DNF 40%
Wow. This is an insult to women, models, drug addicts, fake mafia boyfriends, Texas...and probably more, but I never finished the book, so I don't know.
It starts with the MFC (didn't bother remembering her name), an underwear model, snorting cocaine at a party while having some deep emotional reaction to some big "trauma" in her past. That should have been a red flag, but I continued.
Turns out she has a stalker. The first real glimpse of this dude is him claiming that he needs to impregnate her - again for some "mysterious" reason. He's not very good at his stalking tactics though because he has no idea what her job is.
There are so many inconsistencies in this story it gave me whiplash.
Moving on... so, when she tells him what her job is, he demands that she never does it again, kidnaps her, and then kills the men who he hired to kidnap her - it could have been 3 or 4. It started as 3, then there were 4 dead bodies, then there were only 3 again. Who knows.
Anyway... they sit down for a meal (I guess) and he wants her to remove her underwear. And her, being the stupidest person I have ever had the misfortune of reading decides to bet for him to leave him alone. However, as soon as they agree to play this game, the rules change and they play a completely different game. But that's not important.
He wants her to guess something that he can't afford to buy. The first thing she says is... a gemstone. A big gemstone, but a stone none the less. Okay, so she loses her underwear, then she asks for a check for a billion dollars (I can see SO many loopholes to that one, but whatever), and she loses all her clothes. Then, she guesses the Eiffel Tower, and he LOSES HIS GODDAMN MIND and tells her to get out of her sight.
This man, the one who didn't want her modeling underwear, had her walk home (which was never explained how she got home without being attacked or arrested) COMPLETELY NAKED.
But lets keep going... so she's a drug addict and chooses to buy drugs in the most obvious possible way, and he catches her. Of course, he then has to punish her for trying to poison his baby-making vessel and they end up having sex on the floor of a nightclub bathroom. Can you imagine a grosser spot to do anything? Let alone have your naked body on it?
So many other little random things keep happening. He turns from a trillionaire to a billionaire (Tony Stark wasn't even a trillionaire, give me a break) in a matter of pages. Meanwhile, she is apparently the poorest rich person ever. She drives a sports car and has designer clothes, but he takes her to a boutique and then all of a sudden she doesn't know how to act around expensive clothes.
They are both horribly written characters and I have no idea why anyone would enjoy their story. Their hidden traumas are the least traumatic a trauma can be, and their personalities are all over the place.
I could probably go on and on, but I need to wipe this book from my memory. Let's just say, it was one of the worst books I have ever read - or tried to read.