Young Master Please Don't Show Off

Bisakah kah kamu mencintaiku disaat aku terjatuh? Kecelakaan itu membuat aku lumpuh. Dan orang yang aku cintai pun pergi. Meninggalkan ku disaat aku jatuh dan membutuhkan dorongan. Mungkin Dewi Fortuna sedang menjauh dari ku. Sampai saatnya aku bertemu Dia di Rumah Sakit. Ia menyemangati ku dan memberikan ku harapan. Hingga aku sembuh dan mampu berjalan kembali. Namun lagi-lagi takdir mempermainkan ku, disaat aku masuk dalam buaian cinta, justru itu malah membuatku jatuh ke dua kalinya .

The day after the new year, during a family gathering, my aunt sneered at me as I worked overtime, reviewing a proposal. "Why are you pretending to be so busy? It’s not like we don’t know you only make three thousand a month. Real money-makers are people like my daughter, a designer so successful she doesn’t even have time to come home!" I ignored her, but she directed her spoiled son to delete all my files while I was in the bathroom. My hands trembled with rage. "This proposal is due in ten minutes—if I don’t submit it, everything is ruined!" She scoffed dismissively. "He’s just a kid. What could he possibly know? Besides, your job isn’t even worth much. If you lose the files, you lose them. Worst case, you get fired." I chuckled coldly but said nothing. She had no idea it was the proposal her daughter had spent an entire month working on. And I was the client who held her daughter’s fate in my hands.

"I'm Aiden Hart's secretary!" I shrieked over the phone. "Calm down, Charlie. It can't be that bad." I heard amusement in Emily's voice. My roommate's attitude did nothing to soothe my nerves. "It's not bad; it's a disaster!" I convinced. "I can't work for someone as hot as him! I can't breathe around him!" I might have been on the verge of a panic attack. I was supposed to work for his father, the well-respected sixty-eight-year-old Alexander Hart, not his youngest son! This wasn't what I agreed to! Less than a month ago, my dear friend died while working at Hart Global Corporation as the CEO's secretary. Now, I was about to replace her while investigating the truth behind her death. I thought I was prepared to enter the snake's nest, but I clearly underestimated the enemy… Aiden Hart was the purest embodiment of my sexual fantasies, and believe me, after four sexless years, I had more than too many of them twirling inside my brain. Every day, I found my boss more and more alluring, and I could only protect my weak heart by repeating my newly created mantra... "Don't fall for Mr. Hart... Don't fall for Mr. Hart... Don't fall for Mr. Hart."

After I'm abducted, I call my mother, a policewoman, for help. However, she hangs up on me and stays by my adoptive sister's side. "Go to hell if you're so keen on it!" she snaps. I calmly watch as the abductors pluck my nails and torment me until none of my skin is left unharmed. In my past life, my mother actually came to my rescue. She left my adoptive sister by the roadside, and the latter ended up being violated and murdered. From then on, I became a criminal in my mother's eyes. She received an anonymous text on my adoptive sister's death anniversary. "I bet a good girl like you wouldn't want your mother to know you hired us to abduct you, right?" She thought I orchestrated the abduction because I wanted to vie for her attention. She thought that was the cause of my adoptive sister's death. "I've saved people all my life. I never would've expected my flesh and blood to be such a shameless monster! You should go to hell as atonement for killing Charlene!" She sewed my mouth shut, shattered every bone in my body, and threw my ashes into a junkyard. When I open my eyes again, I find myself back to the day my mother makes her choice.

DEWASA / 18+] Kesalahan satu malam yang mereka lakukan telah melahirkan obsesi dalam diri Sebastian Winter. Ia menjadi dahaga pada sosok Rana, ia ingin menjadikan wanita itu miliknya. Pertanyaannya adalah, akankah dahaga itu bersifat sementara, atau akankah dahaga itu tumbuh menjadi suatu rasa yang berbeda, sesuatu yang lebih serius dan mungkin, lebih gila? Mampukah Rana dengan segala kewarasannya menghentikan obsesi Sebastian sebelum ia kehilangan segalanya—termasuk akal sehatnya? Atau, akankah Rana membiarkan dirinya terjerumus dalam api gairah pria itu dan melupakan rasionalitasnya?

“Strip.” He ordered simply, his eyes boring tentatively, “I'll not give you the liberty of picking up your clothes if you will not do as you're told.” “You married me to get revenge on me!” I spat, angrily. “You are not supposed to have any carnal knowledge of me, I won't let it happen.” He smiled. The same smile that cuts across his lips yet doesn't reach his face. “You want me to have sex with you?” “Isn't that what you mean by stripping?” I asked, confusion boldly written on my face. A loud, dry mocking laugh from him almost made me wish for death. “No wife.” He whispered, standing up from the bed towards me. “I don't want to see any of my properties on you in my house, I want you tattered and extremely void, I want to see what you will do when you're all bare before me.” I stumbled backwards at the hatred in his voice. “I want to see you at your lowest, Now strip!”

Back in the day, in the legal world, Finn Cross and I were the top dogs. Untouchable. He ran New York, a king in criminal defense, never lost a case. I held down Boston, crushing it in civil court. People in the biz used to say it was a good thing we weren't in the same city. If we were, we’d have gone head-to-head, and it was anyone's guess who'd come out on top. But they never would've guessed. Three years ago, I, Victoria Sterling, quietly married Finn Cross. And just like that, the legend of "Vicky" was locked away. I was willing to leave my career behind, to be the quiet, supportive woman behind the great man. I made his coffee, went with him to all sorts of events, and left a light on for him when he came home late. But when Elena, the one he’d always carried a torch for, showed up again, I couldn't keep up this charade anymore.

Kaliya Ortiz is the illegitimate daughter of the Reyes family who handles businesses around the country. Treated like a nobody in her own family she grew up to be a quiet woman, always hidden in plain sight. Caleb Cruz is the man behind the DY group that dominated the country’s economy. A known business figure and a bachelor on top of that. Many women attempted to make him theirs but the unmoving Caleb wasn’t easy to seduce. Fate somehow seemed to toy the two and decided to play Cupid. "Will you marry me?” "What can you give me then?" She frowned, seemingly lost in thought and then said, "I can give you money." "I'm not in need of money." "Then a house?" "I already have one." "A beautiful wife." He laughed but wasn't convinced. "That certainly is a good catch but..." he trailed off. "It's tempting but no." The woman stared at him, unsmiling. "Then my body?" His smile didn't fade. "Do you want to give it to me?" An encounter leads them to a tangle of messes and to contracts and maybe… towards love.

Cerita ini mengambil seting masa revolusi industri Inggris pada masa Napoleon gencar menyuarakan revolusi Prancis, pada masa itu Inggris banyak kehilangan koloninya termasuk di Amerika yang menuntut kemerdekaan dan sekarang menjadi Amerika Serikat. Revolusi industri sempat mengakibatkan banyak polusi lingkungan di Inggris dan Scotlandia terutama Glasgow dan London. Para bangsawan yang tidak mampu berbisnis mereka semakin tertinggal dan kalangan pengusaha mulai diterima di lingkungan sosial. Pada cerita ini mengisahkan tiga putri seorang Erl dari Yorkshire yang di jodohkan dengan ketiga putra Nicolas Stanley dari Newcastle. Pada masa itu anak perempuan tidak mendapatkan warisan mereka harus mendapatkan jodoh bangsawan kaya demi status sosial, maskawin diberikan oleh pihak perempuan. Laki-laki bangsawan yang bangkrut bisa memilih istri dengan maskawin besar. Dari ketiga kakaknya Lily yang paling kecil dan selalu merasa tidak cantik karena tomboi ternyata malah menarik perhatian Brandon Lington yang bergelar seorang Duke. Duke adalah gelar yang sangat tinggi setara dengan Adipati atau pangeran. Brandon Lington ini yg menjadi kakek moyang Brandon Lington selanjutnya di HOT NIGHT. Pada masa itu Brandon Lington sudah sangat kaya dengan semua bisnisnya yang justru berkembang pesat di masa revolusi industri. Brandon Lington yang berdarah Scotlandia itu ditengarai lebih kaya dari Raja Inggris. [Aku hanya akan menulis tentang karakter wanita-wanita yang tangguh karena aku ingin semua wanita menjadi hebat]

Aku tak menyangka jika Mas Anjas — Suamiku, ternyata memiliki istri kedua. Lebih menyakitkan saat mengetahui jika istri kedua suamiku adalah Ana — Sahabatku. Mas Anjas selalu berkata jika aku lah perempuan yang dicinta, dia tak pernah mencintai Ana. Namun, senyum manisnya pada perempuan itu sudah menunjukan jika dia berdusta. Tak perlu bertanya, tak perlu penjelasan. Aku memilih pergi!