Foto Ruby

Nicklas Creed, Pria matang berusia 30 tahun berdarah campuran Indonesia-Belanda, di usianya yang menginjak kepala tiga, Ia memimpin salah satu grup bisnis properti terbesar di Asia. Meskipun sukses, Nicklas menyembunyikan trauma masa kecil yang membentuk karakter perfeksionis dan ambisiusnya. Suatu hari, saat perayaan kehamilan istrinya berlangsung, takdir seolah bermain licik mempertemukannya kembali dengan Ruby Ariska, cinta pertamanya yang tak pernah benar-benar pudar dari ingatan. “Nick, J-jangan mendekat! ” Ruby gemetar saat pria tampan di depannya mendekat, hampir mencium bibirnya yang masih basah. “Setelah sepuluh tahun mencoba melupakanmu, akhirnya takdir kembali mempertemukan kita.” “Sudah terlambat, Nick. Lepas!” “Tidak ada yang namanya terlambat. Baik dulu maupun sekarang, kamu tetap milikku, Ruby.”

Pada hari Rina Januar pulang negeri, Galih Gunawan tidak pulang semalaman. Keesokan harinya, aku melihat unggahan foto di instagram Rina. Itu foto dua tangan yang saling menggenggam dan wajah polos Galih yang sedang tidur. Ketika pulang, Galih melemparkan surat cerai kepadaku dan memintaku untuk menyerahkan posisiku sebagai Nyonya Gunawan. Katanya, "Posisi ini memang seharusnya milik Rina. Sekarang dia sudah pulang, waktunya kamu meminggir!" Tidak apa-apa, toh sisa hidupku tidak lama lagi. Siapa pun yang mau posisi Nyonya Gunawan, ambil saja! Kemudian, aku pun meninggal. Galih menangis di depan makamku dan berjanji tidak akan pernah menggenggam tangan wanita lain lagi!

Di tahun kesepuluh pernikahanku, mantan sahabatku memposting sebuah foto. Putrinya dan putraku masing-masing digendong olehnya dan suamiku. Keempat orang itu berdiri berdekatan dan di bawah foto itu tertulis: "Sudah sepasang 'kan anak-anak kami?" Aku berkomentar untuk foto itu, Pasangan yang sempurna. Detik berikutnya, postingan itu dihapus. Keesokan harinya, suamiku bergegas pulang dan bertanya padaku, "Susah payah aku membuat kondisi Sophie membaik, kenapa kamu malah cari ribut?" Putraku bahkan mendorong dan menuduhku, "Ini semua salahmu! Adikku jadi menangis." Aku mengeluarkan surat cerai dan melemparkannya ke wajah mereka. "Ya, ini salahku! Jadi biar aku yang pergi, semoga kalian berempat jadi keluarga bahagia!"

"Understanding is an art and not everyone is an artist." Addilyn Ruby Smith-Garcia is a sixteen year old with a very bad past. She is known as Ruby Smith. She is youngest Multimillionaire in the world. When finally her life is somewhat better a tragedy happens and that makes her move back to her old orphanage. And she has to go back to her family. What happens when her elder sibling takes her in? Or when she made them take her in? How can she cope to live with the people that she desperately tried to forget? Will she let her walls down and let them in? And adding to that chaos, there is a Russian mafia leader who is hell as arrogant and possessive with a mysterious nature. Can they mend her broken heart? And when two opposites fall in love with their lives at stake and past coming back to haunt her, can they save her before she drowns?

"You were going to be my father-in-law." This is messed up. Gripping my chin, he kisses me. "And now, I'm your plaything, someone you call daddy and get pleasure from. No one will know. Stop thinking about others, or should I stop?" he asks. Ruby, finds her fiance cheating on her, he mocks her and tells her he used her to fool his father into giving him his inheritance early. Ruby's friends suggest she makes a s*x list, which she does, and one night, she is forced to go to her ex-fiance's fathers place to get some of her items she had left there. Only, Alaric, her ex-fiances father has no idea they have split up, and is genuinely shocked when he sees the listed that Ruby created, and one moment of madness, turns into a secret affair between them. Book Two: My four brothers raised me from a young age after my parents death. Their friend Grayson had always lived with us, and I hated him. He seemed to get pleasure from telling my brothers things about me. That all changed, though, when I watched an explicit movie with him, and later found him in the shower pleasuring himself while whispering my name. My brothers will kill him, they may even kill me, but we can't stop ourselves. Something about this been forbidden, makes it so much better.

Ruby Rue believed she and her boyfriend were destined to be mates. However, on her sixteenth birthday, her world shatters when she learns that they are not mates at all. Instead, she is destined for the powerful, god-like alpha twins, but they have chosen to ignore her. Heartbroken, she flees home and undergoes a remarkable transformation. Five years later, a tragedy compels her to return home. This time, everything has changed—Ruby Rue is no longer the girl who let others walk all over her. She stands tall and strong, ready to face the world independently and fulfill her duties to her pack. But why do the alpha twins, who once despised her, now look at her as if she were their next delicious meal? Will she be able to resist the irresistibly sexy twins, especially with the increasing attacks on their pack that will force them all to work together?

Dua tahun menikah dengan Alex, Freya tidak pernah merasakan cinta dari suaminya. Terlebih lagi, ketika Alex menyebut nama wanita lain saat mereka bercinta. Tanpa sengaja, Freya melihat foto suaminya dengan wanita lain yang diletakkan di belakang foto keluarga mereka. Freya mencecar Alex dengan bertanya tentang wanita idaman lain yang kemungkinan Alex miliki. Merasa tersudut, Alex mengakui bila itu adalah mantan kekasihnya dan dialah wanita idaman Alex. Freya muak dengan pernikahan mereka, lalu meminta perceraian dari Alex yang langsung disetujui oleh pria tersebut. Ketika keduanya berpisah, Alex tersadar bahwa dia tidak bisa hidup tanpa Freya dan mulai merasa mencintai istrinya. Saat itulah, Alex menginginkan mereka kembali bersama. Berhasilkah Alex mendapatkan Freya kembali? Bagaimanakah kisah cinta mereka berdua? Simak selengkapnya dalam novel ini.

Baru saja masa nifasnya usai, Winda Baskoro menggendong bayinya ke Dinas Kependudukan untuk mengurus kartu keluarga. "Pak, nama anakku Alex Harto." Petugas itu mengetik beberapa kali pada keyboard, tetapi dahinya makin berkerut. "Di kartu keluarga Tama Harto, sudah tercatat seorang anak bernama Alex Harto." Winda tertegun, mengira dirinya salah dengar. "Nggak mungkin, anak kami baru genap sebulan!" Belum selesai bicara, ponsel di sakunya bergetar. Saat dia membuka layar, terlihat foto dari asisten Tama, Sania Marsudi. Dalam foto itu, Tama merangkul pinggang Sania dengan tangan kiri, sementara tangan kanannya menggendong bocah laki-laki sekitar lima atau enam tahun. Ketiganya berdiri di depan gerbang TK, tersenyum begitu cerah hingga menyilaukan mata. Di papan nama yang tergantung di dada bocah itu, tertera jelas namanya, Alex Harto.

Ruby only wants two things in life: a decent job and a happy family, but her gambling-addicted father and comatose mother keep her from achieving either. Because of her family's financial difficulties, she has to work multiple jobs to pay off their debts and bills. Being in need of money, she accepted her boyfriend's one-time job offer to work as a stripper for a bachelor's party where she ended up spending a steamy night with the groom's best man. Terrified of her mistake, she decided to forget what had happened and ran away. However, that will be easier said than done because a month after the incident occurred, Ruby landed a steady job but, she was taken aback when she realized that her boss was the same man she had a one-night stand with—to make matters worse, she discovered he was a mafia leader and she was pregnant with his child.

"What did they say?" He asked, almost too calm and very curious. "An animal fled with her." "They are lying! I want them in prison, till they tell me what happened to my daughter!!" He bellowed, clenching his fist while sitting on his blue, gold railed chair, beside his bed. "They are telling the truth." Seansha tried to reason. "No! They helped her hide away. They hid her, they know exactly where she is. And they will be tortured until they tell me the truth!" He barked furiously. • Ruby William is a modern teenage girl with a good family, good friends and a moderately perfect life. Until the night she turns eighteen, and gets stuck in a dream. Ruby fights to go awake, choosing her real life over her dream, which seemed too perfect. Things are opposite the way they appear, as those who are close to her or share a resemblance with those she loves, are harbinger of her demise.