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Rust and Roses

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Semi never dreamed of love-she only wanted to survive. Juggling multiple jobs and keeping everyone at arm's length, she built walls too high for anyone to climb. Until Teo came along. Wealthy, persistent, and utterly smitten, he had no business chasing after a girl like her. Yet, he did.

She let him stay-not because she believed in love, but because she liked his presence. And for the first time, someone made her feel like she wasn't just rust-like she could be something beautiful, like roses blooming through the cracks of her broken past.

But when her violent father resurfaces, demanding the money she never spent, and the mother who abandoned her turns out to be tied to Teo's world in the worst way possible, Semi is forced to confront the reality she tried to escape. A painful betrayal, a cruel promise, and a desperate choice threaten to pull them apart.

Yet, Teo refuses to let go. Even when she runs. Even when she breaks. Even when she tells him it's over. Because for Teo, Semi isn't just someone he loves-she's his home.

And he'll do anything to keep her.All Rights Reserved

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Karmine's Tale by KarleenMedalle

Nagsimula sa pagkukunwari na mauuwi sa totohanan. Malampasan kaya nilang dalawa ang mga pagsubok na kanilang kakaharapin? May happily-ever-after nga ba para sa babaeng mayroong madilim at masamang nakaraan? * * * Meet Karmine, the girl who yearns happiness and security with the people she loves dearly but why is it that happiness is so hard to come by? She had a past, a past that she badly wanted to forget. A dark and horrid past that tormented her and gave her nightmares after nightmares even in her waking times. Then, she meet Robert, a man whom she learned to love. It was all a deal, a contract, an agreement yet she fell deep, hard and fast. From a pretend relationship turned into a full blown love affair. Both fell in love when they least expect it. Theirs was a right love at the wrong time. It's been so long since the last time she let her anger and hatred took over her. It was a pretty bad sight, something she vowed to never let it consume her again. But how could she, when they won't let her live free? Will she ever have her own happy ending? Former Title: His Pretend Fiancée

A Gangster's Lover Series Book 1: Axll Romero (COMPLETED) by Axll_Aceberos

WARNING: MATURE CONTENT | R-18 | SPG (BxB) Kyle Xerxez Moriz isn't rich nor famous. He is just a man who want's to have a good future for his family. He's wise and also kind hearted. Axll Romero, rich, handsome, famous, bad boy who happened to be a gangster. Axll just know's how to fought and fought with other who messed around with him and his so called gang. He doesn't care about his future. But he was tested when he meets Kyle Xerxez Moriz. Axll knows that he's starting to fall in love with Kyle but the thing is he don't know how to expressed it. So all he does is to bother and annoyed Kyle everytime he saw him. But can really Axll change into a better person for Kyle?

More than a Fantasy by gemjool

In a world where everyone wants to be aesthetic, she's used to being admired but never truly seen. Compliments come easy-"You're so pretty!" "You look amazing!"-but no one ever asks, "Are you okay?" For the longest time, she's felt like a painting in a gallery-gazed at, praised, but never really known. Then there's him. He's not the poetic type who spins metaphors about her beauty, nor the mysterious bad boy everyone secretly obsesses over. He's just... him. The kind of person who forgets his umbrella on rainy days, orders the same coffee every morning, and sometimes stumbles over his words when he's excited. The first time they talked, he didn't stare too long. Didn't say she was breathtaking. Instead, he simply asked: "Pagod ka na ba?" And somehow, that meant more than any compliment ever did. With him, she doesn't have to be perfect. She doesn't have to be put together, doesn't have to filter her words or curate every moment. She can be quiet, messy, lost in her thoughts-and still, he stays. He listens. He waits. He makes her feel like she doesn't have to be anyone else but herself. Sometimes, love isn't about grand gestures or heart-fluttering moments. Sometimes, it's just someone who makes space for you, who stays even when the moment isn't aesthetic, even when you're not your best, even when you have nothing to say. And for the first time, she doesn't feel like a painting in a gallery. She feels like she's home.

Farewell √ by Courageousbeast

COMPLETED! √ Vale Samson, a girl who just wanted to protect her heart from the pain that love can cause her. A girl who wants to feel loved for the third time but again, failed. She knew that her heart belongs to someone who she can't call hers. The reason she tried to like - love someone who was there by her side in the years she yearned for him. It was unexpected to see him again after three years. And in those three years without him, she feels incomplete and she feels that something is missing. She tried to ignore it but she failed when he tried to win her heart again for the second time. She gives him want he wants never minding the things she discovered about him because she loves him too much. She wanted to have a normal teenage life like others do. However, fate doesn't want her to have it. She became happy again. She feels complete and she feels home. She thought when she comes back in to his arms, everything will fall on its places and everything will be on her control. And she was wrong. As the saying goes, everything has an end. It didn't flaw like she wanted to. It was out of her control. And it pained and hurt her. It was a disappointment, yes. But the thing that made her heart suffer and in pain is the thing that she didn't expect him to do. She trusted him again, she's proud to have him but then, it killed her. It killed her heart for trusting him too much. For making herself feel so loved by him. She was blinded and she was tortured, silently. As she also thought that her sufferings end there, she was wrong. She didn't think that the past will be back again, to hunt her, to chase her and to torture her. And the least she thought will kill her. "I love you too, baby. But it's better this way." Edited! Plagiarism is a CRIME! -phot not mine. Credits to the real owner of the photo.

Healing You by newgirlfromnowhere

She's a woman trying to hold everything together-family, work, and the weight of her past. He's a man quietly healing from grief and the pieces he's lost. When their paths cross, they find something gentle in each other. But sometimes, even love isn't enough to save what's already breaking.

Until My Heartaches End (On Hold) by notthatlady

You have the power over your pain. -- After Lara Adeline Romirez lost everything she dearly loves, she promises to keep her already shattered heart unharmed. She can't afford to lose these remaining pieces anymore. All throughout the years, she gives her heart to no one. She avoids any entanglements. She does not make any new friends despite her bestfriend's wish. Because for her new life, to care is to be vulnerable. Yet, one day, a man forces himself to enter Lara's safe haven. She does anything to free herself from the grasp of this man but still fails. Will Lara let this man - a potential harm enters her life? Maybe, she has to. This man's never giving up. Meanwhile, Lara still lingers on with her bestfriend's memories; she looks so long at the closed door that she does not see the one that has been opened. When will all her heartaches end? It's up to her.

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After I Fell (COMPLETE) by Jaayyyywp

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Oddly Familiar by kahapsaywrites

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