A Durable Fire

by Robyn Donald

Passion or hatred--which was stronger?

From the moment she first met heartless, handsome Kyle Beringer, Arminel was overwhelmed by conflicting emotions.

Kyle was convinced Arminel's engagement to his brother Rhys was not a union of two lovers. In fact, he assumed she was a gold-digging little tramp, interested only in the Beringer fortune.

He did everything he could to make it clear her presence on the family's New Zealand sheep station was an unwelcome intrusion.

But his eyes gave him away. They flamed with violent desire that Arminel was powerless to resist.

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, Second Chance, Enemies To Lovers, Contemporary Romance

189 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1984

About the author

Robyn Elaine Donald was born on 14 August 1940 in Northland, New Zealand. She was the oldest child in her family, and as a child, she thrilled her four sisters and one brother with bloodcurdling adventure tales, usually very like the latest book she'd borrowed from the library.

Robyn owes her writing career to two illnesses. The first was a younger sister's flu. She was living with her husband and Robyn and spent most of that winter acquiring, suffering, and recovering from various infections. One day she croaked that she had read everything on Robyn's bookshelves, so would Robyn please buy her something cheerful and sustaining. Robyn found three paperbacks- one Mills and Boon Modern Romance novel and a couple of other romances. Robyn read them, too, of course, and so enjoyed them she spent the next couple of years hunting down more Mills and Boon books. This was much more difficult then than it is today, so she decided to write her own, and for the following busy 10 years she wrote and hoped that one day she would finish a manuscript good enough that was good enough to send to a publisher.

The second illness was her husband's, and it was bad a heart attack. He was so young it terrified them all. While he was recovering, he suggested that Robyn finish the manuscript she was writing and send it off. It wasn't a perfect manuscript, but the doctor had said to humour her husband, so she finished the manuscript, edited it as best she could, and sent it off. Three months later, she was astounded to read a letter from the editor saying that if She made a few revisions they would buy her novel Bride at Whangatapu.

Published since 1977, Robyn sees her readers as intelligent women who insist on accurate backgrounds, so she spends time researching as well as writing.Robyn Donald sometimes thinks that writing is much like gardening. It's a similar process creating landscapes for the mind and emotions from the seeds of ideas and dreams and images. Both activities can also lead to moments of extreme delight, moments of total despair, and backache.Now Robyn lives in the Bay Islands. She continues writing, and also finds time for a very supportive husband, two adult children and their partners, a granddaughter and her mother, not to mention the member of the family that keeps her fit - a loud, cheerful, and ruthlessly determined "almost" Labradordog.

Reviews

[StMargarets · Rating 3 out of 5]

Problems I will never have:
-Being drop dead gorgeous so I'm frigid and self-conscious around men
-Falling for a guy in three weeks and giving up my job to visit his family in New Zealand
-Promptly falling for the guy's brother (hero)
- Agreeing to play future fiance of the brother, even though my attraction is toward the hero now
-Giving up my virginity to the hero who has called me a golddigger from the moment he met me
- Marrying a multi-millionaire three weeks after hero rejected my pleas to be his mistress
- Giving the multi-millionaire a child because he has a degenerative disease and I'm fond of him
- Running into the hero five years later as a merry widow (of 24) with a four year-old daughter
- Saving the hero from drowning
- Accepting the hero's proposal after the near-death experience

Problems I wish I had:
- Accepting apologies from the hero's brother who used me and the hero's mother who was a rude bitch


So ends my thought experiment as the heroine. She was 19 when she met the hero and he was ten years older and should have known better. He groveled somewhat, but the excuse RD came up with was comical. Heroine's friend said hero was conscience-stricken about his lack of control and he lashed out at the heroine because he's a Puritan at heart. Right. Our Puritan had plenty of OWs before, during and after the heroine. Try again RD.

This is one of those "heroine is happy so it must be an HEA" type stories.

[boogenhagen · Rating 3 out of 5]

h and H meet when the H's brother brings her home as his fiance - they both fall mutually in lust but as these RD books go the H denounces her as a gold digging slut and kicks her out.

She meets a very wealthy businessman on the way out and he falls desperately in love with her, marries her and she has his child. The H and h meet again but now she is a fabulously wealthy widow and she snubs him until he almost dies and then she decides to smex him up but he declares his true love first. It was okay for an RD but not as good a some of her others from that period.

This was one where the H needed to stay as a bit on the side and she should just have used him for a convenience when she was in the mood to slum.

[Raffaella · Rating 2 out of 5]

Appalling example of a dysfunctional relationship.
Very beautiful 19 yo girl meets young nice man who invites her to spend some time in his house in New Zealand. He’s rich and she’s not.
His older brother the hero immediately takes a dislike to her and so his mother.
Actually she lives a nightmare and not an holiday with the hero plainly telling her she’s a filthy gold digger and trying to seduce her, his brother using her to keep another woman at bay, the mother always making her feel not at their level.
Fu**you all please!
The heroine eventually decides to go away but the hero basically goes into hero bedroom thinking she had sex with his younger brother and forcibly seduces her.
It’s not just a rape but a forced seduction and after that the heroine has her brain completely fused.
The hero slut shamed her and debases her in every way he can and this was really disgusting because the heroine can’t even say no when he offers to keep her as his paid mistress.
Awful.
Thank for the day after she goes back home obviously shocked and traumatized.
On the plane she knows a nice man who is also very very rich and listens to her sympathetically, after some week he proposes marriage. He’s very sick and has little time to live so he asks her to marry him and to give him a child.
She accepts, and thanks god she has some years of happiness and also has a nice daughter who is his daughter and not the bastard sob hero’s.
The poor man dies and this was bad because I wish he lived and the hero died but one can’t have everything in life.
The heroine is now a rich and respected widow with money friends and a daughter.
Of course the hero turns up like a bad penny and slut shaming starts again.
Because lil men with lil di**s and lil self esteem must take down to their level people who are better than them.
This is how they work.
Since the heroine is also twisted and sick she loves the hero despite his treatment of her, she does not push him away and this horrible behavior lasts almost until the end when the hero almost dies ( almost! That awful awful word that makes the difference between a good book and a bad one) and both of them realizes that this continuous reciprocal massacre that reminds me of hunger games is not leading anywhere and so they declare their love.
Of course it was that too strong love that pushed the hero to behave abominably with a 19 yo girl, he was scared because he knew he was weak where she was involved.
Nope. Sorry.
I couldn’t really feel not only love between them but also any chemistry.
There was only hate and antagonism between them.
And if this is love it is a sick and twisted kind of love.
I know that sometimes RD has this kind of extreme books but this was really unpleasant.
He wasn’t celibate and I gave two stars because she wasn’t celibate too and had also a pleasant marriage, otherwise it would have been one star. Too much sickness and disturbing behavior for me to appreciate.
And even if she was a gold digger, that is a woman who wants security in her life, she wasn’t a criminal too because she could always be a good and committed wife so no, his reasons and his explanations were really not convincing.
The man was sick and mean and I so wished he would have died and she would have been still with her husband.
And she, she has to have years of therapy and with a good one too.
Not a pleasant reading for sure.

[Fre06 Begum · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really didn't like how she had a child with another man I know Kyle was cruel but I found him quite sexy!

[Dianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kyle puts Arminel on a flight to Brisbane in a first class seat, and she spends the 3.5 hour flight sobbing her heart out to the business man in the seat beside her. It's a very detailed story! If he gets the full effect of the flashback, he's treated to a rather lovely description of sexy bedroom where Arminel has descriptive sex with Kyle!

Arminel flew to New Zealand from Brisbane for a holiday at the invitation of Rhys. She shows up at his big old family property, where Rhys persuades her to endure the disapproval of his mother, and his older brother, by pretending that they are engaged. Rhys wants to divert the expectations that he'll marry a perfectly nice girl he's known his whole life and quite likes, because Rhys is damned if he'll do whatever he's told. So instead, Arminel has to endure a couple of weeks of awkwardness and rudeness, and probably, she should have just left.

Except: she really wanted to have sex with Kyle. He was insulting and nasty, but she wanted him, and if that had been all, maybe they could have had exciting hate sex and then just gone their separate ways forever, but instead: Arminel fell in love with Kyle, and he sent her away after arranging it so that Rhys would find her in post-coital bliss and realise she was a tramp.

Now, if this book had gone the way I expected it, I'd have been kind of fine with it. I'd being heading towards the businessman being somehow connected to the family, and, after a suitable interval where Kyle was made to realise that he was an absolute heal and would have to come up with some really good grovel to convince Arminel that he deserved to kiss her toes, but that's not what happens.

It turns out that Arminel was 19. Donald was pretty cagey about revealing her age, which is annoying. And because she's 19, she had to do something to justify a 5 year jump, and what she did was marry the businessman and have his daughter. The businessman turned out to be super rich and he could have bought and sold Kyle (so there, Kyle), and he was dying. He wanted a child, so would Arminel accept a great deal of money in exchange for incubating an infant? Yes, Arminel would.

And 5 years later she's living in Fiji. She's educated herself, and worked out how to be rich, and how to only be around people who don't call her a gold digger to her face. And then Kyle comes to stay, and she has to deal with him again, and the fact that she still wants to get in his pants.

Kyle is awful, but that's pretty typical of Donald heroes, and I mostly like her brand of awful. He's not the problem: it's this whole 5 year jump thing I disliked. It breaks the intensity of the romance, and does nothing. Kyle still has to overcome the fact that the money stuff shouldn't matter, he should have listened to his heart, which was telling him that Arminel loved him, and he was being a doofus.

[DamsonDreamer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked this better on re-read. Am a bit of a sucker for brothers fighting over a h. See Michelle Reid House of Glass, classic of the trope. Kyle was true Clint Eastwoodesque RD alpha hence pushed all my buttons. Obviously would treat with barge pole IRL.
Unusual flashbacky structure got me confused first time around but maybe is why enjoyed it so much more on re-read. Do love the passionate insta-lust chemistry. (Edit: just realized I meant Michelle Reid's Marriage on the Rebound. House of Glass is also brothers but it's not the one I meant!)

[Gogol · Rating 2 out of 5]

The hero hits his head on a coral reef and both he and the heroine realise life’s too short and therefore, even though he thinks her to be a cheap, money hungry, opportunist who’d prostitute herself for money, and even though she has been told by him over and over how deeply he despises and loathes her and can’t stand her, and what’s more having a vivid recollection of having him thoroughly humiliate and taunt her before throwing her out of his life, they decide to say fuck it and let’s get married.
Days before this epiphany he hero had categorically refused to even consider to marry a creature who was so ugly inside.
I’m baffled, the only explanation I can think of is that, RD was obliged by her editors to cut a huge chunk of her writing which is the missing link between these un related events, due to such considerations as page count and so forth.

[QueenT · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hated the H. He was horrible, him, along with the fact that the heroine married another man and had his child put me off this story.

[*CJ* · Rating 1 out of 5]

“A Durable Fire” is the story of Arminel and Kyle.

Terrible hero.

Basically poor heroine who is a lawyer (btw, not that it matters to the story) travels to meet her boyfriend. She is instead harassed by the boyfriend’s family, including angry confrontation and assaults by the boyfriend’s brother. She Ofcourse falls for this piece of garbage who shames her and kicks her out after taking her v card.
She runs away, meets a sick man, marries him until she is widowed and a single mother years later. Hero re-enters just to sl u T shame and rev up her engine, and she forgives him just like that.

I need to travel back in time where I hadn’t read this abomination.

Unsafe
0/5

[Mareli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok, I cannot understand the hero. Was he stupid? Because I have some serious problems with his issues. Ok, when he meets the heroine he feels something and for this, he HATES her. He treats her really poorly and notwithstanding it, he decides to have sex with her (and she's a virgin!).

And then, he takes her to her plane, away from him and for 5 long years he doesn't think to speak to her again. Boh, I don't understand this kind of thing.

Both of them seem unrealistic people.

And besides, in 1984 in New Zealand women were still worried about losing virginity?

[sbf20112011 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent, angsty read. The hero was pretty mean most of the time, but in my mind he mostly made up for it by being obsessed with the heroine. I was left not really understanding how or why they finally reconciled, but satisfied that they had. Good, but not great, read.

[JillyB · Rating 3 out of 5]

One thing about many of RD heroes, is that once they have a grudge or in this case a misconception about the heroine, they hold onto it for dear life.

The hero, Kyle, is no exception. You see he is hopping mad that his younger brother
Rhys has become engaged to a beautiful raven haired natural beauty after only 3 weeks of knowing her. Obviously, she is a slutty gold digger. We know there is no way a beautiful poor woman could attract a wealthy man. Ok, I know that most wealthy men do like or are at least expected to marry in their tax bracket, and there is that whole caste system. I mean Jane Austen books were rife with rich vs poor. Oh poor pitiful H one mustn’t jump to conclusions. He took one look at the h and he knew he was hooked!

The h decides to go to New Zealand to get to know Rhys better. Even though he professed to love her, it was just a 3 week holiday and she isn’t sure if she was just taken up in the moment. The h arrives at the homestead to a very chilly reception. First, by the H who picks her up from the airport(the om is working) and then by their mother. You see mumsy wants Raf to marry Davina who comes from the right family. In fact, she has been pushing Davina on Rhys for quite sometime. Rhys took exception to this and told everyone that he was engaged to the h(but they weren’t) He convinces the h to go along with the ruse so mummy and big brother will back off. Reluctantly she agrees, and this is the beginning of her tragedy.

The interesting thing about this book, is that it starts with the hero putting the h on a plane back to her home. She is telling this whole story to a kindly gentleman passenger on a plane who became concerned when he saw the beautiful, young thing weeping uncontrollably. She tells him everything (or at least a clean version of it) And basically this is what happened(Spoiler Alert!).The h continues the ruse of fiance. The H can tell that she is not in love with his brother. The ow comes to stay, and it is obvious to everyone that there is real love between the brother and Davina, but he is too young or spoiled to notice it. The h and H keep dancing around their attraction for each other. After a few weeks he tells her that it is time for her to leave. She agrees. The night before she is to leave the om brother comes to her bedroom drunk. They talk and he passes out. A few hours later he wakes and goes to his room. Then in walks the angry hero. He is ok with sloppy seconds and hopes the h is up for the task because he is not taking no for an answer. They commence with the sex ( a few times) he doesn’t really take note of her virginity although it is obvious. He does manage to insult her a few times though. In the morning she wakes up by being slapped in the face by Rhys. It seems his brother forgot the whole “don’t kiss and tell”. In fact he he made sure his brother knew exactly what happened. So now Rhys thinks that innocent, “tried to do you a favor Arminel” is a slut as well and does his own slut shaming. What is the saying? No good deed goes unpunished? So the H takes the h to Auckland to get her flight. However, they are spending a night at some house he has there. This is probably the worse scene in the book, because the H is unrelentingly mean to the h. He is very upset that she had the ability to make him lose control the night before. He now sets the scene to humiliate her. He forces a confession from her that she loves him. He also offers the position of mistress, but takes it back. He is just super angry that she is a gold digging beauty that has gotten under his skin. They do not have sex again, and he takes her to the airport.

The plane has landed and the sympathetic gentlemen feels for the beautiful heroine. They go their separate ways. She starts looking for jobs in the newspaper and finds one for a lawyer. She shows up, and sitting in the office is the man from the plane. Dan(40 ish) is a very wealthy man. However, time is not on his side. He offers the h the position of wife and hopefully she can give him an heir. We fast forward 5 years. Dan has been gone for 2 years, and their daughter Felice is now 4. She is living in a tropical paradise, with her best friend. She has made friends, and is accepted (although some often wonder about her marriage to the older man). At this point our book is slightly more than 2/3 done so you know that the H has to pop back up. He does. Of course, her marrying a rich man 1 month after leaving him assures him that he was right about her gold digging status. It is obvious that these two have a lot of heat between them, and he seems to show up wherever she is. She tries her darndest to avoid him. She uses friends and whatever she can as shields against him. She responds to him politely but not effusively. She has only been living a 1/2 life since she left the H 5 years ago. She had affection for her husband(who loved her dearly), but it was really a mercy marriage on her part. She knew there would never be another man for her. After the H has a brush with death wind-sailing the h and H decide to put things out in the open. He confesses he has never gotten over her. That she bewitched him, and he has imagined that it was her in the last 5 years whenever he slept with a woman. (Ok, did we need to know that?) So I know being an RD hero he wasn’t going to be celibate, but really????Anyhoo, I am leaving a lot out here. She does explain about Dan. She also agrees to marrying the H. He seems to like Felice, and wants to put his own baby in the h asap. There is a little hiccup concerning their marriage, but I won’t ruin it here.

I am not positive why this was not a 4 for me. I mean the hero was cruel, but I guess he wasn’t the RD type of cruel I have learned to love. I just didn’t get a lot of angst, and it would have served the H right if the h told him now that she is rich she will keep him on as a lover.

Oh well, we do get to hear about the progression of their marriage briefly in the book A Late Loving It seems that they are on track and have expanded their family.

The thing I disliked most about the book is the fact that the H, despite his longings and unsatisfactory life never sought out the h. He just had that dog with a bone mentality and wasn’t giving an inch!

[Xai Xai · Rating 5 out of 5]

ANGST ANGST love this!!!!

[Vanessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars but only because I like that she moved on and I think she may have even found some happiness! :D

Arminel meets a young dashing Rhys and believes something can go on b/w them. He talks her into visiting his home and she goes. Okay, this is really a dumb move for her, because in order to go she quits her nice law office job for something that she doesn’t even know will go anywhere. Arminel isn’t even met at the airport by our childish, selfish, Rhys, but his older judgmental, nasty, cruel brother Kyle Beringer. From his first sighting of Arminel, Kyle didn’t seem to like her and his mother wasn’t very pleasant either. Heck, even Rhys didn’t spend much time w/ Arminel but left her to his brother to entertain. You know where this is going.

Kyle believes the beautiful Arminel is a gold-digger. Because you know his brother couldn’t get anyone unless he had millions to his name, right? His mother already has a bride picked out for the 22 year old. Kyle tempts, taunts, and abuses Arminel who sticks around trying to help the whiny Rhys avoid being pushed into a situation that isn’t his own decision. Yes, Rhys is using Arminel and later Kyle threatens her and uses her as well. I’m sorry, but he basically threatened her w/ rape unless she went away.

Kyle is pretty nasty and has no compunction about hooking up w/ Arminel despite his belief that she had literally just been w/ Rhys. We know differently and there is no acknowledgment from Kyle to this truth either. Soon he is kicking her to the curb and placing her on a plane where the young beauty is to further be exploited and used by OM. Yet, couldn’t think too poorly of this man as he wasn’t on the scene very long and he brought Arminel a LOT of happiness in the end.

Then Kyle is back on the scene thinking the worst of Arminel, showing his jealousy and still wanting her despite what rotten things he believes about her. My problem is that at no time had Kyle searched her out nor tried to make contact w/in a week of kicking her out. Nor do I know why their paths finally cross five years later. For some reason they seem to have friends in common and he decides to take up where they left off years ago.

He seemed mad that she had moved on never mind that he didn’t want her nor come back for her either, let alone worry about consequences. Nope in fact he seemed to think she could take care of the problem and he didn’t give a rat’s behind either, as he pretty much admitted to that when she questioned him. What is redeeming about this Hero? I can’t find anything. I can’t stand him and I get mad that she could be so weak as to go back to him. He even seems to rewrite history and apply certain manipulative techniques to Arminel w/ no real reasoning for it. What made him decide that she was up to know good and only wanted to pit brother against brother?

Kyle treats her horribly because he loves her and Arminel sticks around accepting whatever he can dish-out because she loves him! Yep so romantic….NOT!

[Nikki]

Whenever a hero in a romance says “I almost raped you”...that negates all the romance from the book. Our hero also calls the heroine a tart and a slut before sleeping(aka almost raping) her. Classy. The hero is plum crazy. His brother is plum stupid. And ever male character that sets eyes of the heroine loves her. The marriage? The kid? The return of the hero? This book is a mess after the heroine leaves. And that makes it skip worthy.

[Ethar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book about 5 times , it`s wonderful . The way he treated her in the beginning , and when he saw her after years , oh , wow , very big difference. But he sill struggle with his love to her. If you did not read it yet , then you should.

[Annarose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very intense read. Recommend for sure.

[Mara · Rating 1 out of 5]

If this is a believable HEA, I'm as beautiful as the heroine (aka the most beautiful woman in the world, or at least New Zealand).
Lack of real love aside, how the hell can the heroine forgive and forget that snob useless bitch that's his mother or the equally useful jerk he has as brother? 😒
Not that I could understand how he can be forgiven...

[Amy]

I never dnf but this book was so disturbing. I felt so uncomfortable because he was insanely toxic and aggressive and she saw that as love and i caaaaaan’t. Once the second rape scene (which apparently should be seen as something romantic) came up, I gave up.

[Fair Tulip · Rating 1 out of 5]

One star for myself to finish this awful book!

[Andrea .... e suas cafonices.]

Mais uma vez essa autora perdeu a oportunidade de fazer história não eliminando o H bosta. Quanta perda de tempo, quanto desperdício de papel. Deveria pagar multa por isso.

[Hanife · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bu yorum aynı zamanda Romancekolikte yayınlanmıştır.


Bu yorumu sana ithaf ediyorum Ballı! :D

Öhöm paslanmışmıyım ne yazmakta :) Öncelikle kitap kızımızın soğuk bir dalyan olarak tanımlanan Kyle tarafından havaalanına bırakılması ve uçağa binip artık tak diyen sinir hücrelerinin saldırısına uğrayıp uçakta zırıl zırıl ağlayıp içini 40 larında bir adama dökmeye başlamasıyla olaylar start alıyor.

Hikayemizin İçerdikleri;
1.Aşağı tükürsen sakal yukarı tükürsen bıyık iyi mi kötü belli olmayan maçoluğun, alaycılığın, zalimliğin, zenginliğin kitabını yazmış bıçkın delikanlı bir baş erkek. (Kyle)

2. Omurgasız, bencil, dünyaya pembiş gözlüklerle bakmış kazık kadar olmuş 22 yaşında olan kızımızı sevdiğini sanan, kızımızında sevdiğini sandığı, biricik şımartılmış evlat ve baby brother Ryhs.

3. Küçük oğluyla aşırı yakın ve onu istediğiyle evlendirmek isteyen, bu yoldada kızımızın evde istenmediğini hissettirmekte üstüne bulamayacağınız cadı kaynana tipi.

4. Omurgasızı sevebilecek kadar yüce gönüllüğe sahip, temiz aile kızı Danielle (Adı yanlış olabilir :D)

5. Bahtsız, zavallı, çabuk kanan, saf ve pak taze 19luk kızımız.


Hikayemize gelirsek kızımız bir tatilde bu omurgasız Ryhs ile tanışır ve üç hafta sonra bizim oğlan evine döner ama kızın evini ziyaret etmesinde ısrar eder. Bizimkide pespembe hayallerle gidipte havaalanında 2 saat bekletilince bir soğuk su etkisi olmuştur o hayallere. Birde onu karşılamaya geçte olsa gelen Rhys değilde büyük abisidir. Tabi adam şöööyle bir baktıran cinsten olunca arada bir kıvılcım kaçağı olmuştur ama ikili bunu çaktırmaz. Zaten adam mendebur aksinin teki. Habire laf sokmaktan başka bir iş yaptığı yok. Eve giderler. İkinci raund başlar. Süper kaynana bildiğin kızı nüfus memuru gibi hesaba sokar. Kızımız gene ya sabır çekerek nazik davranır. Ama Ryhs'ın bu duruma gık dememesi sabrını taşırır ve oğlanı kenara çeker ve şikayete başlar. O zaman dank eder kıza. Bu saftirik onu zorla evlendirmekten kaçmak için bir araç olarak kullanıyordur. Kız allahın verdiği aklı kullanmayarak bu oyunu devam ettirir ve onu cehennem gibi günler beklemektedir.

Kyle ile arasındaki kaçak elektrik alev alır bir gün ve adam bunu uyarır. Kızım yolumdan uzak dur yoksa bu işin sonu yatakta biter der. Kızda zaten adam için hissettiklerinden utanmakta olduğundan adamdan köşe bucak saklanır. Ama bu sefer oğlan bir bahanelerle kızı gezdirmeye at binmeye götürür. Gene böyle günlerden birinde kıza hemen yarın gitmesini, bu saçmalığın - kardeşiyle nişanlılığının- yeterince sürdüğünü ve artık bir son verilmesi gerektiğini söyler. Yoksa bu işe kendi bir son verecektir ve o yöntemlerdende çok zevk alacağını dile getirir. Kızımızda eve gidince ertesi gün ayrılmaya niyetlenmiştir. Ama kurguya, yazar uyuzluk edecek, bize tırnaklarımızı yedirecek ya! O gece Ryhs sarhoş olur. Yemekten sonra kız odasına çıkacak ben eşlik edeyim deyipte yatakta sızmasın mı! 2 saat sonra uyanıp defolup gidiyor odadan ama ah artık çok geç. Kız giyinip yatağa girmesinden salise sonra odada Kyle biter. Ryhs'a veda şekli yüzünden onu cezalandırmaya gelmiştir. Kardeşiyle aralarında bir şey geçtiğini sanıyordur. Kız anlatır gerçekleri ama Kyle dinlemez. Amacına kızın isteksizliğine rağmen ulaşır. Sonradanda kız bırakmaz onu. Bu da işin tuhafı işte neyse. 2 gün sonra Kyle kızı uçağa bindirip postalar. Kızımız uçaktan indikten sonra Kyle'ın onun için kayıt yaptırdığı otele gider ama bir gece kalıp çıkar oradan ve iş aramaya başlar. Salak Ryhs için caaaanım işinden vazcaymıştır. Sonracığıma efenim 10 gün sonra ajans bizim kızı bir iş görüşmesi için çağırır ve görüşmek için girdiği odada uçakta derdini döktüğü adamı bulmaz mı! Adam ilk başta kızı oğlanla barıştırmaya çalışma gibi bir manevra yapsada sonra asıl niyetini açıklar. Doktorlar 3 4 yıl içinde öleceklerini demişmiş çocuğu yokmuşmuş bizim kız onunla evlenirmiymiş. Benim şokumla evlendiler bide kızları oldu mu! - son dakikaya kadar o çocuğun Kyle dan olduğu ümidini taşıyan benin gerçekler karşısında ki hayal kırıklığını siz tahmin.- Hikaye o günden beş yıl sonrasından devam ediyor. Bu uçaktaki adam yani Dan ölmüş bizim kız iki yıldır dul. Kızıda dört yaşında. Fijide cillop gibi villasındaki yan komşusunun canı parti çekmiş vermiş ve misafiride var. Zaten anladınız o misafiri. İşte bunlar birbirlerini gördüklerinde gene efendime söyleyeyim bir alev bir alev ki uf :D Bizim oğlanda yalnız hiç bir düzelme yok. Gene aynı pislik tavırlara tam gaz devam hani :D Son ana kadarda aynı şeyleri yapıyor. Sonra 360 derece dönesi geldi de hikaye happy endine kavuştu :D

Yine bir HanifeAlbayrak yorumunu okudunuz. Teşekkürler. Yenilerinde görüşmek dileğiyle!

[أجمل زهرة · Rating 3 out of 5]

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الزهرة والحجر- روايات احلام

[Νίνα Δοδούδη · Rating 5 out of 5]

ΠΟΛΥ ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΟ!!!!! ΠΟΛΥ ΞΕΧΩΡΙΣΤΟ!!!!

[Ivana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kyle Allah senin belanı versin tamammı.Manyak adam tüm sinirlerimi bozdun kitap boyunca.
kıza da sinirliyim bu adamı hala nasıl seve biliyor ve evlenme teklifini nasıl kabul etti hala anlamış değilim



zaten kitapta sinirlerime dokunmayan karakter yoktu ki,Rhys denilen şapşaldan mı bahs edeyim,biricik oğlunu iyi aile kızı Davina ile evlendirme derdinde olan kaynanadan mı? Yoksa kıza yapmadığını bırakmayan büyük yakışıklı zalim kötü abiden mi?Ne kadar uyuz karakter var hepsini bu kitaba topladığı için yazarı alkışlamak lazım



bir tek kızın kocası Dani sevdim galiba ama bu kadar uyuz karakter arasında çok az yazmış onu da.

[Julz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't follow the usual insta-baby formula.