Life After Marriage

Blurb Lala tak pernah menyangka kalau membela seorang anak yang dirundung teman-temannya mengantarkannya pada Aiden, laki-laki yang telah menghancurkan hatinya delapan tahun silam. Pertemuan itu kembali membawa luka. Aiden yang merasa bersalah berusaha meminta maaf dengan seribu cara, tapi hal yang paling Lala inginkan adalah menjauhi Aiden, sejauh-jauhnya. Usaha Lala berujung sia-sia karena Aiden memiliki hal yang paling Lala perlukan. Uang. Lala perlu uang untuk biaya pengobatan ibunya. Untuk mendapatkan uang itu, Lala harus menikah kontrak dengan Aiden. Ujung-ujungnya dia harus ikhlas hatinya kembali porak-poranda. Dia terlambat menyadari kalau dia jatuh cinta lagi dan kembali terluka oleh orang yang sama.

"Aku nggak mau nikah sama kamu. Gila apa. Ketemu aja baru sekali ini!” Aileen Benyamin dijodohkan dengan Samuel Manasye, pemuda yang sama sekali tak dikenalnya. Harris Benyamin, ayah kandung Aileen, terlilit hutang yang sangat besar di bank sehingga terpaksa meminta bantuan Ruben Manasye, teman baiknya waktu SMA. Ruben berkenan melunasi hutang kawannya itu dengan syarat anak-anak mereka dinikahkan segera. Harris menyetujuinya. Aileen dan Samuel yang sama-sama merasa menjadi korban akhirnya melakukan kesepakatan rahasia. Yaitu menikah, berpura-pura hamil, mengadopsi anak, lalu bercerai. Setelah itu anak adopsi mereka akan diasuh sepenuhnya oleh Samuel. James, kekasih Aileen, terpaksa setuju gadis itu menikah dengan orang lain. Namun dia mengajukan persyaratan yang sangat berat dipenuhi kekasihnya. Persyaratan apakah itu? Apakah Aileen berhasil melaksanakannya? Lalu bagaimana perjalanan hidup rumah tangga gadis itu dengan Samuel? Apakah berjalan lancar sesuai rencana?

“Kenapa?” tanya Bigel saat Hasbi memilih tidak bersuara lagi, tapi fokusnya selalu pada leher Bigel. “Apa yang Mas lihat?” Hasbi menundukkan kepalanya dan seraya mendekat hingga membuat batasan tipis antara wajahnya dan juga wajah Bigel. “Aku, rindu ini.” Bigel tidak dapat berkutik untuk sesaat, tapi sekaligus jantungnya berdebar tidak karuan. Menurutnya, bukankah ini kesempatan agar Hasbi semakin terikat padanya? Cup! Bigel mencium bibir Hasbi lebih dulu, sekilas untuk membuat adrenalin pria itu semakin menggebu-gebu memakan Bigel. “Bigel.” “Jika lebih dari ini, kau mungkin tidak jadi ke kantor lagi.” “Tidak masalah,” sungutnya dengan napas turun naik menerpa permukaan wajah Bigel. “Yakin? Bagaimana jika aku menginginkanmu untuk diriku sendiri setelah ini?” *** Hasbi memejamkan matanya sebentar, laru menatap lembut pada Irasya. “Pulanglah, kepalaku sedang pusing untuk mencerna semuanya. Kita bicarakan nanti saja. Ada yang lebih penting untuk aku urus saat ini.” Ketika Hasbi hendak berbalik, Irasya menahan lengannya lagi dengan kuat. “I-itu Bigel, kan? S-sesuatu yang penting?” Tanpa ragu, Hasbi mengangguk sebagai jawaban. “A-aku hamil, anakmu, Hasbi.”

A woman who once worked in a casino dreamed of becoming rich, but she fell in love with a billionaire's bad-boy son. He got her pregnant and left her. After giving birth, she vowed never to return to the casino. Desperate to support her child, she became a maid—only to discover she now works in the house of the man she hates, Gabriel Bustamante, whom she hasn’t seen in five years. Gabriel, now engaged to another woman, doesn’t know he has a child. Living under the same roof, emotions resurface as Gabriel persistently tries to reconnect, slowly breaking down Samantha’s anger. One day, he kisses her—just as his fiancée walks in. Things become more complicated as her gilfriend begins to suspect Samantha and Gabriel is hiding something.

Jacob Milian and Arianna Sawyer are both in a convenience marriage that neither of them is happy about, where Jacob sees his wife as the most bitter, hostile, and dishonest woman that he has ever met, while Arianna sees her husband as a way to get her family out of debt. After the divorce, Jacob saw a different side of his wife that made him calmly say,” If you change your mind, I can consider giving you another chance,” but the woman he knew is not the same anymore. “ Thank you, but no need,” she tells him. Will these two find their way back to each other despite their hate toward each other?

Savannah Elin S. Mercado has been punished by her own father because of their feud, she was devastated knowing that her father had to give her a punishment just because she protected herself. She believed that love will give her reasons to hate marriage but then Clyde Oliver M. Reyes entered her unlovable life, he wants her but he can't have her, that was it. What other misfortunes can happen in this lifetime? Does her mission to save someone be the reason why she will be at her lowest?

Gael D'angelo is a mega entrepreneur from a network of accounting and law firms. A lion of numbers and a predator when he wants something. But the ambitious young billionaire wants something more than a bank account full of money. He longs to have in his hands everything that once belonged to his father, Roland D'angelo, and to achieve this, he is willing to do anything, including signing a marriage contract. Ivy Dixon is a young accounting graduate. A girl who was born with a silver spoon. However, overnight she lost everything she had. His father and her older brother, and all he had left was his sick mother and many debts to pay. Until an opportunity knocks on her door and she can't resist saying yes. * A marriage contract. * An untamed young woman. * A determined man and a signature that will change everything in these two's lives!

"I know I don’t deserve a second chance. I know I’ve hurt you in the cruelest way. But I regret it, truly regret it. I've spent five years searching for you, hoping to atone for my mistakes. I... I still love you." My heart raced. Part of me wanted to believe him, wanted to surrender to the words I had longed for. But I couldn’t just forget how he had shattered me. "Love?" I let out a small laugh. "You’re talking about love after what you did to me? After you made me feel like nothing more than a replacement? I’ve moved past the days when I cried over you, when I questioned my self-worth just because you chose another woman. You want me back? But what if one day you find another reason to leave me?" "No!"

Pretending to be someone you don't want to be, is the most difficult thing that Mallory has done. She needs to do this, for her to continue helping her parents. She will pretend to be Canon's wife. Canon, the most intelligent man when it comes to business, he's unpredictable and hard to read. A ruthless man who will eventually meet a soft-spoken lady that will make his life turn upside down. “Pretend, don't cross the line. You just have to pretend, Mallory. I will never consider you as my real wife. Never in my life.”

He divorced her. That was two years ago. She was shopping with her best friend when she felt a blinding sort of pain before losing consciousness. She woke up at the hospital and saw her parents and Albert Matthews, her ex-husband, and the man who can cover the sky with one hand in S City, talking to the doctor. She has a disease - and they said she's dying in three days. This is her sixth day now. She died in his watch, wishing that in her next life, she would still be his wife -- and the gods favored her.