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When Callum abandoned me, feverish and shivering on a mountain road, just to watch a meteor shower with the young woman he had raised, I decided to divorce him. His good friend, Emmet, advised him to try winning me back. "Look Cal, sisters are sisters, but a wife takes priority. You’d better not mix up what matters most." Callum, however, dismissed the idea with a confident smile. "She’s bluffing. Does she really think she’ll go through with the divorce?" "All these years, I’ve given her a place to belong. Without me, she wouldn’t even have a home. Leave me? She wouldn’t dare.  "Just wait. Before the cooling-off period ends, she’ll come back crying and begging me to take her in."  But thirty days passed, and I never looked back. While he scoured the world searching for me, I sipped tea in a misty mountain villa, utterly at peace. "James," I remarked to my step-brother, "your place truly feels like home."

Damien Curtis harus merelakan pernikahannya kandas di tengah jalan, karena istrinya—Cacha Brigitte Egmont memilih pria lain dan menggugat cerai Damien. Padahal pernikahan mereka baru berjalan satu tahun. Hal tersebut membuat Damien terpuruk dan mengalami depresi. Bailey Curtis—ayah Damien meminta bantuan pada salah satu dokter psikologis yang ia kenal bernama Dyandta Geoffroi, untuk menyembuhkan depresi Damien. Bagaimana nasib Damien selanjutnya? Akankah ia sembuh dari depresi dan menemukan pasangan baru? Atau justru sebaliknya? Copyright by Wii

Five years of marriage, and I was finally pregnant. I couldn't wait to tell Neil—until I heard his mom say: "When are you going to tell Angela? Cece's already showing. This family needs an heir." "Just give me a little more time. I'll handle it." I froze in the doorway, the ultrasound report burning in my pocket. Neil Schmidt, your promises mean nothing.

I worked for a restaurant, and our boss loved making empty promises about giving us restaurant shares. The boss said we would start with zero shares, but we could earn 0.01% for every two hours of overtime, covering someone else’s work or saving the restaurant 1,000 bucks. I suggested she write this down in an official document and have someone track it properly. She just smiled and told everyone to work harder. She never actually put it in writing. The experienced staff did not believe her, but one prep cook took it seriously. At the end of the year, he went to the boss to claim his shares. The boss said, “Sorry, the head chef told me there’s no official document, so it doesn’t count. You can’t claim any shares.” The prep cook worked hard all year and got nothing for it, so he took his anger out on me. The day before I was going home for the New Year, he killed me with a knife. “If you hadn’t said it doesn’t count without an official document, this whole restaurant would’ve been mine!” I lay in a pool of blood. When I opened my eyes, I was back to the day the boss first made those empty promises.

They say "behind every successful man is a woman", right? Well, in Maxwell Jay Gallagher's opinion, that's total bullshit! His company, M.J Tech, is the most successful tech company in the whole United Kingdom and there isn't even a single female staff member! For reasons best known by him, he hated women with a passion and he knew without any iota of doubt that he wasn't gay. But why was he developing such strange, bizarre feelings towards his new assistant whom he nicknamed 'little man'? Why the electric sparks and undeniable attraction? Unbeknownst to him, his 'little man' is actually Angelina McQueen, a gorgeous young woman under the disguise of a man who was hired as an undercover espionage agent by his rival in order to steal his company's business ideas... What will happen when he eventually discovers that the personal assistant that had always been not just behind him but in front of him, beside him and everywhere around him, was actually a woman?! And that too, an espionage agent!

Aurora left Raxcer two years ago with nothing, so in revenge, he was back with a cold heart. Raxcer could no longer love Aurora the way he loves her before. Aurora breaks his heart, and now he is back, he will make sure to break Aurora's heart too. Can their love be restored? If the hatred is the only one existed?

Bismillah, Pic by pixbay, edit by Canva, cover by Canva. Utamakan membaca Alquran :) --------------------------------------<<<>>>>>>> Joe baru saja bebas dari penjara, lalu mendapatkan istrinya selingkuh dan putri semata wayang pun dijual oleh keluarga mantan istrinya. Tidak ada yang tahu kalau Joe Hans, yang dipandang sebelah mata oleh keluarga Jilly, istri Joe, adalah panglima perang dengan setriuliunan aset mendunia. Demi mencari sang putri, terpaksa Joe membungkam satu persatu keluarga mantan istri. "Kiara sudah kami jual!" Seru Rosita Miller lantang. Sungguh lancang dia mengatakan ini tanpa merasa berdosa. Nanar lah Joe mendengar itu. Seketika wajah Joe menjadi bengis menatap ibu kandung dari mantan istrinya. Sudah gila! Apa yang dia katakan! Batin Joe. Mampukah Joe menemukan sang buah hati? Jangan lupa dukung cerita Eshal yang kedua ya man teman. Ditunggu saran dan kritiknya di kolom komentar :)

Bagi Rezal Mahesa, masih melajang di usia 32 tahun bukanlah sesuatu yang memalukan. Dia sudah nyaman hidup mulus tanpa lika-liku percintaan yang memuakkan. Pekerjaan yang menjanjikan seharusnya bisa membuatnya berpikir tentang indahnya sebuah rumah tangga. Namun Rezal tidak berniat untuk mencari dan memilih untuk menunggu, membiarkan Tuhan yang menjalankan skenario indah untuk hidupnya. Sampai akhirnya muncul gadis muda yang merupakan mahasiswa magang di kantornya. Meskipun ragu, tapi batu besar di hati Rezal perlahan mulai terkikis. Sikap Naya yang unik, konyol, dan dewasa di satu waktu berhasil membuat hatinya menghangat. Apa Rezal harus menyiapkan gedung pernikahan mulai dari sekarang? *** Viallynn

Arabella, a twenty-four year old girl who fled from New York because she always got violence from her stepfather. Choose to settle down in Los Angeles and become a bartender at Eflic, which is the city's biggest bar. Hers life changes 180 ° when she meets Stevano. Handsome mafia who suddenly came to Eflic and took her forcibly. And indirectly Bella must be caught in the man's black life.

"You're in my bed, naked and begging me to kiss you more. Now tell me, am I just the other man that you should hide? Or the one you desire to be your legal husband?" ~Axel~ When the hot and dangerous billionaire Axel Barcelona meets Shaira Branson, he thought he finally found the woman that he wanted for himself. But he can't be more wrong when he finds out that his supposed woman was his cousin's fiance. **** Axel Barcelona is a hot but dangerous billionaire who owns the famous Barcelona Construction Sites with ten branches all over Asia. Four days on Vitale Island make him think that he finally met the woman of his dreams. But then, Shaira Branson disappears the next day after the sweet yet steamy night happened between them on the island. When fate allows him to meet her again, Axel was surprised to see her with his cousin Andrei and announces their engagement. Discovering that Shaira was already engaged to his cousin, made Axel think that she was cheating on his supposed husband- with him. Will his feelings for Shaira overcome her betrayal and will Axel allow her to marry his cousin? Or let himself become the other man?