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We have differences, we are born not to impress anyone but to show them what and who we are. What if one day you'll end up losing your confidence? what if one day you'll never know who you are? what if because of one person you'll be lost your smile, lost everything including your happiness. Are you willing to trust again? to love again? Are you willing to be fooled and played again? lies... heartbreaks. betrayal..... played. fooled... pained... We all experience this, it's up to us to handle it properly. smile... laugh... mingle... meddle. Words that we can use to ease those pain words to enlightened our mood words that help us to go through and make our day complete. MASK the only thing we can use to hide what we feel inside. mask it hides the pain the heartaches and betrayal We often use a mask to simply smile to show the world that we are strong. strong enough to face the reality.

Airin adalah seorang penulis berbakat yang mengidap bipolar akibat dari trauma di masa lalu. Gangguan mood yang dialaminya secara tiba-tiba, antara fase manik dan depresi berdampak pada keharmonisan rumah tangganya. Tatkala, perhatian Sandy Keenan, suaminya, teralih kepada Hanna, teman seprofesi yang menjadi tempatnya berkeluh kesah tentang perilaku Airin yang kadang di luar kendali. Kepergian Sandy yang tiba-tiba, membuat kondisi Airin pun semakin memburuk. Hingga pada satu ketika, Adrian yang tidak lain adik kandung Sandy datang dan memaksa untuk tinggal di rumah Airin. Adrian yang nota bene adalah seorang dokter spesialis jiwa itu berusaha menjaga dan mengobati Airin dengan cara apa pun, karena rasa iba dan sayangnya yang begitu besar. Walau, sebenarnya laki-laki itu memiliki tugas khusus dari Sandy untuk memantau Airin, di samping sebagai kurir yang bertugas menyampaikan surat perceraian mereka. Konflik pun mulai terjadi. Kekasih Adrian, Tania, datang. Sifatnya yang posesif membuat Tania merasa cemburu dengan kedekatan Adrian dan kakak iparnya itu. Ia pun menuntut Adrian untuk meninggalkan Airin. Namun, keinginannya tidak bisa dipenuhi oleh Adrian. Karena merasa kecewa atas keputusan Adrian, Tania pun mulai menghasut Hanna yang belakangan merasa bahwa ada perubahan perilaku dari Sandy. Terlebih lagi, ia mendapatkan informasi bahwa Sandy beberapa kali menemui Airin secara diam-diam di rumahnya. Di satu sisi lainnya, Airin pun merasa kecewa terhadap Adrian, ketika ia menemukan fakta bahwa kedatangan Adrian adalah atas perintah Sandy. Tidak cukup berurusan dengan Tania dan Hanna. Airin yang awalnya terganggu dengan kehadiran Sandy, perlahan mulai goyah karena perlakuan Sandy terhadapnya. Laki-laki itu mulai kembali berusaha merebut perhatian Airin. Hingga membuat Adrian kalang kabut sekaligus frustasi. Apalagi, mengingat Airin yang beberapa kali mencoba bunuh diri karena permasalahan yang terus menghimpitnya. Membuat Adrian semakin posesif dalam menjaga Airin.

When I was six months pregnant, I was visiting the hospital when I saw my husband with his childhood friend, who had recently returned to the country. I was left holding my own prenatal checkup report, watching as they celebrated their soon-to-be born child. Still, Kelly Wallace appeared worried and even sounded guilty. "Quentin, you didn't have to come with me—I'm fine alone. If Jolin finds out, she'll definitely have a fight with you. She's pregnant too… it'll affect her mood and the baby." Quentin Smith was confidently nonchalant. "No, she won't—she always obeys me and loves me too much. If she does argue, I'll just divorce her!" My heat broke, tears of misery rushing down my cheek. But it was true. I loved him so much that I couldn't even bear to argue with him and always obeyed him. Even so, that didn't mean I was going to maintain this sham of a marriage after learning about his deceit. Since he didn't want me and our child, then I could raise my baby alone. Wiping away my tears, I called a number I hadn't called for five years. "Dad, can I come home?" "Oh, Jo! You finally called. Of course you're always welcomed home!" Hanging up, I booked a ticket for a flight to Switzerland that was due to depart a week later. I'd be out of his hair, so why was he losing his mind when he couldn't find me?

Complete! A century ago, a pack of wolves made a decision to stop fighting and seek tranquility. Some chose to stay, while others decided to flee and hide in the farthest corners of the earth, where they wouldn't be seen again. They gave up many material possessions in the process. The wolves who remained and gave up everything gathered their best engineers and members who desired peace to construct a base in the underworld. Over time, they stopped discussing their losses and eventually forgot about the path to the surface. As their population grew and their beliefs and opinions diverged, time passed by. However, after hundreds of years, they forgot that there was once a way to return to the surface. Gradually, they began to face food shortages, and the underground base started to collapse due to climate change from above. Unfortunately, there will always be people who are born voracious and greedy, which disrupted the once peaceful place and turned it into a warzone similar to the surface they had escaped from. The wolves now face the challenge of restoring peace and avoiding war once again.

“Kalau kamu nggak mau dimadu, ceraikan suamimu!” Hati Sandra terkoyak tatkala dipaksa berpisah dengan suaminya. Padahal dia sudah mengorbankan segalanya untuk keluarga sang suami. Harta, tenaga, karier, dan waktu. Namun semuanya sia-sia. Dia bahkan dilarang membawa apa-apa ketika diusir. Dibantu adiknya, Sandra berhasil bangkit. Dia kembali memulai kariernya dengan melamar sebagai asisten seketaris. Namun, takdir membawanya bertemu dengan Barra, seorang CEO arogan yang memiliki mood tak menentu. Meski memiliki pribadi yang tak bisa diprediksi, Sandra merasa nyaman di dekat Barra hingga timbulah perasaan cinta dan ingin memiliki. Namun, ia takut terhadap stigma masyarakat jika nekat mengungkapkan perasaannya. Apalagi Sandra menyembunyikan status jandanya kepada Barra maupun orang-orang di kantor. Namun, saat pesona Barra tak lagi mampu diredam, masa lalu Sandra kembali hadir, mengancam memporak-porandakan hidupnya sekali lagi

At our Thanksgiving family dinner, my stepbrother brought his beautiful girlfriend to meet the family for the first time. She held up her wine glass and flashed me a malicious smirk. “I heard you had a first love you can’t forget, Summer.” I kept my head low and focused on my food, unsure how to respond. After all, my first love… was her boyfriend. When I was seventeen, my stepbrother Ethan Cole tricked me into crossing the line we should never have crossed, while our parents were blissfully unaware. Even right now, under the table, his foot was rubbing mine sensually. He did not bother holding back. On the table, he held his girlfriend’s hand tenderly as he mocked me with a smirk, “You’re twenty-seven, sis. Your shelf life is running out, and you’re such a plain Jane. Who would ever want you?” I stood up abruptly and looked at him, my tone calm and resolute. “I’m married, Ethan.”

This is a story set in omegaverse. There are 6 genders namely; Alpha male, Alpha female, Beta male, Beta female, Omega male and Omega female. The Alphas are at the top of the food chain, followed by the betas then the omega females and, in dead last, the omega males. I'm Makino Hinata and I'm one of them, an omega male, according to society, abnormal. The Alphas have a different biological composition than the betas and omegas, they are able to produce pheromones that attract omegas, they have a ball-shaped thing at the end of their reproductive organ that is active during their ruts, they use this to impregnate the omegas, they are at the top of the food chain. The betas have no special quality, their basically normal humans. The omegas females and males are for breeding and have pheromones that attracts alphas into mating with them during heat, they have wombs for carrying babies. There are suppressant medicines that keep the alpha's rut and omega's heat in check, there are also medicines that incites heat in omegas. There are pills and shots for those types of medicines. In my last year of middle school when I had one of my heats, I was unprepared, walking home at night. Luckily there was no one on the street, or so I thought. "Hey, are you okay?" A voice came from behind me.

I'm eight months pregnant when my Alpha mate abandons me at a hunting ground. He leaves to welcome his ex-girlfriend, who's returned from her travels. From that day on, I disappear without a trace. Initially, my mate doesn't take this to heart. He's even in the mood to make a bet with his subordinates. "She'll be back in three days at most!" Ten days later, he freezes my credit cards and sends me a threatening text. "You can starve to death out there if you still refuse to come back!" A hundred days later, he barges into my best friend's home and forces her to hand me over. "Where have you hidden her? I admit defeat, okay? I've had enough of this hide-and-seek game!" My best friend sneers as she throws photos of my body, which has been pierced through by countless blades, at him. "Wake up, you fool! Your Luna is dead, and you're the one who led a team to dig her body up from the trap! Have you forgotten?"

My neighbors across the hall had a nasty habit of stealing. This included my food deliveries, my shoes from the cabinet, and even my clothes drying on the rooftop. Nothing was safe from them. I had enough. One day, I placed a pair of shoes borrowed from my friend, who was battling an extreme case of athlete’s foot, outside my door. Not long after they stole them, they came banging on my door in the middle of the night, furious about the outbreak on their feet. They even filed a complaint at the hospital where I work. I was so furious that I invited a few homeless patients to move in. A muscular man with HIV, an elderly woman with syphilis, and a young man with severe mental health issues became their new neighbors. The thieves could not handle it and begged the landlord to evict them. However, the joke was on them. My family owned the entire building. If anyone was leaving, it certainly was not me.

My mate, Ethan Rickman, is an Omega without a wolf. No official position is willing to hire him. That means we live in poverty, but I've always believed that our love can overcome anything. Seven years after our mating, hunger drives me and our son, Theo Rickman, to dig through trash bins late at night, looking for food. Theo moves quickly and quietly. He's become skilled at it. With a cheerful grin, he whispers to me, "Mom, this bin belongs to an award-winning restaurant! The food's fresh and tastes great. Let's bring some back for Dad!" The next day, I put on the cleanest clothes I own and head to that same restaurant, hoping to get hired as a janitor. If I get the job, maybe I can bring home leftovers before they're tossed out. But when I look up, I see Ethan stepping out of a luxury car worth millions. Behind him stands a woman and child, both dressed in designer clothes. I recognize her instantly. She's Mira Alstone, his childhood sweetheart. The restaurant owner gives me an apologetic smile. "Sorry, Ms. Everdeen. Alpha Ethan reserved the whole place for Mira today. I have to focus on serving them, so I don't have time for interviews. Maybe come back another day?" In that moment, Theo and I both freeze where we stand.