Karma Goddess

*Book 6* Gabriella is a no nonsense kind of woman. She loves deeply and fights for what matters to her. Her life was going along just fine, that is until she catches her boyfriend cheating on her. That should have been the worst of her issues, but soon a cheating boyfriend pales in comparison to being fated to a God, and a brooding one at that. Quickly Gabriella will be pulled into thousand year old drama and find out she is part of a prophecy that could potentially destroy the world depending on what choices she makes. How will this simple human handle carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders and a possessive God on her back? A Queen Among Gods is the sixth book in the Queen Among series. Characters and plot pots have been meticulously set up in previous books building up to this one. So, many events and terms in this book will not make sense if you haven't read the previous books. Here are the books in the series: A Queen Among Alphas - Book 1 Bite-Size Luna - A Queen Among Alphas Prequel A Queen Among Snakes - Book 2 Runaway Empress - A Queen Among Snakes Prequel (coming soon) A Queen Among Blood - Book 3 Whole Again - A Queen Among Alpha's spin-off A Queen Among Darkness - Book 4 Dark Vocation - A Queen Among Darkness spin-off (coming soon) A Queen Among Tides - Book 5 Valor, Virtue, and Verve - A Queen Among Tides Prequel Spin-off (coming soon) A Queen Among Gods - Book 6 A Queen Among Tempests - Book 7 (coming soon)

My sister-in-law, Hannah Martinez, was eight months pregnant when someone shoved her to the ground. Due to the heavy bleeding, she was rushed to the hospital. I happened to drive past, but I rolled up my window and pretended I saw nothing, pressing down on the gas pedal. In my previous life, I had immediately taken Hannah to the hospital when I saw her pass out from the blood loss. However, the situation was critical. After the severe bleeding, she developed an amniotic fluid embolism. My wife, Lauren Martinez, was the best obstetrician in the city. I called her, begging her to hurry to the hospital. Yet, she thought I was throwing a tantrum out of jealousy because she was having dinner with her first love, Isaac Poole, and his family. She believed I was using Hannah's emergency to force her to come back. By the time her family finally arrived, Hannah had already died from the failed treatment of the amniotic fluid embolism. Her entire family blamed me for Hannah's death, convinced that I had deliberately caused Lauren to misunderstand and let Hannah die. My brother-in-law, Jacob Turner, who rushed back from out of town, believed their lies. In his overwhelming grief, he hacked me to death with a knife at Hannah's funeral. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day Hannah was pushed and started bleeding out.

Aku sudah bersama dengan seorang aktor terkenal selama tujuh tahun dan menikah diam-diam selama lima tahun. Demi kariernya, aku perlu minum-minum sampai aku mengidap tukak lambung. Aku bahkan membiarkan harga diriku diinjak-injak orang lain. Namun, dia malah pergi berkencan dengan seorang aktris yang terkenal lugu di dunia hiburan dan berciuman di bawah kembang api. Dia juga menyuruhku untuk lebih bermurah hati dan jangan menimbulkan keributan. Setelahnya, aku pergi dinas dan terjebak longsor. Aku meneleponnya dengan ketakutan untuk yang terakhir kalinya. Namun, yang kudengar malah adalah dirinya yang sedang menyanyikan lagu selamat ulang tahun untuk aktris sok suci itu. Ketika seluruh harapanku pupus dan aku mengajukan cerai, dia malah memohon padaku untuk tidak meninggalkannya seperti orang gila. Dia bahkan mengungkapkan hubungan pernikahan kami ketika menerima penghargaan. Hubungan yang sudah berlangsung selama tujuh tahun ini akhirnya diketahui orang-orang. Namun, kali ini, aku sudah tidak menginginkannya. ...

Sejauh yang bisa kuingat, aku selalu mencintai Rizky Pratama, sahabat terbaik kakak laki-lakiku, satu-satunya bos mafia di Nusatama. Pada malam ulang tahunku yang ke-20, kakakku menjanjikan sebuah kejutan. Aku tidak menyangka kejutan itu adalah Rizky yang sudah mabuk berat dan sangat menggoda untuk disambut dengan ciuman. Satu malam yang ceroboh itu pun menghasilkan satu bayi laki-laki. Rizky akhirnya setuju untuk menikahiku setelah aku melahirkan. Namun pada hari kelahiran Leonardy Pratama, Rizky tidak berkata sepatah kata pun. Dia hanya mengemasi barang-barangnya dan menghilang ke Franzia selama hampir lima tahun. Kemudian dia kembali dengan Alya Tania, cinta pertamanya. Saat Alya melihat Leonardy dan aku, dia langsung dia berlari dan menghilang. Setelah itu, Rizky tak pernah meninggalkan aku. Seolah-olah ia berusaha menjadi pria yang aku butuhkan selama ini, bahwa kami akhirnya akan mendapatkan kesempatan berbahagia. Namun dongeng-dongeng hanyalah kebohongan yang dibungkus dengan kertas cantik. Di hari ulang tahun Leonardy yang ke-6, kami sedang dalam perjalanan menuju tempat makan malam. Tapi rem mobil kami malah tidak berfungsi. Mobil itu pun tergelincir menuju ke jalan raya, dan api mulai membakar mesin. Rizky keluar dari mobil. Dan kemudian dia mengunci pintu. “Kalau bukan karena kamu, Alya masih akan bersamaku. Sekarang, giliranmu yang menderita.” Barulah pada saat itu aku menyadari Rizky tidak pernah mencintaiku. Ketika aku membuka mata kembali, aku telah kembali ke hari ulang tahunku yang ke-20. Rizky masih berada di tempat tidurku, persis seperti di masa lalu. Kali ini, aku tak ragu. Aku langsung berlari. Dan sebelum pergi, aku melakukan hal yang seharusnya kulakukan sejak awal, telepon Alya.

Aku tak menyangka lokasi proyek bisa seterbuka ini. Mendengar suara pasangan suami istri yang bekerja di proyek dari ranjang sebelah, jaraknya bahkan tak sampai dua meter dan suara mereka yang tak kunjung berhenti, membuatku tak tahan dan mulai menggesekkan kedua kakiku...

Namaku Viany, sudah berpacaran 3 tahun dengan tunangan, di H-1 sebelum acara tunangan, kami putus. Alasan kami putus adalah karena aku menemukan bukti dia membeli jasa prostitusi di handphonenya. Aku tidak menangis atau membuat keributan, malam itu juga aku langsung berkemas dan menyeret koper keluar dari rumah yang seharusnya jadi tempat tinggal kami setelah menikah. Aku sempat hidup mengembara untuk beberapa waktu, dan tubuhku pun jadi jauh lebih kurus. Sahabat baikku, Evelyn, merasa sangat iba melihat aku begitu menyedihkan, jadi dia mengajakku tinggal di rumahnya. Namun sejak saat itu, kehidupan yang canggung pun dimulai, pada akhirnya, aku melakukan sesuatu yang menyakiti adik......

My Alpha's ex-girlfriend finds an excuse to move in with us. Whenever she sees me and my pup, she clutches her chest and acts like she's devastated. My Alpha is sure that I'm deliberately showing off our pup to upset her. "I can't believe you keep flaunting our pup to get on Cissy's nerves! I have to teach you a lesson!" He orders his men to have our pup and me thrown into the basement. No one is allowed to bring me food. I try to escape, and I beg for mercy. I tell him our pup is weak because I wasn't in the best of health when carrying it. I also tell him a healer has advised me to be hospitalized for further treatment. He sounds like he's heard the world's biggest joke, and his tone is cold as he says, "How can you be weak when you made it out of being ambushed in the forest? Stop trying to make yourself seem pitiful! Stay in the basement and repent! This is what you get for making things hard for Cissy!" What he doesn't know is that, when I save him from the attack, I lose my wolf because I am injected with wolfsbane. During my pregnancy, I am also hospitalized many times in order to prevent miscarriage due to the fact that my body is too weak. The pup is in poor health and has been receiving treatment since birth. In the basement, I slash my wrists to feed my pup with my blood, but he still dies in my arms. My devastated howls reverberate in the space. Losing my wolf means I no longer have the ability to heal myself. I lie in a puddle of my blood as I hold my pup's cold body close. Three days later, my Alpha decides he wants me back when he drinks a cup of coffee that isn't to his liking. He says, "Let my Luna out so she can make me coffee and apologize to Cissy. She and the pup can be taken to the hospital if she's sincere enough." No one dares obey his orders—my blood is already flowing out of the basement.

Three years ago, my girlfriend suffered severe post-traumatic stress after saving my life. She later had a speech impairment that kept her from speaking normally. To cure her, I take on three jobs a day and survive on only bread and water just to come up with the money for her therapy and speech recovery treatment. I happen to be working part-time as a cocktail party waiter one evening when I see my girlfriend, who supposedly has a speech impairment, standing in a fancy dress and being fawned over by the crowd around her. Everyone is calling her "Ms. Holden" and "the heiress of the Holden family". But how can an orphan like her possibly be an heiress?

The day I decided to donate my body to science, my family gathered around my adopted sister, Hailey, celebrating her acceptance into a cutting-edge experimental treatment program. The one with brain cancer was supposed to be me. But Hailey used my husband Zane's position at the hospital to swap her healthy medical records with my terminal diagnosis, stealing the one chance I had to survive. And the worst part? Everyone cheered her on. The pain became too much. I fought to stay present, only to overhear the nurses whispering, "It's a good thing Dr. Zane secured that spot for Hailey. They said she only had three days left." So, in the last 72 hours of my life, I quietly let go of everything. When I gave Hailey the original manuscripts of my novels I had poured my heart and soul into, my father and brother gave me a satisfied smile. When Zane decided to grant Hailey her dying wish by marrying her, he handed me the divorce papers. I signed without a moment's hesitation. He sighed and praised me for finally being "so reasonable." And when I was the one who coaxed our daughter, Olivia, into calling Hailey "Mommy," Olivia gushed that her new mom was the best. "Don't worry," Zane soothed. "We're just keeping it safe for now. Once she's gone, it'll all come back to you." I gave Hailey everything I had, just like they wanted. So why, when they find out this was all Hailey's vicious lie, do they come crying, saying I'm the one they wanted all along?

Setelah hamil, tiap malam suami pergi lari malam. Hari ini dia buru-buru keluar, hanya pakai smartwatch, lupa bawa handphone. Aku tanpa sengaja melihat beberapa pesan yang dia kirimkan kepada rekan wanita. [Datang numpang makan nggak? Sekalian makan aku juga.] [Malam ini nggak ada nafsu makan, hanya mau makan kamu aja.] Sup ayam yang tadi dia suapin aku, rasanya sedang bergolak di dalam perutku. Kalau nggak salah, dia barusan kenalin rekan wanita ini ke adikku.