Just Hang In There

Jeremy Senjaya menunda pernikahan selama seminggu demi proyek mendesak di luar negeri. Aku memahaminya. "Urusan proyek lebih penting. Cepat pergi, cepat pulang ya." Hari pertama setelah Jeremy pergi, penyiar wanita populer perusahaan, Wanda Jiwanto, mengirim foto. Dalam foto itu, Jeremy berciuman dengannya di bawah aurora Negara Isvara yang memukau. Aku tidak menelepon untuk menanyai gadis itu, hanya diam-diam membatalkan jamuan pernikahan yang sudah dipesan. Hari kedua, Jeremy berlutut di satu kaki di pantai biru yang romantis, memakaikan cincin lamaran berlian tiga karat di jari Wanda. Tanpa memberi tahu siapa pun, aku pergi ke rumah sakit dan menggugurkan anak dalam kandunganku. Hari ketiga, Jeremy dan Wanda terlibat dalam permainan erotis di sebuah penginapan tepi pantai. Aku menemui ibu Jeremy dan mengatakan aku tidak berencana menikah dengan pria itu lagi.

Vianna Shina, she didn't really have any goals in mind as she moved through life. An orphan she learned to live her life alone and was an independent person. She was an artist and most of her day was consumed by charcoal and due dates for work she needed to complete. She thought the most dangerous thing in her life was forgetting to eat and passing out on top of one of her canvas and ruining her work. That was until one night while in her studio a loud crash came from outside and what she found changed her life.

"I need you to smile, darling," Adrian whispers, his fingers digging into Isabella's waist as cameras flash. "Your father's business empire depends on it." The champagne in her glass trembles as Isabella forces herself to play the perfect mafia bride. She hasn't told him about the baby yet. Hasn't mentioned the way his eyes linger on the judge's daughter, Elena. Hasn't revealed that she knows about the poison they've planned for her "tragic accident." But Isabella Romano isn't going down without a fight. "Please," she whispers to Santa Muerte as poison burns through her veins. "Give me a chance to make them pay." Death has a price. Isabella awakens in the body of Valentina Salvatore—wife to Adrian's greatest rival and mother to twin girls who somehow see through her deception. She has 150 days to either claim vengeance or find true love. The clock is ticking, and Nicolas Salvatore, her new "husband," is proving dangerously easy to fall for. "You're not really her, are you?" Nicolas murmurs one night, his fingers tracing her jaw. "My Valentina never looked at me the way you do." But as Isabella navigates the deadly waters of rival crime families, she discovers Valentina had secrets of her own—secrets worth dying for. Now, with her father plotting a takeover, Adrian suspicious of her resurrection, and her borrowed body slowly rejecting her soul, Isabella must choose: the revenge she died for, or the love she never expected to find. In this dangerous game of second chances, some fates are worse than death. And some loves are worth dying for twice.

Today is the sixth time my girlfriend, Shirley Lake, is supposed to meet my parents. My parents and I wait at the restaurant for four whole hours. I call her over and over again, but she never picks up. Just as I'm about to try one last time, I see Shirley's childhood sweetheart, Joshua Solomon, post a picture on his Instagram, with the location tagged at a suburban hotel. The picture shows a woman's pale back, one shoulder bare, with a striking red spider lily tattoo visible on her skin. Underneath the picture was the caption, "We'll make it from 18 to 80." A mutual friend comments, "First-love couples are the sweetest!" I silently hit the like button, then comment, "Make sure to get buried together when you die. And don't come back to haunt anyone else."

At my engagement dinner with Greg Willis, the Rossi mafia family’s underboss, his assistant, Sydney Carlson, casually tossed a half-eaten cookie on his plate in front of everyone. Greg didn’t react. In full view of the guests, he calmly picked it up and ate it. That night, after we returned, I told him I wanted to call off the engagement. He rubbed his brow with his fingertips, his voice steady in that familiar, composed way of his, yet there was distance beneath it. “All this,” he said, “over a cookie?” “She already took a bite,” I corrected him. He fell silent for a moment before replying in a low voice, “Zoe, you’ve always been sensible. Why get hung up on something so small?” “I’m not hung up,” I said evenly. “I just don’t want to settle.” When he saw that I wouldn’t back down, something complicated flickered in his eyes. Then, his tone hardened, almost like a warning. “Think it through carefully. Don’t you regret it.” He was certain I couldn’t leave him. After all, he was a mafia underboss. There were countless people eager to take the position of Mrs. Willis, and I was nothing more than a minor employee at his company. What he didn’t know was that I had never coveted the title of his wife. All I ever had for him was love. But now, that love was gone, and once I turned away, I would never look back again.

Alisia melarikan diri dari rumah karena menolak untuk menikah dengan musuh keluarganya yang terkenal kejam. Disaat pelarian, tanpa sengaja dia berakhir dalam pelukan Reed Kensington. Lelaki yang tak lain adalah calon suaminya sendiri. Pernikahan mereka pun tak bisa dihindari lagi. Alisia pasrah dengan apapun yang akan dilakukan oleh suami dan keluarga Kensington terhadap dirinya. Karena kebencian antara dua keluarga pasti tidak akan berakhir hanya karena pernikahan semata. "Kenapa kamu bersikap baik dan memperlakukan aku sebagai seorang istri?" "Lalu kamu mau diperlakukan seperti apa? Tawananku?"

"Athalia, kamu masih perawan, kan? Jika kamu jadi teman tidurku selama satu bulan, kupastikan adikmu sembuh." Athalia terkejut mendengar ucapan Mahesa, sang atasan. Kelamnya masa lalu telah membentuk pria itu tak percaya dengan cinta. Tetapi, Athalia hadir dengan membawa segala ketulusan yang ia punya. Akankah Athalia mampu membuat Mahesa percaya bahwa cinta itu nyata?

He is the God of Justice. A God of Retribution and Vengeance. And he has waited centuries for blood to awaken him... Bound to him by a pact she doesn’t fully understand, Aliana becomes both his Master and his prisoner. He is ruthless, intoxicating, and impossibly beautiful… but he is no hero. He judges, he condemns, and he kills without hesitation. And now his hunger is fixed on her...

"Jangan sentuh aku, Kak!" "Kenapa? Bukankah suamimu itu, tidak pernah menyentuh kamu seperti ini kan? Dan sekarang, tugas suamimu akan aku gantikan." Arsela tidak menyangka, dalam keadaan terpuruk, ia malah menghabiskan malam dengan pria yang berstatus sebagai kakak angkatnya, Kaindra Justin. Seorang pria yang pernah Arsela cintai di masa lampu, sebelum akhirnya ia memutuskan pergi menjauh dari Kaindra Justin, saat merasa tidak pantas mencintainya. Dengan berjalannya waktu, Arsela merasa nyaman dengan Kaindra Justin. Yang ternyata juga mencintainya. Namun, saat keduanya nyaman dengan hubungan yang terjadi. Ada hal baru yang tidak Arsela ketahui tentang Kaindra Justin. Apa itu? Dan apakah Arsela akan tetap bersama Kaindra Justin, saat tahu siapa sebenarnya kakak angkatnya tersebut?

Isang trahedya ang nagpabago sa buhay ni Amanda, ngunit ito rin ang nagdala sa kanya sa masaya at magandang buhay. Subalit ang kapalit nito ay ang pagkalimot niya sa kanyang nakaraan at mabuhay ng iba ang katauhan. Maayos na sana ang lahat kung hindi lang niya nakilala ang isang Jeremy Dawson. Ang Hot and Gorgeous Hotelier na isa rin sa Founder ng Hotel sa Venice Italy kung saan siya nag-attend ng OJT. Dahilan rin ito kung bakit nagsimulang malito ang kanyang puso. Ngunit hindi niya maitatanggi na ito rin ang nagturo sa kanya nang tunay na kahulugan ng pag-ibig. Nanaisin pa ba niyang balikan ang kanyang nakaraan upang makilala ang sarili o mananatili na lang sa buhay na puno ng kasinungalingan? Paano kung ang katotohanan pa lang ito ang mas higit na sisira sa kanyang pagkatao? Gugustuhin pa ba niyang malaman ang totoo o mas gugustuhin pa niyang baguhin na lang ang kanyang kapalaran? ___ Kaya ating tunghayan ang laban ng dalawang pusong nagmamahal. Ngunit walang kalayaang ibigin ang isa't-isa. Dahil sa pag-ibig palaging may nasasaktan at nagdurusa. ***** By: LadyGem25 06-28-22