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Leo Kin Alterio, pemuda tampan berusia 23 tahun yang berprofesi sebagai CEO dari perusahaan teknologi yang cukup dikenal banyak orang. Bukan hanya itu, pria yang sering disapa Leo itu juga adalah seorang mafia yang terkenal akan kekejamannya. Namun, walaupun begitu, ia mampu menutupi identitasnya sebagai seorang mafia. Hingga suatu hari, Leo jatuh cinta pada pandangan pertama dengan gadis manis bernama Melody. Akan tetapi, profesinya sebagai seorang mafia membuat Melody terjerumus ke dalam bahaya. Juga masa lalu pahit yang harus ditanggung oleh keduanya. Akan kah seorang CEO sekaligus mafia itu bisa bersatu dengan gadis manis yang ia cintai? Atau justru takdir yang akan memisahkan keduanya? "Tetaplah di sisiku. Apa pun yang terjadi, aku akan melindungimu." - Leo Kin Alterio

"Make sure you wipe the counter," I remind him while wearing my panties. "With my tongue?" "Sure, if you wipe again with disinfectant after that." "Awww my little girl all grown up, using the word disinfectant and all. Bet you're getting deflowered any day now!" I smack his head while he laughs, thinking it's funny to keep on teasing me since last week. "I hope his willy isn't as big as mine," okay what now, "so he won't hurt your flower." I wanted to be mad at him, I do, but I laugh instead, stupid Toffer and his little boy talk. *** 30 year old Nina is confused with her hopeless love life. While her best friend pleasures women in the next room, she remains in her space keeping her virginity in-tact, wondering if she’s meant to be with her first love or she needs to move on to find her true soulmate. It takes my first love to end my dating strike. But will it take my first love to end my virginity?

My best friend passed away from postpartum hemorrhage. Ethan said he didn't want his child to grow up without a mother. To repay my best friend for saving my life years ago, I became the child's mother. I gave up my career and ambitions, willingly becoming a full-time housewife. For seven years, I cared for both father and son as if it were my life's mission. Yet, he always remained distant, his tenderness surfacing only in the quiet intensity of late nights. Afterward, he would hand me a few birth control pills. On New Year's Eve, my throat felt strange. I swallowed the pills, only to immediately vomit them all out. Ethan was furious and accused me of harboring ulterior motives. As punishment, he locked me outside on the open balcony in the rain. Our son came running with an umbrella in hand. But he walked past me without a glance and handed it to the housekeeper who was heading out. In that moment, I made up my mind—I would leave.

When Elena decides to surprise her boyfriend Jason on his birthday, things take an unexpected turn. In the darkness, she mistakes her best friend Asher for Jason, and they share a passionate night. But the truth comes to light, and Elena is left to grapple with the consequences of her actions. Lost in the guilt of sleeping with her best friend who was friend’s boyfriend, what happens when she finds out that her bestie is her mate and accepts her fate? As Elena navigates the complex web of relationships and emotions, she must confront the guilt and shame that threaten to consume her? Dive into this steamy and emotional rollercoaster. Read for more.

Idunnuoluwa Gregory is a 24-year-old orphan, CEO of I.D.G fashion house, and CEO of her late parent's company. Stacey Obong is her best friend and the only person she considers family. Michael Leonard is a 26-year-old handsome young man. He deals in the buying and selling of automobile spare parts. Raphael is his best friend. Michael and idunnu eventually fall in love. However, there's something between Stacey and Michael that Idunnu knows nothing about. Likewise, Raphael is hiding something. What is going to happen? What is Raphael hiding? What will happen when Stacey and Micheal finally meet? How will Idunnu and Stacey end up? What will cause a strain in the long-time friendship of Michael and Raphael? This is a must read

Two doctors working in a pandemic almost 400 years apart meet in the most unexpected way possible between rifts of reality, intertwining their hearts in the twisted threads of fate and time. Can they survive amidst the plague? Or will their love succumb to the wheels of cruel destiny? Join Elvira as she clashes against tides of medieval struggles and the dangers of ignorance in the new world she had to survive in along with Jacques who is a plague doctor that searches for the cure boundlessly as well and bumps into a strange person who claims to be from the future and is a doctor. Together, they travel across medieval Europe towards ancient China to find something even more important than the cure itself, home.

Ini adalah kisah yang sederhana, sesederhana perasaan yang muncul hanya karena sebuah kata nyaman. Begitulah kira-kira Aninda Ghea menyimpulkan kisah percintaan nya, saat dirinya selalu dinilai beruntung oleh sahabatnya—Tissa, karena mempunyai pacar yang tampan, setia, kaya dan juga humoris. Ghea justru memutuskan pacarnya itu dengan alasan bahwa dia—Syailendra, hanya bermain-main dengannya. Alasan yang tidak masuk akal memang tapi Syailendra terima-terima saja karena dia tahu bahwa sebenarnya Ghea menyukai Lhambang. Siapa itu Lhambang? Dia adalah pacarnya Tissa, sahabatnya sendiri. Lalu ketika Syailendra jungkir-balik membuktikan diri bahwa hanya dia yang pantas bersanding dengan Ghea, Tissa justru hadir ditengah-tengah hubungan mereka. Kali ini Tissa hadir, bukan sebagai teman tetapi sebagai pengagum rahasia yang memberanikan diri untuk merebut hati Syailendra Akbar Gibran dari Aninda Ghea.

Kisah cinta dua orang yang sama-sama memiliki trauma psikologis. Abelia tidak bisa berkomitmen dengan seorang pria disebabkan oleh trauma masa lalu karena sewaktu kecil pernah melihat ayahnya berselingkuh. Sedangkan Arsya mengidap PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) karena suatu peristiwa kecelakaan di masa kecil. Seharusnya kisah mereka berjalan mulus layaknya sebuah romance yang indah, tetapi ternyata persoalan hati tak semudah itu. Belum lagi, hubungan mereka pun dihadang oleh banyak rintangan, terutama karena berbagai konflik keluarga yang membuat mereka rapuh dan harus berpikir ulang tentang hubungan mereka. Lalu, ada Delisha yang terobsesi pada Arsya. Akankah kisah Abelia dan Arsya menjadi drama yang penuh dilema atau berakhir menjadi melodi yang indah dan abadi? NOTE: JANGAN MENJIPLAK KARYA INI SEBAGIAN ATAUPUN SELURUHNYA. SANKSI PLAGIAT/PLAGIARISME DIATUR DALAM UU.

At the pack's festival, a witch hands me a crystal orb that reveals the truth. When I ask "why," she says she was entrusted to deliver it and reminds me only to use it when I am alone. As the image in the orb grows clearer, and my mate appears, I forget how to breathe. "Jared Hamilton, do you love me?" a woman asks in her sweetest voice, curling her arms around his neck. "I do. Of course, I do. You're the only one I'll love for the rest of my life, Luciana." My hand slips. Even after the crystal orb hits the floor, I can still hear them talking. "I swear before the sacred Moon Goddess that I'll be with you, Luciana Rose, until my very last breath. If I ever break this oath, may I never know joy again." I feel suffocated. All I can do is stare in disbelief. The woman he vows to love for life is none other than my very best friend.

My good friend, Kiera, committed suicide after being raped, yet I covered up for the murderer. Kiera's family begged me to identify the murderer, but I ruthlessly kicked them out. Pack members smashed the door and made a scene. I planted Wolfsbane around the house, preventing them from coming in. Years later, my best friend, Sienna White, who had become the Alpha Female, ordered my exile while I was dying. On the day of my exile, she summoned the most powerful witch, who bound me to an altar and used dark magic to share my memories with everyone present. "Nyla Gotham, Kiera considered you her best friend, yet you covered up for the murderer who hurt her. Today, I'll use dark magic to examine your memories and find out who the murderer you've been painstakingly protecting really is." When the true culprit's face appeared in everyone's minds, my best friend collapsed to the ground in horror.