When Your Mother Doesn't

Seraphina Blackwood discovered the truth on an ordinary Thursday. After years of predawn breakfasts and midnight work sessions, after countless school plays and bedtime stories, her eight year old son had chosen someone else to call family. The other woman had been there all along, slowly taking her place while Sera kept their household afloat. In the courtroom, facing a battle she could win but would destroy her son to fight, Sera did the unthinkable. She gave them everything they wanted. The perfect house. The perfect custody arrangement. The perfect life without her. But when a devoted mother walks away with nothing but her mother's old painting, when she stops fighting for what was taken and starts building something entirely her own, the world had better pay attention. Because some women don't break when they lose everything, because sometimes the only way forward is to allow it all burn down and see what rises from the ashes.

[21+] WARNING!! AREA KHUSUS DEWASA! Lynea Stefanson tidak berdaya ketika sebuah warisan memaksanya menjadi istri dari Tuan Muda bernama Enrico De Luca. Bagi lelaki yang dijuluki “The Heartless Player” itu, wanita seperti Lynea sangat tidak pantas untuk dilihat apalagi dinikahi dan menjadi ibu dari anaknya kelak. Demi bisa membuat Lynea mampu melayani dirinya dengan baik, Enrico sampai mendatangkan wanita penghibur untuk mengajarkan bagaimana memuaskan seorang lelaki. Lebih dari itu semua, terperangkap dalam pernikahan tanpa cinta dan perebutan kekuasaan serta warisan di antara para milyader konglomerat dunia hitam telah membuatnya sulit untuk bernapas. Mempertanyakan kembali apakah inti dari sebuah kebahagiaan dan harapan? Di saat masing-masing memiliki kekasih hati namun keduanya terperangkap dalam sebuah pernikahan, kemana sinar mentari akan membawa akhir kisah ini? Mungkinkah cinta timbul di antara dua pribadi yang saling membenci? “Hatiku tidak pernah mendapat perawatan yang lebih baik dari sentuhan cintamu.” “Bukankah cintaku tak pernah cukup untuk duniamu yang begitu tak berbatas?” *****

Reza tidak pernah menyangka jika dirinya akan menerima penghianat dari lelaki yang telah ia kenal lebih dari delapan tahun yang lalu dan kini telah menjadi suaminya. Wanita itu tiba-tiba datang saat Reza telah resmi menjadi istri sah dari Bagas, lalu siapakah wanita itu? Benarkah wanita itu adalah simpanan Bagas?

Prior to that day, she had never been so hopeless in her life. In any case, when she was in the most humiliating circumstance, the nonsensical man she met ended up being the legend of M city. He was rich, amazing, attractive, and he had a unique association with her… She was orchestrated to go on a prearranged meet-up. The two kids cried and called her: "Daddy beats us, help!" She hurried over in sweat, while the man was remunerating those two kids for their incredible acting abilities with huge drumsticks ... She indignantly said, "Alex, my prearranged meet-up has been obliterated by you!" The man said in a soft tone, "I'm the dad of the kid. Assuming you need to get hitched, shouldn't I be the best option?"

Apa jadinya jika seorang gadis menyamar menjadi si buruk rupa hanya untuk mengetahui kepribadian calon suami yang dijodohkan dengannya? Apa jadinya jika seorang pengacara muda terpaksa menikah dengan gadis buruk rupa yang dijodohkan dengannya? Akankah cinta tumbuh di antara mereka?

Nayla Samira Huri Seorang janda yang diceraikan suaminya karena dianggap tidak bisa memberikan keturunan 12 tahun lalu. Setelah menjanda ia meninggalkan Indonesia dan memulai bisnisnya hingga ia berkenalan dengan mantan Istri Wisnuaji Widiatmaja yang sering menceritakan kehidupan rumah tangganya dulu, seiring waktu tanpa sadar Samira telah mencintai Wisnuaji Widiatmaja tanpa pernah bertemu apalagi mengenalnya secara pribadi. Wisnuaji Widiatmaja Seorang pria yang betah menduda hampir tiga dekade lamanya. Ia lebih memilih membesarkan putra semata wayangnya tanpa ingin memiliki pasangan lagi di hidupnya karena ia merasa hidupnya kini telah bahagia tanpa perlu memiliki pendamping.  *** Lalu bagaimana Kehidupan mereka saat akhirnya Wisnuaji bertemu dengan Samira?

My Alpha mate Kieran ordered our eight-year-old son to burn my mother alive because his Omega assistant accused me of killing her pet dog out of spite. Kieran's eyes were filled with impatience and disgust. "You're supposed to be our pack's respected Luna. Why would you target an innocent Omega? Whatever harm her pet suffered, your mother will endure the same. Your mother is paying the price for your jealousy!" I fell to my knees, begging Kieran to spare my mother. But he commanded our seven-year-old son Owen to light the fire himself. My son didn't hesitate for a second as he threw the torch into the pile of wood. "That's what you get for always going against Aunt Sera!" I screamed and cried, desperately begging them to help me put out the flames. "Please, I'm begging you, take my mother to the healing center..." "Enough, Aria. Your mother is still lying in the hospital bed. That's just a training dummy. Stop putting on this pathetic act." After saying that, father and son walked away without looking back. They didn't know that it really was my mother burning in those flames. But when I finally gave up on them and left, why did they both come crawling back, begging me to return?

My daughter and my husband didn't look alike at all. My father-in-law always complained about it, accusing me of cheating. In the end, he even took my daughter to get a paternity test done. As expected, they were not blood related. My father-in-law told his son to divorce me and not to give me anything. My husband even wanted to kill my daughter by choking her. "I've been raising another man's daughter all this while! I'll be humiliated as long as she's alive!" I immediately threw the paternity test report involving my husband and my father-in-law at them. This time, it's my mother-in-law that was nervous as I looked them in the eyes and said, "Why don't you take a good look and see who is the one who is not blood related!"

Arum kabur ke kota metropolitan setalah tahu kalau ia tidak lulus SMP. Kesulitannya membaca menjadikan ia dibenci oleh guru dan sering dicibir neneknya. Di sana, ia menemukan ibu angkat yang mengangkatnya menjadi perempuan sukses. Hingga ia menemukan sahabah dan cinta. Namun, penolakan calon mertua membawa Arum pada masa lalu yang buruk. Ia menjadi kembali buta untuk melihat dunia. Di antara cinta dan sahabat, siapa yang akan menolongnya?

Bermula dari jatuhnya ia dalam kolam renang tempatnya biasa berlatih, Andalusia menemukan takdirnya sendiri. Tidak. Bukan di dunia nyata, melainkan di dalam alam bawah sadar buatannya.