Foto Ruby

Tri Ananda Putri, siswi SMA naif, terjerat dalam janji manis Raihan Azizi, perawat muda yang menjanjikan pernikahan mewah sebagai "pelabuhan terakhir." Namun, cinta itu berubah menjadi penjara. Penemuan pita satin maroon dan foto pernikahan rahasia Raihan di Surabaya membongkar kebenaran pahit. Tri hanyalah persinggahan sementara. Di bawah kendali manipulatif, Tri dipaksa membuang persahabatannya dengan Dina dan membiarkan masa depannya hancur demi membuktikan "ketulusan." Saat nilai akademiknya runtuh dan isolasi mengancam jiwanya, Tri harus memilih antara terus memeluk ilusi janji palsu atau bangkit melawan predator emosional yang telah mencuri masa remajanya. Sebuah kisah pedih tentang pengkhianatan, manipulasi psikologis, dan perjuangan seorang gadis untuk merebut kembali harga dirinya dari tangan seorang penipu. Cerita ini hanya fiksi belaka

Aku dan suamiku akhirnya dikaruniai anak pertama di tahun ketujuh pernikahan kami. Suamiku curiga bahwa bayi yang ada di dalam perutku bukanlah anaknya. Aku sangat marah sehingga aku melakukan tes DNA. Sebelum hasilnya keluar, suamiku muncul di depan pintu rumah orang tuaku. Dia sedang memegang sebuah foto. Foto itu menunjukkan pakaian dalamku yang entah kenapa bisa muncul di rumah temannya. "Dasar jalang, beraninya kamu mengkhianatiku dan memintaku untuk membesarkan anak orang lain. Mati saja sana!" Dia menggunakan cambuk untuk mencambuk ibuku yang berusaha melindungiku. Ibuku sampai pingsan, tetapi dia tetap memukulku sampai aku mengalami keguguran. Setelah hasil tesnya keluar, dia baru mengetahui kebenarannya. Dia pun berlutut dan memohon agar anak yang sudah dia hilangkan itu bisa kembali.

Hanya karena beberapa foto yang beredar saat Sofie tanpa sengaja bersama Rexa si 'pria idola' yang bahkan tidak Sofie kenal, para penggemar wanitanya yang fanatik itu selalu berusaha menghancurkan hari-hari Sofie. Hingga akhirnya kejadian itu justru membuat Sofie menjadi asisten pribadi si pria idola. Tetapi menjadi asisten Rexa pun tidak semudah yang dibayangkan Sofie. Pria itu sering banyak maunya. Belum lagi ketika menjaga pria idola ini dari serbuan penggemar fanatiknya yang menyeramkan. Namun ketika hati Sofie mulai terjerat pesona Rexa, sanggupkah Sofie bertahan melihat kedekatan Rexa dengan wanita-wanita yang mengelilingi pria itu? Belum lagi mantan kekasih yang membuat Rexa gagal move on meminta pria itu bersamanya kembali demi menutupi kesalahan masa lalunya. Akankah perasaan Sofie bersambut? Mampukah Rexa berubah menjadi pria yang layak untuk Sofie?

"Tante, aku sudah memikirkannya dengan matang. Aku bersedia meninggalkan Keluarga Buwono dan pergi ke luar negeri untuk tinggal bersamamu." Di ujung telepon, suara Tante terdengar sangat gembira, memberikan nasihat dengan tulus. "Baiklah, Kania, aku akan segera mengurus visamu. Mungkin butuh makan waktu sekitar satu bulan. Manfaatkan waktu ini untuk berkumpul dengan teman-teman dan rekan-rekanmu, karena setelah menetap di Zelandia, kalian mungkin akan sulit bertemu. Jadi, gunakan kesempatan ini untuk mengobrol dan berpamitan dengan baik." "Terutama dengan om kamu. Dia telah membesarkanmu dengan penuh kasih sayang. Kebaikan dan pengorbanannya nggak akan pernah bisa dilupakan. Kamu harus benar-benar berterima kasih padanya." Kania mengangguk pelan beberapa kali. Setelah menutup telepon, dia bangkit dan berjalan dari balkon kembali ke ruang tamu, tanpa sadar menatap foto yang terpajang di atas meja.

I had just returned from a business trip. The moment I stepped through the door, I scooped my wife into my arms and rushed her straight to the bathroom for a steamy shower together. We were kissing passionately when, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something: the toilet seat was flipped up. I froze. Seven years ago, my wife had read a post online claiming that when men pee standing up, bacteria splash onto the seat. She begged me to sit down to pee for the sake of her health. I have kept that promise. For seven years of marriage, that seat has never been up. A knot formed in my stomach, but the bathroom was spotless, so clean it looked staged, not a single stray hair anywhere. Then I noticed the shower temperature. It was set five degrees lower than her usual 43°C. Men like cooler showers. Women like them hotter… At that moment, I knew, Ruby Lynch had cheated on me.

When I was three months pregnant, my Don husband’s so-called step sister, Ruby, showed up at my door. Her swollen belly was impossible to miss, “Donna, since my due date is so close, I thought you should know… the Don’s heir is in my belly.” She laid everything in front of me—intimate photos of her and Caleb, records of the weekly money transfers he sent her, even the deed to a mansion. The earliest dates traced back to the time I lost our first baby, when the doctors told me it would be difficult for me to conceive again. All these years, I had been enduring IVF treatments, desperately trying to carry our child once more—while he was fooling around with his so-called step sister. Well, if Caleb wanted another woman so badly, he could have her. I had no intention of staying anyway. I was already planning my leave.

Perjodohan! Sebenarnya Helza hidup di abad ke berapa sih? Gadis itu seketika membelalakkan mata. Saat mendengar penuturan sang nenek yang membahas tentang pernikahan dini. Ditambah kabarnya pria yang akan menjadi suaminya, itu begitu dingin. ia juga belum pernah bertemu. Hanya melihat foto masa kecil dulu. Apa lagi Informasi dari Shiza sang kakak, kalau Azam itu pria arogan dan juga sangat begitu tertutup. Kian menambah nyali Helza semakin menciut untuk bertemu pria tersebut. "Oma, kita hidup udah di tahun 2022. Kenapa sih? Masih aja mengikuti tradisi zaman kuno!" sungut Helza tidak terima. Dengan keputusan Omanya, tentang perjodohan. Seperti apa sebenarnya sosok Azam tersebut? Lalu apakah ada kebahagian, setelah Helza menerima menikah dengan Azam?

After learning the hard truth of how her twin sister Dalilah brainwashed and manipulated her mind for thirteen years, turning her into a ruthless assassin who killed hundreds of innocents including her youngest brother and best friend Valerian, twenty-seven-year-old Princess Natasha Nicholai, is executed in front of the Imperial Palace. Somehow, she gets sent back to the past right before Dalilah started putting her evil string on her mind, to when she was about to turn fourteen, and uses that as an opportunity to not let the past repeat itself, by getting her revenge on her sister and all the people who backed her and saving her younger brother as well as protecting the innocents she knows will be Dalilah's targets. But while also going after the truth about who stole her magic when she was 4yo, who sent her back and why did they do that, she will cross paths with Ethan Theodore, a dangerous and full of secrets guy, with ruby red eyes and whose destiny is directly linked to Natasha's.

Aurora Blessing is one of the best rogue hunters of her generation. When her father informs her he has a job for her, she is eager to comply. Her targets are the triplet Alpha Kings of the Ruby Nightclaws and her cover will be working as a huntress to track down a rogue pack for them. But when she meets the three kings, Aurora realizes that they are her mates. She suddenly finds herself faced with the decision of appeasing her father or choosing the kings. And the longer she’s around her mates, the more secrets about her father’s true intentions and her past come to light. “Do you like that idea, Aurora?” Kent asks. I moisten my lips and feel my nipples hardening. “Very much.” “Then it’s settled,” Jordan purrs. “You’ll submit willingly to all our most intimate desires.” Wiley adds. “You’ll be ours completely until the light of the dawn kisses your beautiful body. Do you accept our terms?” Mated to the Alpha Kings is written by Claire Wilkins, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Follow Jake Swift and his team of elite ex-military personnel in this series of short stories. Book 1 Saving Erin. Deep in the treacherous ice-cold mountains, Erin is running from a monster when she stumbles upon Jake Swift and his highly trained security team. Will Jake, the handsome, rugged ex-military man, be the one to save her? Book 2 Tank. When a beautiful woman crashes into his life, will Tank be able to save her from the devil himself? Book 3 Laila. Laila has always been the strong, feisty one of the group, but when she finds herself captured, who will be the one to save her? Book 4 Madog. When Ruby turns up for work, what starts as a normal day ends in disaster. Will Madog and the Swift security team get to her in time? Book 5 Ben. He found her; she was broken. It takes a strong man to handle a broken woman, but it takes a stronger woman to come back from being broken.