leaves to work abroad with an international shipping company, saving a substantial amount of money when he returns. He opens a business servicing companies and retail establishments requiring mechanical repairs of tools and mechanical equipment. He does very well, and is able to build a large house, and continues to support orphans with building their job skills to keep them off the streets. Marga becomes a successful entrepreneur, her talent agency becomes one of the biggest in the Philippines. She runs into Caloy and the two resume their friendship and eventually become a couple. Tessa goes on to fulfill her dream to become a fashion designer, and with the help of Jaime, she opens a fashion couture house in the US called House of Teri. They return to Manila when Jaime feels Tessa is ready to launch her ready-to-wear brand in the Philippine market. The lives of the three friends collide at the House of Teri launch. But instead of renewing old friendship and forgiving past mistakes, they thread down a path of jealousy, revenge, and obsession: this time including Jaime Laurel, the one person most affected by their history. At the near end of the series, it is revealed that Jaime was responsible for murdering his foster son Rafa and a master manipulator of the events so far. Tessa and Caloy discover the DNA results revealing Miraculo Policarpio as their biological son Rafael M. Cervantes, and Jaime manipulates Tessa for blaming her real son for the crime he did not commit. He stages a car accident while he was sought by the authorities and barely survives the car crash. Due to his mental instability, he kidnaps Marga's son as a bait to get Tessa, which succeeds until the arrival of Caloy, Marga, and the authorities to rescue them. Eventually, to pay back what Marga has done to her best friend, she sacrifices herself to rescue Tessa from getting shot by Jaime until he was neutralized by the authorities. After Marga's death due to not surviving at the hospital from her gunshot wounds by Jaime, Leon serves life imprisonment for working with Jaime to plan Rafa's murder. Jaime is sent to the mental asylum after surviving the gunshot wound by the authorities. Tessa becomes the owner and entrepreneur of House of Teri (now renamed House of Tessa) where she shows a tribute of the fashion models wearing the dress designs