Smiling Through The Pain Novels & Stories

Alina Lauraine Santiago is finally beginning a new chapter—college life in the city, away from the shadows of her painful past. But freedom doesn’t erase trauma, and the emotional scars of her father’s abuse and her family’s struggles still cling tightly. Determined to make it on her own, Alina juggles part-time jobs and photography gigs to support herself and help her siblings. Then she meets Harold—charming, kind, and seemingly perfect. But behind his smile lies a truth that leaves Alina shaken and betrayed. After a devastating encounter, she runs from everything. It’s only through the love of her best friends that she finds the strength to return to university and face the pieces of her broken life. That’s when Grayson enters the picture. They’ve crossed paths before, but never like this. A simple deal brings them together, and what starts as casual quickly turns into something more. But when Alina discovers she’s pregnant, fear and uncertainty force her to make an impossible decision: leave Grayson behind without telling him the truth. Years later, fate brings them back together—and Grayson still doesn’t know he’s a father. As they reconnect and old feelings resurface, Alina must confront the secret she’s kept for so long. When Grayson finally learns the truth, their fragile reunion is put to the ultimate test. Just as they begin to rebuild, a new threat rises from the past—one that could destroy everything they’ve fought to protect. Can love be made from pain and second chances? Or are some wounds too deep to ever truly heal?

A wife who suffered at the hands of her husband. Isa silang masayang mag asawa noon pero nagbago ng isang iglap ang lahat. Her husband keeps on hurting her, physically and emotionally at hindi niya alam ang dahilan. Will she be able to handle the pain? Or will she give up on her husband whom she loves so much?

Amelia Davenport was devastated when she discovered her best friend was secretly dating her fiancé. What made it worse was her family’s indifference—they dismissed her pain as if it didn’t matter. Feeling betrayed and utterly alone, Amelia ended up in a bar, drowning her sorrows in tequila, only to cross paths with her ex-fiancé’s uncle, Sebastian Guidotti.

After suffering a heartache from a betrayal of a nine-year one sided love for Domino Lazatine—who was in a secret affair with his brother’s fiancée—Anastasha Molina found herself being proposed to by his first love’s brother, Dimitri Lazatine. Struck by the truth of betrayal and pain by Domino, would Anastasha agreed to the tempting marriage for convenience offer of the eldest Lazatine as a revenge to her heart ache?

When Katalina first saw Vicente, she knew the man was different from everyone else. But why after she gave everything to him, the man only give her pain and resentment? After a few years, they met again. Will she be able to keep her promise to herself that she will never get fooled by this man again… especially this time the man is going to marry her twin sister?

Shazna and Lucas are probably everyone’s couple goal. Their relationship is almost perfect, until their wedding day came and Shazna decided to leave Lucas in front of the altar. After three long years, she returned to get him back. But now Lucas was not the man he was three years ago. Everything about him changed. Will her love for him prevail over the pain she caused him?

"Endless pain for an endless love.” Past childhood memories, broken hearts, and present tragedy. Those are the experiences that Jchanella Heather Ganza; the only heiress of the Ganza clan and Dior Fennier Gonzales; a simple living man, have in common. No matter how fate continues to separate both of them, they still found ways to prevail and fight for their ceaseless love. What will happen to their lives if fate begins to test their relationship?

Abby Leonor is engrossed to the thought of being a wife of his childhood bestfriend Cloud Miguel Salazar that she will do anything to get this man even if it cost her dignity and freedom. She destroyed his supposedly wedding and put herself in a shameful situation just to be his wife. Now that they are married, until when she could swallow the pain when the man she loves hait her so much.

Loving someone who abducts his parents and plays on her life is not her dream. Nathasha never thought that life would play so hard to her. Losing her memory, Wake up as a maid, Love the man she thought her savior but end up finding the truth that Luke the man she loves so much is the mastermind of her accident and her parents abduction is not easy to believe and process. Will love be enough reason for another chance? Is she willing to forget all the pain and betrayal's just for the sake of her triplets or She will raise them alone after her revenge? Is love enough for them to start and forget all the pain? Life is like a misery because when she almost got her revenge, she lost her triplets in exchange. How can life be so cruel to her, to suffer again from something she just wants to give justice at all. How can she suffer from something that she didn't do, how can life let her live in hell from someone who put her on it in the very first place. How can it be possible that her revenge makes her the one who suffers the most.

Anastacia Bonnette Corpuz a strong woman with a big dreams. But would she be able to be strong despite of what she's going through? would she be able to aim her goal despite of what she is going through? Witness the story of Anastacia, here on 'THE GOALS: BLUE RIBBON SERIES 1"