Never Say Goodbye Novel

Siapa yang mampu bertahan ketika suami hadirkan perempuan kedua yang tengah mengandung anaknya bahkan sebelum pernikahan itu terjadi? Adakah kebahagiaan bagi seorang istri yang tinggal bersama madunya, sementara suami pilih kasih karena dia lebih seksi dan memesona? Itulah yang dirasakan Ardina. Ada dua pilihan yang membuatnya dilema. Harus bertahan untuk balas dendam atau mengalah dan menjadi pecundang.

Menjadi mafia sekaligus Bodyguard, bukanlah pilihan. Tapi itulah yang harus dilakoni cewek androgini bertampang dingin, bernama Drupadi. Mengawal seorang CEO tampan, yang jatuh cinta padanya, juga hal tersulit. Karena penolakan dan restu adalah tantangan bagi cinta mereka. Di lain sisi, ada dendam yang harus dituntaskan. ******* "Letakan pisau itu, jangan bodoh Kendra !" teriak Drupadi melihat Kendra yang meniru dirinya dengan meletakan pisau di lehernya sendiri. "kalau kau mau mati, mari kita pergi bersama," balas Kendra menatap Bodyguard sekaligus wanita yang dicintainya.

jangan mengantung kan harapan ketika tidak bisa di lakukan jangan berjanji ketika jadi pengecut yang tidak bisa menepati janji bertahan bukan menetap tapi bertahan pilihan

I tried to die a hundred times to make him notice me. For two years, I was Shawn Scott’s wife in name only—an unwanted bride bound by a scandal, left to live in the shadow of another woman. My parents only saw my faults. My husband only saw my mistakes. As for me? I saw no way out. Every time I tried to end it, I’d wake up again, bruised and humiliated. I was greeted not with concern, but accusations such as "Why are you so selfish, Zoe Jennings?" or "Why can’t you be more like your sister Yvonne?" It wasn’t until my hundredth suicide attempt that I finally understood: I was the only one fighting for a love that never existed. So, I stopped. I walked away. I disappeared. I gave them what they wanted—my absence. However, when I left, the man who never looked at me twice started chasing the ghost of the woman he thought he knew. By the time he realized what he truly lost, I was already learning how to live again.

“Will you marry me?” he asked on a knee, but it wasn't the question that shocked me; rather, it was the location. This was a damn BURIAL! Nina receives the greatest shock of her life as she sees her distant friend on his knees proposing to her at their best friend’s funeral—a huge slap to his face. But it just didn't end there; as Nina tries to uncover the secret behind her best friend's death, she gets entangled and starts to play the deadly game, with every one of her actions being watched. How is she going to ever make it out of this one?

“Mas… pelan-pelan…” Desahan Gendis adalah suara yang menghancurkan semua etika profesional Rain, seorang Psikolog Reproduksi yang bersumpah untuk menyembuhkan, bukan memiliki. Rain adalah pria yang terlalu lama menahan diri, dan Gendis adalah fantasi terlarang yang akhirnya ia klaim melalui sesi cinta terlarang. Namun, kebahagiaan itu rapuh, sebab Rain menyembunyikan sisi tergelap yang jauh lebih berbahaya dari pelanggaran profesi. Kini, ketika Gendis ingin dimiliki seutuhnya, Rain harus berjuang menjaga rahasia mematikannya agar wanita yang ia cintai tidak lari dari monster yang telah ia ciptakan.

Her name was Cathedra. Leave her last name blank, if you will. Where normal people would read, "And they lived happily ever after," at the end of every fairy tale story, she could see something else. Three different things. Three words: Lies, lies, lies. A picture that moves. And a plea: Please tell them the truth. All her life she dedicated herself to becoming a writer and telling the world what was being shown in that moving picture. To expose the lies in the fairy tales everyone in the world has come to know. No one believed her. No one ever did. She was branded as a liar, a freak with too much imagination, and an orphan who only told tall tales to get attention. She was shunned away by society. Loveless. Friendless. As she wrote "The End" to her novels that contained all she knew about the truth inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, she also decided to end her pathetic life and be free from all the burdens she had to bear alone. Instead of dying, she found herself blessed with a second life inside the fairy tale novels she wrote, and living the life she wished she had with the characters she considered as the only friends she had in the world she left behind. Cathedra was happy until she realized that an ominous presence lurks within her stories. One that wanted to kill her to silence the only one who knew the truth.

"Vee bangun! Aku akan memperkenalkan pengawal barumu," kata ayah. Aku bangun dan menatapnya, meskipun aku masih mengantuk. "Apa? Pengawal lagi? Aku baru saja bilang aku tidak menginginkan semua itu! Itu menyebalkan—" Aku terhenti ketika seorang pria tampan memasuki kamarku tanpa diduga. "Bisakah kau memberitahuku siapa dia?" "Vee, perkenalkan James Villianuevva, pengawal barumu." "Kamu serius, ayah? Ini bodyguard baruku?" "Aku yakin kamu akan menikmatinya; kamu akan cocok dengannya, terutama dalam hal belanja dan makeup—" Aku menggelengkan kepala dan bergumam, "Ya Tuhan, hanya wanita yang suka berbelanja dan merias wajah." "Aku gay," kataku, rahangku ternganga mendengar berita itu. Apa? Gay? Apa, pengawal gay? Itu gila...

As I took my newborn daughter from the nurse, I heard the voice of the baby in the next bed echoing in my head. “Don’t take her, Mommy. I’m your real baby!” The doctor and nurses did not seem to hear a thing. I thought I was hallucinating due to my fatigue, so I continued nursing my baby girl. “How dare you cry, you burdensome wretch? I’ll pinch you if you keep crying!” The baby’s grandmother picked him up and walked outside, but the voice came again, crying, “The mean old lady is taking me away. Mommy, look over here quickly! Look at the birthmark on my left ear!” I froze. My first child, who had died in an accident, had a birthmark on his left ear.

Richard Allan alias Richie (38 tahun) – seorang pembunuh bayaran diasingkan ke sebuah desa kecil di selatan Amerika setelah memergoki boss-nya berselingkuh. Dalam pengasingannya itu Richie berkenalan dengan Patricia Carol alias Patty (19 tahun) – seorang pelayan bar. Patty yang masih belia terpana dengan ketampanan dan kejantanan Richie. Hingga gadis itupun dengan mudah merelakan dirinya jatuh dalam pelukan Richie. Hari-hari mereka pun dipenuhi dengan adegan percintaan yang panas. Sampai akhirnya sebuah fakta terungkap, bahwa Patty harus dia bunuh untuk bisa membalaskan dendam atas pembataian keluarganya belasan tahun lalu. "Patty, seandainya kau memilih kematian dan aku, mana yang akan kau pilih?” tanya Richie dengan tangan gemetar, ragu untuk menarik pelatuk di tangannya. "Kematian! Karena lebih menyakitkan mencintaimu daripada menghadapi maut!” jawab Patty berucap tegas, setegas tatapannya. Pertarungan antara cinta dan dendam, manakah yang akan menang? Follow : @caffeinated_writer88