World Wars Z

Andy, seorang arsitek muda yang antusias pada pekerjaan pertamanya, baru saja diterima sebagai warga Kota Betaverse ketika ancaman virus Z yang masih dalam penelitian, pecah menjadi gelombang pandemi. Virus Z diketahui membuat pengidapnya berperilaku pasif, ganjil hingga destruktif bagaikan zombi. 

“Min, kalau di rumah tolong pakaiannya lebih sopan, ya. Di rumah kan ada Bapak sama mas Gema, kurang pantas kalau kamu pakai baju seperti itu," ujarku menegur Mina, asisten rumah tangga yang baru bekerja di rumahku dua bulan belakangan. Tidak bisa di pungkiri, tubuh ARTku itu memang padat berisi, sehingga menonjolkan beberapa bagian tubuhnya yang membuat mata laki-laki akan langsung menatap takjub pada kemolekannya. Tapi sebenarnya hal itu bisa diakali kalau saja Mina mengenakan baju yang lebih longgar dan sopan.  Disinilah awal mula kehancuran rumah tanggaku terjadi.

Riri dan Lili adalah saudara kembar identik. Hanya saja tubuh sang adik mengalami masalah kesehatan. Sehingga kedua orang tua lebih memprioritaskan Lili di atas segalanya. Hal itu yang membuat si bungsu menjadi egois dan merebut apapun yang dimiliki si sulung. Riri senantiasa sendirian dan kesepian. Puncak penderitaan yang harus dialami adalah ketika dia dipaksa menikah dengan Ansel, adik ipar sekaligus teman dan cinta pertama. Semua itu hanya untuk mempertahankan rumah tangga Ansel dan Lili. Lantaran Lili tidak bisa hamil.

“Kapan pulang, Mas?” “Apa aku harus menjawab pertanyaanmu itu??” Kalau boleh memilih takdir, aku ingin hidup sederhana saja asalkan setiap hari bisa bertemu dengan suami. Namun, penyesalan memang selalu datang terlambat. Mas Ares tidak akan pernah bisa pulang karena aku bukanlah rumahnya.

The night Gloria Leach—my husband's ex—died in the rain, he floored it and drove us off a cliff. That's when it clicked. Evan Patterson had always hated me for getting between him and Gloria. Then I woke up, I was back on the wedding day. This time, he didn't even pause. Ditched the rings. Ran straight to her outside the church. I didn't cry. Didn't make a scene. I just called it off. While they turned their reunion into a show, I said yes to someone else. In this life, Evan and I were strangers. Until eight years later. An auction. I placed a no-cap bid on the final item—sapphire cufflinks. Won. I was leaving when Evan stepped in front of me, scowling. "Robyn, stop embarrassing yourself. Even if you bought every cufflink on earth for me, I still wouldn't love you. Gloria's the only one in my heart." I didn't even look at him. Just reached for the little girl beside me. "Sweetheart, say hi to the gentleman." He saw her face—mine, copied clean. His eyes went red, and his grip snapped around my wrist. "She's our daughter?"

J'étais une princesse de la mer. Et dès l'instant où j'ai vu l'Alpha Dominic, je suis tombée amoureuse. Éperdument. Je voulais être sa compagne. Entrer dans son monde. Alors j'ai tout sacrifié de ce que j'avais à la Déesse de la Lune. Mais il m'a enfermée pendant trois jours dans la salle d'isolement de la meute pour que je réfléchisse à ce que j'avais fait. Tout ça parce que je ne me suis pas précipitée pour aider son amie d'enfance, Harper. Lors du banquet de la meute, elle a fait une chute spectaculaire, déclenchant les rires dans toute la salle. Harper a éclaté en sanglots et s'est effondrée dans les bras de Dominic. « Marina doit être jalouse de la façon dont tu prends soin de moi. Elle a utilisé sa magie d'étrangère pour me faire tomber devant tout le monde ! » Quand il m'a fait enfermer, les yeux de Dominic étaient remplis de déception. « Je t'ai trop gâtée, Marina. Et maintenant tu utilises mon amour comme une arme contre mon propre peuple. Trois jours. Quand tu seras prête à te soumettre, tu me contacteras par le lien mental pour t'excuser. Alors seulement je te laisserai sortir. » Mais il ignorait la vérité. La sauge brûlée apaise l'esprit d'un loup-garou. Mais pour une sirène, c'est un poison. La fumée a brûlé mes poumons. Le venin a envahi mes veines. Je me suis étouffée dans cette pièce scellée. Et personne ne l'a jamais su.

A cold-hearted killer, Louis Kingsley. He was not a human, but a mythological bloodsucking creature who had lived for centuries. However, that sadistic prince suddenly took a vampire hunter as his slave. What will Tiara do next? Kill the crown prince or choose the other way? "I hate a slave who disobeys her master's orders," - Louis Kingsley "I'm not your slave, Bastard!" - Tiara Kim Perfect Mate 2021, Valent Z.

I’m the princess of the Moretti family, the Chicago Outfit. But all I ever cared about was sculpting. The day before Thanksgiving, my car died on me. I had to drive home in some beat-up, mud-caked Jeep. The second I walked into the penthouse, some strange woman shoved a pile of silver polish into my arms. She jutted her chin at me. “Get these polished before the dinner party,” she sneered. I looked at her. She was wearing my late mother’s favorite silk robe. This is my house. Who the hell was this woman? And who was supposed to polish this junk? Me? The only princess of the Moretti family? I pulled out my phone. Opened the family's encrypted app. I sent a message to my father, Vincenzo. “Your new pet wants me to polish the silver.”

Cumplía años y mi esposo, Don Damián, me regaló el collar de perlas de su difunta esposa. Me lo puse para la cena. Mi hijastro, León, enfurecido, me arrojó vino tinto encima. Fui el hazmerreír de toda la fiesta. —¡Maldita! —me dijo entre dientes—. ¿Acaso crees que por ponerte las joyas de mi mamá vas a poder reemplazarla? Me clavó una mirada gélida. Y luego gritó: —¡Lárgate de mi casa! Pero su madre murió cuando él era un bebé. Fui yo quien lo crio. Alguien le metió cizaña. Le dijeron que yo había matado a su madre. Ahora cree que soy una víbora que engatusó a su padre. ¿Y su padre? ¿Mi esposo? Él nunca me vio realmente. Solo veía el fantasma de Cristal. No se me rompió el corazón… ¡se hizo añicos! No me amaron. Ni siquiera me tomaron en cuenta. Así que me fui. Entonces, ¿por qué, cuando por fin me había ido, volvieron de rodillas, suplicándome que volviera?

I married Emory, my fated mate. But he never loved me. His first love, Ophelia, was stricken with the Lunar Blight. Her dying wish, she said, was to have a mating ceremony with Emory, to become his Luna. I refused. From that day on, to Emory and our son Leo, I was nothing but a selfish, cruel woman. Leo would intentionally feed me things I was allergic to. He’d pretend to get lost during the winter hunt, leaving me to search for him in a blizzard for a day and a night until I nearly died… It was all to keep me from disturbing Emory and Ophelia. So when he started crying and throwing a tantrum, demanding I go catch him a Silver-Frost Rabbit from the dangerous depths of the forest at night, I finally said no. “You don’t have to keep making me sick anymore,” I told him. “I won’t bother your father and Ophelia again.” Because I’m terminally ill. My wolf is fading. I’m going to die soon.