Moonlight Bride

ion in Nagcarlan, Laguna. Callea loved listening to classical music while reading at the

rk night and the round moon, even the mystica

of tea. She was a hunchback who helped her around the

re were only fields around them and the neighbors were a few kilometers away. She didn't mind

ng the woman. Then the cat laid down her head

re so. She would ask Marina to watch the moon with her late

the ring from the antique telephone. Cal

Sr. On the other line. He was the father of her mom. He owned the mansion she w

wered. "Have you see the moo

ur moon-watching extra special. I have good

ers. "Really, Lolo? You will f

was the ancestral home of the Lopezes. There was so much history on it because

eautiful memories there with her departed parents. The place made her feel ha

n, Tomasino Roque Lopez III or her Kuya Torque. Even if her cousin was not interested with the mansion because he had his own villain

that her grandfather

ve one co

air hang around her while the ring of po

rry my best fri

ttee. Marry a stranger. A wedding. Ugh! She was pledged to be a sing

d to be left a

ndition. She couldn't think properly. Even her b

rst. Her grandfather didn't expect her to just a

good looking, he studied abroad and he had brains for business. He helped

nging praises for the man as i

rcle. He was a womanizer. Beautiful women follow him wherever he goes. And she was sure that he was

y this man? That w

to possess. And marrying Deive was the only way t

en rubbed its hairy body to her legs to her arm. But Callea cou

her discuss Deive and their wedding. Could she really marry th

continued. "Make sure that he will like you. He w

night? Th

zing stranger. Then he would just arrive at the mansion and invade her sol

st wanted

for complaints. If she as much as voiced a protest, her grandfather might pu

an even bigg

Callea asked, hoping there would be

hija. I am sure Deiv