Chat Mesra

While picking up my parcel from the mailroom, I run into Ivan Judd, an underprivileged student from my grade who is working part-time there. While we chat, he finds out that I'd spent 128 thousand dollars during the Black Friday sales. Dumbfounded, Ivan cries, "I've never even seen that kind of money in my entire life! And you're spending it so casually? Did your mom send you to college to study or to blow money like this?" He yanks the parcel out of my hands and physically blocks the exit. "Return it immediately! Kids like you never understand how hard it is for adults to earn money! If you're this wasteful now, what man can afford to marry you in the future?" I can't help but laugh angrily at Ivan's ridiculous attitude. I retort, "What does me spending my mom's money have anything to do with you?" "How does it not?" He looks completely justified when he says, "I'm dating your mom. Every cent you spend counts as our future marital assets!" I am shocked. Isn't Mom a lesbian? Since when did she start liking men?

At the dinner table, my mother-in-law slid a contract across to me, right in front of more than 20 relatives. "Just sign it," she said lightly. "Consider it a favor to me." I looked down. A home mortgage agreement for 150,000 dollars. Across from me, my husband's younger brother, Jim Canfield, watched with a grin. Beside him, my husband's eldest sister, Cindy Canfield, urged impatiently, saying, "Shirley, what are you waiting for? Just sign it." I said I needed to go home and talk it over with Howard Canfield first. My mother-in-law's expression darkened. "What? You can't even make this decision for your own marriage?" That night, I did not sign anything. Later, she sent a three-minute voice message in the family group chat, accusing me of being childish, ungrateful, and heartless. More than 70 replies followed—not a single one in my defense. A month later, I came home from work to find three men waiting at my door, there to seize the house. I pulled out my phone and checked the property registry. The record was clear. [Mortgaged. 150,000 dollars.]

By the fifth year of my marriage to River Grayson, I had stopped checking his call logs and chat records. Instead, I spent my nights drinking and partying with my girlfriends at the poolside bar. When his ninety-ninth missed call lit up my screen, I let out a cold laugh and tossed my phone straight into the water. It didn't take long before he came storming in. The moment he pulled the strawberry-scented condom out of my pocket, he turned grim and banned me from leaving the house after 7:00 PM. "Joanne, you weren't like this before." I thought back to last month, when I had run into him at the hospital. He had lied about being on a business trip out of town, but there he was, holding Yvonne Sinclair's hand. I still remembered his words. "You lost your uterus from saving me back then. My sperm is perfectly fine. I'll give you a child—with your mother's help." Now, staring into his furious eyes, I said coldly, "Don't worry. There's no going back for us anymore."

I'd been married to Joshua Merck for five years, but we still didn't have kids. To stay healthy, I took those pricey custom vitamins he ordered from overseas—never missed a dose. Then my cousin came back from studying abroad, took one look at the bottle, and was like, "That brand doesn't even make custom vitamins." I sent them to the hospital for testing. The lab report hit me like a truck—birth control pills. Powerful ones. Suddenly, all those mornings with Joshua hovering over me, acting so concerned while I took my "vitamins," made sense. The whole thing had been a lie. Five years of lies. Just as I was gearing up to confront him, my phone buzzed—a group chat notification. Shirley Hoare had tagged Joshua. [Honey, I had a prenatal checkup today, and the doctor said I'm carrying twins! Your family's about to get two grandchildren at once—excited?] My heart turned to ash. Everything clicked. Fine. We were done. I pulled out my phone and replied to my childhood sweetheart's message from three days ago: [After watching the northern lights, I still wanted to see penguins in Antarctica.]

Clara, seorang pewaris yang tertekan, terancam kehilangan perusahaan warisan ayahnya karena hutang dan intrik pamannya. Satu-satunya jalan keluar adalah dengan menerima perjodohan paksa dengan pengusaha tua yang serakah, Tuan Hendra. Namun, Clara menolak untuk menyerah. Ia membuat taruhan gila: ia hanya punya satu bulan untuk menemukan calon suami demi membatalkan perjodohan itu. Dalam keputusasaan, ia menemukan Alex, seorang CEO muda yang dingin, arogan, dan kejam. Alex setuju menjadi "suami palsu" Clara, tetapi dengan syarat: pernikahan mereka hanyalah bisnis, tanpa emosi, dan Clara harus tunduk pada setiap kemauannya. Clara pikir ia telah menemukan jalan keluar, tetapi ia tidak sadar bahwa ia telah melompat dari satu neraka ke neraka lainnya. Saat mereka terpaksa berakting mesra di depan keluarga Alex, Clara menemukan bahwa di balik sikap dingin Alex, tersembunyi rahasia kelam dan rencana balas dendam. Keadaan semakin rumit ketika Clara mendapati dirinya menderita sakit, yang ia salah sangka sebagai tanda kehamilan. Hubungan palsu mereka menjadi nyata ketika Clara didiagnosis memiliki tumor dan Alex, secara mengejutkan, mengambil alih perawatannya. Di tengah semua konflik ini, Clara mulai melihat sisi rapuh dari Alex, membuka pintu pada sebuah ikatan yang tak terduga. Namun, apakah hubungan ini akan bertahan saat ancaman dari Tuan Hendra dan mantan kekasih Alex, Elena, terus membayangi, siap untuk membongkar rahasia pernikahan palsu mereka?

Tiga orang jejaka tampan yang berkerjaya sebagai penyiasat persendirian atau Personal Spy, tentu saja wajah mereka sentiasa serius dan tegang. Lebih-lebih lagi tika menjalankan tugas. Namun siapa sangka, mereka bertiga ini memiliki pribadi yang penyayang apabila mereka menggalas tugas sebagai PAPA kepada seorang gadis kecil bernama Naurah. Naurah Aulia Binti Zahaedi. Gadis kecil berusia 5 tahun itu merupakan anak kepada salah saorang dari ketiga jejaka tersebut. Dia amat mendamba kehadiran seorang mama dari papanya, sebagai pengganti Rania, wanita yang telah meninggal dunia ketika melahirkannya. Namun, Zahaedi atau lebih mesra disapa Zd itu sudah lama mengunci pintu hatinya untuk mana-mana wanita, selepas pemergian Rania. Lalu bagaimana dia hendak memenuhi keinginan anaknya? Maleek. Salah satu dari mereka yang turut membahasakan dirinya Papa kepada Naurah. Telah terjebak menjalankan sebuah tugas khusus yang kurang digemarinya. Iaitu menjaga dan mengawasi anak gadis kepada seorang VVIP bernama Puteri Zaharah. Gadis yang berpewatakan liar itu kerap membuat dirinya meradang apabila ia enggan memberi kerjasama. Dengan pakaian yang serba terbuka, Puteri Zaharah kerap kali membuat Maleek hampir tewas. Mujur iman didada masih menghalang dirinya dari terus hanyut kedalam buai cinta Puteri Zaharah. Namun, mampukah dia bertahan jika begini berterusan? Ataukah cintanya memang telah ditakdirkan buat Puteri Zaharah? Lalu bagaimana dengan Zahaedi dan anaknya? Mampukah dia memenuhi permintaan gadis kecil itu.

Naura Devi Lark telah menjalin hubungan yang penuh cinta dengan Bima Satya Wiratama sejak masa sekolah menengah. Perjalanan mereka penuh suka dan duka, hingga mereka melanjutkan kisah cinta itu ke bangku kuliah. Naura percaya bahwa cinta mereka akan bertahan selamanya, hingga suatu malam segalanya runtuh. Ia memergoki Bima, sosok yang selama ini ia cintai, tengah bercumbu mesra dengan perempuan lain. Hati Naura hancur berkeping-keping. Didorong oleh rasa sakit hati dan keinginan untuk membalas dendam, Naura mulai mendekati Arjuna Dirga Wiratama, kakak Bima yang dewasa, mapan, dan penuh wibawa. Dirga, seorang pria dengan karisma yang memikat, tidak menyangka bahwa permainan Naura akan mengubah hidupnya. Dalam kehangatan malam yang penuh gairah, mereka melampaui batas yang tak terduga. Naura menyimpan rahasia besar dari peristiwa itu. Ia menyadari bahwa ia hamil dan memutuskan untuk menjalani hidupnya sendiri, jauh dari bayang-bayang keluarga Wiratama. Dari rahasia itu lahirlah seorang anak perempuan bernama Lila Amora Lark—gadis kecil yang tumbuh menjadi sosok yang manis, lucu, dan menggemaskan. Namun, takdir memiliki caranya sendiri. Bertahun-tahun kemudian, Dirga dan Naura kembali dipertemukan. Rahasia yang selama ini tersembunyi di balik senyum Lila perlahan mulai terkuak. Bagaimana Dirga akan menerima kenyataan bahwa ia adalah ayah Lila? Akankah hubungan Naura dan Bima dapat diperbaiki, atau justru Dirga menjadi sosok yang tak tergantikan dalam hidup Naura?

After finishing work for the day, I checked my phone and realized I had been added to a group chat called "Catch the Thief." The members were my parents, my brother, Brian Wise, and my sister-in-law, Paulene Wise. I typed a question mark. Paulene replied instantly. [My jewelry is missing. I didn't add you here to accuse you or anything. I just wanted to ask what you think. Honestly, there's no use for other people in our family to take my jewelry, so I've been wondering... I'm not saying you definitely stole it. But if you did, you don't have to deny it. I'm willing to give you a chance to make things right.] My mother said nothing. She just kept tagging me over and over. I let out a small laugh and typed back. [Maybe Brian took it and gave it to his side piece. I'm not saying he definitely has someone else. Just that men his age sometimes start looking around. I'm only guessing here. And if he really did mess up, you could give him a chance to make things right, too.]

Love knows no limit. Love is a game that only luckiest can win. No overbearing, toxic male lead. No violence or rape. This book is a collection of romantic love stories between CEO, billionaire, mafia, vampire orany more. 1- Bride of vampire lord. When a young girl got tangled with a vampire and the only way out was to make his heart belong to her. 2- Love from the past. She traveled to the past only to reveal secrets of the forbidden prince and his dead lover. 3- A strange love story. She was married to the brother of his runaway groom and a war started that turned into love. 4-My sweet bully She bullied him endlessly only to find out he was the prince she was supposed to tutor. 5-Trapping the CEO A chat with a wrong person made her meet to the right person. 6-Teach me to love Being betrayed, he married her to revenge but learned how to love 7-Fairy love A little fairy was lost in human world when she met her savior. 8-Road to love A little journey and they found their soulmates. 9-Out of sight She was an average person who suddenly got in sight of a handsome engineer 10- Taming Mr Husband He wanted to divorce her when he find out he was in love with his wife.

Right after finishing a meeting, I opened a forum and saw a warning post. The location tag was our company. The title read: “Red flag! What a cheap company. Anyone who joins is a total sucker. They can’t even afford a decent coffee break.” The photo attached showed the expensive coffee and five-star desserts I had just asked my assistant to distribute to everyone. I frowned and tagged the entire group chat, asking if anyone had suggestions about the afternoon tea. A Gen-Z intern who had just joined, Julian Hayes, instantly replied with a voice message: “Boss, no offense, but these assembly-line desserts are full of trans fats. Nobody would eat them.” “A truly humane company hires a Michelin chef to cook and slice everything fresh on site. That’s what real respect for employees looks like.” I laughed in disbelief. Our company’s daily coffee break budget was thirty dollars per person—already considered top-tier in the industry. So I replied, “Since it’s impossible to satisfy everyone’s taste, we’ll cancel afternoon tea from now on and convert the budget into cash for everyone instead.” Less than five minutes later, that post was updated: “Guys, can you believe this? I made a perfectly reasonable suggestion and the lame boss immediately canceled the whole coffee break perk! This is the true face of corporate greed—can’t handle even a little bit of honesty!”