Tempat Chill Terdekat

Aku adalah seorang wanita muda yang baru menikah. Hari itu, adikku datang kepadaku sambil menangis, mengatakan bahwa saat dia sedang melakukan pijat relaksasi di sebuah tempat spa, dia diperkosa oleh seorang terapis pria. Karena tidak memiliki bukti, pria itu bisa lolos tanpa hukuman. Maka aku memutuskan untuk turun tangan sendiri, pergi menggoda terapis itu demi mendapatkan bukti baru...

Saat aku bangun dari tempat tidur Ashton, dia dengan malas menyerahkan celana dalam kepadaku dan berkata, "Aku sudah ganti kata sandi pintu. Kelak, jangan datang lagi kecuali benar-benar perlu." Aku terkejut dan secara naluriah bertanya, "Kenapa?" Dia tersenyum sambil menjawab, "Dia setuju untuk jadi pacarku kemarin. Aku takut dia melihatmu dan akan marah. Aku sudah mengejarnya begitu lama."

After the Ig publication S.H.I.T Journal goes viral, I search its website out of curiosity. The satirical journal bills itself as a home for all things academic garbage. The moment I open the site, the top trending article catches my attention. It reads, "A Research on How to Deceive a Gullible Foster Mother With Face Blindness and Trick Her into Raising Me as Her Biological Daughter for Twelve Years". "Keywords: deception, face blindness, self-delusion, false family bonds" I freeze and click into the full article with trembling fingers. The more I read, the more terrified I become. "1.1 Definition of face blindness and how to swap daughters to deceive the foster mother" "2.1 Practical uses and drawbacks of the foster mother" "3.1 How to profit by exploiting the foster mother through her face blindness" The content sends a chill through my entire body. The comment section is already in chaos. "Does this mean the author is actually the daughter of the mistress, and her father swapped her to be raised by his wife for twelve years?" "That's not all. Didn't you read 2.1? The wife had her own daughter, and the husband deliberately handed her over to traffickers!" "What the hell… In 3.1, it even says that because the wife has face blindness and can't tell people apart, the author makes deals with single fathers of classmates and sends the wife to…" At that point, my phone slips from my hand and crashes to the ground. The screen shatters instantly. I have severe face blindness, and I have a daughter who was kidnapped and only found again after three years.

Late one night after getting off work, I was scrolling through my company group chat when a colleague shared a piece of news. The headline was horrifying. "Night-Shift Courier Murdered During Delivery, Police Suspect Robbery." I zoomed in on the crime scene photo that had been partially pixelated, and a chill ran straight down my spine. Lying in a pool of blood, the courier who had been hacked to death was unmistakably me. I had scrolled into news of my own death. Almost at the same time, my delivery app began vibrating violently. "Urgent pickup! Destination: Unit 704 Hawthorne Ridge Apartments, Building 7. Time limit: 15 minutes. Penalty for timeout: Death." As I stared at the notification that read "Pickup failed three times", the searing pain of my brutal death surged through my body. So that was it. I had already died three times. When I forced open the half-closed security door of 704 for the fourth time, a thin delivery envelope lay quietly inside. I tore it open. A photograph slipped out. It was a picture of my dismembered body. The timestamp showed tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. On the back was a single line written in fresh blood: "Next time, remember to pick it up on time." At that moment, the red indicator light on the hallway surveillance camera suddenly went dark. I looked up. From the ventilation opening in the exact same spot, a single eye was staring straight at me. The mole at the corner of that eye was identical to mine.

"Are not you going to spread these pretty legs for me like you did before on our first night?"- his dark eyes spoke as those venomous words fell from his mouth tearing my heart into million pieces, his eyes roaming on my half body ditching every shame. I still didn't make any move, only stood there like a statue, clutching my hands on cloths as if my life depend on it and indeed it was, my eyes again and again filled with tears as I blinked them away, he took his steps closer to me, " What are not my little obedient ?" he again asked , his lucid stare burning my entire being, a smirk making its way onto his lips. His eyes sparkled seeing the uneasiness in my eyes, he loves to witness of my tear, my pain as if it satisfy his inner self, he was a monster in a human form. The chill runs down in her spine, she was feeling her legs are getting weak, he held her jaw roughly with his left hand and pressed himself on her core making her scream in fear, "Ryan..Please..." I try to plead, came it out at whisper, before I can say anything he threw my body on the soft couch bouncing leaving my mind numb, as I heard him spoke "Take off your cloths before I lost my each and every sanity, and believe me if I took lead you will done with your this life." *************** Mature content ahead.

Ava is the daughter of Alpha Jack of the Blood Moon Pack. She had always been living the life of a princess until her mother died, and her father remarried. Life became a daily torture for her, and things grew worse when she got a weak wolf after shifting for the first time. Ava stopped from being a princess to a slave in her father's pack, but what happens when the moon goddess decided to smile on her by blessing her with a mate, not just one but three? And what happens when she's forced to choose between them? ——— “Wait, did I hear you guys address my mate as yours?” He turned to his brothers, who didn't bother taking their eyes away from me. “We are mated to her brother too, so chill, please.” His eyes landed on my chest, and I felt crimson washing over my face. “There's no way that is happening!” “I'm sorry brother, but we can't do anything about this. It's either you are in or you are out. Choose one, the choice is yours.” The one who was quite broader than the rest uttered in a boring tone. “I'm sure she might want to choose whom to be her mate between us. Because I saw how affected she was when she realized you three were also her mates.” Alpha Dawson said coldly, and fear gripped me, realizing what he meant.

Hana Sullivan tiba-tiba didepak secara tidak adil dari perusahaannya. Merasa frustrasi, Hana kemudian mabuk-mabukan dan meracau ke pria yang ditemuinya di bar tentang masalahnya. Siapa sangka, pria yang menjadi sasaran curhatnya adalah Mahendra Hastungkoro, seorang direktur rumah sakit tempat adik Hana dirawat! Yang lebih mengejutkan lagi, pria itu tiba-tiba menyodorkan kontrak kerja untuk menjadi istrinya?!

Menjadi perempuan dan istri yang nyaris sempurna, ternyata tak membuat Kinar mendapatkan segalanya. Suami yang harusnya menjadi tempat bersandar, nyatanya menjadi orang yang paling banyak menorehkan luka. Pengkhianatan demi pengkhianatan terus saja terulang. Hingga puncaknya sahabat dan suaminya sendiri yang menikamnya dari belakang. Akankah kali ini Kinar memaafkan? atau justru dia akan menuntut balas?

Briana yang pernikahan pertamanya kandas karena ulah orang ketiga, kembali dipertemukan dengan Theo. Pria berambut ikal yang ia pikir akan menjadi pelabuhan hati terakhirnya. Sayangnya, status janda yang disandangnya menjadi penghalang hubungan keduanya. Tak disangka, pertemuannya dengan Devano CEO di tempat kerja barunya mengantarkan Briana mengarungi kisah cinta baru yang tak pernah ia sangka.

Bagaimana jika pria menyebalkan yang disukai tetapi juga dibenci karena sikapnya yang arogan, ternyata adalah bos di tempat kerja barunya? Sanggupkah Eve melalui masa magang di sana ketika Gery—sang bos—terus mencari-cari kesalahan untuk memecatnya? Lantas, bagaimana bila alur kehidupan malah membawa mereka pada perjodohan? Bisakah keduanya bersatu atau malah timbul percekcokan tanpa batas?