My Lips Like Sugar My Lips Like Sugar

William Samsons MacRay, arsitek ternama yang nampaknya memiliki masalah tentang melakukan segalanya tepat waktu. Dia seorang pria matang, 37 tahun yang telat nikah karena sibuk membuat bangunan arsitektur menakjubkan di berbagai belahan dunia. Namun, kali ini kejadian naas dia dicopet dompetnya serta ketinggalan pesawat di bandara mempertemukan Will dengan Emmy Estelia Setiawan. Gadis imut berusia 22 tahun itu baru saja pulang ke Jakarta usai menyelesaikan pendidikan arsitekturnya di Harvard University. Dia membelikan Will secangkir kopi dan juga mengantar pulang pria matang itu dengan taksi bandara. Siapa sangka, Will adalah pemilik Fame Palette Artisans Co, tempat yang menerima Emmy bekerja via email saat masih di Amerika Serikat? Baru kali ini William merasa begitu tertarik dengan seorang gadis, dia membuat Emmy selalu bersamanya ke mana pun dia pergi bekerja di seluruh dunia; Berlin, Dublin, Maroko, Praha, Rotterdam, dll. Mereka pun menjadi sangat dekat sehingga memiliki hubungan spesial sugar daddy dan sugar babynya. Ketika benih-benih cinta itu tumbuh, orang tua Will malah menjodohkannya dengan Vanessa, puteri kolega mereka agar dia segera menikah. Beranikah William tetap memperjuangkan cintanya untuk gadis imut kesayangannya ataukah dia mencoba bersikap logis dan memupus hubungan berbeda usia yang jauh itu?

Aleeya Saraswati gadis yang berusia awal dua puluhan itu harus menghadapi pilihan yang sulit. Demi membayar pengobatan sang ibu yang semakin mahal itu, ia bekerja bersama sang ayah tiri di dalam sebuah kelab malam. Hingga suatu malam, pekerjaannya diketahui oleh Manggala Bimantara, dosennya sendiri. "Aku yang akan membiayai seluruh kebutuhan hidupmu, asal kau selalu bersamaku," adalah sebuah mantra sialan yang Manggala ucapkan. Sebuah kalimat yang akhirnya membuat Aleeya harus terjebak dalam hubungan gelap pria beristri itu.

Aku sugar baby. Well, aku tidak bangga tetapi aku juga tidak akan munafik dengan bilang aku tidak menikmatinya. Aku cukup menikmati semua perhatian yang aku dapatkan dari Dean, sugar daddy sekaligus dosenku. Hingga ... istrinya mengetahui hubungan kami. Perasaan bersalah yang semula hanya berupa titik kecil di benakku dengan cepat mencekikku. Tetapi ... Dean tidak pernah mau untuk melepaskanku. Saat ini aku juga sedang mengandung anaknya. Apa yang harus aku lakukan? Aku ingin memutuskan hubungan tetapi ... bagaimana dengan bayiku? Selain itu, akankah ada pria yang tulus menerima jika tahu masa laluku sebagai sugar baby?

I waited for my boyfriend for three hours at his birthday party. Sean Ziegler was supposed to show up dressed as the star of night. However, his secret lover, Josie Sullivan, called him to the hospital. She had pretended to sprain her ankle. There, she recorded a video of her and Sean kissing. In the heat of the moment, Sean stood up and pushed her against the door. But he was supposed to be paralyzed. “Sean, why haven’t you told Wendy that your legs are fine now?” “If she knows, she’ll pressure me to marry her. Seriously, who does she think she is? Wendy’s just a free maid. She’s not good enough to be my wife,” Sean said in a muffled voice. After that, he continued to kiss Josie intensely. Wearing the wedding dress I had designed, Josie looked provocatively into the camera. The video then ended with the sounds of them kissing. It turned out that Sean had been lying to me all along. I threw the cake that I made for him into the trash. Then, I texted my mom. [Mom, I’ll go on that blind date.]

Imagine my shock when I found out that my husband, a professor who had proudly embraced a childless life for half of his years, had an affair with one of his own students. She even had his six-year-old son. The day I planned to report him to the university, Zia Thompson came to my door with the child and knelt in front of me. "Maybe you and Zeke were in love once," she said. "But he's over forty now. Who doesn't want to have a child? A legacy?" "I don't need a title," she went on. "I can give up the child too. I just beg you, don't tear our family apart." I looked at my husband, who stood protectively in front of them. I felt terrifyingly calm. "Cut ties with them," I said, my voice flat, "or prepare to be reported to the university. You choose." Without a moment's hesitation, he tore the report letter into shreds. I thought that was his answer. But on the fifty-second night of a bed grown cold and a home echoing with silence, he still hadn't returned. Instead, I received news that Zia was pregnant again. She had graduated by then. The report I never sent no longer posed any threat to them. Zeke didn't bother to hide his fatigue and irritation anymore. "Treat Zia and the kids well," he said, "or keep living alone in that empty house. It's your choice." My heart was already a wasteland. "I have one more option," I said. "I choose divorce."

Aiko, wanita yang introvert, berpenampilan kurang menarik namun memiliki kemampuan design yang baik. Jatuh cinta pada COO-nya, Cleosa Nicolas Ivander. Aiko jatuh pada pesona pria tersebut, namun berulang kali pula hatinya dipatahkan olehnya. Aiko memilih menata ulang perasannya, berusaha melupakan Ivander dan berusaha mengubah penampilannya. Namun karena intensnya pertemuan 'tidak sengaja' antara Aiko dan Ivander. Ivander akhirnya menyadari bahwa dirinya telah jatuh pada aura tersembunyi yang dimiliki oleh Aiko. Apakah Aiko berhasil melupakan Ivander atau bahkan terperosok semakin dalam pada pusaran cinta Ivander?

Tidak mendapat kasih sayang orang tua, Callista memilih bekerja jadi sugar baby. Berharap bisa menemukan pria tua yang bisa mencintainya seperti seorang ayah. Karena itu juga dia bertemu Harvie Carlton, pria berusia tiga puluh tiga tahun yang dipaksa jadi ayah untuk keponakannya yang baru kehilangan kedua orang tuanya. Juga dipaksa untuk menikah secepatnya dan memberikan sang keponakan sosok seorang ibu. Bagaimana hubungan mutualisme antara dua individu yang sama-sama keras ini bisa dipertahankan?

Lalita hanya gadis biasa yang hidupnya lurus-lurus saja. Akan tetapi, setelah bertemu dengan Adrian Respati, kehidupannya berubah 180 derajat! Dengan surat perjanjian, salah satu pria terkaya sekaligus paling berbahaya di kotanya itu menariknya, hingga Lalita mempertaruhkan prinsip yang dipegang sejak dulu. “Berhenti,” mohon Lalita, "ini tidak benar." "Relax, beb. Jika kamu tidak menurut, kamu justru akan menerima konsekuensinya," bisik Adrian sambil menyeringai.

Lavender faced the ultimate betrayal after discovering that her fiancé, the man she loved most, had been using her all along. He had only dated her to seek revenge against her father and to claim everything her late mother had left her as a gift to his real fiancee. Devastated, Lavender lost everything she owned to him, and her family was plunged into dire poverty as a result. Heartbroken, she fled her past, running away from her disowned father and the agonizing pain. She dedicated her life to caring for the "blessings" her ex-fiancé had left behind. But just when Lavender thought she had found a measure of peace, everything starts falling apart again. Forced to reconcile with her ex, Lavender is torn—he is a changed man now, but to her, he remains an enemy. As her bottled-up emotions resurface, past cases reopening, and his persistent efforts to win back her affection intensify, how long can Lavender's hatred last? This book is part of a series but can be read as a standalone. Although reading this book will enlighten some parts of the second book "It Started With A Kiss". You can also find the second book on Goodnovel.

This will also be posted on Royal Road.A rundown hotel in the middle of Brazil, minimal staff, dim lighting, near no one, and nowhere. What brought these two here? A tall man clad in purple and a small clean-cut fellow with an unsettling grin. What could've led them there?