Calor Del Cielo: Bittersweet Taste of Your Love
She was misunderstood and unnoticed-the rebellious and bad daughter. She never cared what people thought of her, as long as she knew she wasn't stepping on anyone else's toes. They considered her a self-centered brat and a humiliation to the family, but she remained indifferent. That is, until she met Cedric Miguel Villacencio-the man who captured her heart for the first time, but unfortunately, the man is in love with her stepsister.. He showed her nothing but hate, yet she continued to love him, even hating herself for it. It reached a point where Cedric Miguel chose to believe Leanna's lies over her own words.
No matter how hard she tried to hate him, she found herself falling even deeper. As things spiraled, her life fell apart. She was misjudged, misunderstood, and mistreated, leading her to run away from home. Her feet carried her to the beautiful place of Calor Del Cielo, where she met Inigo, who gave her the strength to live and dream again.
She rose up, rediscovered herself, and learned to dream again. When she returned, she found a different Cedric Miguel, one who showed signs of interest in her. Will she give him a chance, or will she choose Inigo instead? Can she stand by her decision to love Inigo, or will she be betrayed by her own feelings and follow her heart's desire?
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Chapter 2
"What are you doing here? I believe it was Lyzza I was meeting tonight." She angrily told him.
"Have to convince Lyzza to do this. If I will invite you to go out with me, you will surely reject me so I have no choice but to do this stunt. This is the only possible way I could have a chance to talk with you, Gav."
"I can't believe you, Cedrick Miguel," she stated frustratedly while shaking her head in disbelief and feeling so upset for what he did.
She immediately walkout and left the place but he ran over and followed her. She might succeed in leaving the establishment but unfortunately failed to get away from him because he blocked her way as soon as she reached the exit. He pulled her outside the bar until they reach the beachside darker area.
"Get off me! What is it that you want?" She hissed irritably.
"I'm sorry..." Shocked by her disgust, his face stoop down as his eyes went gloomy. She never missed the pain and sadness in his expression when he jerked his eyes away from her.
This sly and manipulative man, did nothing but keep on hurting her feelings but how could he still manage to keep on affecting her all this time? She hates him but she knew deep inside her she still cares about him.
"Let's date." He said seriously. Her eyes automatically went through him as she felt her heart suddenly jerked in pain.
She has to admit she got stunned but she somehow managed to calm herself and showed him a blank expression.
"You've gotta be kidding me." She replied bitterly as she tried to jerk her eyes on the ocean.
Is this what he would tell her the reason he used his secretary and fooled me to come in this place? He wants us to what? Date? He's gotta be me...
"I want us to date." His tone was full of seriousness and stability now. His intent stare gives her chills as if he wanted to reach her soul.
"As far as I'm concerned, I made it clear with you that you should stop this foolishness, Cedric Miguel." She stated in a cold and pissed tone.
She doesn't understand, he hated her before. They might be okay now but they just started to become friends again. Now he wants her to date him? Is he out of his mind?
"I was so wrong for what I treated you in the past. I know I can never bring back the past but believe me I regret those moments."
"I'm sorry, but it was just so hard for me to believe that you like me. Knowing how you treated me before, the sudden act of getting close with me after four years? You were even proclaiming before that I was like a sister to you so I don't get all of this?"
He went silent for a moment then pulled out a frustrated sigh. She gotta be mistaken because by the looks on his face, he seemed very offended. And is it pain and desperation she could view in his eyes?
Her eyes might be deceiving her. Funny because if this moment had happened four years ago, her heart must have been celebrating because it's a dream come true. In her teenage days, her wildest and secret dream is for him to like her.
The dream finally came true but unfortunately, it's not the same happiness and expectations she hopes it will be because that dream is no longer a dream anymore. It is now a foolish illusion in her past that she wanted to forget and get over with.
If only she didn't know whom he was in love with. If only she didn't know what might be his purpose for doing all of this. Realizing it, she couldn't help to tighten her fist in disappointment and anger. It's so painful he can use and hurt someone just to have the girl he loves. That he wanted to take revenge on her stepsister at her expense.
"Feelings outgrown, people changed. Just give me a chance to prove my feelings to you." He said in a pleading tone.
"You're just wasting your time on me. I will not date you and my decision was final." She told him in an obvious skeptical and censorious tone instead. She saw how his jaw clenched as his expression turned dark and gloomy. Seeing him hurt and rejected like this still make a pang in her heart.
"I want you to stop this nonsense, Cedrick Miguel. Do this stunt again and I'll swear I'll get mad with you. Let's forget about this and just remain friends like we used to, okay?"
His face turned distorted then jerked his eyes away as if he didn't like what she said. She was about to walk away and leave but she never expected his next action.
In one swift motion, he suddenly grabbed her arm and turn her around in a drastic way. His other hand held her face firmly then kissed her fully in the mouth. With eyes widened in shock, for a moment, she got stunned and seemed her world suddenly ceased to exist.
His kisses were rough and the sudden electricity feeling of his touch makes her body start to shudder. She knew he was the only man who has the capacity to do this to her and it's so frustrating an hidden part of her loving the sensation he do to her.
She tried pushing him and hitting his chest to stop him but he only captured her arms and continued to kiss her thoroughly. Then his kiss turned gentle coaxing her lips to open. When she felt him delve her tongue and make a twirl inside her mouth, she tried to push him with all her force but he wouldn't stop and kept his pace.
His audacious tongue was persistent in tracing every corner of his mouth. Her knees started to weaken and if she was not being held by him, she will surely tumble to the ground. His hold tightened and she couldn't help to close her eyes. The sensation was starting to melt her and she couldn't accept the fact she was liking every bit of it.
As much as she wanted to deny it but her traitor body started to enjoy and get drowned by his kisses. That in just a flick of time, she found her own lips responding to him. She felt lost and just let her feelings reveled with the pleasure of being held and kissed by him. Her defenses are slowly breaking apart when a sudden voice in her memory from the last suddenly jotted in her mind that brought her back to bitter reality.
"You disgust me..."
Those remarkable words suddenly infiltrated her mind that awaken her in her silly fantasy. The same and exact words he told her four years ago that marked and pained her heart the reason he can never trust him. Realizing why he was doing this, tears started to stream down her cheeks as her body stiffened.
Her body might be a traitor but not her mind. If she will let her feelings win, she will end up miserable the way she felt before. She will never let him use her, she'll make sure of that. So she gathered all her strength then pushed him away with all her wits.
When she finally succeeded, a hard slap on his face is what she immediately responded. She saw him get stunned as if he got awakened in a sweet dream. His face looks like he has been splashed by cold water, confused and guilty.
"I-I'm sorry..." He said looking confused and apologetic. Is she not mistaken, concern and worries were written in his eyes when he saw her angry reaction?
"How dare you kiss me! You stay away from me from now on!" She shouted angrily. She saw him clench his jaw as his face darkened in anger. She gasped when he suddenly pulled her on the arm never wanting to let her go.
"I'm sorry baby but I don't take no for an answer. I swear I'll do anything to win your heart and that's a promise." He said with finality before freeing her arm and just like that, he left and walk away leaving her.
Seeing the man she had been secretly loving for all these years walking away finally made her tears fall down as the memories from the past started to flashback into her. The pain and bitterness that brought her towards loving him and how he hated and disgusted her all the way.
Funny because he was only trying to convince herself that she already moved on but it was still him all along. The painful and wrong accusations he cast her that left a scar on her heart. Yes, she still loves the unworthy bastard but she will never let herself be fooled and use him.
Drastically wiping her tears using the back of her palm, she looked up in the sky to stop the tears from falling. There's no way she will let him know that she was loving him for all these years. There's no way she will give him the satisfaction that he can break her heart into pieces just like before. Never...
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7.7
Not only was I drugged, blinded and assaulted. I was deceived into carrying a baby by a stranger I never knew. Then he appeared and took my child away.
I was sent to a militia by the father of my child. I thought I was rescued but I was recruited to be a weapon for killing. Who was manipulating me, I didn't know. The answers were far from what I knew.
Forced to blend into the world that I could never believe I would be to, a place where brutality reigned, kill or be killed was the only language. I have survived but he has to pay for everything he did to me, because I believed every phase of my life was set by him and him alone. Have I really survived?
Who would have thought, he existed twice in the same world? Do I really know who I should take revenge on? Him or the person I would sacrifice everything for?
Was my mother the one who orchestrated everything? What kind of pawn am I?
7.9
Eileen Goff was a nobody, scrubbing diner tables to survive while her greedy family bled her dry.
On the eve of her twentieth birthday, the government's mandatory marriage algorithm matched her with a spouse.
It wasn't a plumber or a teacher. It was Harrison Butler, the ruthless, untouchable billionaire king of Butler Industries.
At the registry, Harrison's glamorous intended fiancée threw a half-million-dollar check at her.
"Take the money, get out of here, and never show your face again."
The registry supervisor even offered her a million dollars to sign a cancellation agreement, trying to erase her from the system.
At their first high-society gala, Harrison's stepmother and the fiancée locked Eileen in an empty room, plotting to humiliate her and prove she was just cheap trash.
Eileen was terrified and confused. Men like Harrison Butler didn't just accept federal matches with girls who smelled like fried onions.
But instead of abandoning her, Harrison smashed the door open, publicly banished his own family, and kissed her in front of the entire city's elite.
Why was this billionaire going to such extreme lengths to protect a complete stranger?
Then she overheard his assistant talking about a marriage clause in his grandfather's trust fund.
He didn't love her; he just needed a powerless, state-mandated wife to lock his parasitic family out of his empire.
Realizing she was a highly valuable pawn, Eileen stopped trembling, looked the billionaire in the eye, and spoke.
"I believe we can have more than just a legal relationship. We can have a business arrangement."
9.7
For three years, I played the role of a devoted, naive wife to billionaire Conrad Whitney. I hid my true identity and foolishly believed in our fairy tale.
Then he handed me a harsh divorce agreement, ordering me to sign and walk away with absolutely nothing. He was leaving me to marry Cindy, the fragile woman he claimed had saved him from a fire.
He expected me to cry and beg. Instead, he watched coldly as Cindy and her family illegally transferred my father's trust fund. When I confronted them at the hospital, Conrad shielded her, calling me a greedy, toxic viper. He mocked me, completely blind to the fact that Cindy was a fraud. He truly believed I was just a pathetic, useless housewife who would be utterly destroyed without his money and status.
I looked at the man I had actually dragged out of that burning debris with my own soot-covered hands. My trauma, my sacrifices, and my love had all been reduced to a joke by his sheer arrogance and a few fake tears from a manipulative liar.
I didn't shed a single tear. I calmly signed the papers, drugged his wine, and left a crumpled one-dollar bill on his unconscious chest with a sticky note mocking his terrible service.
Then, I picked up my encrypted phone. It was time for the world's top surgeon, Dr. Hades, to return, and for Conrad to finally see the god he had just thrown away.
7.4
For five years, Jodi was the perfect, compliant secret lover to billionaire CEO Armand Taylor.
Then, she woke up to a cold email and a seven-figure wire transfer. Armand was marrying European royalty. The money was a severance package to quietly warehouse her out of sight.
Refusing to be his dirty secret, Jodi invoked her contract's termination clause to leave for good. But Armand wouldn't let her go easily. He forced her to personally train her vicious new replacement, Selah.
Selah immediately tampered with a crucial financial file, framing Jodi for sabotaging Taylor Corp's multi-billion-dollar tech acquisition.
Without a second thought, Armand took the new girl's side. He cornered Jodi in the boardroom, his eyes dead and cold.
"You have three days to fix this. If you fail, I will personally see to it that you go to prison for corporate fraud."
He froze her bank accounts and stripped away her dignity, ready to destroy her life over a blatant lie.
He thought she was just a weak, discarded toy who would break under his threats.
What Armand didn't know was the terrifying secret Jodi had just discovered hidden at the bottom of her bathroom trash can.
Three positive pregnancy tests.
If the ruthless billionaire found out she was carrying his heir, he would never let her escape.
Wiping her tears, Jodi slipped into a severe black silk gown and crashed an exclusive Hamptons gala to intercept the tech CEO herself.
This time, she wasn't playing the obedient lover. She was going to clear her name and burn Armand's empire to the ground.
9.0
Carli followed an anonymous text to a dark garage, only to find her fiancé of seven years tangled with another woman in his Porsche.
She smashed his window, threw her engagement ring at his face, and walked away.
But the betrayal didn't stop there. Her own family sided with the cheater. Her father slapped her across the face so hard she bled, demanding she hand over her late aunt's trust fund.
"If you don't do exactly as you're told tonight, I will freeze every credit card in your name," her father roared.
Forced to attend the exclusive Gutierrez family gala, Carli watched her ex-fiancé parade his cheap mistress to humiliate her, while her stepsister tried to publicly ruin her.
Suddenly, a violent screech echoed as the massive crystal chandelier above them snapped from the ceiling.
In a split second of pure instinct, Vaughn shoved his mistress to safety and threw himself to the ground, completely abandoning Carli to be crushed.
Staring up at the plummeting glass, Carli felt the crushing reality that her entire life had been surrounded by monsters.
But the fatal impact never came.
A massive force yanked her into a hard chest, shielding her body entirely from the explosive shrapnel.
Carli opened her eyes to find Fletcher Gutierrez—the ruthless billionaire king of Wall Street and the masked stranger from her reckless one-night stand—bleeding heavily over her.
Feeling his warm blood on her hands, Carli knew the game had just changed.
8.0
Lena never expected peace to find her.
After years of surviving one hardship after another, she has learned to trust no one but herself. Quiet routines and emotional distance have become her safest form of protection. Then one night, a chance encounter with a powerful and mysterious man changes everything.
Julian is an Alpha feared by many and truly known by very few. Calm, controlled, and fiercely protective of his pack, he has spent years keeping his world stable through discipline and restraint. He has rules for a reason-and one of them is never allowing anyone close enough to become a weakness.
Especially not a human woman.
But from the moment Julian notices Lena standing alone beneath the glow of a city café, something shifts between them. Not instant love. Not fate wrapped in fantasy. Just a quiet pull neither of them can explain or ignore.
As their paths continue to cross, Lena slowly discovers the hidden world Julian comes from-a world of werewolves, pack politics, loyalty, danger, and old wounds that never fully healed. Yet beneath the strength and power surrounding him, she also finds something unexpected:
A family.
Julian's pack is not built on fear alone. It is made of people who have chosen one another through loss, sacrifice, and survival. Rath, loyal and dependable. Kael, sharp-tongued but fiercely protective. Mara, calm and insightful. And eventually, children whose laughter transforms guarded walls into a home.
For the first time in years, Lena begins to feel safe.
And for the first time in even longer, Julian begins wanting more than survival.
But peace never comes easily.
Old enemies still watch from the shadows, waiting for weakness. Rival Alphas resent Julian's growing influence, and when Lena becomes the center of Julian's world, she also becomes a target.
What begins as quiet healing soon turns into a fight to protect the life they are building together.
Through betrayal, danger, heartbreak, and recovery, Julian and Lena discover that love is not found only in dramatic moments or destiny-it is built slowly in everyday choices.
In shared mornings.
In exhausted laughter.
In children climbing into bed after nightmares.
In the people who stay when life becomes difficult.
As the pack slowly transforms from a place of survival into a true community, Lena and Julian realize they are creating something stronger than fear:
A chosen family.
The Alpha and His Chosen Family is a slow-burn werewolf romance filled with healing, found family, emotional intimacy, pack dynamics, and the quiet strength that comes after surviving chaos.
Because sometimes the greatest love story is not about finding each other-
It is about learning how to live, trust, and breathe again together.