Jewel Fortalejo

Kristine Jewel Fortalejo is the adopted daughter of Romano and Anna Fortalejo. Her husband is Bernard Fortalejo who became the next head of the Fortalejo family. Her biological mother is Anna's sister.

Jewel grew up with her adoptive sister Emerald. At the beginning of the series, she was 19.

Jewel is described as a black diamond with her dark hair and dark obsidian eyes. She is considerably darker compared to her sister Emerald who inherited the Spanish feature of the Fortalejos.

Jewel 'died' when her heart stopped for a few seconds after a fall but was secretly taken to United States in comatose by her mother Anna. Anna and her biological sister, Ruby, took care of her during this time. While comatosed, she carried to term and gave birth to her and Bernard's son, Leonard Fortalejo. This incident is also believed to be the reason why Jewel suffered a heart attack at a young age albeit not being fatal later.

Relationships

Bernard Fortalejo

Jewel and Bernard met when she was 19. The two are immediately attracted to each other despite believing that they were 'related'. Even after finding out that Bernard is not a Fortalejo, their relationship didn't immediately start due to the hidden opposition of Don Leon. The two were separated for three years before they finally got together but resulted to Don Leon's fatal heart attack.

After finding out his true parentage, Bernard was devastated and would have opted to just disappear and spare Jewel of the horror of sleeping with her 'uncle' but Jewel revealed her true parentage to Bernard as well, a fact Don Leon was sadly unaware of.

Jewel found out soon after that she was pregnant but tragedy struck when Jewel was attacked at Villa Kristine and 'died'.

Bernard was inconsolable and was sedated for much of this time thus was unaware that despite being pronounced dead, Jewel regained heartbeat but her family was told that she will never regain consciousness and will remain in a vegetative state. Despite this, Anna begged Marco to allow her to be taken to US so she could care for her without raising anyone else's hope and avoid anyone from pitying her daughter. It was also implied that Bernard's devastation was one of the reasons, they wanted Bernard to be able to move on.

Bernard was a changed man ever since, the lost of Jewel made him a bitter and ruthless businessman channelling all his energy in managing the Kristine Group of Companies to the worry of the rest of his family.

When Jewel miraculously regained consciousness years after, it was found out that she had lost most of her memories of meeting the rest of the Fortalejo clan. She met her already then-toddler son, Lenny.

Emerald Fortalejo

The two sisters grew up very close. Emerald was devastated when Jewel 'died'.

Don Leon Fortalejo

Lawrence Navarro