Like Wind On A Dry Branch Novels & Stories

Michael Angelo Abaroa is already in his fourth year as a Respiratory Therapy student. His main goal is to pass the Internship and make it to medical school. But things turned upside down when he met Adaleyza Duran. Adaleyza Duran is one of the patients in St. Luke Medical City. Despite having Leukemia, her views in life are positive. She longs for someone who can stay with her despite her condition. Somehow, these two happened to cross their paths. It all started when Adaleyza has mistakenly crashed Michael’s car window. Just like Michael’s shattered car window, will he also let Adaleyza break his heart into shards? Or will he stop her and guard himself up? Will he take Adaleyza’s hand and invite her to the passenger seat as they take their journey together? Or will he drop her off and venture his life journey alone? Dream or Love? Which is which?

When love is a sin, Ava Peony Lazarte is the sinner. Ava is a nineteen-year-old college student who is known for her beauty, wit, and respectable reputation. She is every guy's dream girl and every girl's insecurity. However, behind her alluring and almost perfect facade, no one knows about her scandalous secret; she is the billionaire's mistress. She knows her relationship with the CEO of Valderama corporation, Zachary Wolf Valderama, is wrong for so many reasons. He is twice her age, about to get married for the second time, and he is her friend's father. However, Ava has no plans of quitting her relationship with Zach because she loves him. She depends on him. And he's everything she got. Ava is a warrior of the painful tragedy most people call love. She is a true warrior; a wounded one. Read her story and discover how is it like to be the billionaire's illicit affair.

After that night with Travis—a priest who also happened to be her first—she fled the club, desperate for a new life. She hoped she'd never see him again; if possible, she wished their paths would never cross, not even to glimpse his shadow. Her life finally found peace when she decided to go back to her hometown. But that peace shattered when she discovered her sister, whom their parents had sent to a prestigious religious academy specifically to prevent her from turning out like herself, was now pregnant by one of the school's own priests. Just as she was interrogating the board, trying to find out who the father of her sister's baby was, she bumped into Travis. He was the current head of the board, feared for his unusual aura and commanding authority, and notorious as a great womanizer. Her heart suddenly raced, and she wanted to drop everything and run, but it was too late. The womanizing priest had already captured her attention.

I'm so tired of disappointing myself. I'm so tired of heartbreaks and tears. I'm just so tired. I never thought that love can be so tiring. “I p-promise... if this is the world of getting married to me, to hurt me, t-this would be the last tears I will cry anymore.” I said while crying under the rain. But could I still keep those words? Because my life didn't end here. Flood Voldizépeña is 27 years old. He's actually one of the most fearsome trillionaire of all time. A tall, smart, sexy and handsome guy with beautiful sky-blue eyes, who's breaking my promises slowly and tried to build another world with me. Should I let him? But I don't want to fool myself anymore if in the end he'll just give me heartache and destroy myself. But would he? Like, the world of getting married with a trillionaire? I wonder how it ends like.

WARNING: R-18 l MATURE CONTENT l SPG l VERY SEXUAL l READ RESPONSIBLY He is ruthless and untamed. He is cold, strict, and dangerous. Victorious and deadly. Nobody dared to mess with him. He is one of the most sought-after billionaires of his generation. He is Knoxx Wolfert Sarmiento. A ruthless billionaire like him only wanted to do one thing: make the woman he loves the happiest woman alive. She is his precious. His very first love. His priority in everything. She's the young girl who brought love and excitement into his life and taught him how amazing it is to give your heart to someone. Because of her, he discovered a feeling he never expected to be so strong. Their relationship is something that happened out of nowhere. It happened at the most unexpected time. Everything was perfect. They were the happiest, but fate had other plans for them. They awakened the beast within him, and he is willing to go through hell to find her again.

Matapos mahuling may kasamang ibang babae ang kanyang ex-boyfriend, Erika Larson drowned herself to death one night, but was rescued by a man who looks like a greek-god. Isang gabi lang ang pinagsaluhan nila, ngunit pareho na nilang hinanap-hanap ang isa’t isa kaya naman gumawa na sila ng kasunduan—fuck buddies. No strings attached. No feelings involved. Isang kagalang-galang na guro sa isang prestigious catholic kindergarten sa umaga, at tuwing gabi naman ay isang nakakaakit na babae sa ibabaw ng kama ni Logan. Ngunit paano kung ang lalaking kinahuhumalingan niya ay siya palang ama ng isa sa mga batang estudyante niya? Hahayaan niya bang maging isa siyang kabit ng mayamang si Logan Vallejo, o tuluyan na niyang pakakawalan ito? Paano kung huli na ang lahat bago pa man siya makagawa ng desisyon?

When struggling artist Elira Virel signs a secret marriage contract with billionaire CEO Kael Thorne, it’s supposed to be simple: no love, no expectations, no real commitment. Just six months of pretending to be his wife in exchange for saving her father’s collapsing company. But things stop being simple the moment she steps into his world — a world of power, cold stares, unspoken pain, and rules she’s not allowed to break. Kael is mysterious, guarded, and dangerously unreadable. Elira knows she’s just a pawn in his bigger game… but why does he look at her like she’s the only truth he wants to believe in? As secrets from his past begin to resurface — including the return of a woman who claims to be his former fiancée — Elira finds herself tangled in a web of lies, revenge, and emotions she swore she wouldn’t feel. She was never meant to fall for him. But in a world of lies, love was never part of the plan… Until it was.

Brain with beauty that's Roxanne Sanchez. She was broken hearted to her ex-boyfriend, Rex, when she found another woman besides her and caught it on bed, having sex with his woman in his apartment. She promised to herself not to fall in love again. The pain is too much! She change her hair style maging ang kanyang pananamit. She looks like a tomboy na ikinagulat ng kanyang room mate at bestfriend na si Joy. She resigned also from her secretarial job para hindi na makita muli ang mukha ng ex and find a new job. What if her new boss, Richard Cruzvov will start to court her? A stick to one and romantic man. Magagawa pa ba niyang panghawakan ang pangako sa sarili na hindi na magmamahal muli? Malalabanan kaya ng isip niya ang sinasabi ng puso niya? Bibigyan kaya niya ng pagkakataon muli ang puso niya to love again?

Cindy's cousin run away on her wedding day with a handsome but crippled CEO of the Aldana Group. Because of it, she was forced by her uncle to replace her cousin to be Adam's bride. Adam has a short-tempered attitude because of his illness while Cindy has a free-spirited personality despite all of her problems. These two people with opposite attitudes and personalities live together in one house which makes the cold and huge house of Adam to be livelier. Cindy couldn't help but falls in love with Adam even though she knows that she is just a substitute bride. But Cindy's cousin, Lucy, suddenly went back and wants to reclaim what is supposed to be her. Lucy's appearance makes a lot of misunderstanding between Adam, Cindy, and his family. Lucy manages to convince Adam's family that Cindy planned everything so she will be Adam's wife. Will there be a happy ending to Cindy's love story with his prince just like the story of Cinderella?

Ang salitang kasal ay wala pa sa isip ni Olivia dahil inienjoy niya pa ang kanyang buhay. Inuubos niya ang kanyang panahon sa pagta-travel sa ibat ibang bansa. She is enjoying her life. She just turned 22 and yet, hindi pa rin niya natatapos ang kinukuha niyang kursong business management. Not until she found out about her marriage. His father agreed to an arranged marriage with the son of his kumpare years ago. She was dumbfounded with the news and she couldn't believe that his father made a decision like this. "How could I marry a man that I don't love? How could I get into marriage when I am not yet ready?" She asked her parents while crying. Hindi niya matanggap ang lahat kaya isa lamang ang pumasok sa isip niya, ang pagtakas. Can she really runaway to her soon to be husband?