Thorns Beneath The Veil Novels & Stories

When assertive and alpha heiress Clara Ardiente is forced to marry a dominant and cold businessman Damon Barreto, she'll have the almost but quite life. Hindi niya pa nakikilala ang businessman na magsasalba sa kanila. With their empire falling, she is desperate enough to marry that man just to save their name and wealth. Ayaw niyang mawala ang lifestyle na nakasanayan niya. Damon is a ruthless businessman and he doesn't want to have a nosy wife. Everything should be part of agreement and contract. But beneath that contract, there's an unspoken affection he can't recognize... and secrets. Hindi naman totoong pusong bato si Damon. Ang totoo ay nang makita niya si Clara ay nagandahan siya sa dalaga. Talagang pasok sa kanyang tipo kaya niya inalukan ng partnership ang pamilya Ardiente. It was easy for him to get what he wanted. Damon and his ways. Well, not for Clara. Nang makilala niya ang kanyang mapapangasawa, nagdadalawang isip siya kung talagang worth it nga ba ang pakikipagkasundo niya para lang isalba ang kanyang karangyaan. To be the wife of a ruthless business and arrogant tycoon? Medyo dehado ata siya. Pero wala na siyang takas. Lalo na noong ibinigay ni Damon lahat ng gusto ng kanyang mismong pamilya. Lalo na't may kontrata. "Go... run away. But you'll never escape me," bulong ni Damon sa kanya. "Leaving me, abandoning that contract won't save you. Kahit saan ka magpunta, you will always be Mrs. Barreto. My last name will mark you wherever you go." Gusto niyang alisin sa utak niya 'yon at magtrabaho nalang para isalba ang pangalan niya, but it was too late. Hindi na siya makakatakas pa... so she needs to live with only rule; no attachments. No falling in love. Just a contract and promises. Or that was she thought so.

She gave her body and soul to the man who saved her… never knowing he was the one who slaughtered her family. ​Tanya Vanne Sevilla ay namumuhay sa isang gintong hawla. She looks like a goddess with her brown wavy hair and pale skin—isang kagandahan na naging paboritong obsession ni Thaddeus Hardin. Nang maulila siya sa isang tragic accident, tinanggap niya ang kamay ng kanyang Uncle Thad. He sheltered her inside Hardin State, at sa loob ng isang taon, ang kanilang ugnayan ay lumagpas sa moral na limitasyon. It started in the library, leading to intense, secret encounters bilang pabuya sa matataas niyang marka. She was completely devoted, giving him her body and soul. ​But beneath the passionate nights lies a sickening truth. ​Tanya is the daughter of his older adopted sister—and the spawn of the man Thaddeus loathes the most. Hindi alam ng dalaga na ang "Hero" na sinasamba niya ay ang mismong demonyong pumatay sa kanyang pamilya. At ang mas matindi? Kamukhang-kamukha niya ang yumaong asawa ni Thaddeus na si Anthonia, na pinatay ng sarili niyang ama sampung taon na ang nakakaraan. For Thaddeus, Tanya is a twisted form of sweet revenge... and an undeniable addiction. ​Ngayong nagbabalik ang nakaraan sa katauhan ni Victoria—isang elite assassin at ex-lover ni Thaddeus—kasabay ng pagpasok ng cold-blooded right hand man na si Aodhan, a.k.a. "The Reaper," bilang bodyguard sa school ni Tanya, unti-unti nang nayayanig ang kanilang mundo. ​Bawat hawak ni Thaddeus ay papatindi nang papatindi, driven by the terrifying fear of losing her... just like how he lost Anthonia. ​Malalaman kaya ni Tanya ang madugong katotohanan? paano niya matatakasan ang nag-iisang lalaking nagmamay-ari sa kanya—ngayong ang paghihiganti ni Thaddeus ay naging isang baliw na obsesyon? ​“She really looks like Anthonia... It's like she rose from the dead.”