Dashie Without Hat

​“This is Ava, my mate. Your new Luna.” ​The Alpha’s voice boomed across the clearing, and in that instant, my world came crashing down. ​I stood frozen, the heavy silence of the pack pressing in on me. I didn't know whether to move, to scream, or to simply collapse. My legs felt like heavy, even as my wolf thrashed inside me, recognizing the soul crushing scent of the man standing on the podium. ​Four years ago, he humiliated me in front of the entire school. He made me believe my feelings were something to be ashamed of; a joke to be laughed at. That night, I left everything behind: my home, my pack, and the boy who broke me. ​I never planned to return. ​But standing at the coronation of the new Alpha, fate betrayed me in the cruelest way possible. The mate bond snapped into place with a terrifying force, tying me to the very man I swore to hate forever. ​I try to run. He doesn’t let me. ​Now, I’m expected to stand by his side as Luna, to smile for a pack that once laughed at my tears, and to trust an Alpha who shattered my heart into a thousand pieces. He thinks he can own me. He thinks a bond makes up for the scars he left behind. But he’s about to find out, I’m not the girl he broke. I’m the woman who’s going to bring him to his knees.

On the day we reported for the new semester, my girlfriend had just been admitted to one of the country's top universities. That morning, she suddenly told me she had chosen the wrong major and wanted to take a year off to retake the entrance exam. I knew exactly why. It was for her childhood friend, the one who had not made it. Her parents begged me to talk her out of it. After a night of painful deliberation, she appeared downstairs at my dorm and said, "I've made up my mind. I won't retake the exam. Let's stay together and make this work." However, during the freshman welcome event, just as her name was being called, her phone lit up. A message from him. [My prep class started today. My deskmate isn't you anymore. It feels so strange.] She went completely still. I tightened my grip on her hand and warned her quietly, "If you leave now, we're finished. Forever." She whispered an apology, dragged her suitcase behind her, and walked out of the campus.

Three days after my death, Dominic Sharp receives a phone call asking him to identify my body. He has an arm wrapped around a woman's waist as he says indifferently, "I couldn't care less if she's dead. Call me once she's been cremated." My body is sent to the crematorium. After putting the ashes into an urn, an employee calls Dominic again. He clucks his tongue impatiently. "Alright, alright. I'll be there soon."

Three days before our engagement, Zach Jefferson called me. “We’ll need to postpone the engagement party by a month. That day is Sienna’s first concert since she returned, and I need to be there. “It’s just a postponement. It’s no big deal.” He had postponed our engagement three times that year. The first time was because Sienna Lynch had been hospitalized with appendicitis. He said he had to take care of her and rushed over. The second time, Sienna said she was feeling down. He was worried she might get depressed and immediately booked a flight to see her. It was the third time. I simply said, “Okay.” After hanging up, I turned to the good-looking and refined man beside me. “Are you interested in marrying me?” Later, during Sienna’s concert, Zach left her without hesitation. With red, teary eyes, he rushed to my engagement ceremony. “Yulia, are you really getting engaged to this man?”

Melati adalah seorang gadis desa yang sangat cantik dan baik hati tetapi ia mempunyai trauma dengan laki-laki karena di acara pesta pernikahannya sang calon suami tidak hadir dan menghilang begitu saja. Hingga suatu ketika ia bertemu dengan Prayoga, yang mampu mengubah pendirian dan meluluhkan hatinya. Prayoga Dinata, seorang pewaris tunggal dari keluarga besar Mardi Dinata. Ia menolak dijodohkan dengan Laras, karena jatuh hati kepada Melati yang tak lain adalah putri seorang petani biasa, segala cara ditempuh oleh Prayoga agar dapat mendapatkan perhatian dan menikah dengan Melati termasuk meninggalkan rumah. Setelah perjuangan yang dilakukan Prayoga termasuk menentang Perjodohan dengan Laras dan perjuangan untuk mendapatkan cinta Melati akhirnya menemukan hasil, keluarga Prayoga akhirnya menyetujui hubungan mereka. Tetapi Melati hanya berpura-pura mencintai Prayoga untuk membalaskan dendamnya kepada keluarga Bagas, Dengan cara merebut Prayoga calon tunangan Laras, adik dari Bagas. Dengan kesungguhan dan ketulusan Prayoga akhirnya mampu meluluhkan hati Melati dan membuatnya mulai mencintai Prayoga. Namun ketika seminggu setelah pernikahan mereka, Melati bertemu kembali dengan Bagas dalam keadaan cacat. Akibat kecelakaan yang dialaminya pada hari pernikahannya dengan melati. Melati yang mengetahui peristiwa tersebut menjadi iba, tetapi ia tidak bisa melakukan apa-apa karena telah menjadi istri Prayoga. Bagas yang berusaha merebut kembali hati Melati akhirnya mempengaruhi Prayoga agar meragukan kesetiaan istrinya. Ia menganggap bahwa Bagas dan Melati ingin hidup bersama. Melati yang kecewa dengan pernyataan suaminya akhirnya kembali ke rumah keluarganya dalam keadaan hamil. Apakah Bagas akan mendapatkan hati Melati ? Dan akankah Prayoga akan menyadari kesalahannya ? Ikuti cerita selengkapnya.

When I died with a smile on my face, right before my brother's eyes, he looked as if the anguish might tear him apart. Yet, for twenty-one years, he hadn't stopped wishing I would meet this exact end. It all traced back to my fifth birthday—the day I had innocently hoped our parents would come home from their business trip to celebrate with me. They rushed back that night but never made it. A car accident took both their lives. From that moment on, my brother resented me, despised me. He didn't just stand idly by as our cousin snatched up my work as her own; he encouraged it. And when my landlord threw me out, it wasn't a random cruelty—it was my brother pulling the strings. All he had ever wanted, from the very beginning, was to see me die a miserable death. But when he finally got his wish… why did he cry, pleading for me to come back, begging me to call him 'brother' one last time?

While my husband, Gerald Brown, was abroad negotiating a business deal, he was drugged and spent the night with a female secretary from a rival company. The drug’s side effects scrambled his memory so badly that he forgot who I was. He kicked me out of the master bedroom and let the secretary smash my grandmother’s heirloom. I told myself he was sick and stayed silently by his side. But when I suggested taking him for a medical checkup, he hit me for the first time. “Who do you think you are? Only Ailey is allowed to touch me. If she gets jealous, you’ll regret it.” When the secretary framed me, he pushed me down the stairs, and I suffered a miscarriage. Late one night, when my heart condition flared up, I went to his study for medicine but overheard him talking to his friend outside the door. “Faking amnesia to bring Ailey home is one thing, but why replace your wife’s heart medication? Now, she’ll never return to the hospital for surgery.” Gerald just chuckled. “If I don’t keep her weak, she’ll go to the hospital and check the hospital records and find out I was never drugged. Ailey’s been timid since childhood and even went undercover for me in a rival company. I can’t betray her.”

Ini adalah kisah yang sederhana, sesederhana perasaan yang muncul hanya karena sebuah kata nyaman. Begitulah kira-kira Aninda Ghea menyimpulkan kisah percintaan nya, saat dirinya selalu dinilai beruntung oleh sahabatnya—Tissa, karena mempunyai pacar yang tampan, setia, kaya dan juga humoris. Ghea justru memutuskan pacarnya itu dengan alasan bahwa dia—Syailendra, hanya bermain-main dengannya. Alasan yang tidak masuk akal memang tapi Syailendra terima-terima saja karena dia tahu bahwa sebenarnya Ghea menyukai Lhambang. Siapa itu Lhambang? Dia adalah pacarnya Tissa, sahabatnya sendiri. Lalu ketika Syailendra jungkir-balik membuktikan diri bahwa hanya dia yang pantas bersanding dengan Ghea, Tissa justru hadir ditengah-tengah hubungan mereka. Kali ini Tissa hadir, bukan sebagai teman tetapi sebagai pengagum rahasia yang memberanikan diri untuk merebut hati Syailendra Akbar Gibran dari Aninda Ghea.

As my due date approaches, my husband's precious mistress falls into the water at a banquet. After being rescued, she immediately accuses me of pushing her. To "avenge" her, he throws me into a modified stainless steel water tank. I beg him, pleading for the sake of our unborn children. But he only sneers. "Don't try to use the babies to guilt me! You've still got a week before you're due. I know exactly how vicious you are—any child of yours would be just as rotten. Stay in there and reflect on your behavior. I'll let you out when you finally admit you're wrong!" Five days later, my husband returns home from a night out with his mistress, calling for me to come downstairs and serve them, as always. He doesn't know that my babies and I have already rotted beyond recognition.

Ada yang bilang, jika kalian ditakdirkan bersama, sejauh apapun ia pergi, kepadamulah ia akan kembali, ia akan menetapkan hatinya untukmu, untuk mencintaimu... Alina, menutupi statusnya sebagai single parent, ini ia lakukan untuk fokus merawat buah hatinya, dan masih berharap jika akan kembali bersatu dengan Hendra, mantan suaminya. Ditengah perjalanan ia bertemu dengan Aryo Satrio Widjaja, seorang CEO tampan baik hati yang ia kagumi semasa kecil, dan ternyata Aryo juga menyukai Alina sejak kecil bahkan sampai sekarang. Kemanakah hati Alina akan kembali berlabuh? Bagaimana Alina menghadapi kerasnya kehidupan saat mencari biaya untuk pengobatan anaknya? Belum lagi misteri lama tentang ikatan darah pun terkuak, panah cinta itu benar-benar datang disaat tidak tepat!