Ember Kecil Plastik

Donny akhirnya menyetujui permintaanku untuk menikah. Dia secara khusus memintaku untuk berpakaian rapi dan mengatakan jika dia sudah menyiapkan kejutan untukku. Namun, saat aku datang dengan pakaian terbaikku, ternyata tidak ada pengantin pria di acara pernikahan. Donny berbalik dan tersenyum kepada adik tiriku di sampingnya. "Kamu bilang pernikahan itu rumit dan membosankan. Hari ini, aku tunjukkan pernikahan yang seru padamu, bagaimana menurutmu?" Pembawa acara pernikahan pun mengumumkan dengan suara lantang, "Pernikahan ditunda." Sahabat masa kecilku bahkan menarik bola air yang sudah disiapkan sebelumnya dan menjatuhkannya di atas kepalaku, hingga membuat seluruh tubuhku basah kuyup. Donny tersenyum nakal sambil mengangkat alisnya kepadaku. "Kirana, ini cuma lelucon saja. Kamu benar-benar mengira aku akan menikahimu?" Pernikahan ini hanyalah sandiwara yang mereka buat untuk menyenangkan adik tiriku yang menderita depresi. Melihatku diam, Donny kembali tertawa dan berkata, "Kalau kamu memang begitu ingin menikah, pilih saja salah satu tamu yang ada di sini dan menikahlah dengannya." Namun, ketika aku benar-benar berjalan bersama pengantin pria ke pelaminan …. Mereka malah jadi panik.

Ember never meant to make a king. She was just trying to survive her heat without embarrassing herself in front of the massive, infuriatingly calm wolf living in the loft next door. Ember has spent most of her life keeping people at a distance. She’s stubborn, private, and perfectly happy suffering through things alone—including the inconvenient attraction she’s been pretending not to feel toward Ghost. Ghost notices everything. He notices when Ember skips meals. When she hasn’t slept. When she’s pretending she doesn’t need help. Calm, steady, and impossible to shake, he’s the kind of man who doesn’t push—but also doesn’t leave. Which becomes a problem when a violent storm destroys half of Ember’s apartment and Ghost is the one who drags her out of the wreckage. Suddenly the fiercely independent she-wolf who hates relying on anyone is stuck living next door to the one man she’s been trying not to want. Then Ember’s heat hits. What starts as proximity and stubborn attraction turns into something neither of them expected when their bond snaps fully into place—awakening a long-buried bloodline Ember never knew she carried. For generations, wolves like her were known as Kingmakers—rare mates capable of exposing corruption and keeping pack leadership honest. Twenty years ago, someone tried to wipe them out. Now Ember’s power has awakened. And the quiet city she and Ghost call home—long governed by careful politics instead of true pack leadership—is about to change. Because Ghost never wanted to be an Alpha. But Ember’s bloodline has a habit of exposing exactly the kind of wolf who should be. And Ember might have just made a king.

Di hari acara pernikahan, tunanganku dan adik perempuanku, Laura Kusuma berhubungan seks di ruang istirahat dan tertangkap basah di tempat. Aku menjadi bahan tertawaan seisi ruangan. Dulu kekasih masa kecilku, Carlos Luke, malah melamarku di depan umum dan melindungiku dengan cara yang mencolok. Setelah menikah, dia sangat patuh kepadaku. Sayang sekali dia tidak bisa melakukannya dan kehidupan seks tidak berjalan lancar. Sampai tahun ini aku baru hamil setelah menjalani program bayi tabung. Setelah itu, dia semakin memperhatikanku. Aku pikir dialah takdirku. Sampai hari itu, aku mendengar percakapannya dengan temannya. “Carlos, kamu sungguh kejam, Nadya Kusuma begitu baik padamu, bagaimana bisa kamu mengganti sel telur dan membiarkan Nadya menjadi ibu pengganti hanya karena Laura takut sakit dan tidak berani melahirkan?” “Lagipula, anak itu akan lahir dua bulan lagi, lalu apa yang akan kamu lakukan?” Dia terdiam sejenak dan mendesah. “Ketika bayinya lahir, aku akan memberikannya kepada Laura dan memenuhi keinginannya.” “Sedangkan Nadya, aku akan memberitahunya bahwa bayinya sudah tiada.” “Aku akan menemaninya selama sisa hidupnya.” Ternyata begitu. Perhatian lembut yang kukira, semua hanya untuk adikku. Aku berbalik dan membuat janji untuk operasi. Anak kotor ini, aku tidak menginginkannya lagi. Pernikahan palsu ini, aku lebih tidak menginginkannya.

BLURB When Ember Vaughn's long-awaited shift reveals a weak white wolf, she's forced into a desperate bid for survival. Sold as a substitute bride, she discovers her mate in Alpha Landon Blackthorn - but their love is short-lived. His infidelity shatters her heart, and she's banished, left to face the darkness alone. Fate intervenes when Alpha Kieran Blackthorn, Landon's stepbrother, claims Ember as his mate. As they build a new life together, the ghosts of her past refuse to fade. Landon's obsession with Ember's child sparks a deadly rivalry between the two Alphas. Torn between loyalty and love, Ember must navigate treacherous pack politics and ancient secrets. But when a shocking betrayal threatens to destroy everything, she's forced to make a choice: surrender to the shadows or rise as the Luna she was born to be. Will Ember find redemption and love, or will the tangled web of power and deceit consume her?

Tiga hari sebelum pernikahan, aku baru tahu bahwa Felix telah memindahkan lokasi pernikahan dari rumah nenekku di Wilayah Silea menjadi kastil Span kesukaan cinta pertamanya. Aku langsung mencari dia untuk bertanya, tapi malah mendengar dia mengeluh pada temannya, “Untung saja selera Tania bagus, kalau nggak aku pasti akan ditertawakan seumur hidup.” Temannya mengingatkan, “Bukannya kamu sudah janji mengadakan pernikahan di rumah neneknya? Kamu nggak takut dia marah dan nggak jadi menikah?” Felix langsung tertawa meremehkan dan menjawab, “Grup Tira sudah hampir bangkrut. Menikah denganku adalah satu-satunya jalan hidupnya. Dia nggak akan berani bertaruh.” “Aku sudah menyuruh pihak penyelenggara meneleponnya. Mungkin sekarang dia lagi panik mengganti tiket pesawat.” Amarah dan rasa tidak rela memenuhi dadaku. Aku menggigit bibir, lalu pada akhirnya memilih pergi begitu saja. Tiga hari kemudian, pernikahan di kastil itu tetap berlangsung. Aku tak mengganti tiket dan juga tidak muncul. Aku justru berada di halaman tua rumah nenekku, bertukar cincin dengan pria lain. Sampai sekarang, Felix masih tidak mengerti. Aku menikah dengannya bukan demi jalan keluar, tapi karena cinta sepuluh tahun lamanya. Namun setelah terbangun dari mimpi itu, aku juga berhak memilih hidup yang lain.

Ember had always been a cheerful and wild girl. She had cliff-dived off Amalfi’s highest rocks, raced stolen sports cars through neon Hong Kong nights,danced until dawn in Berlin's rooftop clubs, and changed boyfriends as easily as changing outfits. If there was a wild thing to do, she had done it. Yet, an arranged marriage tethered her to Alpha Ryker hale the living textbook of rigidity and order. Ember had tried to make him love her, tried to break his cold face, tried to get even the tiniest of emotion on his cold face all to a dead end. But an unexpected discovery broke her. Her husband childhood sweetheart is back! And just like that Ember saw his emotionless husband going crazy just for her. She saw him giving all his emotions and love to her. Ember suddenly realised, it wasn't that he was emotionless but he just didn't love her. And a plot twist? He married her just to protect his lover. But just when she gave up on him and divorced him. He crawled back on his knees crying “Ember am sorry, please take me back.“ But Ember valen had always be one to pay eye for an eye. Will she accept him back? Find out in this fantastic story.

For a thousand years, the city of Crescent Falls has survived beneath the shadow of an ancient savior. Each century, a man is chosen as an offering to Sariyah—the being said to have once driven demons from the world. When Bastion, the man Ember loves, is taken after daring to refuse her, Ember’s grief turns into defiance, and she vows to bring him home no matter the cost. Her search forces her into an uneasy alliance with Orion St. James, a dangerously charming immortal with a violent past and secrets tied to Sariyah herself. Bound together by a magic neither of them wants nor understands, Ember and Orion are drawn into a hidden war beneath the city—one involving cultists, monsters, and an ancient order known as the Watchers. As Crescent Falls begins to fracture, Ember experiences unsettling visions that hint her bloodline is far more entangled with Sariyah than anyone ever suspected. Strange new powers awaken within her, blurring the line between protector and destroyer, while enemies gather and old loyalties are tested. With the city on the brink of collapse and unseen forces moving in the shadows, Ember must decide how far she is willing to go to save Bastion—and whether becoming something darker is the only way to stop an evil that has ruled unchallenged for centuries. Because some thrones are not inherited. They are taken.

Ember Corbin is a happy-go-lucky woman, working as a kindergarten teacher after graduating from college. After an unfortunate incident, she decides to move on, leaving the questions in her mind unanswered. But she doesn’t expect her fate to be connected with her rescuer, who happens to be a mafia leader. Lance Storm is leading the most dangerous mafia called the Thunder. He prefers silence over everything. He remains in a serious mood most of the time until his fate collides with Ember, the woman who cannot tolerate silence. After Lance rescues Ember and ends up revealing his illegal business, she deems him as her mafia rescuer. When their paths continue to meet, secrets are unleashed, and their past gets interconnected, will Lance be able to rescue Ember?

The three-year contractual marriage had fulfilled Ember’s dream.However, everyone knew that the dashing Caleb had his own dream with a woman called Penelope.His love returned, and the contract had ended, but Ember found herself pregnant with Caleb’s child.On the day that they were supposed to complete the divorce, something happened to Ember. Caleb could never find her again. Life seemed to have returned to normal, until one day when Caleb got drunk at a bar. His friends dialed a number saved as “Honey” - only to find it was Ember’s terminated number, not Penelope’s.******Only when Ember returned with her son did Caleb notice he had already fallen for her. He regretted his decision and began his journey to take his wife back. He would sacrifice everything for her.Then one day, when he once again held her hand and pulled her into his embrace, he said with a coarse voice, “Em, I already noticed you the day you gave the speech. When are you coming home? Our house has been so cold…”Ember pushed him away. “Stop acting so lovey-dovey with me. Our son’s watching…”The boy ran away and put his hands over his ears. “Bye, Mom! Bye, Dad!”

[Bagaimana mungkin ada solusi sempurna di dunia ini, yang tidak mengecewakan Tathagata maupun mengecewakan orang yang ada di hati?] Puisi itu sangat romantis, tetapi tidak ada hubungannya dengan Rosa. Meskipun tunangan Rosa adalah seorang putra Buddha yang tidak peduli dengan hal-hal duniawi, tetapi dia bukan kembali ke kehidupan duniawi demi Rosa, dia tergoda juga bukan demi Rosa. Rosa berpikir putra Buddha tidak akan tergerak, tetapi kemudian Rosa mengetahui bahwa dia hanya tidak akan tergerak oleh Rosa sendiri. Jadi Rosa menyerah. Dia memberi dirinya sendiri waktu tujuh hari untuk melupakan Bobby.