Said I Love You But I Lied (De Erio Series#1)

As the only daughter of the owner of the biggest carpentry company in the country, Patricia Elyss Villaluz or Patch feels the burden and pressure of having the title at the age of sixteen where she attended her first dinner party, meets other business people and got fat shamed and attacked by someone who is mentally ill.

There, she met a guy who saved her from the disaster and later on, she finds herself admiring him.

She confessed to him but as soon as she did that, she got the news that he just got engaged to the daughter of their rival company. Hindi niya alam kung ginusto rin ba ni Emmanuel Thaddeus De Erio ang desisyon na 'yon pero kinamuhian niya ito dahil doon. She thought he liked her too. Iba kasi ang pakikitungo niya sakanya kesa sa ibang mga babae.

Then she realized, "Oo nga naman at sinong magkakagusto sa isang batang mataba?"

He was twenty-two and she was sixteen. There are a lot of women fighting for him and for getting that fiancée spot while she can't just fight for that. Hindi lang dahil bata pa siya kundi ay marami pang mga babae diyan na kasing edad ni Emmett na kasing talino nito, maganda ang katawan at hindi lang ang itsura.

"I said I love you but... I lied."

Kailangan niyang bawiin ang sinabing mahal niya ito kahit totoo naman iyon dahil alam niyang wala rin naman siyang laban sa mga babaeng nagkakandarapa rin sakanya. He's worth the fight but she's not worth the battle.

She forgets about him, or so she thought she did.

Five years after, at nagkita ulit sila. He didn't change much only that his body became more matured. All muscles in their right places. Hindi katulad nito, maraming nagbago sakanya. She lost a lot of weight, grew some inches taller, her face more defined, and she's more matured now.

He still has that drop dead gorgeous face that could make the models of GQ unemployed. Same cold eyes, stoic face, dark stare. She stared at his ring finger...

So, after all that happened, he's still.. not married?