Zoro Bandages

Gosip paling menghebohkan tahun ini di Universitas Jido adalah video malam pertama Arlena yang diunggah ke grup kampus. Video itu direkam di suite presiden sebuah hotel bintang lima. Arlena tampak tanpa sehelai benang pun, ditekan oleh seorang pria yang jauh lebih tinggi darinya di depan jendela besar... Suara desahan dan hentakan terus menggema tanpa henti...

Pada tahun keempat pernikahan dengan Rocky Riyandi, Luna Gozali hamil. Dia membawa dokumen pernikahan ke rumah sakit untuk membuat catatan kehamilan, tapi saat verifikasi data, perawat memberitahunya bahwa akta nikahnya palsu. Luna terkejut dan bertanya, “Palsu? Mana mungkin?” Perawat menunjuk cap di atasnya, “Lihat, stempelnya miring dan nomor serinya juga salah.” Luna tidak menyerah. Dia segera pergi ke kantor catatan sipil untuk memastikan, tapi jawabannya tetap sama. “Pak Rocky sudah menikah, nama pasangan sahnya adalah Paula Gozali….” Paula Gozali? Seperti disambar petir, otak Luna seketika menjadi kosong! Paula adalah kakak tirinya dan juga cinta pertamanya Rocky. Dulu, demi mengejar mimpinya, kakaknya memilih pergi keluar negeri untuk melanjutkan studi. Dia kabur di hari pernikahan dan tega meninggalkan Rocky begitu saja. Namun sekarang, malah dia yang tercatat sebagai istri sah Rocky!

Selama tiga tahun menikah dengan Suryanto Pradana, Julianti Sahara telah mengalami enam puluh delapan kali percobaan pembunuhan oleh musuh-musuhnya. Diceburkan ke sungai, dibakar, diserang dengan pisau ... Semua ini terjadi hanya karena Suryanto menguasai jaringan gelap Kota Beirus, membuatnya memiliki musuh yang tak terhitung jumlahnya. Orang-orang itu yakin bahwa Julianti adalah titik lemah Suryanto, sehingga mereka tidak segan-segan menyerangnya. Setiap kali Julianti berhasil selamat dari ambang kematian, Suryanto akan memeluknya dengan erat, matanya memerah, tangannya gemetar saat berkomunikasi dengan bahasa isyarat, "Aku yang tidak berguna, tidak bisa melindungimu dengan baik." Hingga pada terakhir kali, Julianti diculik dan diikat di samping tangki penyimpanan minyak oleh musuhnya, lalu diledakkan hingga sekarat. Julianti terbangun di rumah sakit dan menyadari bahwa pendengarannya pulih. Di telinganya terdengar suara Suryanto yang sedang berbicara dengan temannya. "Dulu, saat Yulia Ananda diculik oleh musuhmu, untuk melindunginya, kamu sengaja memutus hubungan dengannya, lalu menikahi Julianti, si gadis tuli itu. Kamu memanjakannya sampai semua orang tahu, membuat musuh-musuhmu mengira bahwa Julianti adalah orang yang paling kamu cintai, sehingga dia berulang kali menjadi tameng bagi Yulia ... Apakah kamu tidak terlalu kejam melakukan itu?"

Di kehidupan sebelumnya, Maya Asraf menikah dengan seorang "suami tak kasat mata". Di hari dia bersalin, Maya mengalami perdarahan hebat hingga koma. Namun, panggilan teleponnya ke Howard Bandri tak pernah diangkat. Setelah dokter menyadarkannya, dengan tangan gemetar dia menandatangani sendiri surat persetujuan operasi. Saat anak-anaknya demam tinggi hingga 40 derajat, Howard tetap tidak menampakkan batang hidungnya. Maya pun menggendong anaknya sendirian ke rumah sakit. Penjagaan selama tiga hari tiga malam, membuatnya sangat letih hingga jatuh pingsan di lorong. Di hari orang tuanya meninggal karena kecelakaan, Howard masih tidak ada. Ketika dia membawa pulang kotak abu kedua orang tuanya, pamannya langsung menamparnya dan mencaci-maki dirinya yang tidak becus menjaga hati suami. Akibatnya, orang tuanya meninggal dengan tidak tenang karena menantu mereka tidak hadir di saat terakhir. Hingga pada usia lima puluh delapan tahun, kanker stadium akhir merenggut sisa hidupnya.

Leeora is a veterinarian who passed the licensure exams in her second take. She is a party girl who gets all she wants; they are rich and one of the most powerful in the French society. She does not want veterinary medicine, and she realized it late. She goes by day-by-day, doing her usual chores, while taking care of the animals in the clinic. She then saw a thin husky, and it got her eye. The husky followed her in her home, and she pitied the dog, so she adopted the husky and took care of it. The dog is badly wounded, so she put bandages on the wounds. What she didn't know is that there is something more to the husky: a human turned werewolf, and only Leeora has the power to lift the course on the husky, Audolf, a former wolf charmer.

"What do I do, huh?" he nips softly on the skin of my neck as he thrusts in and out of me gently, holding onto me as though I was the most delicate thing in the world. "Tell me how to make it right, baby." He mumbled into my neck, his strokes growing deeper. My eyes met his vulnerable grey ones, and as I looked into the eyes of the man who broke me, I couldn't hold his gaze much longer because of how they seemingly appealed to me and made me waver. Pressing a kiss to his jaw, I whispered, suppressing a moan. "Bandages don't x bullet holes. You cannot x what you have already broken, Sean Wellington, because it's unxable." •••• Sekani Salvador never knew what it felt like to be truly loved, and even when she loved, it had to be a man she wasn't supposed to fall for, Sean Wellington, who happened to be the boyfriend of her twin sister, Simone Salvador, who loathed everything she stood for. Sekani could have sworn that she could never have him but all it took for fate to spin the bottle was one night of vodka and mistakes that she couldn't take back.

I was feeding my seven-year-old daughter, Lucy Langer, when Robert Langer crashed through the front door, reeking of alcohol. His shirt collar hung askew, and red marks blazed across his neck. "Audrey," he said hoarsely, "someone spiked my drink at the charity gala. But don't worry. I've already had my lawyer handle it." I nodded. After so many years of marriage, I knew he only had eyes for me and our daughter. He never strayed. Or so I believed… until eight months later. While Robert was away on a business trip, his cruise ship caught fire. The news dominated every channel. Clutching a sobbing Lucy, I rushed to the hospital, only to find him swathed in bandages, standing outside the maternity ward. "Becca is pregnant," he murmured. "It was that night at the gala… I didn't think it would happen from just once…" He gulped. "When the fire spread, she saved me. But she… got trapped herself." A newborn's wail pierced the corridor as the delivery room doors opened. Becca White was wheeled out, looking pale and exhausted. She clutched my sleeve and pleaded desperately, "Audrey… my babies can't grow up without a father…"

Fire suddenly breaks out at the hotel where we're hosting our wedding. My fiance, Alan Godwin, doesn't hesitate to pick up Brenda Larkin, my cousin who has already collapsed out of fright, and rush out to safety. Meanwhile, my parents and older brother hurriedly cart away the wedding gift Brenda has made. They don't want her to get sad if the gift is damaged in any way. As for me, I've twisted my ankle, making it inconvenient for me to escape from the hotel. Everyone has already forgotten all about me, so I end up getting severe burns all over my body. When they look at the bandages wrapped around my body, they shoot me disgusted looks. "Why are you such a jinx? How is it possible for a fire to break out at your own wedding? Thanks to you, Brenda has fainted out of shock!" "Well, it's not like you're suited for any public appearances when you look like this, anyway. Brenda's figure is similar to yours. Why don't you let her replace you in the wedding?" I just nod calmly and agree to the suggestion. After that, I sort out the details of getting dispatched overseas for my job with my boss. One month later, I board my flight on the day Brenda is set to wed Alan. I no longer want Alan, who's blind to the truth, and my family, who are nothing but biased toward Brenda. But why is it that they are filled with regret after I leave them?

Pretend to be his fiancée. Save her brother’s life. Don’t fall in love with a man who can’t see the truth. Celeste Harper is a master of voices, but her own life is a tragedy. Drowning in the suffocating medical bills for her comatose younger brother, she’s one missed payment away from losing the only family she has left. Until a cold-blooded offer from the city’s most powerful matriarch changes everything. The Task: Step into the designer heels of Vivian Lancaster—the socialite who abandoned her fiancé, Lucian Aldridge, the moment a brutal accident stole his sight. The Target: Lucian. A billionaire CEO turned into a recluse, a man whose bitterness is as sharp as the shards of glass that blinded him. He’s a wounded predator in a gilded cage, and he hates the woman who left him. The Problem: When Celeste speaks, Lucian doesn't just hear his fiancée—he hears the only reason he has left to live. Now, Celeste is trapped in a dangerous game of sensory deception. Every touch is a risk; every whisper is a lie. As she navigates the dark hallways of his estate and the growing, electric tension between them, the lines start to blur. To the world, she’s a gold-digger seeking redemption. To Lucian, she’s the only light in his darkness. But secrets in the Aldridge empire are never buried deep enough. In a world where he can’t see her face, Celeste must decide: how long can she play the role of a ghost before she disappears entirely? Because when the bandages come off and Lucian finally sees the truth—it won’t just be his heart on the line. It will be her life.

Fate and destiny can be cruel when you wake up with no memory in a full body cast and bandages covering your face not knowing why, is the scariest thing you'd go through. Not knowing how or where you will live, is family or anyone looking for you is even scarier. I thought I had already experienced the scariest things a young girl can, but how wrong could I be. Finding out that my "accident," was really someone trying to kill me, I'm not only a werewolf (mind blown) but a witch as well. I also have a fated mate, an Alpha Michael who I don't remember, and a destined mate Alpha Drake who I've not met and is stalking the only people that helped me. The wolf that tried to kill me is from Alpha Michael's pack and he hasn't found out who yet. I'll be 18 in a few weeks and shift into a werewolf. I meet my fated mate who accepts my new face and me wholeheartedly and agrees to help me during my first shift. A night that should be filled with joy, turns into a nightmare when not only does the person who tried to kill me, try again, my destined mate appears and abducts me and takes me to his territory. My world is again filled with the unknown, having a brief memory of a man that is obviously enamored with you and abducted by a man that is cold and heartless, demanding I submit to his marking and mating me to produce an heir and become the Luna of his pack is the scariest thing ever. Can I make the right choice between what is fated to me or destined? Will I be the same girl I once was?