Alyn_wrts02
Samantha Rae Garcia was never meant to be found-at least not by the family that lost her.
After getting separated during a childhood trip, she was raised in the quiet town of Sta. Maria by the kind-hearted Lola Cecilia, surrounded by warmth, friendship, and the freedom to dream. But when Lola passes away, Samantha's biological family reclaims her-not out of love, but obligation. In their eyes, she's a stranger. In their home, she's invisible.
To earn their approval, Samantha buries her passion for painting and follows a path they choose for her. But on her eighteenth birthday, her father announces a future she never agreed to: an arranged marriage to Zero Lorenzo Atienza-her childhood friend Hunter's cold, calculating rival.
Zero is everything Samantha isn't-stoic, logical, emotionally distant. Forced into a private wedding and a shared home, they live like strangers... until silence becomes something else. In the quiet, Samantha begins to paint again-secretly reviving her identity as the world-renowned artist "Ms. Rere."
But when her jealous adopted sister impersonates Ms. Rere to steal the spotlight, Samantha's carefully guarded secret teeters on the edge of exposure. What she doesn't know is that Zero already knows the truth-and he's been falling for the woman behind the canvas all along.
In a marriage built on duty and silence, can love find its voice?
"She painted in silence. He listened without words. And somewhere in the quiet, love began to speak."