Chapter 1

Disclaimer:
This is a work of fiction ♡ The names used are inspired by P-pop idols to help bring the story to life. Everything here is purely imaginary.

Please understand if there are any typos or grammar errors—I’m a new writer doing my best. Thank you for the love and support 💗🌸

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For Maraiah Queen Arceta, building a family was never part of the dream.

Hindi kailanman pumasok sa isip niya ang mag-asawa o magkaanak. Ever.
That’s why she worked harder than most—late nights, endless goals, no excuses. She chased success not for stability, but for freedom.

Traveling the world.
Living without limits.
Choosing herself every time.

Para kay Mariah, success meant boarding planes, not building cribs.
Dreams, not diapers.
A future where she belonged only to herself.

On the other side is Mikhaela Janna Jimenea Lim.

For her, freedom meant running away—
from expectations, from rules, from a life already planned for her.

Lumaki siyang may lahat—pera, pangalan, kapangyarihan—pero wala ni isa doon ang gusto niya. She knew early on that she was attracted to women, but her family demanded only one thing: marry a man, keep the image, protect the name.

So she rebelled.

She chose clubs over boardrooms.
Gambling over discipline.
Chaos over control.

Until one day, her money ran out, her debts piled up, and she had nowhere left to run.

When she finally returned to the family she tried so hard to escape, they gave her one condition:

Have a child.
Secure the bloodline.
Then you get the inheritance.

Desperate, Mikhaela turns to IVF—every detail planned, every move calculated.

Pero isang pagkakamali ang sumira sa lahat.

The embryo meant for Mikhaela’s Surrogate mother is implanted into the wrong woman.

Mariah.

The dreamer.
The career woman.
The one who never wanted a child.

One mistake.
One accident.
Two lives forever entangled.

What happens when the child meant to save one woman grows inside the woman who never wanted to be a mother?