Butuh Effort

Ketika aku melahirkan, aku tidak bisa dibius karena alergi terhadap anestesi. Karena itu aku harus menahan rasa sakit saat pisau bedah membelah kulit dan dagingku lapis demi lapis. Suamiku, Surya Ciptadi menangis sambil berkata kepadaku, "Sayang, nggak masalah anak laki-laki atau perempuan, kita nggak akan punya anak lagi. Aku hanya butuh kamu .…" Namun kemudian, dia berselingkuh dan membiarkan wanita itu melahirkan anak laki-lakinya. Dia bahkan membiarkan wanita itu menganiaya putriku, yang dengan susah payah aku lahirkan. Sementara itu, aku menyembunyikan fakta bahwa Surya terkena kanker. Kamu menganiaya putriku, maka aku tidak akan segan-segan mengambil nyawamu. Adil, bukan?

Di hari pernikahan kami, “adik” kesayangan Levin tiba-tiba pingsan. Dia pun meninggalkanku di atas altar dan menggendong adiknya itu pergi ke rumah sakit. Begitu menyaksikan hal ini, penyakit jantung ibuku kambuh. Namun, semua orang yang hadir hanya ingin menonton pertunjukan dan sama sekali tidak berniat untuk membantu. Saat aku mengantar ibuku sampai ke rumah sakit, dia sudah tidak terselamatkan. Pada saat ini, Levin tiba-tiba meneleponku, “Sienna, kamu lagi di mana? Penyakit Lestari kambuh lagi. Dia butuh sumsum tulang belakangmu!” “Levin, kita ... pisah saja!” Aku memutuskan sambungan telepon, lalu berbalik dan pergi. Kali ini, aku tidak akan menoleh lagi.

Athena adalah seorang Podcaster, yang tidak sengaja harus berhadapan dengan Ares, si lelaki penuh rencana licik dan kejam. Niat awal Athena adalah membuat prank untuk konten Youtube sahabatnya, tetapi malah dia yang merasa dikerjai oleh Ares hanya karena lelaki itu tak ingin wajahnya terekspos ke publik. Merasa tak adil karena Athena kabur begitu saja, Ares dengan sengaja pindah ke sekolah Athena dan memulai semua rencana untuk membuat gadis itu jera. Ternyata Ares mengerjai gadis itu bukan karena wajahnya terekspos ke publik saja, tapi juga ada sebab lain yang disembunyikannya. Ares butuh Athena untuk disalahkan atas kematian seseorang yang berharga baginya.

Badai mengalami kecelakaan yang menyebabkan kakinya lumpuh, sepuluh hari sebelum pernikahan. Di saat ia butuh dukungan, Stevia, sang calon istri, justru membatalkan rencana pernikahan mereka. Padahal undangan telah sebagian disebar. Sang ibu yang merasa dihina tak terima, meminta Badai untuk mencari pengantin pengganti. Saat itulah Alena muncul. “Siapa nama kamu tadi?” “Alena, Tante,” “Tante langsung saja. Apa kamu mau menikah dengan Badai?” “Saya bersedia, tapi..bolehkah saya mengajukan permintaan?” Kehidupan pelik yang dialami Alena, memaksanya untuk mengajukan diri menjadi pengantin Badai. Pernikahan atas dasar simbiosis mutualisme, akankah menumbuhkan cinta di hati keduanya? Meski Badai selalu bersikap dingin pada Alena.

Pokoknya, sejak adegan tabrakan dengan makhluk super duper menyebalkan, mesum, dan mengerikan bernama Ezekiel di lobi kantor, dan Lila marah-marah pada pemuda itu, hidup Lila jauh dari kata tenang serta damai. Sialnya, Ezekiel tidak lain adalah anak dari owner perusahaan tempat Lila bekerja, yang hari itu juga mengambil alih posisi direktur utama di sana. Mau resign, Lila butuh duit. Bertahan di kantornya, Ezekiel selalu saja mengganggunya. Ada saja caranya ngerjain Lila. Parahnya, semua pekerjaan Lila tidak ada yang beres di mata Ezekiel. Sampai terjadi sebuah peristiwa memalukan pada suatu malam yang membuat Lila semakin diincar oleh Ezekiel.

"You can't keep running away from me", Ehan said, his face was all serious as his eyes bored into Naira's. Standing her ground, Naira uttered using her utmost effort to look confident, "I am not running away." Ehan went on uttering all confidently, "Yes, you are. But eventually you're going to have to stop. And I'm going to be there no matter how far you go. Because I know" At this point, Naira blurted out sternly interrupting him, "Don't even think like you still know me well when actually you don't even have any idea about this new me." Ehan's confused eyes met Naira’s as she got uttering with an all blank face, "I have put back my pieces differently."

Leaving my birth home seemed like the most difficult decision until I have to adapt as the Alpha of a Pack I know nothing about. When erroneous and jeopardizing choices streaks into the Pack, it seems as if a mass of perilous bombs revolves around the Sphere. My life is taking a bad turn and Phyllis does not give me a moment of slack. She wants to groom a strong, defensive Alpha and I see all her effort crashing when my Mate dies. Yet in the heart of these inevitable occurrences, not only do I find myself flanked by my mating bond and the gripping snare of a furtive woman. I also realize that I am wedged between the plights of a reincarnated Mephistophelean searching for his rebirthed lover and a savage witch striving to rouse her Queen from an infinity curse. Caveat: Detailed smut scene, flecks of same-sex smut~

GUIECO CLAN SERIES #2 Marciella Perrer, a woman of principles, finds herself entangled in a complex love situation. She has developed feelings for Ashmer Guieco, who happens to be both her best friend's boyfriend and the boss of the Guieco Clan, where she works as a secret agent. Despite being Ashmer's first love, Marciella initially chose to step back and let go of her feelings. She made every effort to distance herself from him. However, with time, her emotions only intensified. Her world is shaken when she wakes up one morning in the same bed as Ashmer, a secret she keeps from her best friend. Now, she faces a difficult choice: will she suppress her feelings and try to forget the night they shared, or will she risk being seen as a homewrecker in the name of love?

Olivia Harmon's marriage was not ideal. Her husband cheated on her at the time she needed him most. Despite his effort to pay for his mistakes, Olivia never really moved on from her heartbreak. She couldn't understand why someone whom she trusted most would be the one person who betrayed her. And then she met Roman. Blue eyes, full of charms, a smile that could brighten up her darkest nights, funny, and a face that made any woman turned their heads. Their love affair was fervent, refreshing, passionate, romantic, and brief. It was over as soon as it began until they meet again two years later in unexpected circumstances. Lies. Deceit. Guilt. Passion. Love. Infatuation. Olivia found herself in a tug-of-war with herself. Tangled in the complexity of her marriage and her new love. She soon discovered she was not the only one with secrets, leading them to an inevitable doom.

They are BESTFRIENDS. Not childhood best friends. They met when she was 12 and he, 13 and they had stuck close to each other since then. Joan, that was her name and her best friend, King. Now she was 17, he, 18 and it seemed like everything stood against their five year friendship. Joan’s mother’s dislike for King, the long distance from King’s home to Joan’s, their separate schooling and the fact that King was basically non-existent. And then even more bigger obstructions come into play. Koty, the handsome football jock that is unrelentless in his effort to make Joan his; Joan’s unknown father and King, the new feelings he had started developing for his best friend. They have to struggle to keep their best friendship blooming despite all their problems but the tempests are too strong; the storm too overwhelming and then the final test… Who will betray who?...