Luka X Till

Setelah sekian lama, aku kembali bertemu kembali dengan Dipta, ayah dari anakku. Namun, dia akan menikahi Friska, sahabatku! Tuhan, bagaimana aku menjelaskan pada putriku dan keluargaku?

Lacy Maroney has never known love. Not since her mother abandoned her at an Orphanage home, not since people came by and refused to adopt her. Her life from 17 has been filled with sex, fake Ids, clubs and hurt. Leading her to build the biggest, underground sex club in the slums of Nevada for the top 5% of the US. A place where secrets thrive and orgasms run wilder. Everyone knows her as Madame X. Her rate goes up to almost a million dollars. Until. Three men come stumbling in offering 5 million dollars for just one night. Everything as Lacy has known it changes. Her heart, her mind, her sex drive. Nothing can compare, no one can compare, to these three mysterious men. Especially when they find out everything about her that nobody knows. She realises soon that these men don’t want just her body, but also her heart. Complications arise as they try to find a dynamic and secrets thrive in the questions unasked. Secrets that grow until they threaten to bring down everything she’s worked hard for. When it all comes crashing down, will she push them away and enforce her rules, or will she lose herself in love and pleasure? Even worse —the spotlight that comes with the reveal of their true identities?

"จงสำนึกผิดต่อบาปของเจ้า แม้ต้องแลกด้วยร่างกายและวิญญาณ ก็จงน้อมรับการชำระแค้นจากข้าเสีย" บาบารัส พญางูยักษ์สลักคำสาปด้วยนำเสียงกึกก้องกัมปนาทหมายให้กรีนชดใช้ในสิ่งที่ก่อ

“พี่ไม่คิดที่จะชอบเธอหรอกนะ! พี่ไม่ชอบคนอ้วนน่ะเข้าใจไว้ด้วย ลองคิดดูสิว่าจะหน้าอายแค่ไหนที่ต้องเดินคู่ไปกับคนอ้วนๆแบบเธอ พี่ทำใจยอมรับไม่ได้หรอกนะ”

"คอยดูนะ กูจะทำให้สายรุกหน้าหวาน กลายมาเป็นรับให้ดู" คำพูดสุดแสนท้าทายดังออกมาจากปาก ของเจ้าของคาสิโนหนุ่ม โดยที่เขาไม่รู้เลยคำพูดสุดแสนจะมั่นใจนั้น จะทำให้ชีวิตของเขาเปลี่ยนไปตลอดกาล "เวรเอ้ย!!"

Veronica, a musician in a band, finds herself on a sticky wicket when she realizes that the man of her dreams—Théo Reynaud—is an elaborate masquerade to his danger-seeking alter ego. As she tries to stay relevant in the music scene, she battles depression and bouts of anxiety while dealing with a dysfunctional long-distance relationship. Théo is a fashion model striving to make a good living in the cutthroat industry while moonlighting as an informant. After a vindictive crime boss endangers his family, he is tasked to complete his final assignment to keep his loved ones out of harm's way, and be with the woman he loves. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ genres: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE, CRIME, DRAMA ▬▬▬▬▬▬ This is a work of fiction. Places, characters, dialogues, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination, or are used fictitiously. This story contains profanity, sexual themes, drug usage, and some violence intended for mature readers. Read at your own risk. [DISCLAIMER: The author does not own the original images on the book cover.]

It all seemed like a naughty prank at first. You know, the 'disappearing' trick lovers usually pull on each other to see who misses the other most? Yes, that was what Katniss thought at first until months passed and still, Noah was absolutely no where to be found.... Witty, beautiful and bubbly. Just a few adjectives to describe Katniss Costello's interesting and charming character. A young lady who had it all; from affluent parents to wealth and popularity to a quite amazing love life she shared with Noah Rogers, her then soon to be husband. Her life seemed to have come to a shattering halt after reality dawned on her that Noah might never return. She barely talked. Barely smiled. Barely went out, always bed ridden, gloomy and depressed. Void of all emotions. Indeed the shadow of her previous self. Her parents took advantage of the absence of her fiance and deemed it fit to have her married off to a proud, rich and arrogant son of their friend. She strongly opposed to the arranged marriage for few wisps of hope that he might return still laid in her heart. It was the motivation and inspiration she had to wait for him and when he does return, she'd still be here...waiting. When the pressure from her parents was getting too tough and unbearable, she wanted to get rid of it all, get rid of the emotional pain, get rid of the weight that was becoming far to heavy to carry. All she wanted was freedom, but there was only one way to do that... That night, underneath the Blue Moon, standing on the deck above the Ballad River where she wanted to end it all, there she met Asher Holden and that was the onset of her rollercoaster love life.

"Cinta bukanlah tentang status atau kesempurnaan, tapi tentang keberanian untuk saling menjahit luka—satu jahitan pada satu waktu." Dalam hujan malam yang menggigil, Lestari dan putrinya diusir tanpa belas kasihan. Saat mereka hampir menyerah, sebuah perkebunan kopi megah menjadi tempat pelarian terakhir—namun juga awal badai baru. Di sana, Lestari menarik perhatian Tora, pria kaya yang menyimpan masa lalu yang kelam. Ketika cinta mulai tumbuh, ancaman datang dari dua arah: suami yang ingin merebut kembali apa yang telah ia buang, dan keluarga yang menolak perempuan “tak berstatus”. Demi melindungi anak-anak, Lestari dan Tora harus mempertaruhkan segalanya—bahkan nyawa.

Pada hari ketika Erni Lousa, pujaan hati suamiku yang sedang mengidap penyakit mematikan, melahirkan anak untuk suamiku, Riko Fosa, ayah dan ibu mertuaku memanggil sepuluh pengawal untuk berjaga di depan ruang bersalin hanya untuk mencegah aku datang dan membuat keributan. Namun, hingga proses persalinan berakhir, aku sama sekali tidak muncul. Ibu mertua menggenggam tangan Erni dengan sangat emosional sambil berkata, "Erni, selama kami ada di sini, Nisa nggak akan punya kesempatan menyakitimu atau anak dalam kandunganmu!" Sementara itu, Riko menatap Erni dengan wajah penuh kasih sayang, menemaninya dengan setia di ruang bersalin sambil menyeka keringat di dahi Erni. "Tenang saja, Ayah sudah membawa orang-orang untuk berjaga di depan rumah sakit. Kalau Nisa berani datang mengacau, kami akan segera mengusirnya!" ujar Riko. Ketika mereka menyadari aku tidak kunjung muncul, Riko akhirnya merasa lega. Dia tidak mengerti. Padahal dia hanya ingin memenuhi keinginan terakhir Erni untuk menjadi seorang ibu, kenapa aku harus "berbuat onar" dan mempermasalahkannya? Saat menatap bayi mungil yang menangis di pelukan perawat, Riko tersenyum lega. Dalam hati, Riko berpikir jika besok aku datang dan meminta maaf kepada Erni, dia tidak akan mempermasalahkan semua pertengkaran di antara kami. Dia bahkan bersedia membiarkan aku menjadi ibu bagi anak ini. Namun, yang tidak Riko ketahui adalah aku baru saja mengajukan laporan keberangkatan ke Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa. Seminggu kemudian, aku akan mencabut kewarganegaraanku dan menjadi seorang dokter lintas batas. Sejak hari itu, tidak akan ada lagi pertemuan antara aku dan dia, bahkan hingga ajal memisahkan.

Steven Zimmer, the assistant of my wife, Lucy Quinn, has lost in a truth-or-dare session. Lucy doesn't hesitate to file for a divorce from me for the ninth time. In the courthouse, I hear the staff member asking Lucy curiously, "Your husband is like a well-trained dog now. You've already married and divorced him nine times! Aren't you worried that your husband might ditch you for real?" Lucy merely smirks at her. "Do you know that the more ruthless you are when you abandon your pets, the harder it'll be for them to live without you? In fact, they will just become more obedient and docile. As long as I curl a finger at him, he'll definitely sink down to his knees and beg me to remarry him." Everyone bursts into laughter after that. They bet that I'll plead pathetically to Lucy to remarry me for the tenth time in less than a day after I've obtained the divorce certificate. Lucy even declares that she'll stream the tenth wedding proposal on the Internet when it happens. But the next day, Lucy keeps waiting for me to show up at the city hall while clad in a wedding dress. All she gets is a text from me. "No more proposals. This is the end between us, Lucy."