This is the love story of two girls who were best friends per say! One, Claire, gets entangled with a feigned love, while the other, Miriena falls in love with her first sweetheart and lover, Eric, but in a wrong situation. Claire loses her virginity and becomes very heart broken when the doctor finally confessed that he has nothing to do with her and is actually married to someone who is abroad. Claire gets crazy after getting the heartbreaking information and becomes so mentally and emotionally deranged. She takes action and decides to take a revenge on anyone that is happy around her. Miriena, not knowing what is at stake, falls into the trap and gets into emotional trauma after finding out that her love life had been fixed from the beginning. It becomes hell for both of them and they decide to split. Would they come back together as friends and move on with their love life? Or, Would they decide to remain enemies for ever? This book unfolds a lot about, friendship, relationship, love, trust and the side effects! Join me in the journey of unveiling.
Mireina walked home from class that Friday afternoon feeling so tired, thirsty and at the same time, very famished. If there was any other way to describe how tired she was, I guess that would be exhausted, tiresome and fatigued. The sun that fateful afternoon was so hot and scorching that it could make even the cold water to get boiled. She looked down, touching her clothes gently, she felt some drops of sweat tickle down from her body and slightly wetting her dress. She quickly released the dress to avoid causing more damage to the dress, atleast before she gets home.
She still had few more steps to go before she could get to the hostel, where she lived. She cursed silently under her breathe, because it looked like the more distance she walked towards home, the farther it became.
Luckily, within ten minutes, she was standing infront of the gate of the hostel. She pushed the gate open forcefully only to find out that the gate was locked from within, so she knocked desperately, hoping the gate keeper was nearby to attend to her. The sun was very hot and she was starting to feel so dizzy.
Fortunately for her, the gatekeeper opened up as soon as she knocked, just as she wished, he was nearby. She greeted him casually and walked briskly towards the house. She sighed deeply, as she climbed up the stairs that led to her room.
"So happy it's weekend already, I can't afford going for another lectures tomorrow, it is really tiring. Today being the worse of it all. I can't imagine I stood under the sun for up to three hours. Three bloody hours under this, this tough weather condition. Gosh! Glad I got what I wanted anyway. I wish I could get a good body massage and a nice food." She lamented to herself, still walking up to her room.
Getting to her room, she tried to open the door but then, she noticed that it was locked. So Claire wasn't back from class? She wondered. Taking the key from her bag, she placed it inside the key hole and unlocked the door. She pushed the door open and walked inside the room, banging the door behind her, not minding the loud noise that came after.
She dropped her bag on the table and fell flat on the bed. She stayed there for sometime trying to regain her strength. She still had to prepare dinner, since it was her turn to so and she returned earlier from class as well. The thought of that weakened her and she wished she could skip it, but that was far from it.
She touched her cloth and that was when it occured to her that she has been lying on the bed with her wet clothes still on. Thinking about that, she rose up quickly from the bed and undressed. Then, she went to the bathroom at the other side of the room to take her bath and refreshen herself. The sun had really dealt cruelly with her even without an atom of mercy. She really had her skin cooked by the ruthless rays from the sun, so she claimed.
After bathing, she oiled her skin with her soft body lotion till her whole body was moisturised. Then, she took a light cloth from her cloth hanger and put it on.
Just as she was putting on the clothes, she got a beep on her phone. She took the phone from her bag where it had been and checked it out. It was a text message from Claire, and she read it out loudly, though to no one in particular, since she was the only one in the room.
"Hi Mireina, I think I will be home late. I had an urgent emergency that I needed to attend to in the hospital, as I was asked to assist. Though I'm not sure how long it might take, maybe a while. I Just thought I should tell you so you don't worry about me. I will see you later."
"Ohhh, another emergency huh. I just hope you do not kill yourself with a lot of hospital work Clair." She sighs lightly. "Anyway, that's a little relief for me, I don't need to hurry my cooking now. I will just have something light to eat, so I could get more strength to cook." She said to herself, after she was done reading the text she got. She tossed the phone on the bed.
Relieved that Claire wasn't coming home anytime soon, she prepared some cereal mixture in condesed milk and started eating it. She would rest a little while after that before cooking. She was stressed out after a long day in the lecture hall. She wished she could order for food just as other rich girls and guys in the other apartments by the side would do when they can't cook. Unfortunately, she didn't have that kind of money. She only had cash for strictly school expenses.
She let the thought and idea of ordering for food out of her mind since that would cost her some money which she might not get to retrieve when she is in real need of it.
"Well, when I start making more money, then I can order for a lot or soup and stew with assorted meat and fish in it. For now, I will cook what I have." She said, in a way to comfort herself so she doesn't feel bad about it.
With that, she took the plate she used in taking her cereals to the kitchen and washed them. Which after she was done, she started preparing dinner, without wasting more time.
She decided to prepare soup and stew that evening, since it was Friday. She would be busy with some other things the next day. She decided that it was best she cooked both that evening to make everything very easyfor her the next day.
That decision was a very tough one, especially for the fact that she was really tired. Yeah, it was, but there was no ought for regrets.
Desperate to handle her grandmother's towering medical bills, Gianna agreed to a contract marriage with Tristan, the enigmatic man she'd once shared a one-night stand with. She assumed they'd fulfill each other's needs and dissolve the arrangement once the terms expired. Unbeknownst to Gianna, this marriage was a dream Tristan had clung to for ten relentless years. Certain she was just filling someone else's role, Gianna prepared to leave when that other woman returned. But Tristan, his eyes burning with unspoken emotion, seized her trembling hand and declared, "You’re mine. Now and always."
For three years, Shane and Yvonne were wed, sharing heated nights, while his devotion clung to his ex. Yvonne strove to be a dutiful wife, yet their marriage felt hollow, built on desire rather than real warmth. All changed when she became pregnant, only for Shane to thrust her onto the operating table, warning, “Either you or the baby survives!” Broken by his cruelty, she vanished in grief and later returned, radiantly accomplished, leaving everyone awestruck. Haunted by remorse, Shane begged for another chance, but Yvonne only smiled and replied, “I’m sorry, men no longer interest me.”
Linsey was stood up by her groom to run off with another woman. Furious, she grabbed a random stranger and declared, "Let's get married!" She had acted on impulse, realizing too late that her new husband was the notorious rascal, Collin. The public laughed at her, and even her runaway ex offered to reconcile. But Linsey scoffed at him. "My husband and I are very much in love!" Everyone thought she was delusional. Then Collin was revealed to be the richest man in the world. In front of everyone, he got down on one knee and held up a stunning diamond ring. "I look forward to our forever, honey."
Kallie, a mute who had been ignored by her husband for five years since their wedding, also suffered the loss of her pregnancy due to her cruel mother-in-law. After the divorce, she learned that her ex-husband had quickly gotten engaged to the woman he truly loved. Holding her slightly rounded belly, she realized that he had never really cared for her. Determined, she left him behind, treating him as a stranger. Yet, after she left, he scoured the globe in search of her. When their paths crossed once more, Kallie had already found new happiness. For the first time, he pleaded humbly, "Please don't leave me..."Â But Kallie's response was firm and dismissive, cutting through any lingering ties. "Get lost!"
Corinne devoted three years of her life to her boyfriend, only for it to all go to waste. He saw her as nothing more than a country bumpkin and left her at the altar to be with his true love. After getting jilted, Corinne reclaimed her identity as the granddaughter of the town’s richest man, inherited a billion-dollar fortune, and ultimately rose to the top. But her success attracted the envy of others, and people constantly tried to bring her down. As she dealt with these troublemakers one by one, Mr. Hopkins, notorious for his ruthlessness, stood by and cheered her on. “Way to go, honey!”
"I heard you're going to marry Marcelo. Is this perhaps your revenge against me? It's very laughable, Renee. That man can barely function." Her foster family, her cheating ex, everyone thought Renee was going to live in pure hell after getting married to a disabled and cruel man. She didn't know if anything good would ever come out of it after all, she had always thought it would be hard for anyone to love her but this cruel man with dark secrets is never going to grant her a divorce because she makes him forget how to breathe.