Warna Wait

"Aku benci wanita seumur hidupku. Dan kalian semua adalah saksi dari ucapanku!" Terucapnya sebuah sumpah empat tahun silam juga merupakan awal mulai berubahnya sikap Deondra. Dia yang awalnya ceria, penuh warna dan selalu menebarkan kebaikan. Kini berubah drastis hanya karena sebuah pengkhianatan. *** Di empat tahun kemudian, seorang wanita yang menjadi pelayan baru di rumahnya membuat Deondra sedikit terusik. Seakan ada yang menariknya untuk memiliki, hingga tanpa sadar rasa cintanya timbul. Tapi Deondra tak pernah mau mengakui itu, bahkan rasa bersalahnya pun tak tampak di saat dia dengan sengaja menodai pelayan itu. Alrix menundukkan kepalanya. "Maafkan saya, Tuan Muda. Saya akan memecatnya!" "Untuk apa lagi? Perbuatanmu itu tak bisa membuat rasa kesalku hilang!" "Lalu apa yang anda ingin saya lakukan, Tuan?" Akhirnya bertanya, hal yang bisa Alrix lakukan jika sudah tak bisa menenangkan pikiran dan emosi Deondra. "Biarkan saja dia." Alrix tersentak, menatap kearah Tuannya yang tengah tersenyum sinis. "Dia akan menjadi mainan yang bagus untukku. Karena menurut pandanganku, wajahnya cukup menarik juga." Mampukah Deondra menjadikan pelayan itu sebagai mainan? Atau justru Deondra yang harus bertekuk lutut di bawah kakinya demi mengharapkan maaf dan juga cinta? Karena Deondra akhirnya menyadari bahwa pelayan itu bukanlah gadis biasa. Bagaimana kisahnya? Simak di sini.

“ … Jadi, Deltha Lunar, pilihan untukmu adalah antara me-reject mate-mu lalu hidup normal kembali tak peduli apa yang akan kami perbuat pada mate-mu, atau kami menahan mate-mu sebagai tawanan pack dan membuangmu dari pack ini,” tutur Andin.Lunar tahu, dari kedua pilihan itu sama sekali tidak ada yang menguntungkannya. Apa kah ia salah jika ia menginginkan hidup bersama mate-nya? Lunar tak tahu mengapa garis hidupnya bisa sepelik ini. Berawal dari ia yang tak dianggap oleh ayah dan kakak angkatnya, lalu ia yang diberikan pilihan yang keduanya sama-sama berakhir dengan perpisahan keduanya.“Aku tidak akan menyalahkan takdir hanya karena jalan hidupku rumit. Semua butuh proses, permata tidak akan menjadi berharga jika ia tidak melewati proses pengasahan dalam hidupnya.” Setidaknya, begitulah yang selalu Lunar yakini.Ia percaya, selalu ada pelangi setelah hujan. Selalu ada warna setelah badai menghadang, dan selalu ada kebahagian yang di awali dengan kesedihan. Dirinya hanya harus bisa menerima apa yang sudah menjadi garis takdirnya dan tak banyak mengeluh akan hal itu.Life goes on. Hidup terus berjalan tak peduli bagaimana hidup mempermainkanmu. Yang bisa kau lakukan hanya menikmatinya sebisamu. Kau boleh lelah. Jika lelah, maka yang bisa kau lakukan adalah istirahat sejenak. Lalu setelah itu, bangkit lah dan mulai tata kembali hidupmu.

Liburan semester seharusnya menjadi waktu bagi Alea Kirana untuk bersantai, tapi sebagai mahasiswi DKV yang ambisius, ia justru disibukkan dengan persiapan Dies Natalis kampusnya. Di tengah hiruk-pikuk acara yang meriah, takdir mempermainkannya. Dalam insiden tak terduga, ia menabrak seorang pria di koridor kampus, menumpahkan kopi ke jas mahalnya. Pria itu bukan sembarang orang, melainkan Alden Dirgantara, CEO muda yang sukses, alumni yang menjadi kebanggaan universitas, dan sosok yang dikabarkan dingin dan tak tersentuh. Kejadian memalukan itu seharusnya menjadi yang terakhir, namun ternyata hanya permulaan. Alden, yang terkesan dengan presentasi Alea, menawarkan posisi magang di perusahaannya. Alea terpaksa menerima, membawa dirinya dari dunia kampus yang penuh warna ke lingkungan kantor yang serba kaku. Di sana, ia harus berhadapan dengan rekan kerja yang kompetitif dan rumor yang beredar tentang hubungannya dengan sang CEO. Seiring waktu, Alea perlahan melihat sisi lain dari Alden, sisi yang lebih hangat dan protektif yang tersembunyi di balik citra dinginnya. Batasan antara profesionalisme dan perasaan mulai kabur. Namun, saat hubungan mereka semakin dalam, masa lalu Alden dan intrik di perusahaan mengancam untuk menghancurkan segalanya. Mampukah Alea bertahan di dunia korporat yang asing dan membuka hati Alden yang tertutup? Atau akankah magang ini hanya menjadi sebuah pelajaran tentang jatuh cinta yang berakhir?

After I started working at the zoo, I was added to a group chat called “A Hundred Ways to Kill a Human.” Every member had an animal as their profile picture. At first, I thought it was some quirky staff group. I even found it kind of cute. That was, until I realized they were discussing how to eat me. Pedro the Parrot: [The new human has beautiful eyes. I can’t wait till Christmas. I want to peck them out right now!] George the Gorilla: [Relax. There’ll be many visitors during Christmas. We’ll have more eyeballs than we can eat! Also, I’m calling dibs on her thigh.] Thor the Tiger: [Nobody’s taking her head, right? That’s mine.] Tucker the Elephant: [I’m a vegetarian, but I can crush her bones to dust.]

Blurb: Meeting her ex-lover is something that is never on Dhea's wish list. If she could hope, her ex lived in another world. However, who would have thought that one day she accidentally met Radit, her ex-lover, and that meeting made her trapped in a fake relationship with Hannan, who pretended to be her lover in front of Radit. Dhea was initially grateful that Hannan had helped her but soon understood when that man sent a signal that led to the one hot night they had afterward. Until one day they accidentally meet and Hannan offers a relationship that Dhea agrees to which turns out to make her a girl who must follow all of Hannan's dominant wishes. Will they be able to feel the seeds of true love from this relationship, when Dhea doesn't realize it? Can Hannan wait patiently for the submissive until finally his love is met?

The Empire rules on the wings of dragons. Riders are hand-selected for training from childhood, and Anzi is one of the rare few who wait to hatch theirs this year. Until she discovers the terrible truth that the dragon riders are not partners with their dragons: they're slavers. The dragons are bred in captivity and enslaved from within the egg, and they are nothing but mindless shadows of what their once-noble species used to be. After two hundred years, the surviving dragons in the wild are coming back to rescue their brethren. How they survived the Purge, no one knows, but they are angry and they are coming, in fire and in storm. And as she struggles to come to terms with the realization that the nation she loves so much that she would give her life for it may be nothing more than propaganda and illusion, she discovers something else: The dragons who survived the Purge are shifters, able to hide in human form. And Anzi has met one of them already. Her mate.

Sold to the cruelest alpha king of all times by her step-father, she accepts her fate. Once she gives the cursed alpha king a son, she will be set free. But what she doesn't expect is, the alpha king is her mate. The sad part is, he doesn't know it. That she can wait, believing the alpha king will realize the bond sooner or later. But one day she finds that she's nothing but a tool to him. Heartbroken, she runs with her unborn baby. The cold and domineering alpha king realizes his true feelings for her and regrets his indifference to her love. He swears to find her and take her back no matter what. Will the alpha king find his mate and recognize his baby? How will the cruel and cold alpha king chase her back, now a single mother sought by many alphas?

After working five years as Ethan Moore's ghost architect, he once again handed off the position of the project lead to someone else. As usual, he dangled the carrot in my face. “Think about the bigger picture, Arya. Just wait a little longer. Until the firm’s next round of funding, and we get listed on the stock market, I promise I’ll make you the lead architect of the next project…” When I was twenty-one, I was a fool who willingly staked everything in an uncertain future with him. Now, I am twenty-eight. Years of waiting and endless revisions of blueprints had whittled away all the love and courage I once had. I packed up my portfolio and gave up on my lifelong dream of becoming an architect in Manhattan. I gave up on him as well. I’m not waiting anymore, Ethan.

Eugene Lloyd is known all over Swanford as a wife-obsessed maniac—everyone says he loves Jacklyn Stinson with quiet, unwavering devotion. At first, Jacklyn believes it, too… until the day she discovers Eugene is cheating—and with her own sister! It hits her like a bucket of ice water, dousing every bit of passion she once had for him. Jacklyn plots her revenge. She drains Eugene's assets, then contacts her best friend to stage her death. It's time to destroy the cheating scum and his shameless lover! Afterward, Jacklyn thinks she'll never love again. But on the night before her staged death, Swanford's so-called prince, Liam Robertson, corners her against the wall. Years of silent yearning finally boil over, and his voice trembles as he looks at her. "Will you consider me instead? I'll wait for you!"

Draven Douglas is finishing his last year as Headmaster of NightShade Academy. Once the school year is over, he will take over as Alpha from his father. However, before he can take his rightful place, he must find a Luna. If he can't find his fated mate, he will have to take a chosen one. Something he doesn't want to do. When a group of transfers students arrive after their school burns down, he realizes quickly that his fated mate is among them. She isn't aware because she hasn't yet turned eighteen. He will have to wait out the three weeks before he can reveal himself as her mate. However, her aunt refuses to allow her to be happy, and will do whatever it takes to keep her from finding it. Even if it includes murder.