Honey Lemon Soda Kai

I lost my job, but I got hired into a new one. This time… my job is to be the mistress I hated the most. “Be my mistress... take it or take it?” — Shaun Kamikaze Del Valle.

Setelah mengetahui kekasihku, sang Duke menikahiku hanya untuk memberikan posisiku sebagai Ratu kepada sahabat masa kecilnya, aku membatalkan pernikahan kami. Kini aku kembali merebut takhta—untuk menghancurkan Duke dan wanita yang mengkhianatiku.

[BUKAN NOVEL TERJEMAH] "Tiada kasta dalam cinta." *** Dewi Harnum adalah seorang pelayan di suatu kerajaan. Ia selalu menggunakan selendang untuk menutupi wajah cantiknya, karena takut, jika kecantikannya akan menimbulkan perpecahan di masa depan. Ia menerima takdirnya sebagai reinkarnasi dari Mahadewi. Dialah satu-satunya gadis yang mampu membuat Putra Mahkota dari Kekaisaran Alaska bertekuk lutut di bawah kakinya. Sang pangeran begitu mencintai Dewi Harnum. Pertemuan pertama mereka membuatnya mengklaim gadis itu sebagai miliknya. Permaisurinya~ *** "Menikahlah. Denganku!" Alih-alih meminta, ucapan Pangeran Leonard terdengar seperti titah yang harus dipatuhi. Khas seorang penguasa. "Sa-saya hanya seorang pelayan, Pangeran," ujar Dewi Harnum lirih. "Aku tidak peduli karena hatiku yang telah memilihmu, Permaisuriku~" ***

Suamiku adalah seorang pria dengan emosi yang sangat kuat. Untuk membuat adik angkatnya bahagia, dia mengalokasikan miliaran setiap tahun agar dia bisa hidup mewah. Dia sangat peduli dengan kesejahteraan adiknya. Setiap malam, pria itu duduk di sampingnya, memastikan dia bisa tenang dan nyaman. Namun, ketika aku tertembak dan mengalami pendarahan hebat serta membutuhkan pertolongan segera, dia tetap acuh tak acuh. Dia malah mengarahkan seluruh tim medis untuk menangani adik angkatnya yang sedang cemas. Dengan sisa tenagaku, aku menelpon suamiku. Telepon tersambung. Suaranya sedikit kesal saat menjawab, "Ada apa lagi? Kamu baik-baik saja, sehat. Kenapa butuh dokter?" "Dengar, Safea butuh aku. Tenaga medis keluarga kita terbatas. Hanya masalah kecil, tahan sajalah." Hatiku kecewa, seolah mati rasa. Dia memang pria dengan emosi yang kuat. Hanya saja, orang yang benar-benar dia pedulikan bukanlah aku.

During Christmas break, my boyfriend, Trevor Hayes, asks me to stop by and feed the dog that his childhood friend, Evelyn Summers, keeps at her place. I bring a bag of kibble over. But the second I open the door, a huge pit bull lunges at me and bites into my face and arms. Luckily, a neighbor hears me screaming and pulls me out of its jaws, but the damage is already done. The scars will stay with me forever. I break down, but Trevor blames me instead. "You must've done something wrong when you fed Mojo and set him off. You just got a scar, but Mojo's dead!" The weight of it all crushes me until I climb a rooftop and jump. After dying, I see Trevor holding Evelyn in his arms. "Honey, you're so clever. Starving Mojo for a few days really worked. Now, she's dead. We can finally be together." When I open my eyes again, I'm back on the day Trevor asks me to go feed that dog.

Sejak usia dua tahun, Erianna Vindra menjadi bank darah pribadi untuk adik kembarnya setelah didiagnosa memiliki kelainan genetik yang langka. Dokter memprediksi adiknya tidak akan hidup lebih dari delapan belas tahun, jadi keluarga dan kakak laki-lakinya sangat menyayangi adiknya. Mengutamakannya dalam segala hal. Mereka bahkan menyalahkan Erianna, menuduhnya "mencuri" nutrisi adiknya dari dalam kandungan sehingga membuatnya sakit-sakitan. Di kehidupan sebelumnya, tidak ada satupun di keluarganya yang menyayanginya. Hanya tunangannya, Devan, yang benar-benar tetap berada di sisinya. Tapi, Erianna tidak pernah menyangka bahwa ada yang disembunyikan di balik cinta Devan. Hingga adiknya tanpa sengaja jatuh dari tebing dan perlu transfusi darah penuh. Devan mengisi formulir persetujuan tanpa ragu, mengirim dirinya ke meja operasi untuk jadi pendonor. Saat darahnya mengalir dan kesadarannya hampir sirna, Erianna berjanji bahwa, di kehidupan lain, dia tidak akan menjadi bank darah untuk adiknya lagi! Berikutnya, saat dia membuka mata, dia kembali ke hari dimana dia telah bertunangan dengan Devan ….

Five years ago, I offered up my neck to Kieran, the Shadow Lord. After that night of insatiable hunger, he didn't drain me dry. Instead, he sank his fangs deep into my veins. At the zenith of pleasure, he whispered repeatedly into my ear, "You are mine." Just as I mistakenly believed this twisted possession was love, his so-called "savior," Seraphina, returned. To appease her, Kieran demanded my heart's blood every night. He callously tossed my mother's only keepsake into an auction. Worse still, to quell her jealousy, he personally locked me away in a prison bristling with silver torture devices... When I finally broke the blood pact and, my heart shattered, fled to Los Angeles to marry his sworn enemy, Lucian, Kieran descended into complete madness.

Five years of marriage, and as the pack's Luna, I've never been to a single big celebration. Every Moonlight Festival, I spent it alone at home. It's simply because my mate told me the pack has a rule: wolves not raised within the pack cannot join pack gatherings. Even Lunas can't. To follow this rule, I endured my wolf spirit's unease and felt lonely for five solid years. Until the eve of another Elder Gathering, I stumbled upon a post from his first love on social media. Through another woman's account, I saw my mate. She posted pictures with my mate. For five years, at every Elder Gathering, they were side-by-side, never apart. That's when I realized, it wasn't that he couldn't make an exception. It was just that the one he'd make an exception for wasn't me.

The wedding's in half an hour, and my fiancé's assistant, this woman, just hands me this paper. Rule number one: No physical contact with him outside, not unless he explicitly permits it. Rule number two: Intimacy is to occur only when he initiates it. She is obligated to satisfy his desires at least once a month. Rule number three: He can demand his due at any time, any place, and she cannot refuse. ... After I finished reading this entire two-page contract, I had to fight to keep a smile on my face. Swallowing the fire in my gut, I called my fiancé. "Marcus, what the hell is this?" "What do you mean, 'If he fathers a child, she must raise it, no matter who the mother is'?"

Ever since she was two, Elara Vane became her twin sister's personal blood bank after the girl was diagnosed with a rare genetic defect. Doctors predicted her sister wouldn't live past eighteen, so her parents and brother doted on her, putting her first in everything. They even blamed Elara, accusing her of "stealing" her sister's nutrients in the womb, claiming it made her sickly. In her past life, no one in the family loved her. Only her fiancé, Dante, truly stayed by her side. But Elara never expected Dante's love had its own agenda. Until her sister accidentally fell off a cliff and needed a full blood transfusion. Dante signed the consent form without hesitation, sending her to the operating table to be the donor. As her blood drained and her consciousness faded, Elara swore that in another life, she would never be her sister's blood bag again! The next time she opened her eyes, she was back to the day after her engagement to Dante...