Clean Jar Of Fears

Apa jadinya jika posisimu berada dalam lingkaran cinta seorang pria yang tidak kau sukai? Contohnya seperti yang ada dalam kisah ini. Ileana Ruby, wanita berusia 27 tahun, bekerja di sebuah perusahaan manufaktur sebagai seorang Engineer. Ileana memang memiliki paras yang cantik, namun cara berpakaiannya jauh dari kata feminim. Dan biasanya, wanita seperti Ileana jarang sekali disukai oleh para pria. Tapi hal itu tidak berlaku bagi Davie Valerian, pria berusia 30 tahun yang berprofesi sebagai Human Resource di perusahaan manufaktur milik Ayahnya. Davie begitu tertarik dengan sosok Ileana. Wanita itu mengingatkannya pada seseorang yang telah meninggal saat usianya masih 17 tahun. Penasaran? Simak kisah selengkapnya di sini ya.

Saat belajar menyetir dengan ayah sahabatku, dia memintaku duduk di atas pangkuannya. Jalannya bergelombang sehingga aku terombang-ambing di atasnya. Aku bisa merasakan dengan jelas di balik bokongku, ada sesuatu yang keras dan panas, yang menekan bagian bawah tubuhku setiap kali aku bergerak. Ayah sahabatku terus mengelus tubuhku, dengan alasan untuk melatih konsentrasiku. Ketika tangannya masuk ke pakaianku, aku merasakan dengan jelas sensasi basah di bawah sana. Detik itu juga, aku tahu segalanya menjadi di luar kendali.

Di kehidupan sebelumnya, Evelyn sangat bodoh. Dia menyia-nyiakan Saga, calon suami yang mengagumkan dan justru jatuh cinta pada pria lain yang hanya memanfaatkan dirinya dengan kejam. Di kehidupan yang sekarang, beberapa bajingan itu sedang menunggu kehancurannya. Tapi maaf, Evelyn tidak bodoh lagi. Dia tidak akan menyia-nyiakan kesempatan kedua ini. Dia bersumpah akan mengejar Saga dan membalas para bajingan.

Ryan dikhianati oleh pacarnya dan memilih untuk mengakhiri hubungan dengan tegas. Tak disangka, setelah kembali jomblo, hidupnya justru seperti mendapat "cheat". Dia dipenuhi keberuntungan. Para wanita kaya muda, para wanita karier tangguh, hingga para wanita cantik dengan berbagai pesona, semuanya seakan-akan diatur oleh takdir untuk hadir di sisinya. Mereka menjadi penopang terkuat Ryan, mendorongnya selangkah demi selangkah menuju puncak kejayaan. Mereka yang dulu mengkhianati dan meremehkannya, kini hanya bisa berlutut dan menatapnya dengan penuh penyesalan. Namaku Ryan dan aku ditakdirkan untuk menjadi raja!

At the company holiday party raffle, I'd barely stepped on stage when my superior, Victor Grant, shoved a crumpled slip into my hand. "Special prize for our top sales guy. Go on, open it. Let's show everyone." All eyes were on me as I unfolded it. Scrawled across the paper: [VIP janitor status unlocked—every toilet in the company, three days.] The room lost it—laughter everywhere. Victor crossed his arms, grinning. "Fair, right? Everyone knows you climbed the ranks hooking up with rich cougars. Gotta avoid hard feelings for the others, yeah? While the rest of us take a break, you can get busy. You're not gonna back out, are you?" The crowd cracked up. My girlfriend—and CEO—Rachel Sullivan stood off to the side, watching. Didn't say a word. Everyone waited for me to explode. Instead, I just nodded. Next day, over 300 refund requests hit. Cash flow flatlined. Victor and Rachel begged me to talk the buyers down. I shrugged. "Nah. Don't wanna save the company and make my performance too good. That'd just cause more ' hard feelings,' right?"

She married him for safety. He married her for strategy. Neither expected obsession. Valeria Torres is a woman with no past-because she buried it. But when her fake identity lands her in the arms of Dante Romano, billionaire mafia heir and the man everyone fears, the game changes. He offers her a deal: a two-year marriage to clean up his image and silence his enemies. She agrees-until the ghosts she ran from reappear and force her back into the life she burned to escape. Now, she has to outwit killers, deceive her husband, and survive the one thing she never planned for-falling for him.

Meet with Edmund Bryan. The hottest CEO, handsome as a sculpture of a Greek god, the bastard with all the charm he had, made all the girls to their knees and willing to undress, under Edmund's might. Due to her carelessness, Emerald had to replace $500,000 worth of money for dropping Edmund's expensive antique jar that made Emerald became Edmund's slave, return all the debts that she would not be able to replace even for her lifetime. Until Emerald finds out all the secrets behind Edmund's harsh temper.

I married a man I couldn't touch then slept with a man I couldn't trust. After walking in on my husband in bed with my cousin and getting her pregnant. I didn’t just sign the divorce papers. I lit them on fire. Frigid, they called me. Uptight. Ice queen. So I moved out. Looked for a roommate. Someone quiet. Preferably female. Her name was Kylie. Except... Kylie turned out to be Kyle—a smug, tattooed stranger with a dirty-mouth and secrets carved into his smirk. He’s cocky, cruel, and way too hot for a man who eats peanut butter from the jar and calls it dinner. One drunken night, I let him in. All the way in. And I swore it meant nothing. Until I found my uncle lying in a pool of blood— And Kyle was holding the gun.

It was the first night we spent together as a married couple. When my husband insisted that the hotel manager clean our bed for us, she cried and said to him, "You're asking me to clean up after the two of you made love! How heartbroken do you want me to be before you're finally satisfied?" My husband claimed not to know that the manager was his ex-girlfriend, but when the woman threw a kettle of hot water and left, he chased after her instead of coming to my aid.

This is the story of four souls Davina, Emmy, Sofia, and Max. Each searching. Each desiring. Each learning, sometimes painfully, that love never arrives clean or easy. But when it does arrive, it changes everything.