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Arianna’s birthday was the biggest event in their small community. It was a grand celebration for his daughter’s first birthday. In fact, Marcus hired a photographer to document every happening during the event. Veronica and Arianna were smiling happily as they were about to blow out the candles in the fondant cake. Guests were singing a happy birthday song as they waited for the celebrant to blow out the candle when suddenly…gunshots were fired. People screamed. Veronica cried, and Arianna was scared. Marcus was quick to react but he was unarmed, and those men disabled him first before they aimed their guns at his wife and daughter. He witnessed how Veronica tried to protect Arianna but a bullet hit her head just before their daughter was murdered brutally. He couldn’t move and just cried as Arianna’s small body was shredded by the multiple bullets that hit her. His friend was able to exchange bullets with the assailants and killed one of them but the others managed to r

“What did you say?” She raised her voice when she couldn’t believe what the solicitor had read from her father’s last will and testament. There’s no way, it was legal what her father asked of her, to claim her rightful inheritance. She was the only daughter for god sake! “You heard me, hija. It was written on the last will, here, take a look.” “But that was ridiculous! How could I find a man at this rate?” She yelled, while completely losing her calm even if Paloma was there when the solicitor informed her that she could only touch her inheritance once she has a child before her age exceeded the dates in a calendar. Two months ago, she just turned thirty, which means that she only has ten months left to comply with her father’s wishes! But no matter how she thinks about it, it was totally absurd and crazy! Last week, they laid her father’s body into his final resting place. Gregory Reyes was still young at sixty-five but there was a complication in his heart that caused

Her last overseas trip happened when she was only ten years old and her mother was still alive. But it wasn’t a pleasant experience for Daniella. Her parents wanted to celebrate her birthday at Disneyland, but all day long, they just quarreled, and she ended up staying in her room…crying and disappointed. Now, she wanted to replace that memory with something good or even funny. Who knew what was in store for her? From the airport, she took a taxi to her hotel, then she checked in, and paid the room‘s security deposit. A minute later, she strolled towards the elevator that would take her to the nineteenth floor where her room was located. She was not fond of elevators after watching a lot of Asian horror movies where a ghost or supernatural beings showed themselves in the lift. She tried to calm herself down when there were a lot of guests in the elevator. She listened to their conversations and was glad that there were Filipinos too. But on the fifteenth floor, everyone exited

Marcus was disoriented when he woke up in a strange room. He tried to get up but he couldn’t move.What was wrong with him?He looked around but all he could see was the white ceiling and the chandelier. On his left, he could see something white, and it was the same on his right side.A pet cone?Marcus was horrified to realize that someone had the nerve to put a pet cone on him. “Look here,” Daniella showed Marcus the photos that she took earlier and couldn’t stop laughing at his dreadful appearance. She knew she was being a bully to Marcus but he started it first.With the shrink wrap all over his body, he looked like a fresh spring roll or even a mummy. Of course, the pet cone looked cute on dogs, but for Marcus, he was not cute but funny to look at.“Dani! What did you do to me?”Marcus shouted as soon as he found out what she did to his body that he looked like a mummy, wrapped in white and couldn’t move. Then he remembered that moment when something hard hit him.“What do you

“Look who’s here!” Paloma greeted her stepdaughter when she met with Daniella on her way to the kitchen. “None of your business,” she answered. Daniella ignored her stepmother and continued to walk to her bedroom. She just arrived from her long journey and she was dead tired. She wanted to sleep! It was around three o’clock in the afternoon when she woke up from her deep sleep. She was starving so she proceeds to the kitchen to grab something to eat, but lost her appetite upon seeing the evil witch! “We have to talk, Ella,” Paloma said. Daniella raised her eyebrows at Paloma before she pulled her chair to sit down. “As far as I’m concerned, we have nothing to talk about.” She refused to call her Mama or Mother. She hated Paloma ever since she joined her family. “Common, Ella. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Do you still remember what was written on Greg’s last will?” It wasn’t her intention to irritate Daniella but her indifference forced her to be a wicked stepm