Second Floor 소설 & 이야기

“Gusto mo?” His voice was low, almost teasing, lazy yet dangerous. Sumiksik si Amanda sa kanyang dibdib, namumula ang mukha, nanginginig ang katawan habang umaatake ang kanyang kondisyon. She bit her lip, then nodded. Isang taon na siyang kasal kay Warren Garcia pero ni minsan, hindi siya hinawakan. A wife… who was never desired. Dahil doon, unti-unting nasira si Amanda. Tuwing aatake ang kanyang sakit, she loses control, trapped in a body longing for something she was never given. Until one night… nahuli niya ang asawa niya, kissing her sister’s photo. That’s when everything shattered. Hindi siya asawa. Hindi siya mahal. She was just a substitute, a replacement. A second choice. Desperate, she goes to the hospital and meets a young, dangerously handsome doctor. But something goes wrong. Because that night, she almost crossed the line. And she didn’t even know his name. Kinabukasan, her world turns upside down.The same man is now the newly appointed CEO. Her boss. Her temptation. Trying to act like strangers, Amanda kept her distance but fate had other plans. Na-promote siya. Diretso sa tabi ng CEO. As his personal assistant. “Sir, may asawa na ako… are you trying to be the other man?” Namumula sa galit si Amanda habang napilitang mapaupo sa kandungan nito. He held her waist tighter. Then kissed her. “Baby… did you forget?” His voice dropped into a whisper. “Last night… you called me ‘husband’ all night.” In the end, Amanda walks away. No hesitation. No turning back. She remarries. Choose someone else. Chooses herself. But the man who never touched her, finally breaks. Namumula ang mata, puno ng pagsisisi.. “Amanda… let’s start over. Please, don’t leave me. I’ll do anything.” She looks at him cold, unfeeling. “Sorry.” A faint smile. “I’m not interested in a useless man.”

"Hindi man tama na mahalin ka, susugal ako! I will make everything possible to have that second chance with you! Pero mangako ka na hindi mo na ako iiwan!" Mason Rouge's marriage is filled with lies and betrayal. Bulag ang pagmamahal pero dumating ang hangganan ng lahat. And when he was about to give up, natagpuan niya ang kanyang sarili na muling minamahal ang babaeng pinakasalan niya. Posible bang mahalin ulit ang isang taong sobra lang sinaktan at dinurog?

(BACHELOR MAN SERIES) Zack Santiago. "Why is it so hard for you to understand that I don't like you!" "Kahit konti lang mahalin mo naman ako." " Handa ka bang maging second option lang?" "Handa ako na maging second option lang basta hayaan mo lang mahalin kita." Kara Dominguez Nag mahal sa lalaking ikakasal na at hanggang kama lang ang relasyon nila. Handa ba siyang sirain ang relasyon ni Zack Santiago sa Fiancee nito para lang sa kapakanan niya? O hayaan na lang ito sumaya sa iba kahit nasasaktan siya.

Noong pandemic, para kumita ng mas malaking pera para magbayad ng bills, bumalik ako sa aking dating part-time na trabaho bilang bulag na masahista. Subalit, hindi ko inasahan na sa top floor ng office building, merong tagong special service na inaalok. Ang unang customer ko ng pumunta ako sa top floor para magtrabaho ay ang magandang CEO sa aking full-time na trabaho, si Rosaline Dunne. Humiling siya ng espesyal na masahe mula sa akin…

Naranasan ni Lemuel ang masasayang araw ng buhay niya dahil kay Jossa. For him, their relationship was the best thing that happened in his life. Ngunit ang babaeng buong akala niyang magiging dahilan ng lubos niyang kaligayahan ay siya din palang magiging rason ng pagkasira ng kanyang buhay. He was put in a jail because of her. Ito rin ang naging dahilan ng malaking pagbabago sa kanyang pagkatao at sanhi kung bakit siya napunta sa maduming trabaho. Several years later, they met again. Kung kailan unti-unti nang nagiging maayos ang buhay niya ay saka nagulo ulit dahil sa presensiya ng dalaga. Would he let her enter his life again? Kaya niya nga bang kalimutan ang lahat ng nangyari dahil sa pag-ibig? Would second chance heal... his scarred heart?

Arianna Thompson's life was once a fairy tale with her college sweetheart, Julian Saint Clair. But a devastating rumor tore them apart after graduation. Heartbroken, Arianna escaped into a loveless marriage with Ryan, only to find herself trapped in a toxic relationship with two beautiful children, Emily and Jackson. Seven years later, Arianna summons the courage to divorce Ryan and start anew as a single mother. Four years of healing and independence pass before she meets Zander Wells – a kind, responsible, and loving man who reawakens her heart. Just as Arianna considers a future with Zander, her past with Julian threatens to collide with her present. Will she choose a second chance with her first love or forge a new path with the man who healed her heart?

Airah Jhoanne Dayron, heiress to a powerful mafia family, is forced into an arranged marriage to save her family's fortune. She escapes with her loyal men and meets Ronald, a charming stranger who rescues her. They fall in love, but Airah discovers she has amnesia and Ronald Navarra is her ex-fiancé. Their families, however, are bitter rivals, and their love is forbidden. Airah's father tries to force her into the arranged marriage, but Ronald intervenes when they try to get her inside his mansion. The truth about their past comes out: they were separated by their families, and Ronald believed Airah was got married by another man. Now, with their families against them, for the second time, will Ronald allow fate to separate them again, or will he fight for the woman he has loved first and last?

After she laid unconscious on Zach's cold body, she unpredictably once had this strange dream. A man who sends her a message that is not legible, but surely giving clue about Zach. The context that's not written in the alphabet made her even more confused. As the words started to fly around her head; full of questions with lack of answers. She began to be curious not just about what the letter says but also about herself. It feels strange, but not. It feels like she just lost someone who's exceptional to her. She's grieving and finding the love of a father, the care of a brother, and the unending worry of a mother. Her true identity begun to hunt her, a true identity that she didn't know it's existing. With emptiness and the feeling of melancholy in her heart, one day, she woke up in a different room surrounded by white walls, quiet hallways, chemical scented places, life monitors, ventilators, and people who are shouting and yelling for help to save and revive their love ones. Knees bent down on the floor, tears falling to their cheeks while both hands are clasps, begging for help. What will happen to her after losing the man she loves? What will happen after knowing the truth? Will she still be able to accept it, or throw it away? Will she still be able to forgive who betrayed her, for the second time, or will she picks to understand again its reason?

Axecel dela Rosa is a transferee student at Manila University. He comes from a small town in the quiet countryside in Mindanao. He struggles to form meaningful of relationship and feelings in the capital City of Manila. It's not easy, but he try his best to make a new friends in his University. Meanwhile, Christopher Vicente a señior Fine Arts student, is now returning to Manila-and the same University after his long vacation. The coriousity of the two started when they spent a night together after a fun and tiring long week. Their bond continued when Axecel join the swimming club that Top attends. When the swimming club embarks on a journey, the two finds themselves together alone and share a kiss for the second times. And Axecel begin to act again as if nothing happened between them, but Christopher tries his to be a good friend even though he knows he has a strange feeling to Axecel.

Arielle was killed by her husband and cousin after their wedding because she discovered that the two of them cheated on her and wanted to snatch all of her wealth. But she didn't die, instead, she surprisingly found herself the day Tyron proposed to her, six months before their wedding. She thought that God pitied her for dying unjustly and gave her a second chance to change her fate. This time, she promised that what happened to her would not be repeated so she planned to expose the evil deeds of her ex-husband and cousin. At the same time, she entangled with Gun, the mysterious man whom she meets and hires to be his bodyguard and the stranger she had a one-night-stand. They both fall in love with each other despite the huge differences in their personalities and status in society. But what if she discovered that Gun was the CEO of the rival company of her father and he had a selfish reason for approaching her? And will she succeed in revealing the true face of her ex-husband and cousin or end up being killed by them once again?