was no reason why he left and sacrificed his own family for his own personal sake. At hindi kakayanin ng konsensiya kong makitang nalulugmok ang asawa niyang iniwan na lang niya basta. Ang asawa niyang sa una pa lang ay minahal ko na.

Chey Venice Fortalejo is the "friendliest" and most approachable amongst the Fortalejo cousins. Since they were young, she had been very vocal about her supposed crush on Toshi Delafuente. Mula noon ay sigurado siya sa kanyang nararamdaman para sa kababata kahit wala itong ibang ginawa kundi pagsungitan. Ni isang beses ay hindi nito sinuklian ang kanyang pagtingin. All her life she chased for the boy who didn't even spare her one glance and begged for his love she thought was for her until Grey-the ill-tempered and troublemaker Delafuente, entered the picture. He made her slip and fall into his arms. Will she ever recover as she slipped into the wrong Delafuentes life?

Brandish Eireen Varquez is one of the wealthiest clans of the Delafuentes, the "alpha" female of her generation who strikes a superior and powerful aura was forced into a fixed marriage she never wished to have. Her plan was to get away with him, to free herself from her mother's crazy ideas about taming her. She will do anything to ruin the marriage. How come Asiel, the motherfucker she hates the most, made her fall on her knees and tainted her name with his surname, which changed her life in just a snap?

Mara Torrefranca Buenaventura is one of the "deadliest" girl in her clan. She wears innocence as a mask that hides her wickedness and ruthlessness behind an angelic facade. She's the karma of those people who hurt her first. But one heartbreak would turn all her beliefs against her making her life miserable-chained to her past and ruled by guilt. A prisoner of her own misery. But will a man she viewed as the villain in her life be enough to bend her morals and make her feel what real love is?