abducting her. Iza Calzado as Rebecca Marquez-Young: Angela's biological mother. She falls in love with Rodrigo Cortes, Julian's only child and heir of the Cortes fortune and family prized jewel the Nostalgia. Disapproving of their relationship, Don Julian disowns Rodrigo and he becomes estranged from his family. Rodrigo lives a simple, happy life in the province with Rebecca and their infant daughter, Angela. Their peaceful lives end abruptly upon his father's death. Rodrigo returns to attend the funeral and learns that in his will, his father leaves everything to him as sole heir. Rodrigo is murdered and in the absence of heirs, where his infant daughter is presumed dead, the Cortes empire is turned over to his stepbrother Hernan. Rebecca survives the assassination and returns two decades later as Rodrigo's former fiancé, out to get to the truth about her fiancé's death and the daughter's disappearance. She is Hernan's neighbor in Quezon and becomes business partners with Stella, hoping to uncover the truth about Rodrigo and Angela's deaths. She does not deny her identity, but secretly pursues her investigation. Upon learning the truth she plans their destruction. Complications arise when Inno and Eva fall in love. Her hatred towards the Cortes family drives a wedge between mother and daughter when she is determined to separate Inno. After Eva's death, she learns to forgive. Alice Dixson as Stella Simbajon-Cortez: Hernan’s wife, and daughter-in-law of Julian and Carmen Cortes. She belongs to a political family and marries into the wealthy patrician Cortes family. Her husband is Don Julian's stepson and Doña Carmen Cortes’ son from a previous marriage. Stella favors her first-born son, Ollie, over her youngest son, Inno, as he is Hernan's child with another woman. Stella is the mastermind behind the assassination of Rodrigo and Rebecca so that her husband, Hernan, as the closest remaining relative acquires the wealth of the Cortes family. They lose it a decade later when Rebecca returns and proves that Eva is Rodrigo's daughter. Stella is arraigned and jailed when Rebecca proves that Stella manipulated the DNA results to match the imposter Roxanne. Ina Raymundo as Adessa Mapendo: Rosa's younger sister and Eva's adoptive mother. Adessa suffers a severe mental breakdown when her infant child is abducted, but the arrival of Eva leads her back to sanity. She serves as Eva's adoptive mother and later reunites with her missing daughter Christina. Dominic Ochoa as Abel