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My boyfriend is a forensic doctor. I've been abducted and tied to a bomb—there's only ten minutes to detonation. The abductors force me to call my boyfriend, but all I get is a scolding. "What the hell do you want, Michelle? What are you playing at, using your life as an excuse just because you're jealous? "Vi's cat has already been stuck in a tree for three days. She loves it like it's her life! If you delay me from saving it, you'll be a murderer!" I hear a coquettish voice ring out on the other end of the line. "Thank you for this, Kev. You're amazing!" I recognize that voice—it belongs to my boyfriend's childhood friend. I text my boyfriend when the bomb is about to explode. "Farewell forever. I pray we won't meet each other again in another life."

My boyfriend and his godsister were caught by the vice squad at a scandalous party. When I went to the police station to bail him out, he was disheveled, his exposed skin marked with dried candle wax and whiplash scars. His godsister, Sonia, clung to him, sobbing into his arms. “The light in Sonia’s house was broken. It was too dark, so I went to accompany her,” he said. I couldn’t help but wonder, Did he accompany her all the way to the police station too? In the past, I would’ve demanded an explanation, but I was too tired now—too drained to argue. Without a word, I signed the papers. The vice squad officer looked at me and asked, “Are you Anthony Leeman’s family?” I shook my head. “No, I’m not familiar with him. Just a colleague.” Lowering my gaze, I typed out a message to my father: [I agree to get married. Give me three days, and I’ll marry him.]

Isang babaeng nagtrabaho sa isang Casino na nangarap yumaman , ngunit nahulog ang loob nito sa isang lalaking anak ng bilyonaryo pero badboy , nabuntis ito at iniwan sya ng lalaki. Matapos s'yang nanganak nangako s'yang hindi na babalik pa sa Casino na kanyang pinagtatrabahuan dahil kinasusuklaman n'ya ang lalaking nang iwan sa kan’ya. Subalit dumating sa puntong hindi na n'ya alam kung paano bubuhayin ang anak kaya namasukan ito bilang katulong subalit hindi nito alam na doon pala nakatira ang lalaking kanyang kinasusuklaman. Mahigit limang taon din hindi sila nagkita at hindi din alam ng lalaki na may anak sila, madami narin ang nagbago nagkaroon na ito ng nobya at malapit na silang ikasal ng babae. Habang nagtatrabaho s‘ya sa bahay nila Gabriel Bustamante ang lalaking kinamumuhian nito ang ama ng anak niya. Si Samantha naman ay pinipilit na hindi ipahalata ang kanyang nararamdamang galit. Dahil nakatira sila sa isang bahay hindi maiwasan ng lalaki na lumapit sa kanya sa tuwing sila lang ang nasa bahay, dahil sa galit ni Samantha kay Gabriel kahit anong pilit nitong paglapit sa kanya ay hindi nya ito kinakausap, dahil sa araw araw nitong kinukulit si Samantha ay malapit na syang madala ng charisma ni Gabriel, isang araw ay hindi na nito napigilan ang sarili ng lumapit ito at hinalikan s'ya sa labi ng lalaki ay biglang dumating ang kasintahan nito at muntikan na silang mahuli. Araw araw kinakausap nito ang kanyang anak na si Mika sa pag-uusap nila ng anak ay narinig ito ni Gabriel napatanong ito kung may anak na s'ya subalit hindi nya sinabi na anak nila. Araw araw din inaakit ni Gabriel si Samantha dahil hindi pa naman sila naaaktuhan ng nobya nito, hanggang sa isang araw may napansin na ang live in partner nito na kakaiba sa kanila.

I was diagnosed with stomach cancer, so I went online to hire an undertaker in the hopes that he would collect my body. That way, I could die and be buried. I would like to finally be at peace, even if it meant that I could only achieve it after death. I packed up my bags and left home in search of a place to die, only to receive a message from my undertaker. [Sorry, something came up. I can’t come now.] …Excuse me? I’m already half-dead, and you’re blowing me off?

Five years after my death, my daughter, Emma, dialed Xander Green’s number. She cautiously asked, "Do you like my mom?" She was trying to get an answer to the question I once wrote in my diary. "Xander, do you like me?" Unexpectedly, the voice on the other end sneered, "Did your mom put you up to this? Using her own daughter like a pawn? What an unfaithful woman! She’s already with your dad, yet still trying to rekindle things with me?"

Everyone knew how much I was in love with Alex Carter. I was willing to do anything for Alex just to see him happy and never bothered if they ruined my dignity or worth. But to Alex, I was seen as a desperate shameless lady who wanted him by all means even though I knew he always had a lover. After we got married, he treated me like dirt and threw me in prison, accusing me of financial crimes. Killed by a jailer sent by him, I died with regret of loving him. When I woke up again, I found myself back on my wedding day with Alex in my previous life and realised it was an afterlife, a second chance at life. This time, I wouldn't let him ruin me twice.

I wrote this story for the broken-hearted girl who walked away from love, only to find it in the most forbidden place. This book is messy, fierce, and aching because healing after betrayal never looks perfect, but it can still feel damn good. I poured every ounce of pain and longing I’ve ever felt into these characters, hoping readers feel seen in their chaos and rebirth. It’s not just about forbidden love, it’s about owning your desire, even when the world tells you it’s wrong. I write women who’ve been burned, but come back with fire in their eyes and someone unexpected at their side. I didn’t write this story to be safe, I wrote it for the ones who’ve tasted betrayal and still dared to crave. For the woman who walked out of her marriage and into her stepbrother’s arms—not out of weakness, but power. This isn’t just forbidden love. It’s about finding comfort in danger, desire in the unexpected, and a second chance in the arms of the one she was never meant to want.

When Peter, my father-in-law, suffered a heart attack and needed an urgent transplant, the hospital miraculously had a compatible heart. Helen, my mother-in-law and I were overjoyed. We thought it was a blessing from above. However, just as we were getting ready for surgery, Nate, my husband, disappeared with the compatible heart. When we finally reached him by phone, it was Camile, his first love. “Nate is busy prepping for my dad’s heart surgery. Stop distracting him!” Helen was trembling with fury. On her way to confront Nate, she got into a car accident and ended up in a critical condition. I begged Nate to come back and operate on her, but he walked into another operating room. In the end, my in-laws died. Their bodies were donated for organ transplant. It was not until later that I found out that their organs had been donated to Camile’s family.

Everyone envied how my best friend and I mated to the Alpha twins of the Creek Pack. But the pack didn't know that Victoria, their widowed stepmother, was the one the Alpha twins truly loved. My best friend Cathy and I planned to run away, but the night before our escape, she poisoned herself with wolfsbane. I called her mate Damon, but he sneered, "Luna, my brother says, your and Cathy's little tricks are getting really old. Are you going to jump off Silver Cliff tomorrow?"

The daughter of my father's first love suffered from heatstroke because she was left in the car, so he tied me up in a fit of anger and locked me in the car boot. He looked at me with utter disgust and said, "I don't have a vicious daughter like you. Stay here and reflect on yourself." I begged him, apologized to him, and pleaded for him to let me out, but all I got in return was his ruthless order. "Unless she dies, no one is allowed to let her out." The car was parked in the garage. No one could hear me no matter how much I screamed for help. Seven days later, he finally remembered me and decided to let me out. However, he had no idea that I had already died in that trunk and could never wake up again.