# An Angel's Kiss I never imagined that moving to New York would change my life forever. Less than a year ago, I graduated with highest honors from high school and left the Philippines to begin a new life in New York City. Everything was unfamiliar—the towering city, the culture, and the future waiting for me. After applying to several universities, I was accepted by every one of them and received multiple academic scholarship offers. In the end, the decision wasn't mine. My mother chose Kingsford University. It had always been her dream school, and when I was awarded a full academic scholarship, she didn't hesitate. I never argued. My parents had sacrificed too much for me to disappoint them. My mother had spent fifteen years working as a nurse in New York, while my father worked thousands of miles away as a truck driver in Dubai so our family could have a better future. So I followed the path they had chosen for me, believing my future had already been decided. Then one university party changed everything. A dare forced me to kiss Haarland Colt Rockefeller—the cold, arrogant captain of Kingsford University's football varsity team. Every girl on campus seemed to dream of him. I only wanted to forget he existed. Unfortunately, he had other plans. Colt expected me to chase after him like everyone else. Instead, I avoided him at every opportunity. The more I tried to stay out of his way, the more determined he became to break down the walls I'd built around myself. What began as curiosity slowly became something neither of us saw coming. Falling in love with Colt, however, came with a price. His mother had already chosen another woman for him—the daughter of one of the Rockefeller family's closest friends—and she made it painfully clear that I would never be worthy of carrying their name. For the first time in my life, I found myself torn between the family who had sacrificed everything for me and the man who made me question the future I'd always accepted. In the end, I had to make the hardest choice of all: Should I continue living the life my parents had planned for me... or find the courage to choose the life my own heart longed for? This is my story—a story of first love, sacrifice, family, heartbreak, and the courage to choose yourself.