Tante Rita

Natasha sudah menjalin hubungan selama 5 tahun dengan kekasihnya, tapi tiba-tiba saja Mamanya ingin menjodohkan dia dengan putra sahabatnya. Dia begitu shock ketika mengetahui jika pria yang akan dijodohkan dengannya adalah CEO di tempatnya bekerja, Leon Sagara, yang terkenal dingin, angkuh, berlidah tajam dan menyebalkan. Natasha ingin menolak, tapi dia tidak bisa. Dia tahu bisnis ayahnya sedang tidak baik-baik saja dan hanya Leon yang bisa membantunya. Terpaksa, dia putus dengan kekasihnya dan menikah dengan Leon. Sayangnya, mantan kekasih Leon tiba-tiba datang dan mengganggu rumah tangganya di saat dia sudah mulai membuka hati untuk Leon. "Kamu tahu Natasha? Setelah anak itu lahir, Leon akan menceraikanmu dan kembali padaku!" Akankah Natasha menyerah pada pernikahannya?

"Mas Bayu ada?" Tanya seorang wanita di depan pintu dengan angkuh. "Kamu siapa?" tanyaku. Wanita itu tidak menjawab, justru langsung masuk rumah tanpa dipersilahkan seolah ini rumahnya. Baru sebulan pernikahan ini dengan lelaki pilihan ibu tiri. Pagi ini, wanita itu datang yang membuat duniaku terasa mau runtuh. Pernikahan ini seperti sebuah permainan. Ibu tiri wanita itu dan suami sekongkol demi ambisi masing-masing. Mereka kira aku sudah mati. Aku kembali dengan wajah berbeda karena ingin membalaskan dendam atas kejadian malam yang hampir merenggut nyawaku. Inilah awal terungkapnya kenapa aku diselamatkan seseorang. Permainan balas dendam menjebak dalam dilema rasa cinta.

Suami yang disangka idaman oleh Nara ternyata sama sekali diluar dugaan. tanpa ia ketahui telah mendua atas perintah ibunya yang sedang sekarat di rumah sakit.

Mereka kompak mendukung pernikahan suamiku dengan wanita lain, diam-diam di rumah ibu mertua. Aku akan membalas mereka dengan pura-pura tidak tahu. Akan tiba waktunya, suami akan menyesali hingga tak ada maaf dariku. Aku tak akan meratapinya lagi.

My adopted sister, Rita Lawson, and I get ambushed by a rival family at the same time. But she pushes me away at the most critical juncture, leading to me getting kidnapped. After my kidnappers feed me poison, they leave me to rot in the wild. When I finally get home, I find out that Rita pretends to be poisoned, so my dad has already given her the only antidote. With tears streaking down her cheeks, Rita tells my parents that she's chosen to ingest poison for me, and yet I abandoned her and fled on my own. Of course, everyone believes her. My parents tell me, "Rita got poisoned just to protect you. You must transfer your businesses to her." My husband, Enrico Fulci, says to me, "Someone needs to take care of Rita. Let's get a divorce, Elisa." Even my own daughter, Ivana Fulci, asks me, "Mamma, when are you going to be as gentle and understanding as Zia Rita?" Faced with everyone's accusations, I drink a serum that I've bought from the black market in order to suppress the poison in my system. It can allow me to live like a regular person. But in return, the poison within me will erupt three days later, causing my instant death. Using the three days I have left, I hand my businesses, my husband, and my daughter over to Rita. Everyone is pleased, thinking that I've finally learned my place. But what they don't know is that Death will come for me after 72 hours.

Tinggal bersama tante dan seorang adik perempuan yang sama-sama hobi dandan membuatku merasa terasingkan. Bagaimana tidak, mereka sering kali kompak menyindirku, menganggap diriku tidak laku-laku gara-gara tidak memakai lipstik. Ditambah lagi, beberapa lelaki yang pernah mendekatiku justru lebih tertarik pada tante dan adikku. Tanteku berstatus janda, sementara adikku belum menikah. Alasanku tampil natural tanpa lipstik salah satunya untuk menemukan sosok lelaki yang tidak memandang fisik. Lantas, bisakah aku menemukan lelaki seperti itu di saat tante dan adikku jauh lebih menarik daripada aku?

My husband's protégé boasted she could disarm bombs blindfolded, relying on her so-called intuition. Her reckless misjudgment triggered a bomb's secondary detonation sequence, endangering an entire building. I intervened, using the dangerous liquid nitrogen condensation method to save the day. As a result, Rita Smith was removed from frontline duties and placed under investigation. Patrick Munoz tried to defend her, but I stopped him cold. "If you back her now, you won't just fail to save her. You'll be dragged down with her." Crushed by the pressure, Rita staged an accident that killed her, leaving a letter blaming him for abandoning her in her hour of need. He said nothing, only preserving her letter in his study. Years later, he became a nationally renowned bomb disposal expert. During a terrorist attack, I was strapped to a timed explosive. He arrived to defuse it but repeated Rita's fatal mistake. As the timer ticked down, he gave a bitter laugh. "Rita was just nervous back then. If I'd supported her, she'd be a hero today." The bomb detonated, leaving nothing of me behind. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the point when he tried to defend Rita. He didn't know that the building housed the nation's top-secret core server.

Inside the tattoo studio, Seth Jones let his fingertips trace the dip of Rita Searle's waist and move slowly up her spine. With a soft rustle, her dress slipped to her ankles. He stood over her, taking in the blood-red rose inked across her chest. They had been married for three years, and this was the anniversary gift he'd be giving her—999 roses tattooed into her skin. A broken sob scraped up Rita's throat. "Seth, it hurts… Please, stop…" Her tears splashed onto the back of his hand, but he only pressed the needle deeper, dragging it along until angry red welts marked her body. "Victor wanted those damn roses so he could give them to another woman, and that led to Tara falling off that cliff and ending up in a vegetative state. I'm just giving him what he wanted. You should be grateful." Lying on the cold tattoo table, Rita felt the chill spreading through her. Her eyes stung, weighed down by grief churning behind them. "Isn't it enough? You bought out Searle Group, you hung Victor over a cliff, and left him for the vultures. What else do you want from us?" Seth grabbed her by the throat and forced her chin up. "And isn't Tara innocent in all this? Rita, you and Victor destroyed her life. Don't you owe her for that?"

Mario Chandra tadinya adalah seorang selebriti fitness terkenal. Namun, sayang nasibnya naas sekali. Dia ditipu mantan istrinya hingga bangkrut. Seluruh harta benda miliknya disita lintah darat dan dipakai berfoya-foya oleh mantan istrinya sampai habis tak bersisa. Di tengah kondisinya yang serba sulit, salah satu mantan klien eksklusif di tempat fitness miliknya dulu menawarinya menjadi suami kontrak. Namanya Tante Inez, seorang janda kaya beranak satu. Akhirnya, Mario pun menerima tawaran itu.Bagaimana nasib Mario setelah kawin kontrak? Apakah hubungan Mario dan Tante Inez hanya sekedar status di atas kertas ataukah ada hasrat yang membara di antara keduanya? Ikuti kisah Mario dan Tante Inez, hanya di novel Suami Kontrak. Selamat membaca!

Rita gave up her life of luxury for love, hiding her billionaire roots to marry James, a humble farmer. But her fairy-tale romance soon turned into a nightmare of betrayal, abuse, and heartbreak. Forced to sign divorce papers, she vanished, taking with her a secret that could have changed everything. James thought he had moved on with the governor’s daughter, but his dream life crumbled when the truth about Linnet's past emerged. Stricken by regret, he discovers the shocking reality: Rita wasn’t the burden he believed her to be, she was the blessing he let slip away. Now, armed with newfound determination and desperation, James is chasing the woman he wronged, only to find Rita reborn as a powerful and untouchable force. As she thrives with the son he never knew, James must confront his failures and fight for the chance to rewrite their story. Can a shattered love be pieced back together, or is James too late to reclaim the life he destroyed?