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She loved him for eight years. He never chose her once. The day she finally walked away, Daniel Ashford realized the one thing he had never prepared for—losing her. But by then, Maya Voss was already gone. And the woman who came back… was someone he never saw coming. But when love returns, will she choose him again?

On the day that I returned to the country, Lola Lawson, the one who was once the love of my life for ten years, sent me a picture of a baby. She told me to think of a name and meet her at the city hall to register the baby, as she had prepared a welcome-home gift for me. So, I rushed over with bags full of baby supplies. But when I arrived, she and her girlfriends were bent over with ridicule and laughter. "I told you! Even though he was gone for a year, he's still a loyal lapdog! Just a wave of my hand and he'd even be willing to raise someone else's kid for me!" She sized me up with mocking amusement. "Kevin Sheraton. How could you still be this naive? Just one joke and you come running?" They laughed without any restraint, calling me names and hurling insults, saying I'd do anything for Lola. But when I walked past them and took a number to register my own child's birth, and later wrapped my arm around my wife as the three of us took a family portrait, Lola's eyes were completely reddened with tears.

Pulang dari pengembaraan ke timur, Wisnumurti menjumpai Pasir, kampung halamannya, dikacau serangkaian pembunuhan berantai. Beberapa tokoh atas rimba persilatan tewas dibunuh dua jagoan gelap yang hanya dikenal dengan nama Tanpa Aran dan Pangeran Langit. Baru saja ia hendak mengejar kedua pembunuh tersebut, Jaladri menghilang. Sahabatnya itu diculik Suwung Saketi dan Remak, pasangan pendekar sakit jiwa dari utara yang gemar makan daging manusia. Berkejaran dengan waktu, mereka terseret dalam pusaran persekongkolan maut dari tiga dasawarsa lalu yang hari ini mulai memakan tumbal. Dan nyawa menjadi tak ada arti sama sekali!

My best friend, Mila Clarke, falsely accused my father and my family for betraying the pack and killing the warriors. I kneeled before my husband, Alpha Leon Black, and begged him to have faith in my father. But he merely gazed at me coldly no matter how hoarse I've gone from crying. Even my own pup, Lucas Black, berated me. "I feel ashamed of you and your family! You're not worthy to become my mother!" Later on, I got cast out to the barren plains surrounding the border. Six years later, Leon and Lucas want to take me home. But I already have a new pup, a new mate, and a new home here.

My mate, Kane Blackwood, was the most feared Alpha in the Northlands. For three years, he treated me like something that belonged to him. He would drag me into his arms on the stone steps after moon rituals, pin me against the wall in Blackthorn Keep’s long corridors, and bite the mark on the back of my neck beside the patrol trails in the border woods, as if he needed everyone to remember exactly whose Luna I was. I used to think that was his way of loving me. Rough. Possessive. Lacking tenderness. But love, all the same. Until one night, I stopped outside the council hall and heard an elder say in a furious voice, “Those charcoal sketches on the black market were released by your people, weren’t they? Every one of them is of you and Elena in bed. She has become a joke across the pack. Do you even understand what you’ve done?” There was a brief silence. Then Kane said, coldly, “She is the Luna the council chose for me. She is not the woman I wanted.” I stood frozen outside the door. All those years, I thought his roughness meant he loved me too fiercely to be gentle. But it was never love. It was humiliation. Punishment for taking the place of the woman he actually wanted. I lowered my eyes to the moonstone bracelet on my wrist, the one he had clasped there the day our mating contract was sealed. If that was all I had ever been to him, then I would leave.

Senja ingin bebas dari kekangan keluarga mendiang ibunya yang menuntutnya untuk segera menikah. Dia menolak aturan keluarga dan memilih merantau dengan hidup pas-pasan di kota. Harapannya musnah saat dia belum juga mendapat pekerjaan, sementara uangnya sudah menipis. Senja mulai menjalani hobi menulisnya seperti saat masih sekolah dulu. Sulitnya mencari uang di platform kepenulisan di jaman sekarang membuatnya stres hingga mencoba menghubungi nomor telepon yang tertera di salah satu platform besar tempat tulisannya ditolak demi mencari pembenaran penolakan itu. Dia tidak tahu jika menghubungi nomor pribadi Asa yang tidak sengaja terpajang karena tengah terjadi peretasan di sana. Asa Kanagara merupakan CEO Kanagara Group, perusahaan yang menaungi platform kepenulisan itu dan tengah stress berkepanjangan akibat kisah cintanya yang cepat kandas karena BPD yang dideritanya. Dia meladeni omelan Senja hingga memintanya untuk ke kantor. Esoknya, Senja datang ke kantor Kanagara Group dan menyadari jika sosok yang diteleponnya kemarin adalah CEO perusahaan tersebut. Setelah berunding sengit, Asa memberikan syarat jika tulisan Senja bisa diterima di platform, bahkan berjanji menjadikan Senja asistennya di kantor. Satu syarat yang hampir ditolak Senja adalah menjadi istri Asa. Dilema melanda gadis 25 tahun tersebut karena dia sama sekali belum memikirkan pernikahan. Namun, jaminan yang diberikan Asa begitu menggiurkan hingga akhirnya dia menerima persyaratan tersebut. Perjalanan keduanya tidak begitu mudah. Senja harus beradaptasi dan menerima BPD yang diderita Asa. Dia baru menyadari jika Asa juga memiliki gangguan halusinasi yang selalu membuatnya terbayang dengan cinta pertamanya yang sudah meninggal ketika melihat Senja. Perjalanan mereka bertambah rumit ketika banyak orang berusaha menghancurkan hubungan keduanya. Senja harus memilih, apakah hidup miskin dengan kebebasan lebih berarti daripada hidup bergelimang harta dengan banyaknya perbedaan antara dirinya dengan Asa. Pada akhirnya, Senja memilih berjuang bersama Asa, menyembuhkan traumatis mereka, dan menemukan makna cinta yang sesungguhnya.

My boyfriend found my menstruation disgusting and forced me to undergo subdermal implantation. From then on, I no longer had periods and couldn’t conceive. One day, I had a fever reaching 40°C and couldn’t contact him. I went to the hospital alone, only to stumble upon him attending a prenatal checkup with his secretary. He told her: “Baby, don’t worry about Claire. She only listens to me here, doesn’t she?” “We can postpone the wedding for another five years. She’s loyal to me like a dog anyway.” “In the meantime, keep fulfilling your end of the arrangement I’ve promised you.” “Of course, I’ll continue loving you... until I’m tired of you.” My heart shattered. I’d proposed to him 43 times in seven years, only to fail every single time. It turned out he just hadn’t gotten bored of me yet? This time, I decided not to wait any longer. I turned my back on him and agreed to the marriage my mother arranged in the countryside. On the day my ex was supposed to accompany me to try on wedding dresses, he found an empty room and a wedding invitation I left for him to celebrate my marriage to someone else. Panic consumed him as his world fell apart...

Ibu mertuaku diam-diam menukar adik iparku dengan putriku. Hanya karena dia tidak tega membiarkan putrinya hidup menderita. Parahnya lagi adalah suamiku menyetujui hal itu. Akan tetapi, diam-diam aku menukar mereka lagi tanpa memberi tahu siapa-siapa. Putriku pun dibesarkan dengan segala yang baik, sementara adik iparku kabur dari rumah karena tersiksa. Bertahun-tahun setelah itu, ibu mertuaku didiagnosis mengidap kanker. Dia pun melakukan tes DNA untuk menuntut bakti dari putrinya. Aku menatap suamiku yang sok itu dan berkata sambil tersenyum, "Oke! Kalau memang salah, ya sudah ayo ditukar!" "Kukembalikan putrimu, jadi kembalikan putriku."

The day I signed the divorce papers, I voluntarily gave up custody of my daughter. Because that day, in the courtroom, she clung to her father’s neck, sobbing with all the fury a six-year-old could muster: “You don’t even love me… do you? If you leave Daddy, I’ll stay with him… and you’ll be all alone forever!” In my past life, I had ignored her childish threats. I fought tooth and nail for her custody. I poured every ounce of myself into raising her. And yet… she spent her entire life hating me. Not once did she ever call me “Mom” until the day I died. On her wedding day, she even invited her father’s mistress to the stage to give a speech of thanks. Now, opening my eyes again, seeing that same cruel little face staring back at me, I simply nodded. “I don’t care.” After all… I never wanted a daughter like her anyway.

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