Alas Stories

Nikolai Marie Nitura spent most of her life avoiding the spotlight. Once a women's basketball player for the University of the Philippines, she quietly walked away from sports to pursue engineering and business, choosing ambition and privacy over fame. Strict, playful, and fiercely protective, Nikolai is the steady force behind her family-especially for her younger sister, volleyball sensation Shaina Marie Nitura. Then she meets Bella Belen-the world-renowned volleyball star and celebrated graduate of the National University Women's Volleyball Team. Confident, admired, and constantly surrounded by attention, Bella is everything Nikolai avoids. But as their worlds slowly collide, Nikolai realizes that some people have a way of breaking through even the strongest walls. #2

She's definitely not a policewoman, but she knows how to use guns. She's not a statue either, but she's as emotionless as a rock. She's obviously not a man, but she can defeat you with a punch. Her beauty can lure everyone, she has the curves to die for. She's Uno with an ace, and that's what makes her called 'the first.