Mind Map Cerpen

My husband's gym was celebrating its grand opening, so I grabbed my best friend and headed over under the guise of "checking the place out," armed with a $10 trial class we had snagged from a group deal. I never once mentioned that I was the owner's wife. The moment we wrapped up the workout, a female trainer slapped a price sheet into our hands and gave us a look that could cut glass. "Let me guess, you two came here to milk the freebies? Our private training sessions cost hundreds. They're not here for people like you to exploit." I let out a disbelieving laugh. "We bought a perfectly valid trial class. How does that make us freeloaders? Get your manager." She rolled her eyes, acting like she was the rules. "Call whoever you want! The owner is my boyfriend, and he can't stand penny-pinchers who show up trying to mooch off his gym." Then, right in front of us, she called him—voice raised, dramatic, dripping with fake indignation. "Babe, there are two cheapskates in your gym demanding the manager. Come deal with them for me!"

Distraught by the sudden twist of fate, Ayla finds herself on a long journey past the Dark Kingdom and beyond the land she knew. With a two-century-old map in hand and words of caution from the pack witch, her success is still uncertain. She must find the Witch, whom few people knew existed and is called “The Ethereal”. Eager to find answers and solutions, the fear of the unknown did not occur on her mind. But what she found at the end of her journey horrified her, a choice must be made and a sacrifice is certain.

Apa yang kamu rasakan, saat pria yang menikahimu hanya ingin balas dendam?Kisah ini, tentang Annastasia yang harus rela menikahi Luxander, agar bisa terbebas dari hukuman penjara. Tapi, dia tak pernah menyangka, kehidupan rumah tangganya dengan Luke, justru lebih menyesakkan dari pada jeruji besi, dan lebih menyakitkan dari pada kematian. Setiap hari, Luke memperlakukannya sebagai budak dan menyiksanya tak berperikemanusiaan. Bahkan, dengan teganya, Luke menyewa seorang wanita pelacuran dan mengajaknya tinggal bersama. "Apa ini?" tanya Anna begitu Luke melemparkan map tepat ke wajahnya. "Poin-poin penting dalam pernikahan kita," jawab Luke santai.Anna membuka map itu, dan membulatkan matanya tak percaya. "Kau menjadikan aku pembantu? tanya Anna tak percaya. "Ini tidak adil!" lanjutnya membuat penolakan. Luke tertawa miring, dengan lantangnya dia pun menjawab, "Jika kau tidak setuju dengan syarat-syaratku, maka ... bersiaplah untuk membusuk di penjara!"Bagaimana kisah rumah tangga mereka selanjutnya? Mampukah Anna bertahan? Atau mungkin memilih pergi, setelah rentetan penyiksaan lahir dan batin yang membuatnya lelah bertahan, dan penantian cinta yang tak kunjung terbalas? Sedangkan, di dalam rahimnya tumbuh bayi yang tak berdosa tanpa diketahui oleh suami berengseknya. "Siapkan hatimu. Karena kau tidak akan pernah ingin dilahirkan jika kau jadi aku." _Annastasia Thomas_

Jejak Hasrat menghadirkan kumpulan kisah cinta penuh gairah dari berbagai latar belakang kehidupan. Setiap cerpen membawa pembaca pada pengalaman romantis yang berbeda—kadang manis, kadang menegangkan, namun selalu membangkitkan sensasi yang sulit dilupakan. Dari ruang rapat seorang CEO yang berkuasa, kehangatan seorang janda yang mencari pelipur lara, hingga rahasia asmara duda yang kembali bersemi. Dari hubungan terlarang antara mertua dan menantu, hingga kisah sederhana namun membara antara satpam, tentara, dokter, hingga pengusaha—semuanya dirangkai menjadi cerita-cerita yang berani, menggoda, dan memikat. Setiap tokoh membawa kisahnya sendiri: hasrat yang terpendam, cinta yang terlarang, maupun rindu yang membara. **Jejak Hasrat** tidak sekadar menyajikan cerita romantis, melainkan juga menghadirkan fantasi-fantasi yang bisa membuat pembaca ikut larut, seolah berada di tengah gejolak perasaan para tokohnya. Nikmati beragam kisah yang menggoda imajinasi, penuh kejutan, sekaligus menghadirkan kepuasan batin bagi mereka yang berani membacanya. Jejak Hasrat—satu langkah untuk menelusuri jejak cinta dan gairah yang tak terlupakan.

I thought Christmas had already broken me. Betrayal, loss, and a miscarriage that shattered everything I’d built. So I did the only reckless thing a heart in ruins could do: closed my eyes, jabbed a finger at a map, and bought a ticket to wherever it landed. No plan. No hope. Just a wounded heart running from the wreckage. I wanted quiet. Snow. A place to breathe and heal. I found him instead. A man who feels too wild for this world, all heat and muscle and dark, hungry eyes. He kisses like he’s claiming something. Touches like he’s learning every secret my body holds. His strength borders on impossible. His presence, addictive. He calls me his naughty little Christmas gift. And every time he drags his mouth down my throat, I forget every reason I had to stay guarded. But the deeper I fall, the stranger things become. The room around him feels alive. The night listens when he speaks. His eyes flash with an animal glow that shouldn’t exist, and the sound he makes when he’s holding back, low, guttural, trembling the air between us doesn’t belong to any man. I should run. Ask questions. Save myself. But I’m far too gone. Even willing to be ruined by whatever he is. So I ignore the question whether I’m losing my mind, or whether the fear curling beneath the heat is real. And let him keep unwrapping me like the gift he thinks I am. Because whatever lives inside him…it’s the first thing that’s made me feel alive again.

Aku yang bekerja di unit rahasia ditugaskan oleh atasan untuk mengantarkan dokumen ke perusahaan kakak perempuanku. Begitu aku melangkah masuk ke kantornya, seorang pekerja magang menghalangi jalanku. "Kamu asisten baru itu?" Orang itu mengamatiku dari ujung kepala sampai ujung kaki, lalu akhirnya memfokuskan pandangannya pada dokumen di tanganku sebelum mencibir, "Kamu sudah mau jilat Bu Arabella di hari pertama kerja? Apa kamu bahkan nggak bercermin?" Pada saat ini, aku baru menyadari bahwa dia menganggapku sebagai saingan asmaranya. Namun, kakakku juga tidak pernah memberitahuku bahwa dia memiliki pacar. Sebelum aku bisa menjelaskan, sebuah tamparan keras sudah mendarat di wajahku. "Cuma aku yang boleh jadi asisten Bu Arabella! Jangan harap kamu bisa jadi pacarnya!" Dia menjambak rambutku dan menyiramkan teh panas ke wajahku. "Kamu masih begitu muda, tapi malah mau hidup dengan andalkan perempuan dan merayu wanita kaya? Hari ini, aku akan gantikan orang tuamu beri kamu pelajaran!" Aku meringkuk di lantai dan masih mati-matian melindungi map dokumen dengan tubuhku. Tindakan itu benar-benar membuatnya marah. Dia merebut map itu dan merobeknya hingga hancur di depan seluruh karyawan perusahaan. Dia bahkan dengan tidak malunya berkata kepada kakakku, "Bu Arabella, asisten barumu cukup bernyali dan mencoba merayumu. Tapi jangan khawatir, aku sudah beri dia pelajaran."

Since he left her without goodbye , she have to continue the journey of her life without him anymore. She have to continue without his smiles, their laughter, and specially his voice. She have to forget the whole him. She have to forget the man she want to spend her entire lifetime with. Ten years passed and she tried to forget him the way he forgotten her. Until one day, their roads will cross again. But the thing is, she's sure that it will never be the same. The wounds of yesterday still hurts everytime she look at his lovely purple eyes. Will she ever forgive him? Or she will just accept the past and move on?

After getting reborn, the first thing Holly Webster does is to spend five billion dollars on an island that's completely alienated from the rest of the world. The employee in charge of the procedures is flabbergasted, to say the least. After all, the particular island isn't well-known on the world map at all. Not only do people not know about its existence, but it's also excluded from the rest of the world. Not even the GPS navigation can form a route leading to it. "Are you sure you want to buy this island, Ms. Webster? If you choose to move onto this island and live there, it'll be difficult for you to keep in touch with the outside world." Holly nods immediately, her tone taking on a relieved edge. "That's exactly what I want. I don't want anyone to get in contact with me."

The Moon Goddess gave Lois a mission—kill Alpha Erika and end his blood-soaked reign. Lois was born with tattoos that carried the sacred map to the one weapon that could avenge the massacre of the Moonland Pack. Sent by the Moon Goddess herself, she was created for one purpose: To destroy the Alpha who dared to erase the descendants of the divine. But to reach him, she must first get through his son. And his son, King was everything she hated—until he became everything she couldn’t resist. As Lois uses King to get to Erika, she never expects to fall for the monster trapped inside him. Nor does she expect betrayal, exposure… and a child growing within her. Now hunted by her enemies and abandoned by the Goddess who once chose her, Lois must make an impossible choice: Save the man she was sent to kill or plunge the dagger into his heart before he loses control and destroys everything—including her.

They call it Area Alpha 101. It doesn’t appear on the world map or the satellites, but it’s rumoured to be there. It’s unofficially the largest continent on Earth, but the humans aren’t educated on it. Only the top shots in the governments and monarchies know about it, but have kept it a secret from everyone else. No-one answers questions regarding it. People have been quoted saying that they tried to get in, but they only hit a barrier. This barrier is said to be invisible, yet you can’t see what’s on the other side. For centuries, no-one has been able to get past the barrier, and those who try, come away ‘bewitched’, or so it has been reported. You know what the funny part about this is? There are literally signs that say “NO HUMANS ALLOWED” just a distance away from the ‘barrier’. You can imagine the insane theories that the human civilization has come up with in regards to what they imagine could be behind the barrier. The biggest guess as you yourself would probably guess is aliens; but that’s just it – NO-ONE knows what’s behind the barrier. Except me that is. Or so I thought.