The Little Man Who Wasn't There

"Apakah dengan tidur bersamamu, aku bisa melupakan rasa sakit karena patah hati, Mr. Vandara?" Aline bertanya dengan nada lirih. "Aku akan memberikanmu yang terbaik di ranjang. Kau akan bisa melupakan pria itu." Darmo Vandara berucap mantap. Digenggam kedua tangan Aline. "Hanya akan ada seks. Tidak melibatkan perasaan apa pun. Aku tidak bisa menjanjikan cinta untukmu, Mr. Vandara. Aku tidak pernah menyukaimu." "Tapi, kau akan membutuhkanku di tempat tidur untuk memberikanmu kepuasaan seksual." Darmo Vandara mempererat tautan jari tangan mereka. "Kau akan tergantung padaku. Hanya aku yang bisa melakukannya untukmu, Aline." Darmo kian mantap berbicara. Semakin bertekad juga dalam membuktikan kata-katanya. …………………... Darmo Vandara sudah menyukai Aline Whitney bahkan sebelum wanita itu bekerja di perusahaannya. Harta berlimpah dan status sebagai pengusaha muda kaya di New York, tak membuat Aline bisa mencintai balik dirinya. Darmo memilih menunjukkan sikap egois dengan menyingkirkan semua pria mendekati wanita itu. Hanya ia seorang yang bisa memiliki Aline. Dan, ketika wanita itu mengalami patah hati, Darmo menawarkan tidur bersama sebagai bentuk pelampiasan. Idenya pun disetujui oleh Aline. Darmo Vandara memberikan kepuasaan yang bisa membuat Aline semakin dekat dengan dirinya. Ia terus berupaya memenangkan hati wanita itu. Akankah berakhir pada sebuah ikatan yang sakral? …………….

Athur Paker, seorang mahasiswa sekaligus ceo di perusahaan ternama di dunia yang memiliki sifat dingin. Dia lelaki yang sangat ahli dalam bermain pisau, dia juga lelaki yang suka dengan darah. Sehari saja dia tidak bermain dengan darah maka nafasnya akan sesak dan tubuhnya akan melemas. Namun saat bertemu dengan Shena, dia langsung tertarik dengan gadis itu, gadis yang cantik dan manis yang sangat ceria. Shena yang sama sekali tidak tertarik dengan pacaran, menolak Athur mentah-mentah saat laki-laki itu mengajaknya pacaran. Namun bukan Athur namanya kalau tidak bisa mendapatkan apa yang dia inginkan, dia memaksa Shena untuk menjadi miliknya, walaupun Shena tidak menginginkannya sama sekali. Shena yang awalnya hidup baik-baik saja, berubah menjadi sangat rumit karena kehadiran Athur si psikopat tersebut. Dia tidak bisa lari dan tidak bisa pergi dari Athur. Namun siapa sangka mereka berdua dulu adalah teman kecil? Apa yang akan terjadi jika Shena tau Athur adalah teman kecilnya? Masalah apa yang akan Shena dapatkan setelah mengetahui semua tentang Athur?

For ten years, Kim Danielson loved Nathan Pearce. But when she finally became his wife, he made one thing clear—he could never love her back. She spent two years chasing an emotionless man and fighting for his attention, which left her heartbroken and exhausted, turning her love into bitter resentment. Determined to reclaim her happiness, Kim demands a divorce. But Nathan refuses to let her go. Just as Nathan starts to soften toward her, his first love returns, ready to take her rightful place by his side. At the same time, Kim’s old friend, Giovanni Ferraro, steps in, offering her the love and devotion Nathan couldn't give her. Caught between a man who will never love her and one who’s ready to give her the world, Kim faces an impossible choice—fight for the marriage she built on pain or embrace a future filled with passion with Giovanni Ferraro.

Bagi Rezal Mahesa, masih melajang di usia 32 tahun bukanlah sesuatu yang memalukan. Dia sudah nyaman hidup mulus tanpa lika-liku percintaan yang memuakkan. Pekerjaan yang menjanjikan seharusnya bisa membuatnya berpikir tentang indahnya sebuah rumah tangga. Namun Rezal tidak berniat untuk mencari dan memilih untuk menunggu, membiarkan Tuhan yang menjalankan skenario indah untuk hidupnya. Sampai akhirnya muncul gadis muda yang merupakan mahasiswa magang di kantornya. Meskipun ragu, tapi batu besar di hati Rezal perlahan mulai terkikis. Sikap Naya yang unik, konyol, dan dewasa di satu waktu berhasil membuat hatinya menghangat. Apa Rezal harus menyiapkan gedung pernikahan mulai dari sekarang? *** Viallynn

Elsa Putri menikah pada usia 16 tahun, dengan seorang pria yang 11 tahun lebih tua darinya. Elsa tidak mengerti cinta, namun dia merasa tidak rela ketika pria yang seharusnya menjadi miliknya ternyata telah menjadi milik orang lain. Ketika perasaan mereka menjadi tidak menentu, Elsa menemukan dirinya hamil. Hamil di usia 16 tahun. ~~~ A novel by Asia July. Cover edited in Photoshop. Pic from Unsplash - Jerry Wang

Calista Sommers is living her perfectly beautiful life. She's seen by everybody as the ideal good girl, until she met Asher Montgomery, the exact opposite of her 'perfect' personality, who not only brought extra colors and excitements to her life but also sorrow, heartbreak, and despair. When they parted after their high school love ended, they met again after several years. This time, it’s up for destiny to decide if they are truly meant to be, or should they just let go. “Like a drug you messed with my head, a constant battle whether i should remember or forget. Goodbyes after repeated meetings, repetitions of broken hearts, why do we bother with love if it never lasts?”

I was the belle of the school, good grades and all. But I wasn't the nerd they thought I was. I had been secretly dating my adopted brother's sworn enemy for three years. Lucian Palma had a strong desire for intimacy, so I went along with him in unlocking countless places to make love. He promised that he would marry me after graduation. Once he took over the family business from his wealthy father, he would make me the happiest woman alive. I believed him, even indulging him in his kink of recording us sleeping together. Lucian assured me that those videos were for his eyes only, and that no one else would ever see them. But then, I accidentally overheard a conversation between Lucian and his friends. "Lucian, you had deliberately staged a hero saving the damsel in distress situation to make Nina Etienne fall for you, all just to get it back at your archnemesis, Aaron North. If he found out his little sister had been sleeping with you, wouldn't it kill him with rage? "You've filmed hundreds of intimate videos, haven't you? When do you plan to release them? We'd love to see the nerd stripped bare under you." I didn't confront him about this. Instead, I quietly walked away and agreed to meet the fiance my father had arranged for me.

For four years I was his secretary, and for four years I warmed his bed. I knew everything, from his family business to the secrets he whispered to me at night. But to him, I was nothing more than a toy he could summon whenever he pleased. The moment his first love, Sofia Costa, flew back into the country, he humiliated me without a second thought. He kissed her in a Sicilian church, abandoned me on a rain-soaked road with a gash ten inches long on my calf, and later dismissed me with a cold, cutting line. He said I was someone unimportant, someone he could simply ignore. She waved the tulip plush he'd given her in front of me. "I'm the only one he loves. You were just a stand-in." While I rebuilt my life in Chicago and finally found some peace, this ruthless Mafia don knelt outside my door, eyes red with emotion. "Elena, come back to me." I kicked his hand away with a smile. "Your so-called devotion disgusts me."

Louis is a little, she’s a shy little thing that goes to a local High school, she doesn’t have many friends, except for the online ones. She met someone special on her seventeenth B-day. Rebbeca is a clothes designer and owner of her own company, she’s a mommy with no little until she met someone in the most unexpected ways. Will their relation be anything in real life like it was online?This is an MDLG story, there isn’t much of them so here’s an extra one.Apologies for any misspelling and grammar mistakes.

I had just gotten home when a parent in my son’s class group chat erupted: [Ms. Zinn, what kind of place are you running? Do you let just any random stray off the street become a teacher?] [My daughter came home, grabbed two forks, and tried to jump off the balcony. She said it was Miss Never who told her to!] The homeroom teacher panicked and denied it at once, insisting there was no such person as Miss Never at the kindergarten. She even posted the official teaching schedule in the chat to prove it. On the security footage, there was not a single trace of this so-called Miss Never. However, later, my son whispered to me in secret, “Mom, Miss Never is an old lady with a cat’s face.” “She says only kids can see her.”