Arti Wasted Time

Karena bagi Ara, Anthony J. Wallenstein adalah sosok yang melindunginya dari kekejaman dunia, menariknya dari jeratan rantai neraka, dan menghalangi semua tatapan biadab yang menatap terang-terangan ke arahnya. Tetapi di sisi lain, Anthony menciptakan dunia palsu untuk Ara tinggali. Dunia di mana, Ara dapat merasakan apa arti kebahagiaan, sebelum rasa bahagia itu sirna ketika mengetahui sesuatu yang terselubung di dalamnya. Intensi seorang Anthony J. Wallenstein.

The most powerful Godfather in the mafia underworld—Dante Costello—had an expensive diamond signet ring custom-made to fit my finger perfectly and sent straight to our home. He said that whoever could wear the ring would become the lady of his family. The Monroe family had long since fallen from grace. All that remained were four women. On ordinary days, we fought endlessly, tearing each other apart. Every single one of us wanted to marry Dante because marrying him meant preserving a life of dignity and comfort. In the first life, the fake heiress, Blair, secretly had the ring resized smaller and married into the family. Dante took one look at her, then had her thrown into the river to drown. “Not her.” In the second life, my cousin, Chloe, underwent plastic surgery to alter her fingers and force the ring on. Dante gifted her a staged car accident. “Still not her.” In the third life, my stepmother, Catherine, clenched her teeth and forced the ring onto her finger. Her blood hadn’t even dried when she married Dante. He coldly slashed her face, then locked her in the basement, where she slowly wasted away until death. By the fourth life, all three of them were terrified. None of them dared to marry him anymore, so they hurriedly pushed me forward instead. I put on the ring. This time, the size was perfect. Just when I thought my good days had finally begun, Dante stabbed me to death on our wedding night, his eyes burning red with madness. After my rebirth, the consigliere of the Dante family delivered the ring once again. This time, all four of us avoided it like the plague.

Menikah karena sebuah perjodohan membuat Gina harus merasakan pahitnya arti sebuah rumah tangga. Awalnya Gina mengira hubungannya akan semakin dekat dengan sang suami setelah dia menjabat sebagai sekretaris pribadi suaminya setelah dia menggantikan posisi sekretaris pribadi suaminya yang sebelumnya yang tak lain adalah mantan kekasih suaminya sendiri. Tetapi ternyata deritanya semakin bertambah. Batin dan fisik Gina rasakan sakitnya di dalam dunia kerja maupun di rumah tangganya dengan Nick.

Larasati Wijaya (Rara) baru saja berusia 19 tahun. Dia seharusnya sedang menikmati masa mudanya dan berkuliah, bukan justru hamil oleh pria yang lebih tua 10 tahun darinya, Abimanyu Wicaksono (Abi). Kebersamaan mereka mengorbankan banyak hal, mulai dari murkanya orang tua Rara, diusirnya Rara hingga belum siapnya dia menjadi seorang Ibu. Di luar itu, Abi belum sepenuhnya dewasa dan belum memahami arti Rara dalam hidupnya. "Kita cukup sampai di sini aja."

"I want to feel you inside me, Edward..." ~ Edward Harrington, the high-profile social elite and CEO of Harrington Group of Companies, thought that his relationship with his girlfriend was flawless until one fateful night—he caught his girlfriend fvcking with another man. To his surprise, the man his girlfriend was with in bed was his best friend. They both confessed to being in a relationship for three years, overlapping their five-year relationship. Drunk and wasted, he stumbled alone to La Cresta, a high-end resort he had originally planned as a surprise vacation for his girlfriend for their 5th anniversary. Unfortunately, it turned into his escape from the pain he felt after being betrayed by the two important people in his life. By fate, he encountered Shiela Lockheart, a feisty provincial woman with a goddess face and innocent eyes—the most beautiful woman in La Cresta.

I was his wife. His obligation. His biggest mistake. For three years, I stayed silent, watching Liam love another woman while I wasted away beside him. But when he let our baby die without lifting a finger, everything inside me shattered. I walked away—but not to disappear. I walked into a new life. One where I’d find strength, answers… and someone who’d remind me what it feels like to be seen. But the past isn’t done with me. And neither is Liam. Because what ties us together runs deeper than we ever knew. And the man I’m beginning to fall for? He might be the one thing that unravels it all. A heartbreak billionaire romance about betrayal, identity, and a love buried in the ashes of the past.

Caught between a web of lies and deceit, Kiara found herself questioning her reality and everything around her. The man she loved not only abandoned her and her child, but she also found out that he had another family~ a more perfect family. For several years, he was the only man in her heart. After their wedding, she'd literally transformed herself into his slave with his happiness and satisfaction her only goal. Yet, her loyalty and love were repaid with betrayal, heartbreak, and rejection. Realizing that she wasted her love on the wrong person, Kiara changed her mission. She wasn't going to be the same weak and docile heiress whom everyone ordered around. She was the queen of the Storm Empire, and it just so happened that Killian Reid was going to bow at her feet someday.

When office worker Olivia Lane angrily signs her predatory boss's marriage contract in a moment of desperation, she believes this was the only way to survive and to put behind her the five long years she wasted with his friend. She’s never falling in love or giving her heart to anyone again but she has no idea the wealthy and seductive billionaire would prove maddeningly difficult to resist as he was in it to steal her heart and body. Trapped in a twisted game of cat and mouse where boundaries of pleasure and raw desire are pushed to the extreme, Olivia finds herself succumbing to things she swore never to give in to Can she find the strength to break free from his chains? Or will Nathan’s villainous cravings for her heart and body utterly consume her?

Penulis: [zainuri] Judul: CEO Berlutut pada Gadis Sederhana Alya, gadis polos dari keluarga sederhana, tak sengaja memasuki dunia CEO muda bernama Rey yang dingin dan penuh gengsi. Tanpa disadari, kehadirannya mengubah ritme hidup Rey. Dari pria kaku menjadi seseorang yang mulai mengenal arti rindu dan cemburu. Saat cobaan datang dan kedekatan mereka diuji, Rey dihadapkan pada pilihan: menjaga jarak, atau mengungkap perasaannya yang dalam pada gadis yang membuatnya jatuh hati diam-diam.

Cinta saja tidak cukup untuk mempertahankan sebuah pernikahan. Aruna menikah dengan lelaki yang ia cintai, berharap kebahagiaan akan menyertai hari-harinya. Namun sejak awal, ia harus hidup dalam bayang-bayang mertua yang dingin dan menuntut, serta rahasia masa lalu suaminya yang perlahan terbongkar. Ketika hadir sosok wanita lain yang merebut perhatian sang suami, Aruna dihadapkan pada kenyataan pahit: cintanya tidak lagi menjadi prioritas. Haruskah ia bertahan meski hatinya hancur? Atau berani melepaskan untuk menemukan arti kebahagiaan yang sebenarnya?