23:00 Jam Berapa

"Zyan, saya nggak mau dengar bayi ini nangis!" "Zyan, saya nggak suka kalau cium-cium kotoran bayi!" "Zyan, beri susu bayi ini 24 jam!" "Zyan, tidur sama saya malam ini!" Inilah kehidupan Dennis Nortman setiap hari, setelah tuntutan dari sang Bunda dan adiknya yang kelewat bar-bar. Bagaimana tidak, Ilona dan Ilana mengadopsi seorang bayi berumur 1 minggu. Dengan tujuan, agar Dennis memikirkan pasangan dan segera memiliki anak. Semacam pancingan, karena hidup lelaki itu kelewat serius, bahkan tak mengenal pasangan seumur hidupnya. Akhirnya Dennis mengalah, karena teror dari sang adik yang ingin secepatnya menikah, namun tak boleh melangkahi dirinya. Sang Bunda dan adik menghire seorang Nanny—Azyan. Gadis berusia 20 tahun, namun memiliki penyakit langka. Azyan mengidap hiperprolaktinemia : kondisi di mana terjadi tingkat normal yang mengganggu produksi estrogen dan menyebabkan perubahan pada siklus ovulasi. Membuat ASI Azyan terus berproduksi, walau gadis itu tidak hamil. Apakah dengan kehadiran seorang Nanny dan bayi mengemaskan, bisa mengetarkan hati Dennis, agar mau mencari pasangan?

Sudah tiga jam aku menunggu Eldino Marven, pacarku. Pria yang seharusnya jadi tokoh utama itu mendadak ke rumah sakit karena ditelepon oleh gadis kesayangannya. Pergelangan kaki gadis kesayangannya itu terkilir, tetapi dia malah sengaja merekam video ciumannya dengan Eldino. Saking dalamnya cinta mereka, Eldino yang kedua kakinya cacat itu ternyata sanggup bangkit berdiri dan bahkan mendorong Adena Horian ke pintu. "Eldino, kok kamu nggak kasih tahu Arissa kalau kakimu sudah sembuh?" Eldino pun menjawab. "Kalau dia tahu, dia pasti akan ribut memintaku menikahinya." "Memangnya Arissa itu siapa sih? Dia itu cuma pengasuh gratis! Apa dia pantas menikah denganku?" Eldino dan Adena berciuman dengan penuh gairah. Adena bahkan mengenakan gaun pengantin rancanganku dan melirik kamera dengan provokatif. Video pun berakhir dengan bunyi air yang menjurus. Ternyata selama ini Eldino membohongiku. Aku langsung membuang kue yang kubuat untuk pria itu ke tempat sampah. Lalu, aku menundukkan kepala dan mengirim pesan kepada ibuku. "Halo, Bu, aku mau ikut kencan buta itu."

“Kau ingin menyelamatkannya dariku?” suara Xavier begitu dingin, namun berdesing di telinga Hazel seperti pisau yang diasah. “Kalau begitu, serahkan dirimu padaku.” Hazel terperangah, “Brengsek! Kau pikir ini semacam transaksi kotor? Aku bukan barang yang bisa kau tawar!” Xavier perlahan mendekat, menghapus jarak di antara mereka. Dengan kasar dan mendominasi, ia mencium Hazel dengan penuh gairah. Sebuah penanda, seolah berkata, 'kau milikku sekarang.' Hazel terhentak, tubuhnya gemetar karena kaget dan marah. Tapi Xavier hanya menyeringai puas, seperti predator yang tahu mangsanya mulai terperangkap. “Kau harus bertanggung jawab atas perbuatanmu ini…” bisiknya di telinga Hazel, suaranya rendah dan menggetarkan saat Xavier melanjutkan. “...kucing liarku.” __ Awalnya, Hazel hanya ingin membantu saudaranya dari pria bernama Xavier. Sebuah niat sederhana, tapi langkah kecil itu justru membawanya ke gerbang mimpi buruk yang tak pernah ia bayangkan. Dunia gelap yang dipenuhi darah, pengkhianatan, dan bayangan seorang pria yang tak seharusnya masuk dalam hidupnya. Di saat pikirannya diliputi kebencian dan tubuhnya dipenuhi adrenalin, Hazel justru disambut kenyataan pahit, tunangannya sendiri berselingkuh. Hancur dan marah, ia pergi ke bar, membiarkan alkohol menelan logikanya. Ia hanya ingin melupakan. Namun malam itu, sebuah kesalahan fatal terjadi. Dalam kabut mabuk dan luka hati yang menganga, Hazel terjatuh dalam pelukan pria yang paling ia benci… dan bangun di ranjang Xavier Lautaro Davis. Dan sejak malam itu, hidup Hazel tak lagi menjadi miliknya. Setiap langkah untuk menjauh hanya membuatnya semakin tenggelam. Dalam permainan kekuasaan yang kejam, dan hasrat yang tak bisa dijelaskan, Hazel menyadari satu hal, semakin ia membenci Xavier, semakin kuat belenggu yang pria itu lilitkan di sekelilingnya. Kini, pertanyaannya bukan lagi bagaimana cara keluar, tapi berapa harga yang harus dibayar untuk bebas dari obsesi seorang Xavier Lautaro Davis?

"Aku menginginkanmu. Setiap inchi tubuhmu menarik perhatianku. Apakah kita tidak akan ada kesempatan tidur bersama?" Kembali, Sarla menggelengkan kepalanya dengan gerakan kuat beberapa kali. "Tidak akan!" "Kau harus ingat jika aku berada di sini bukanlah sebagai pelayanmu dan melakukan apa saja yang kau minta. Termasuk tidur denganmu Mr--" "Kau memang bukan pelayanku. Tapi, kau sudah hidup bersamaku di sini. Kau sudah mendapatkan semua fasilitas mewah di rumahku." "Jadi, apa tidak boleh aku menerima balasan? Minimal kau dapat menyerahkan tubuh indahmu, Miss Sarla." Wilzton menyeringai. "Baiklah. Anggap saja aku membalas budi. Harus berapa kali aku bersedia untuk kau tiduri?" tanya Sarla dengan tenang. Tak menunjukkan kegugupan. "Haha. Selama gairahmu masih menginginkanku untuk memuaskanmu." Sarla membeliak kaget. "Apa katamu?" "Kau suka bukan? Apa pun yang menyenangkan hatimu akan aku lakukan, Sayang." Sarla kian membelalakan mata. Tambah kesal juga akan ucapan Wilzton yang baginya penghinaan. "Cih, kau kira kau bisa memuaskanku begitu saja?" Sarla dominasikan nada mencibir dan jengkel. "Lebih baik kau lihat dulu permainanku. Baru, kau boleh menilai. Aku jamin aku tidak mengecewakan." …………….. Sarla Maykan Parker harus menanggung akibat dari hidup glamour yang sudah melewati batas. Tak bisa ia hindari hukuman ditentukan oleh keluarganya sendiri. Dibuang ke San Fransisco, tinggal di rumah seorang billionaire muda bernama Wilzton Davis tanpa dibekali sepeser pun uang. Tidak hanya hari-hari harus dilewatinya yang berubah drastis. Namun juga, hati dan hasratnya. Wilzton terlalu tampan dengan paras menawan dan tubuh tinggi atletis. Ditambah sentuhan-sentuhan pria itu yang selalu membakar gairahnya. Sarla tak bisa menahan godaan. Perlahan namun pasti, ia mulai terperangkap. Bergantung pada Wilzton hingga memberikan cinta dan tubuhnya untuk pria itu seutuhnya.

Hunnie Inzotta. A spunky, beautiful 23 year old Dark Witch, whom’s also a nurse in the human realm, has a furry stalker. A wolf, who evens watching her in the woods practice her magic. This wolf admires her and even wants to be brought home. He goes through the trouble of harming himself so Hunnie can’t leave the forest without him today. Little did she know,…he wanted his mate and he wanted her magic to break a seal that locked him in his wolf form! A Demon-Wolf King , BAHM!! “I closed my eyes to fall asleep again after everything stilled. What exactly happened next, will probably forever haunt me. I opened my eyes when I felt his claws lengthened and scratched against my panties. The breeze from my window hit my exposed pubes for a short period of time, before Wolfy's shoves his nose deep under my leg, throwing it over his head and lunging his tongue away at my now torn fabric.” After becoming a man again, he wants to mark his mate, but Hunnie can’t have that! She has to reject this lost being and live her life. Her coven would never accept the fact she turned a wolf to a man and it became her mate! After all, her own coven had rejected her for practicing dark magic. So she definitely can’t go making anymore trouble. Jump into the steamy and hot series of Witchy World! Part two “Witchy World’s Forgotten Mate” Now in the making!

Flynn Greg has lived her entire life in the shadows — poisoned, lied to, and betrayed by the very people she calls family. At 23, she believes Roselyn is her mother, unaware the woman murdered her real mother during childbirth and stole her life. For years, Roselyn’s poison kept Flynn’s wolf weak, ensuring she’d never rise, never fight, and never claim what was hers. But fate isn’t so easily silenced. Betrayed by her half-sister Celine and rejected by her mate, Ranon, a power-hungry wolf desperate to marry into the Alpha bloodline — Flynn is drugged and framed in a twisted scheme to disgrace her. Left powerless, humiliated, and marked for banishment, she should have been broken. Instead, the night brings her something beautiful. A one-night encounter with an emotionally unavailable, secretive stranger named Ray sets off a bond neither of them expected. But Ray isn’t who he seems — and neither is Ranon. Unknown to them all, the two men are twins separated at birth by their own mother, born into a brutal bloodline of ruthless ambition. As secrets unravel and Flynn’s dormant powers surge to life, she uncovers the horrifying truth about her past, her lineage, and the prophecy she was born to fulfill. The girl they called weak is the heir and greatest Alpha wolf no one saw coming… and she’s out for blood. Now, Flynn must decide: will she surrender to her heart’s pull toward Ray, a man carrying unaware secrets of his own — or solely focus on the vengeance that she had sworn to dish? One thing is certain: those who betrayed her will kneel, and the pack that cast her aside will learn the true power of a wolf who was never meant to be caged.

Look woman I never begged to be your husband, you gave me that opportunity” Min Jun yelled. Mei Xing a 22 year old and the only daughter of multi-billionaires is diagnosed with cancer but doesn’t want to go through chemotherapy, with only a year left to live, she wants to explore. Min Jun a jobless 23 year old, finds himself a jackpot and agrees to be her contracted husband for the money and all the benefits of being with a billionaire’s daughter. EXCERPT: “Will you marry me?” Mei Xing asked a stranger she met walking on the streets. “What did you just say?” he said and was about to walk away. “I will pay you, a hundred thousand dollars, if you be my husband for a year” she said. “A year?” he asked and she nodded. She scanned through her wardrobe and wore a flowery dress, it wasn’t summer but by summer she might be too sick to wear it. “You only live once, more like a year," Min Jun finally arrived in jeans and a polo, “A summery dress in fall” he said as he took his seat. “The deal is I get fifty thousand dollars before we start the arrangement, then after the wedding I get the other half” Min Jun asked and Mei Xing nodded in approval. “You just have to be with me for a year, I probably won’t be alive by the end of the year” she joked. “Do you have some kind of transferable deadly disease. Covid?” he asked her. “No just cancer” she assured. “So I’m going to be free in a year and you'll be dead” he narrated.

"Palagi na lang kasi akong nari-reject kapag nagpapasa ako ng libro ko sa Good Nobela at hindi ako pwedeng ma-reject this year. Alam mo namang may usapan kami ng Daddy. Hindi na niya ako pipilitin na mag-masteral kapag may naipasa akong libro. Eh, lagi akong nari-reject dahil nga ang mga sinusulat ko raw ay walang kilig. Kailangan daw mag-focus ako sa nararamdaman ng bida kapag nandyan ang mahal niya." -- Jornaliza Smith Ang nais lang naman ni Jornaliza Smith ay maging sikat na manunulat kaya nagpaturo siya sa bestfriend niyang si Luigi Chances kung paanong maging ‘manyak’. Kahit kasi kahit 23 years old na siya hindi pa siya nakaranas ng first kiss. So, paano pa niya mailalarawan kung paanong umakyat sa ikapitong glorya? On going na ang 'erotic session' nila ni Luigi ng biglang bumukas ang pintuan ng kanyang kuwarto at nakita sila ng kanyang Daddy na saksakan ng konserbatibo. Kaya, wala sa oras na napamartsa si Jornaliza sa harap ng altar. Shucks, ang nais lang niya ay maging sikat na manunulat, paano niya gagampanan ang papel bilang asawa kung wala namang spark sa pagitan nila ni Luigi? Eh, bakit parang may dumadaloy na milyun-milyong boltahe ng kuryente sa kanyang katawan kapag hinahalikan siya ng bestfriend niya?

Being the Alpha heir and finding my fated is your Gamma's baby sister is more than irritating, since I'm enamored with his younger sister Melody. Short, chubby Ashley has freckles across her face, she's not to be my mate or Luna; I deserve someone prettier, sexier; I deserve Melody. I'm 23 now and the Alpha of our pack on Ashley 18th birthday, I rejected her and made her accept it, I watched her wither in pain and walked away. Only to realize later that the rejection wouldn't take because she hadn't shifted yet. That very night, I felt her denounced the pack and me as her Alpha. She was gone and I wanted, no needed her back, the fated mate bond and the knowledge of who she is took hold. I need to find her; I need her to forgive me for the stupid rejection and win her back at all costs. My name is Ashley Silver I'm not a werewolf, but a Lycan, I denounce the pack and search for others like me, I have no reason to stay since my family could care less if I'm here or not, I've been rejected and forced to accept it from none other than Alpha Maddon. I find the Alpha King himself and that Lycan females are rare and are treated as royalty, almost Goddess status. Maddon is determined to win Ashley back, anyway he can and at all costs, but can he? Will the Lycan kingdom give her up? Will she forgive and forget, will the fated bond draw her back to Maddon, or will she LIVE LIKE THE GODDESS SHE IS.

Farrah Louise Alvarez, a 23 years old optimistic woman who fell in love with a mafia boss. Nasaksihan niya kung gaano ka-brutal pumatay ng tao ang taong nagugustuhan niya, ngunit mas lalo pa siyang nahulog dito sa halip na katakutan niya ito. Siya rin ay gumaganap na isang ina sa isang batang kan'yang inampon. Grayson Harvey Lewis, the 28-year old Mafia boss, and the ruthless man that can kill anyone except the innocent ones. Kaya niyang patayin ang sinumang humarang sa kan'yang mga plano at ang mga traydor sa kan'yang paligid. Lalo pa't kailangan niyang malaman ang nangyari sa kan’yang ama at hanapin ang bangkay nito. Sa pagku-krus ng landas ng dalawa ay parehong nag-iba ang takbo ng kanilang buhay. Humingi ng pabor si Gray kay Farrah na magpanggap na asawa nito kapalit nang pananatili niya sa bahay nito upang hindi makuha ng kan’yang madrasta ang lahat ng pinaghirapan ng kan’yang ama. Ngunit sa kabila ng kanilang pagpapanggap ay hindi inaasahan ng dalawa na magkakaroon sila ng mas malalim pang ugnayan. Lalo na’t isa sa layunin ni Farrah ay ang mabihag ang puso ni Gray. Magpatuloy pa kaya si Farrah na pa-ibigin si Gray sa kabila nang mga darating na mga problema sa buhay nila? Ang pagpapanggap ba nila ang magiging susi tungo sa inaasam nilang layunin?