Boiled As An Owl

Aku adalah anak yatim, putri sulung. Sejak aku berusia belasan tahun, aku harus bekerja keras demi adik-adik. Saat mulai bekerja untuk pertama kalinya menjadi Asistent Rumah Tangga, di situ pula aku mulai merasakan banyak pengalaman yang menjanggal.

My husband's first love was scalded by boiling water. To punish me, he forced me into a customized steamer half my height, turned the heat to its highest setting, and sealed me inside. "I'll make you feel the pain Jessica suffered a thousand times over!" Trapped in the suffocating space, my breath came in ragged gasps. Heat seared my skin, and my body felt as though it would melt. I sobbed, begging him for mercy. "Please! I'm going to die!" But he didn't look back. Holding his beloved in his arms, he walked away. He even locked the door after he left the room. "Don't worry, you won't die. This is the only way you'll understand Jessica's pain." Despair swallowed me whole. I screamed, my voice raw, but the boiling water beneath me splashed up, scalding my skin, stealing even the strength to cry. He left the country with Jessica that same night. A week passed before he finally remembered my existence. "That wretched woman must have learned her lesson by now. Let her out." What he didn't know was that the water had long since boiled away, the heat had faded, and inside the steamer, my corpse lay rotting—swarmed with maggots.

Meggie had always been a devoted daughter. She gave everything to her family—until they asked for the one thing she could never sacrifice. One week before her wedding, her parents demanded that she give up her fiancé, Steven, to her frail younger sister. The ten-year love she had built with blood and tears was expected to be offered as a “family sacrifice.” Meggie refused. But betrayal came from the one person she trusted most. Steven chose Olivia. Worse—he had been cheating. Shattered, humiliated, and stripped of everything, Meggie fled to a bar. One reckless mistake in a drunken haze led her into the arms of a mysterious stranger. A night meant to be forgotten left her with two things: one million dollars… and a child growing in her womb. Six years later. Nicholas is Meggie’s entire world—brilliant, handsome, and the reason she keeps breathing. But fate turns cruel once more. Her son is taken as collateral for a debt owed to a mafia organization, and Meggie must pay 170 million dollars to get him back—an impossible sum. Nicholas is sold on the black market. And the man who buys him… is Victor. The bartender who once shared her bed. A dangerous man. Ruthless. The tyrant who leads the largest mafia organization in the city. Now Meggie must save her son before Victor discovers the one secret that could destroy everything— Nicholas is his flesh and blood. Between a first love who betrayed her, a family who used her, and a mafia that shows no mercy… how high a price must Meggie pay to protect her child?

Vivian, gadis yatim piatu yang dibesarkan oleh paman dan bibinya. Ia memiliki saudari sepupu bernama Clara yang membencinya. Vivian juga mempunyai binatang bernama Aglo yang selalu mengikuti, satu-satunya makhluk peduli dan sayang pada Vivian. Clara selalu membuat Vivian tersiksa hingga Vivian berusaha lari dan pergi jauh dari tempat masa kecilnya. Terbebas dari keterpaksaan bekerja untuk keluarga Clara.

Ziana, gadis muda yang berasal dari panti, tidak berpengalaman dan tidak punya koneksi. Terlahir dengan kecantikan malah membuat Ziana lelah dijadikan objek permainan dan dimanfaatkan banyak orang. Dia ingin menghindar dari banyak lelaki yang menawarkan manisnya cinta dengan sejuta lukanya, tapi untuk gadis rapuh sepertinya bahkan menghindar satu langkah saja tak mampu. Dia pun berpikir untuk mendekati lelaki berkuasa, lelaki yang dingin, tegas, dan tidak pernah tergoda oleh pesonanya. Ziana hanya ingin diselamatkan, namun siapa sangka jika lelaki itu memberikan lebih--keamanan, kenyamanan, dan rasa yang berbeda dari pesona seorang lelaki dewasa? Sayangnya, sosok lelaki sempurna yang berhasil menjatuhkan hatinya itu justru ayah dari sahabatnya sendiri. Ketika dia dihadapkan pada suatu pilihan untuk tetap bertahan dengan cintanya atau persahabatannya, apa yang harus Ziana pilih?

Anara gadis miskin yang terjerat hutang, terpaksa harus menjual ginjal untuk melunasinya. Namun nasib sial datang bertubi-tubi, hingga tidak hanya ginjal yang dia jual, pada akhirnya Anara juga menjual diri pada lelaki asing yang sanggup membayar keperawanannya dengan harga mahal. Satu ginjal Anara berpindah untuk seorang anak kecil. Anara mendonorkannya demi uang. Tapi siapa sangka jika anak itu justru melihatnya sebagai ketulusan. Anak duda kaya raya langsung jatuh hati pada Anara, merengek memintanya menjadi ibu sambung dan menikah dengan ayahnya. * "Kak Nara, suka uang kan? Mau aku kasih uang satu truk milik Ayah? Syaratnya satu ... jadi mamaku, ya?" ~Zavi~ "Di dunia yang kejam ini, hanya orang kaya dan orang licik yang bisa bertahan. Jadi, makhluk miskin sepertiku tidak punya pilihan kecuali mau berubah menjadi licik, atau ... minimal menikah dengan duda kaya lalu jadi Cinderella!" ~Anara~

"Aku dengannya baru satu jam menikah dan dia sudah berhasil membobolku." . "Kenapa menangis? Bukankah ini yang kamu mau? Setuju dinikahi berarti setuju ditiduri." Thalia, gadis lumpuh yang dipaksa untuk menikah dengan suami kakak tirinya lalu menjadi surrogate mother untuk bayi mereka--kakak tiri yang sangat dia benci. Ketidakberdayaan membuatnya tidak bisa menolak, namun diam-diam Thalia menyusun rencana untuk melawan dan menjadi musuh dalam selimut.

In the modern country Japan live a century old legend, a group of people who live in a secluded mountain of Okinawa. Shin is the second son of Alpha Rei, and the little brother of the next Alpha Ginji. He is the total opposite of Ginji, who is a party animal and a well-known playboy he even rejected his mate just to continue his lifestyle. On the other hand, Shin is a well-respected wolf, he is well-behave and responsible. But everything changes when Shin turns 18, that time he found his mate Jenica who was 2 year’s younger than him. He swore to wait until she herself found that he is her mate, but when Ginji found out about this he didn’t think twice. He touched Shin’s mate. Boiled with anger Shin challenge Ginji, but his wolf cannot withstand his big brother. Because of that he was cast away by the family, by challenging the next Alpha, they thought that Shin wanted to challenge him for his position. But that was his plan in the first place, that if he lost this battle he will run away. When he was out of there village he meet three wolves who said they were waiting for him, they escort him to a what he believe is a rouge village, there he meet a beautiful lady they call Luna. The woman looked at him with so much admiration, she open her arms and hug Shin. “My son.” She said, with tears.

At 3:00 p.m., Rose Jenkins, the new hire who had barely been here a few days, suddenly tagged me in the company group chat with a few hundred people in it. [Hi, can you stop hammering your keyboard? The noise is making my stomach hurt! The baby I'm carrying is sleeping. If you shake it into a concussion, I swear I'll make your whole family pay for it!] I rushed to explain. I was racing to finish a proposal that was due soon, and I was using a silent keyboard. But she wouldn't believe me, no matter what I said. I kept my patience and explained it over and over. To avoid any more trouble, I even asked if I could move out to the hallway to work. What I didn't expect was that a week later, she would storm into the break room with a kettle of freshly boiled water and dump it straight over my head. I collapsed in a pool of scalding water, my skin blistering and tearing open. She kept screaming as if she had lost her mind and smashed my head with her high heels, over and over. "It's all your fault! I lost the baby! Your keyboard noise shook my son to death!!" My vision blurred. By the time everything went black, I still couldn't understand how a silent keyboard could possibly kill someone. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day she first went off on me in the group chat. This time, faced with the same insults, I didn't back down. I went straight into the chat and fired back. [Stop pretending you're pregnant. You've got more going on down there than your dad does!]

Anger, in all shades, blared into his eyes as he pushed me against the wall, growling. “Don’t let any man touch you ever again!” My blood boiled at his audacity as I spat out. “You have already rejected me, Alpha Vincenzo. Now, you can’t …” The rest of my warning died down in my head as he lunged forward and wrapped his hand around my throat. Despite his maddening rage, his gruff voice sounded eerily calm, sending shivers down my spine. “Rejected or not, you are mine, Ashley. Touch another man, and trust me, I’ll make sure you see me tear him to shreds!” … Rejected, banished, and tormented. Ashley’s life was another name of hell as she struggled to survive in the rogue pack every single day. She loathed her ex, Alpha Vincenzo, the reason behind her endless misery. However, life wasn’t exactly a bed of roses for Vincenzo as well. Burning in the fire of regret, his love turned into obsession, driving his wolf to the edge of insanity. His only goal was to bring Ashley back, no matter how long it took. After five years of separation, their paths crossed again in a fateful encounter, entangling their fates with a bizarre backlash of rejection. But Ashley was sure of one thing, she would never forgive Vincenzo! As her hatred clashed with Vincenzo’s obsession, the old feelings surfaced, reigniting the spark. Would she be able to resist the temptation of the bond that still simmered between them? Or the storm of true love would wash away all the grievances of the past?