Karma Goddess

Saat berusia 12 tahun, Piero menyaksikan kakaknya dibunuh oleh lima orang. Dendam itu ia bawa hingga dewasa, di usia ke-18 tahun ia telah menjadi pembunuh untuk pertama kalinya yang membawanya masuk ke penjara. Namun, setelah ia keluar dari penjara, ia kembali memburu empat orang yang terlibat lainnya, membunuh mereka satu per satu. Puncaknya, ia harus menghadapi Garrett, pengedar narkoba kelas kakap sekaligus dalang utama kematian kakaknya, disinilah pertarungan hidup dan mati yang menentukan apakah Piero akan bertahan membalaskan dendamnya atau ia kalah dalam medan pertempuran.

My fated mate, Sebastian Grant, was the most brilliant healer on the continent. Specializing in treating wolfsbane, he had saved countless of our kind. To everyone else, he was a miracle walking among us. But he had a childhood friend and fellow apprentice, Sabrina Jordan. If Sebastian was famous for curing poison, then Sabrina was infamous for creating it. For years, she studied toxins while he developed antidotes. They worked so closely together that the pack slowly stopped distinguishing danger from jokes. That was until the day she tested a new kind of wolfsbane on me and I almost died. When I woke up, Sebastian was sitting beside my bed, writing a prescription for me. "Christina, don't blame Sabrina. My mentor and I have spoiled her. She knew I'd be able to cure you, so she was just messing around. She never meant to hurt you." He said it so casually, as if I had caught a cold. Not as if my organs had been failing and I had been a breath away from death. Before I could respond, someone burst into the room shouting that Sabrina had poisoned herself. Sebastian stood up and rushed out at once, his steps hurried and almost frantic. He never noticed that my prescription was missing a key herb. Just like that, the antidote that was supposed to save me became a poison that quietly sped up my death. That was when the Moon Goddess spoke inside my mind. [You can only return to the human world if you die at the hands of your fated mate. But are you sure you want this?] I lowered my gaze to the prescription in my hand, the ink still fresh. Sebastian himself had written it. The same hands that saved countless lives had just written the final prescription that would end mine. "I'm sure," I whispered.

When the star pirate, Black Mamba demanded one of us give birth to his child, my older sister didn't hesitate to sacrifice me. I never imagined that after my cruel death and eventual rebirth, she would throw herself into his clutches instead. When I saw that terrible serpentine swelling once more, horrifying memories sent shivers through my body. All I wanted to do was run. But my sister grabbed me by the jaw. "You've been reborn too! I'm going to make you suffer!" I could tell she meant it.

Semula aku berharap dengan menikah lagi, aku akan bisa bahagia dan tenang. Hidupku jadi lebih sempurna. Aku bisa beralih rasa dan wanita sehingga hidupku tak lagi monoton. Tetapi ternyata aku salah. Pernikahan kedua justru membuat hidupku hancur berantakan dan aku kehilangan segalanya karena ulah istri keduaku yang ternyata hanya seorang wanita murahan.

"You know, love is when both of your heart and your mind tell the same thing" kata-kata itu mengusik pikiran seorang dokter bedah muda, Jonathan Carrington Lee saat seseorang mengatakan padanya untuk jujur tentang perasaannya. Bukan tunangannya, bukan sahabat baiknya, melainkan seorang Kiara Lee yang menatapnya dengan kedua sudut mata pilu yang menggores hati. Saat itu Nathan tahu, hati dan pikirannya hanya mengucapkan satu nama yang sama— satu nama terlarang yang terus ia ingkari ribuan kali, nama yang selalu ia ucapkan sejak 33 tahun lalu hingga detik itu juga. Kiarathalea Carrington Lee.

I'm Lindt Group's CEO's mistress. When Gerald Lindt's fiancée calls to demand answers, I lean into his embrace and tell him to go to her. I play the role of a mistress perfectly. However, Gerald kisses me tenderly. "You're too kind, Lucy." I conceal the ruthlessness and hatred in my eyes as the image of a young woman's corpse appears in my mind. She was subjected to inhumane torture before her death. The pain of losing my loved one eats away at me; it's a feeling I'll never forget. I want all of these people who think they're better than me and my sister to pay with their lives.

Just because I ate one chicken leg more than my brother, my father kicked me out of the house in the middle of a snowstorm. Later on, my father of an archeologist dug up my body. Due to my missing head, he did not recognize me. Even when he saw that the body had the same scars as I did, he did not care. Later on, my mother dug out my heart and showed it to her students. "Today, we will study the heart of someone with congenital heart disease." She once said she would recognize me no matter what I looked like. Mom, now that the only thing left of me is my heart, do you still recognize me?

Rumah tangga tak akan lagi menjadi surga jika ada luka di hati penghuninya. Pecundang tetap akan selamanya menjadi pecundang, hanya waktu saja yang akan menunjukkan kapan itu akan terulang. Hanun tak menyangka jika lelaki yang dipilihnya sebagai teman untuk menua ternyata banyak menyimpan dusta. Entah sudah berapa lama lelaki itu menyembunyikan kebusukannya. Siapakah wanita yang telah membuat lelaki itu mengingkari janji suci pernikahan mereka?

“Kau milikku, Zuri. Sampai kau memberiku seorang pewaris.” Demi melunasi utang kakaknya, Zuri Everlyn menyerahkan dirinya dalam ikatan pernikahan tanpa cinta dengan Axel Nightvale—CEO dingin yang mengendalikan segalanya, termasuk tubuh dan pikirannya. Kesepakatan mereka jelas, Zuri bebas setelah melahirkan seorang putra. Axel menguasai tubuh Zuri, menuntut kepatuhan, dan membakar hasrat yang tidak diinginkan Zuri pada awalnya. Tapi, di balik tatapan Axel yang kejam, ada rahasia yang mengikat mereka lebih dalam dari sekadar kegiatan ranjang. Saat wanita lain berusaha merebut Axel dan pria lain pun ingin memiliki Zuri, benang tak kasatmata di antara mereka justru semakin menjerat. Lalu, siapa yang akan menyerah lebih dulu? Zuri yang ingin bebas, atau Axel yang tidak pernah benar-benar berniat melepaskannya?

My daughter has been kidnapped, and the kidnapper is asking for five million dollars as ransom. I can just about scrounge the money together, but the kidnapper makes it clear that he wants a life in exchange for my daughter's. He'll take the money and kill the person who brings it to him. I smoke throughout the night, my eyes bloodshot as I try to think of something. Then, I fix my gaze on my mother, who is now senile and insane.