Law and Sydney are Likeable
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Law is a Morelli, one of identical triplets that belong to a crime family and is the wild card, unhinged and likely to be set off at any moment. He enjoys getting his hands wet and inspires fear in those who know his name on the streets. Law sees Sydney at a hotel bar and wants her. Sydney is a recent divorcee, or so she thinks, and likes what she sees in Law immediately but is surprised that this British accented stud is interested in her over the tall blond woman who had been eyeballing Law. After some chatting, Law and Sydney decide to get lost together and head back to her room. Hours of talking and enjoying one another's company later and the conversation turns to one more sexual in nature and even though Law didn't come to Sydney's room for this purpose, eye roll, their mutual attraction send them to available horizontal surfaces to sate their desires. From there, Law is hooked and wants more from Sydney than he's ever wanted from any other woman. Possessive Law shows his true colors and Sydney is his, no matter what she has to say in the matter. The rest of the book is bouncing between Law's job that he fulfills for his family, learning about the bond he has with his brothers, exploring Law and Sydney as a couple, and danger.
I liked Law and Sydney. Their backgrounds could've used some more information, particularly Sydney's and especially when she's snatched. I was really enjoying the setup for the most part up to 90% when Sydney was going on about Law keeping things from her, I just rolled my eyes. Overreacting just to be contrary and especially since I knew whatever ire she had wasn't going to last. That she turns her phone off when she's likely to be a target not only as Law's liability but because for whatever reason her husband who she thought she'd divorced had put a bounty on Sydney's head for capture. Then she's taken. Not only is she taken, it's right after her best friend Hailey is talking mad trash about how capable the women are in comparison to the men. Hailey was shot and hanging on to life, her brothers were also shot, not sure if they'll live. Not much given afterward because Sydney was being held somewhere for approximately 20 days waiting for George to pay her kidnappers. Only George tells them to just kill her and and him proof and he'll pay. But they don't. So I didn't get it. If the kidnappers are out for money, why continue to keep Sydney alive? Tossing her off the balcony to her death seems prudent and no skin off their bones for having done it, plus it gets rid of her as their problem. In any case, after threatening to let his men have their way with her and then killing Sydney if her husband doesn't pay up, the day has come for the rape, mutilation, and murder. Only just as it's actually going to happen, brains are splattered as a sniper takes the men out. Up and over the balcony like an avenging antihero comes Law to the rescue and the book ends. Crap ending I thought, including all of the glossed over parts of Sydney's abduction and captivity.