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Lahat ng Kabanata ng BORROWED LOVE ON ICE : Kabanata 91 - Kabanata 100

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IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE LOVE

XAVIER’S POV I don’t remember the last time I laughed this much. Today had been different—refreshing in a way I didn’t know I needed. Melissa had this energy about her, like she was carrying a pocket of sunshine that spilled over everyone around her, especially me. She cracked jokes in the middle of the shoot, teased me when I struggled with certain poses, and fussed about my hair like a mother hen, then giggled when I rolled my eyes at her.It wasn’t just the shoot; it was the way she kept looking at me. Not in pity. Not in obligation. But like she was genuinely happy to see me alive and breathing. After weeks of hospital walls, sterile lights, and endless reminders that I was broken, Melissa made me feel like I wasn’t. For a few hours, I wasn’t the guy recovering from an accident or the man piecing fragments of memory together. I was just Xavier—laughing, working, alive.When the shoot wrapped, she insisted on driving me home. I hated the fact that people still thought I was too

Huling Na-update : 2025-08-30

HOW COULD HE?

KATRINA’S POV I stormed out of Xavier’s apartment, my footwear striking the marble floor like drums of war. Each step was loud, angry, and unsteady because my hands were trembling and my eyes were blurred with unshed tears. Rage burned in my chest, but beneath it was a sadness that felt like a hole ripped open in the center of me. The kind of sadness that leaves you hollow yet burning at the same time.The door clicked shut behind me, and I froze in the hallway, clutching my bag so tightly my nails dug into the leather. My breathing came in shallow bursts, and for a moment, I just stood there, staring at nothing, listening to the echo of my heartbeat pounding in my ears.It felt like the universe was laughing at me, whispering, I told you so.I should have seen it coming. The way Melissa hovered, the way Xavier looked at her now with those needy, searching eyes, as if she were the only anchor he could cling to. And the way he recoiled whenever I drew near.God, it hurts. It broke m

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

I HAD TO FACE MYSELF

XAVIER'S POV Confused. That’s the only word I can use to describe the state of my mind right now. Everything feels like pieces of a puzzle scattered across the floor, and no matter how hard I try, they don’t seem to fit into one clear picture.I keep asking myself if I made the right decision—walking away from Katrina, or rather, telling her it was over after that heated argument. My head feels heavy, but my heart is heavier.It wasn’t supposed to happen like that. One moment we were talking, ,well more like arguing and the next moment, it escalated into something I never imagined. Words flew, sharp and cutting, and I didn’t even recognize myself as I said them. I told her maybe we should just call it quits. The look on her face when I said that still lingers in my mind like a ghost I can’t shake off.She stormed out, her shoes hitting the floor, each sound echoing in my chest. And then silence. A silence that screamed louder than any argument we could ever have.Now I sit here, rest

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

SOMETHING HAD SHIFTED TONIGHT

MELISSA‘S POV I sank deeper into the couch, hugging a pillow to my chest as though it could anchor me. The city outside my apartment pulsed with life—honking cars, laughter echoing from the street below, the faint hum of neon signs—but inside, the silence pressed down too thick, too heavy.My apartment wasn’t much. Cream curtains that swayed when the draft slipped through the window cracks. A sagging bookshelf that smelled faintly of old paperbacks I never had time to read. A handful of framed photos from shoots I barely remembered posing for. And above the television, a glossy magazine cover with my smile plastered on it—frozen, polished, hollow. Tonight it mocked me more than anything.I buried my face into the pillow, muffling the restless sigh that kept escaping my chest. But nothing drowned out the memory of the last text I’d gotten from Xavier.He broke up with her.The words played on a loop in my head, sharp and soft all at once. Relief flickered like a match inside me—hot,

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

CALL IT OBSESSION

KATRINA’S POV I managed to see a cab that took me back to my apartment. The ride stretched like forever. I watched the city roll past, but the streets bled into one another—lights, buildings, shadows—all blending into a haze I couldn’t untangle, just like my thoughts.My reflection in the glass looked strange to me—eyes dull, lips trembling, and skin looking pale like someone who had been stripped of everything.The weekend was barely over, yet I had already received the news I dreaded most. The one news I had prayed against with every bit of strength in me.Xavier recovery should have been a relief. It should have made me fall to my knees with gratitude, thanking God for sparing him, for giving us another chance. But instead, it twisted inside me like a knife, cutting deeper with every breath. Because recovery came with a condition—his attachment to Melissa.If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s this: I will not let Xavier go.Call it love. Call it madness. Call it obsession.

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

THE PATH I CHOOSE

XAVIER’S POV It’s been close to a month since I broke up with Katrina.Thirty days of silence. Thirty days without her voice filling my ears, without her name flashing across my phone. The absence felt strange at first, like something I was so used to having that I didn’t quite know how to function without it. But here’s the truth I’ve had to face, a truth that might sound cruel if I said it out loud: it wasn’t pain I felt.It was relief.She’s gone, and with her went the weight I had been carrying for years. That heavy expectation to keep showing up, to keep playing a role that never truly fit me. I thought when it ended, I would feel crushed, suffocated by guilt or by loneliness. Instead, what I felt was the first real breath of freedom I’ve taken in a long time.I should feel guiltier than this, I know. Katrina gave me years of her life. She stood beside me when it mattered, she tried to build something with me, something stable, something people from the outside might have calle

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

OFFICIALLY MINE

XAVIER'S POV I sat with my phone in hand for longer than I should have, staring at her name on the screen. Mellisa. Just seeing it made my chest tighten, made my pulse quicken.A month had passed since Katrina and I ended things, and though I should’ve felt haunted, broken, or at the very least conflicted, all I felt was this magnetic pull toward her sister. Toward the woman who had turned my whole world upside down without even trying.She had been keeping her distance. I noticed. Every time I stepped closer, she stepped back. Every time our eyes lingered too long, she turned away. And I understood why. She didn’t want to be the one accused of stepping into her sister’s shadow.But she was wrong. She wasn’t in anyone’s shadow. She was the light itself.Enough was enough.I wasn’t going to keep waiting for her fear to dissolve on its own. I needed to show her what I already knew—that she wasn’t a mistake, wasn’t a rebound, wasn’t some dangerous distraction. She was mine. And I was do

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

JUST US

MELISSA’S POV It’s funny how life works. Just a few months ago, Xavier was the most annoying man in my life. He had this way of showing up everywhere I went, saying things that got under my skin, teasing me until I wanted to scream. I used to tell myself I hated him, that he was arrogant and smug, that I could never be around someone like him without losing my patience.But now?Now he’s the love of my life.And I don’t even know when the shift happened. Maybe it was the little moments, like the way his eyes softened when he looked at me. Or how he always seemed to notice the tiniest things—like when I changed my perfume. Maybe it was how he stood by me when I needed someone most, even when I pushed him away.Or maybe, deep down, it was always there, buried under layers of denial.I just never imagined that the same man I once considered a thorn in my side would be the very one to make my heart beat this fast.The irony? He’s my sister’s ex.I still feel guilty every time I think abo

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

NOW IT FELT RIGHT

XAVIER’S POV After Melissa and I made our relationship official, things had been moving surprisingly smooth—almost too smooth, like life was giving me a chance to catch my breath after years of turbulence.Dates, late-night calls that stretched until dawn. Cinema trips where she always stole half my popcorn and pretended she didn’t. Lazy movie nights in her living room, where the film would play in the background but I’d find myself watching her more than the screen.With her, it didn’t feel like work. It didn’t feel like performance or obligation. It just felt natural—like this was where I was supposed to be all along.There wasn’t noise anymore. No guilt gnawing at my chest, no endless drama leaving me drained. Just quiet, simple joy. The kind of peace I hadn’t realized I’d been starving for. For the first time in a long time, I could breathe without my mind being pulled in ten different directions.Melissa made it easy. She didn’t demand it. She didn’t force it. She just… existed

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

FOR REAL THIS TIME

XAVIER'S POV When I asked Melissa if we should go public for real this time, my heart was pounding harder than it ever had in a game. It wasn’t about strategy or tactics anymore—it was about letting the whole world know that this woman was mine. Not a publicity stunt, not a storyline cooked up by Marco, not smoke and mirrors to sell headlines. It was really us.She hesitated. I caught it—the flicker in her eyes, the way her lips pressed together for a moment as if weighing the risk. My chest tightened, bracing for rejection, for doubt, for one of those “not yet” speeches that would leave me pacing through the night.But then her whole face shifted. Her lips curved into a slow, radiant smile, and her eyes lit up like stars breaking through a cloudy sky. “Sure,” she said, voice soft but steady, “I’ve been meaning to tell you about it anyway.”I felt relief rush through me so fast I almost laughed. Instead, I leaned closer and kissed her cheek, letting my lips linger against her skin.

Huling Na-update : 2025-09-01

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