Bittersweet Ending

At the banquet hall, I refuse to let my adopted twin pups eat the walnut cake. Ivana Lamont—the childhood sweetheart of my mate, Luther Hardwick—chokes up dramatically. She cries accusingly, "Yara, they may not be yours biologically, but you can't abuse them! Why won't you even let them have a slice of cake?" I'm just about to explain that the twins are allergic to nuts, but they point at me and complain in aggrieved voices. "Mommy often doesn't give us food. We never have enough to eat!" With that, I'm unceremoniously driven out of the banquet hall by the host. When I go to look for my mate to talk about it, I accidentally overhear his conversation with a friend. "Alpha Luther, it's been eight years. Are you still not going to mark Yara?" "There's no rush. I'll wait until the kids are a little older. We love each other very much, so it's fine even if I don't mark her." His friend responds disapprovingly, "You've been hiding from her that the twins are actually your and Ivana's pups. Aren't you afraid she may leave in anger if she finds out?" Luther shakes his head and replies with certainty, "She won't. Yara is an orphan, so she has no family. If she leaves me, where else can she go?" The ugly truth causes me to freeze on the spot. It turns out the pups I've loved for eight years were born to my mate and another she-wolf. What I thought was a happy life is nothing but a cold, heartless deception! I touch my belly, thinking of the pup I just conceived. My tears fall like a relentless downpour. In the shadows, I say inaudibly, "You're wrong, Luther. In fact, I found my birth parents three days ago. I just haven't had the chance to tell you. But it doesn't matter now because you don't need to know about that anymore." I have Luther sign the mate bond dissolution agreement before finalizing my withdrawal from the Sharp Teeth pack. Two days later, I give both my mate and the pups to Ivana. With the pup that Luther has never known or laid his eyes on, I disappear from his world forever.

In my fourth year of becoming the wife to Matteo Costa, the Don of the Costa family, as know as La Rosa Nera, I no longer insist on making our relationship public. He has once told me that he will publicly announce my identity as Donna on our wedding anniversary this year. But ever since Vera Barbieri returns to the country, Matteo never brings this up again. He puts all his attention on Vera and always places all her needs first. He even abandons me on the highway because of a single phone call from Vera while my mother is on her deathbed. My mother never gets to see me one last time before she dies. At this moment, I finally give up on him. I prepare the divorce agreement and book a ticket to leave Nevoli. The day after tomorrow, I will leave this place and leave Matteo to his childhood sweetheart.

Waking up hungover next to my arch-nemesis – the city's most notorious fuckboy? Worst. Morning. Ever. I handled the walk of shame with icy dignity, but fate had a bigger curveball: one month later, two pink lines. My baby. My rules. His involvement? Zero. My flawless plan hit a snag when morning sickness ambushed me in the office restroom. He walked in. His eyes locked onto my still-flat stomach, darkening with something dangerous. Before I could blink, he had me pinned against the cold tile wall. "Who's the father?" he growled. I met his glare with a frosty smirk. "Wouldn't you like to know? Definitely not you." Then it happened: a hot tear hit my neck. His voice cracked, raw and desperate. "Don't... don't leave me. Please." Me: ...Dude. Seriously? THIS IS YOURS!

When Eric Sutton—my charming CEO husband—found out I handed a million-dollar project to his assistant Vivien Cheney, he figured his three months of radio silence had finally broken me. Suddenly, he's all, "Let's go to Iceland for our honeymoon!" Vivien heard and threw a fit. Threatened to quit. Classic. Eric, who treated her like royalty, freaked out. After three days of begging, he bailed on the trip—said it was for "work"—then handed her my ticket. Later, he shrugged it off. "Romance's petty. Work comes first. You're my wife. You get it, right?" Right. I just stared at Vivien's new post: a couples selfie—cheek to cheek, hands shaped like a heart. I didn't say a word. Just nodded. Eric thought I was finally playing the role: calm, supportive, mature. Promised an even better honeymoon when he got back. Too bad I'd already quit. Too bad he'd already signed the divorce papers. We were done.

Apa yang akan kamu lakukan jika suamimu pulang membawa madu untukmu? Marah, meminta cerai, pergi dari rumah. Semua itu dilakukan oleh wanita bernama Hanum. Dia pergi dari rumah setelah sang suami bernama Dava menolak perceraian karena ia sangat mencintai Hanum. Namun, kekurangan yang dialami mereka, membuat keduanya tidak bisa mengelak ketika sang mertua Nani menginginkan keturunan. Iya, faktor keturunanlah yang membuat Nani memaksa Dava menikahi wanita pilihannya. Bagaimana kisah Hanum selanjutnya? Yuk langsung baca aja biar nggak penasaran!

Sebuah pesta lajang yang ternyata dipersiapkan untuk menjebaknya, membuat Aliana menghabiskan satu malam yang penuh gairah bersama dengan seorang pria asing, hingga Aliana mengandung anak dari pria asing tersebut. Meski demikian, tidak sekalipun Aliana mencari pria itu untuk meminta pertanggungjawaban darinya, malah cenderung ingin menyembunyikan putranya itu dari ayah kandungnya. Alasannya hanya dua. Pertama, Aliana tidak mau pria itu mengambil hak asuh anaknya. Dan kedua, Aliana tidak mau menikahi pria itu, bahkan pria manapun yang dijodohkan Ayahnya padanya. Sementara itu, Elrick Willem Euginius. CEO dari Rick Group, investor miliarder dan komentator keuangan, yang pandangannya banyak didengar oleh media, politikus dan juga selebriti, yang wajah tampannya sering wara-wiri di berbagai media baik cetak maupun elektronik, harus menekan harga dirinya dengan berpura-pura menjadi asisten pribadi Aliana, demi Bisa mengetahui anak yang wanita itu kandung. Niat yang awalnya ingin mengambil hak asuh putranya dari Aliana, seketika berubah seiring kedekatannya dengan wanita itu. Kepribadian introvert Aliana yang cenderung acuh dan sering mengabaikannya, membuat Elrick yang selama ini sangat digilai wanita menjadi tertarik padanya.

Odylia harus menerima kenyataan bahwa Ayahnya menikah lagi. Dia tentu saja menolak keras kehadiran ibu tirinya. Apalagi, saat Odylia menemukan ancaman yang menginginkan kematian sang Ayah, di hari pernikahan keduanya. Namun, Odylia menjadi begitu curiga dengan Jay--saudara tirinya. Meski Jay selalu melontarkan kata-kata pedas setiap bertemu Odyl, ia terlihat memiliki rahasia besar......

"I agree to the divorce," I said as I dialed my mother-in-law's number. "Matteo Bellandi will never agree to divorce me, so you need to arrange a new identity for me. I need to disappear completely. He must never find me." Despite six years of marriage, I never conceived a child. In the Mafia world, how many men remarried for the sake of an heir? Yet Matteo always stood firmly at my side. To have a child, we tried everything—ninety-nine rounds of IVF that resulted in ninety-eight failures. The final pregnancy ended in fetal demise. Matteo held me and said, "Whether we have a child or not, I will always love you." Everyone said he was deeply devoted and that I was fortunate. Even I believed it. I believed it was my body that was defective. I believed I was the one holding him back. Until that day, when I went to the hospital for a follow-up exam. I saw him with my own eyes, pushing a mobile hospital bed into a VIP suite. On the bed lay a young woman named Sienna Vale, who had just given birth, holding a pair of twins—a boy and a girl. The congratulations inside the room were sharp and piercing. They praised his good fortune and Sienna's superior genes. They said the children were born to inherit the Bellandi empire. They mocked my education and my background and said I could not produce a "high-quality" heir. "Who do you think you are, daring to speak about her? My wife is not someone you get to judge. If I hear one more word of disrespect toward my Donna, you'd better weigh the consequences yourself," Matteo rebuked them coldly, preserving my dignity as Donna. In that moment, I finally understood that the marriage I had been so proud of was nothing more than a joke in everyone else's eyes. If that was the case, I would end this love story everyone envied with my own hands.

I never expected my husband, Tony Baldino, to confess that he had cheated on me again. Six months ago, I discovered his affair. The pain was sharp, but I had resolutely signed the divorce papers, only for him to tear them up in desperation, crying at my doorstep through the rain. He swore he would never hide anything from me again, begging for a second chance. Soaked and humiliated, the high-and-mighty don of the Baldino family looked like a child abandoned by his own. Seeing him and feeling the life growing in my womb, I softened and forgave him. However, only half a year later, he betrayed me once more. This time, before I could discover it, he confessed. “It only happened once with Jane. You’re still the one I love. Don’t worry, she won’t take your place as Mrs. Baldino.” His honesty was intact. He hid nothing from me. Yet he had forgotten one thing. When we reconciled, I had made him a promise of my own. “Tony, you should understand by now that I am decisive. Once I make a decision, I will never return. I’d even vanish from your life. This time is the only exception.” Since he refuses to divorce me, I will disappear in another way.

Aira yang seorang babysitter bagai dapat durian runtuh saat tahu dirinya ditawari buat menikah dengan ayah dari anak yang diasuhnya. Xabiru Angkasa, nama yang aneh dan unik bagi Aira. Seunik orangnya. Dingin bagaikan kulkas seratus pintu. Belum lagi suka marah-marah tidak jelas dan bicaranya irit. Untung ganteng, jadi semua kekurangannya tertutupi. Lalu mampukah ia bertahan dengan laki-laki yang ternyata telah memilih wanita lain untuk jadi teman hidupnya? Dan bagaimana nasib Aira selanjutnya?