The Kiss That Never Fades

By Marites Ritumalta

Some meetings are never written in the stars, yet they happen all the same-sudden, fierce, and irreversible, like a spark that catches fire in the dark. This is the story of two people who should never have crossed paths: Addie, a Filipina caregiver who left her home and children to work far away, carrying only her strength and her dreams; and John, a wealthy, privileged man from a world so different from hers that it might as well have been another universe.

Between them, there was no promise, no future, no place where their lives could truly meet. There was only the present-stolen hours behind closed doors, secret meetings, nights where desire burned so bright it blinded them to every truth standing in their way. They called it many things: lust, addiction, a game, a mistake. But beneath every touch, every whispered breath, every moment where bodies and hearts tangled as one, there was something neither could name nor let go of.

I wrote this story to tell of a love that was never meant to last, yet never truly dies. It is about the line between need and longing, between fantasy and reality, between the woman who knew she was only a "toy" and the heart that still chose to stay. It is about how a single kiss can hold more truth than a thousand words, how a stranger can touch the deepest part of you, and how even when you walk away, leave the country, or try to forget... some marks remain forever.

They say lust is just lust, and sex is just sex. But a kiss? A kiss is still a kiss. And when it is given with all the hidden longing, all the impossible hope, and all the quiet love you dare not speak-*that* is the kiss that never fades.

This is their journey-from strangers to lovers, from dreams to heartbreak, from goodbye to the moment that proved nothing ever really ended. This is the story of a love that lived in the spaces between what was real and what was wished for... and how it stayed, unchanging, unforgotten, forever etched in the soul.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H62JY7KZ
• ISBN13: 9798182173643
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"