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A Marriage of Discretion
“Will you have a mistress?”
“I will always be discreet.”
After a rocky and reluctant start to their arranged marriage, it doesn't take long for socialite Millie Davenport to throw herself into the role of a dutiful wife by day, and an enthusiastic lover by night.
But when a chance encounter with her husband's latest fling leaves her rattled, Alessio's promise of discretion throws a wrench in their marriage, and she soon finds herself disillusioned.
Hotel magnate Alessio Ferrante didn't need or want a wife. But with the promise of a lucrative business merger, Alessio reluctantly agreed to marry the beautiful and prickly Millie.
Soon, he sees another side to his young wife, and his marriage of convenience becomes his greatest asset.
But when a stupid mistake threatens his carefully curated life, Alessio must set aside his pride and confront his true feelings for a wife who is starting to feel not so convenient.
Author This is a fast-paced novella set in a world of decadence and privilege . Contains cheating.
“I will always be discreet.”
After a rocky and reluctant start to their arranged marriage, it doesn't take long for socialite Millie Davenport to throw herself into the role of a dutiful wife by day, and an enthusiastic lover by night.
But when a chance encounter with her husband's latest fling leaves her rattled, Alessio's promise of discretion throws a wrench in their marriage, and she soon finds herself disillusioned.
Hotel magnate Alessio Ferrante didn't need or want a wife. But with the promise of a lucrative business merger, Alessio reluctantly agreed to marry the beautiful and prickly Millie.
Soon, he sees another side to his young wife, and his marriage of convenience becomes his greatest asset.
But when a stupid mistake threatens his carefully curated life, Alessio must set aside his pride and confront his true feelings for a wife who is starting to feel not so convenient.
Author This is a fast-paced novella set in a world of decadence and privilege . Contains cheating.
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Published December 30, 2025
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December 30, 2025
I’m in a Facebook group where this author teased this book. I thought, FINALLY! A cheating book where the heroine also gets to have affairs because the man she is married to is living life like he’s single. Especially after one of his mistresses confronts the heroine at some event. Then the author made it seem like that’s okay because the heroine is also having discreet affairs and I was looking forward to the fall out and drama of it all.
But it was odd because the heroine’s words, actions and inner thoughts just didn’t sell me on that notion so I figured it was going to go the way too many romance books goes these days. And what do you know? I was right. There was some guy she might have fooled around with but she couldn’t possibly have slept with another man even though she knows the husband she’s in love with is sleeping with other women. Such a fucking cop out. And then the author tried to make it out like it wasn’t that bad on his side but by then the damage had been done. Oh, and of course he had a reason why he had to cheat because god forbid he take some accountability for his actions. Let’s not get started on his dad having an excuse why all the men in his family cheat - including himself 🙄
I hate when authors gaslight you into thinking the book is going to be one thing but it turns out to be a typical cheating story where the husband gets to have fun but the heroine just couldn’t possibly because she loves him too much 🙄
Waste of my fucking time.
But it was odd because the heroine’s words, actions and inner thoughts just didn’t sell me on that notion so I figured it was going to go the way too many romance books goes these days. And what do you know? I was right. There was some guy she might have fooled around with but she couldn’t possibly have slept with another man even though she knows the husband she’s in love with is sleeping with other women. Such a fucking cop out. And then the author tried to make it out like it wasn’t that bad on his side but by then the damage had been done. Oh, and of course he had a reason why he had to cheat because god forbid he take some accountability for his actions. Let’s not get started on his dad having an excuse why all the men in his family cheat - including himself 🙄
I hate when authors gaslight you into thinking the book is going to be one thing but it turns out to be a typical cheating story where the husband gets to have fun but the heroine just couldn’t possibly because she loves him too much 🙄
Waste of my fucking time.
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December 30, 2025
i am not in the mood today
he has multiple affairs in their three years of marriage but the second he thinks his wife is having one all of a sudden he wants a closed marriage and then proceeds to threaten to ruin the OM if she continues to interact with him, hypocritical dickbag
and ofc she couldn’t go through with her affair even when she had the chance 🤡🤡🤡 these authors are such cowards, there has been 194866 variations of this story it’s the same double standards bs every time i’m sick of it
he has multiple affairs in their three years of marriage but the second he thinks his wife is having one all of a sudden he wants a closed marriage and then proceeds to threaten to ruin the OM if she continues to interact with him, hypocritical dickbag
and ofc she couldn’t go through with her affair even when she had the chance 🤡🤡🤡 these authors are such cowards, there has been 194866 variations of this story it’s the same double standards bs every time i’m sick of it
January 3, 2026
A blazing dumpster fire if I’ve ever seen one. I don’t care if the author disclosed there would be cheating in this, the audacity to call this buffoonery a romance has my eyes bugging out. Like damn, please do better. If you’re expecting grovel, based off these 5 star ARC reviews, don’t hold your breath. I really should have known better because this author has never managed to write a FMC or MMC that I actually liked. h is a covert doormat, I was almost fooled but you’ll see why.
Ok so here we begin with a marriage of convenience between Millie (h) and Alessio (H). He’s an Italian businessman and she’s an English hotelier’s daughter. She doesn’t want anything to do with the family business but daddy wants to keep his legacy. So he agrees to sell the business to H’s family if he marries his daughter. Oh and at the time of this marriage, she’s a month shy of her 19th birthday while he’s well into his 20s. He’s also a well known playboy and she’s a teenage virgin.
Anyways, they meet for their first arranged date and it’s clear she has no choice in this marriage. Then he flat out tells her he’ll have mistresses but he’ll be discreet lol. Apparently despite approaching his fourth decade of life he isn’t ready for marriage. They get married and he promptly dumps her at his family’s English estate in the country for 7 MONTHS while he’s fucking around. During this time he had two mistresses which he went through in quick succession because they couldn’t hold his interest when he kept thinking about his wife. Funny how he claims this but didn’t respond to her for literal months lol. She starts charging up his black card, while he ignores all her messages. She starts buying horse feed instead of diamonds and suddenly he’s like, wow she’s not like other girls let me see what wifey is up to. He walks in on her flirting with the farm hand, silently loses his shit and takes her to see his family in Sicily.
Here he starts to make an effort to know her, they get comfortable with each other. This leads up to them finally sleeping together and her losing her v card. She tell him she loves him. He tells her he wants to change things and make a real effort of their marriage, which she assumes means fidelity. Only for her to over hear him making plans to see his mistress (Marguerite?) in Paris 2 days later. Yep ouch. There’s your cheap emotional gut punch. So h is like ok this is the reality of my marriage atleast I know and then go about their married life.
So in the present day, they’ve been married for a few years. The couple is at a charity gala when h runs into Annabelle (OW) at a charity gala bathroom and she tells her she slept with her man. Millie is pissed because that’s not what H promised her. She tells him what happened and he’s like I’m so sorry I’ll be MORE discreet NEXT time. Jokes yall. So she’s pissed and he knows he fucked up. So he tries to be an attentive husband, come earlier and be more present. She decides she’s done with this stale life of being perfect wife and organizing parties for him, she enrolls in vet school. Since she was a teenage bride she never pursued anything past high school. He’s like ok, cause he’s in the dog house.
On his side of things, he ended his dalliance with OW and threatened her father’s struggling business if she approached his wife again. He’s not happy about vet school but agrees to keep h happy. h starts to build her own life outside of him. She has a study group where she meets flirtatious OM (Archie) and they hit it off. She goes out with her friends to drink one night, H picks her up while she’s talking to OM and he loses his shit a little out of jealousy. She’s like I’ll be discreet UNLIKE you. He’s silent but pissed.
After this he gets pulled into work and stops being a model husband. He’s working all the time again. She runs into OW agin Christmas shopping and she’s like look at what your man bought me, ok I’m off to go see him. She’s pissed and decides two can play this game. This culminates in her walking into a hotel wearing the most ostentatious disguise, only to be caught leaving with OM in tow by her husband. He drags her to her car and asks if they slept together only to get verbally slapped when she’s like atleast I was discreet. They end up in a cold war again. By the way this is all so pointless because we find out later she didn’t even fuck him, they just talked and some oral happened. She’s demisexual and conveniently can’t have casual sex even to get even with her cheating husband. So yeah don’t be fooled by these reviews claiming she got hers too. Her husband cheated on her SEVERAL times throughout their marriage while she couldn’t even go through with the deed conveniently.
Shit happens blah blah. He asks to close the marriage. You know the open marriage she didn’t even know she was in, because he assumed she’d never sleep with anyone. So he was fucking around all this time until she went to vet school. She’s like that’s funny but no. So he gets pissed and threatens OM’s family if she seems him again. They stop talking to each other. She doesn’t seek out OM again after this point. Then they go to Sicily for the holidays, he asks again about closing the marriage and says he won’t take another mistress no matter what she decides. I think the book could have easily bumped up to 3/4 stars if she evened the scales here but no she says she’ll THINK about it.
She starts to feel weird over the holidays because their families have such a skewed conception of their marriage. He asks if he succeeded in making her happy again because she was genuinely happy the first time they were in Sicily. She tells him what she overheard aafter their first time. He feels bad but she admits that she accepted it because that’s what her parents marriage was like. She realizes she wants to separate while back with her family in the London. She decides to file in the New Year after speaking to her dad about the logistics of splitting their businesses. H gives her a ring with massive diamonds. Then tells her she’s his wife so he won’t let her go, he paid for her and now he wants his moneys worth. Literally disgusting AF because not long after this, the author tries to convince us H has been in love ALL along lmfao.
So they resume a Cold War for months when back in London. He goes to work, she goes to school. H’s dad comes to visit to try and smooth things over. Apparently H is barely working and can’t focus. He then drops the bomb that h’s dad felt bad about forcing her to marry for his business. So he tried to change the terms so it wouldn’t require marriage to hand over the business. However H insisted on meeting h first, then after the meeting insisted they would marry and he’d pay a higher price for the business. Apparently H is apprehensive of love because his mother wasn’t motherly and abandoned him after the divorce. Then H’s dad kept falling in love and bringing home stepmoms with the latest being a family friend who is basically his age. So yeah mommy and daddy issues make his abhorrence forgivable 🤮. Daddy insists that H truly loves h but if they’re not happy, he’ll support her. The actual audacity of the author I cannot.
So h decides to take a piss on her dignity again and lure H to a hotel room bc he clearly loved her from the start 🎉. H is contemplating giving h the divorce she wants. In his thought process, he claims it was ok for him to have mistresses because he can separate love and sex. However his virgin wife couldn’t, and she’s clearly falling for OM! He gets a call from h’s driver telling him she’s checking into a hotel. He flips his shit and runs over to the hotel room looking for OM while she’s posing in bed wearing lingerie. He rampages and is like where is he?? I’m the only for you and then they have sex.
After he’s like oh yeah who were you gonna meet and she’s like you. They talk about their relationship. She admits she never had actual penetrative sex with OM because she just COULDN’T cross that boundary. Even though doormat sat at home happily for literal years while H fucked around on her. He admits that even though he knew he was falling he kept cheating because he thought sleeping with OW meant she didn’t control him. Yeah ok. He’s only had two mistresses since Sicily when their relationship “officially” began. One being Marguerite who he only saw a handful of times, he stopped soon after Sicily. Then Annabelle who he only slept with once ok? BUT after this time he drew up a formal mistress contract with Annabelle, then changed his mind and threw it out. Probably why OW was so pissed she approached h. And the reason why cheated again after he was so good for a while? Oh because he saw other men checking h out at a gala. Yeah ok. There is literally nothing and I mean nothing cute about a 30 something emotionally stunted man child who fucks around because he couldn’t handle his own jealousy. Like maybe if he spent more time at home, he’d feel more secure in his own relationship. But yeah go fuck around, that’s how you make sure your wife stays with you.
The actual cringe of reading about this doormat h in denial because she loves her husband when she knows he’s clearly up to shit. She wouldn’t even unpack his suitcase for years for fear of being faced with his BS. It is never mentioned if he had unprotected sex with these women either. But she’s been so in love with him since he took her virginity, even after hearing him plan to see his mistress literally TWO days after this event.
They end up together. He takes her to Sicily again a year later. Where we see the rest of the family again. Including his sister, nieces, and cheating BIL, who he has the actual audacity to look down upon as if H is some loyal paragon. He asks to marry h again for real. Barf, good riddance. This story was about as romantic as chewing glass. She does not get her revenge. Author wants to do a story about cheating BIL and sister next. No fucking thank you.
Ok so here we begin with a marriage of convenience between Millie (h) and Alessio (H). He’s an Italian businessman and she’s an English hotelier’s daughter. She doesn’t want anything to do with the family business but daddy wants to keep his legacy. So he agrees to sell the business to H’s family if he marries his daughter. Oh and at the time of this marriage, she’s a month shy of her 19th birthday while he’s well into his 20s. He’s also a well known playboy and she’s a teenage virgin.
Anyways, they meet for their first arranged date and it’s clear she has no choice in this marriage. Then he flat out tells her he’ll have mistresses but he’ll be discreet lol. Apparently despite approaching his fourth decade of life he isn’t ready for marriage. They get married and he promptly dumps her at his family’s English estate in the country for 7 MONTHS while he’s fucking around. During this time he had two mistresses which he went through in quick succession because they couldn’t hold his interest when he kept thinking about his wife. Funny how he claims this but didn’t respond to her for literal months lol. She starts charging up his black card, while he ignores all her messages. She starts buying horse feed instead of diamonds and suddenly he’s like, wow she’s not like other girls let me see what wifey is up to. He walks in on her flirting with the farm hand, silently loses his shit and takes her to see his family in Sicily.
Here he starts to make an effort to know her, they get comfortable with each other. This leads up to them finally sleeping together and her losing her v card. She tell him she loves him. He tells her he wants to change things and make a real effort of their marriage, which she assumes means fidelity. Only for her to over hear him making plans to see his mistress (Marguerite?) in Paris 2 days later. Yep ouch. There’s your cheap emotional gut punch. So h is like ok this is the reality of my marriage atleast I know and then go about their married life.
So in the present day, they’ve been married for a few years. The couple is at a charity gala when h runs into Annabelle (OW) at a charity gala bathroom and she tells her she slept with her man. Millie is pissed because that’s not what H promised her. She tells him what happened and he’s like I’m so sorry I’ll be MORE discreet NEXT time. Jokes yall. So she’s pissed and he knows he fucked up. So he tries to be an attentive husband, come earlier and be more present. She decides she’s done with this stale life of being perfect wife and organizing parties for him, she enrolls in vet school. Since she was a teenage bride she never pursued anything past high school. He’s like ok, cause he’s in the dog house.
On his side of things, he ended his dalliance with OW and threatened her father’s struggling business if she approached his wife again. He’s not happy about vet school but agrees to keep h happy. h starts to build her own life outside of him. She has a study group where she meets flirtatious OM (Archie) and they hit it off. She goes out with her friends to drink one night, H picks her up while she’s talking to OM and he loses his shit a little out of jealousy. She’s like I’ll be discreet UNLIKE you. He’s silent but pissed.
After this he gets pulled into work and stops being a model husband. He’s working all the time again. She runs into OW agin Christmas shopping and she’s like look at what your man bought me, ok I’m off to go see him. She’s pissed and decides two can play this game. This culminates in her walking into a hotel wearing the most ostentatious disguise, only to be caught leaving with OM in tow by her husband. He drags her to her car and asks if they slept together only to get verbally slapped when she’s like atleast I was discreet. They end up in a cold war again. By the way this is all so pointless because we find out later she didn’t even fuck him, they just talked and some oral happened. She’s demisexual and conveniently can’t have casual sex even to get even with her cheating husband. So yeah don’t be fooled by these reviews claiming she got hers too. Her husband cheated on her SEVERAL times throughout their marriage while she couldn’t even go through with the deed conveniently.
Shit happens blah blah. He asks to close the marriage. You know the open marriage she didn’t even know she was in, because he assumed she’d never sleep with anyone. So he was fucking around all this time until she went to vet school. She’s like that’s funny but no. So he gets pissed and threatens OM’s family if she seems him again. They stop talking to each other. She doesn’t seek out OM again after this point. Then they go to Sicily for the holidays, he asks again about closing the marriage and says he won’t take another mistress no matter what she decides. I think the book could have easily bumped up to 3/4 stars if she evened the scales here but no she says she’ll THINK about it.
She starts to feel weird over the holidays because their families have such a skewed conception of their marriage. He asks if he succeeded in making her happy again because she was genuinely happy the first time they were in Sicily. She tells him what she overheard aafter their first time. He feels bad but she admits that she accepted it because that’s what her parents marriage was like. She realizes she wants to separate while back with her family in the London. She decides to file in the New Year after speaking to her dad about the logistics of splitting their businesses. H gives her a ring with massive diamonds. Then tells her she’s his wife so he won’t let her go, he paid for her and now he wants his moneys worth. Literally disgusting AF because not long after this, the author tries to convince us H has been in love ALL along lmfao.
So they resume a Cold War for months when back in London. He goes to work, she goes to school. H’s dad comes to visit to try and smooth things over. Apparently H is barely working and can’t focus. He then drops the bomb that h’s dad felt bad about forcing her to marry for his business. So he tried to change the terms so it wouldn’t require marriage to hand over the business. However H insisted on meeting h first, then after the meeting insisted they would marry and he’d pay a higher price for the business. Apparently H is apprehensive of love because his mother wasn’t motherly and abandoned him after the divorce. Then H’s dad kept falling in love and bringing home stepmoms with the latest being a family friend who is basically his age. So yeah mommy and daddy issues make his abhorrence forgivable 🤮. Daddy insists that H truly loves h but if they’re not happy, he’ll support her. The actual audacity of the author I cannot.
So h decides to take a piss on her dignity again and lure H to a hotel room bc he clearly loved her from the start 🎉. H is contemplating giving h the divorce she wants. In his thought process, he claims it was ok for him to have mistresses because he can separate love and sex. However his virgin wife couldn’t, and she’s clearly falling for OM! He gets a call from h’s driver telling him she’s checking into a hotel. He flips his shit and runs over to the hotel room looking for OM while she’s posing in bed wearing lingerie. He rampages and is like where is he?? I’m the only for you and then they have sex.
After he’s like oh yeah who were you gonna meet and she’s like you. They talk about their relationship. She admits she never had actual penetrative sex with OM because she just COULDN’T cross that boundary. Even though doormat sat at home happily for literal years while H fucked around on her. He admits that even though he knew he was falling he kept cheating because he thought sleeping with OW meant she didn’t control him. Yeah ok. He’s only had two mistresses since Sicily when their relationship “officially” began. One being Marguerite who he only saw a handful of times, he stopped soon after Sicily. Then Annabelle who he only slept with once ok? BUT after this time he drew up a formal mistress contract with Annabelle, then changed his mind and threw it out. Probably why OW was so pissed she approached h. And the reason why cheated again after he was so good for a while? Oh because he saw other men checking h out at a gala. Yeah ok. There is literally nothing and I mean nothing cute about a 30 something emotionally stunted man child who fucks around because he couldn’t handle his own jealousy. Like maybe if he spent more time at home, he’d feel more secure in his own relationship. But yeah go fuck around, that’s how you make sure your wife stays with you.
The actual cringe of reading about this doormat h in denial because she loves her husband when she knows he’s clearly up to shit. She wouldn’t even unpack his suitcase for years for fear of being faced with his BS. It is never mentioned if he had unprotected sex with these women either. But she’s been so in love with him since he took her virginity, even after hearing him plan to see his mistress literally TWO days after this event.
They end up together. He takes her to Sicily again a year later. Where we see the rest of the family again. Including his sister, nieces, and cheating BIL, who he has the actual audacity to look down upon as if H is some loyal paragon. He asks to marry h again for real. Barf, good riddance. This story was about as romantic as chewing glass. She does not get her revenge. Author wants to do a story about cheating BIL and sister next. No fucking thank you.
safety-alert
January 1, 2026self note:
the only thing that could make ALL of cheating books better is if author’s not afraid to write the FMC having amazing sex life outside of MMC and being nasty at that disease ridden manho
the only thing that could make ALL of cheating books better is if author’s not afraid to write the FMC having amazing sex life outside of MMC and being nasty at that disease ridden manho
January 7, 2026
Theirs is a marriage of convenience
But amicable, passionate and mostly respectful
He's terrified to give in to his growing feelings to her
On paper, he cheats
Realistically, they have an agreement that he will have mistresses but will always be discreet - "out of sight, out of mind"
Until his latest mistress, an idiot, decides to confront the h in public
Game over
🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️
POSSIBLE SPOILERS
🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️
She realises some home truths, makes positive changes in quite a few aspects of her life
She loves him very much and while she struggles to put that aside she does move on as best she can.
She takes a lover of sorts
On paper, she cheats
Realistically, they're basically in an open marriage so...goose/gander
Until he catches them
My favourite part of this book. LOL
The grovel/redemption/growth:
He doesn't know what hit him
He panics and acts like a senseless fool
Then he wants a closed marriage now that he realises he feels more for her than mere trophy-wife-love
She flat-out refuses
The floundering idiot threatens the om's family
Then he BEGS:
"Please. Please do not be with anybody else. I cannot bear it. I don't care if you do not love me, because I love you enough for the both of us. If you give our marriage a chance—a real chance this time, I promise to be the best husband in the world to you. I'll be faithful, loving, I'll put you first above everything—business, money, my family."
"I'll do anything you ask. Tell me what you want and it's yours," I begged. "Just please don't leave me. Please do not divorce me. I can be better, do better."
Her lover of sorts:
"We kissed. A lot. And…there was some heavy petting and…a little oral." His eyes closed, and I quickly moved on. "I wasn't ready to take the final step. Like I said, I needed to build emotional intimacy with someone first. So we'd talk, order food, and watch movies, and-and cuddle."
But amicable, passionate and mostly respectful
He's terrified to give in to his growing feelings to her
On paper, he cheats
Realistically, they have an agreement that he will have mistresses but will always be discreet - "out of sight, out of mind"
Until his latest mistress, an idiot, decides to confront the h in public
Game over
🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️
POSSIBLE SPOILERS
🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️🚨‼️
She realises some home truths, makes positive changes in quite a few aspects of her life
She loves him very much and while she struggles to put that aside she does move on as best she can.
She takes a lover of sorts
On paper, she cheats
Realistically, they're basically in an open marriage so...goose/gander
Until he catches them
My favourite part of this book. LOL
The grovel/redemption/growth:
He doesn't know what hit him
He panics and acts like a senseless fool
Then he wants a closed marriage now that he realises he feels more for her than mere trophy-wife-love
She flat-out refuses
The floundering idiot threatens the om's family
Then he BEGS:
"Please. Please do not be with anybody else. I cannot bear it. I don't care if you do not love me, because I love you enough for the both of us. If you give our marriage a chance—a real chance this time, I promise to be the best husband in the world to you. I'll be faithful, loving, I'll put you first above everything—business, money, my family."
"I'll do anything you ask. Tell me what you want and it's yours," I begged. "Just please don't leave me. Please do not divorce me. I can be better, do better."
Her lover of sorts:
"We kissed. A lot. And…there was some heavy petting and…a little oral." His eyes closed, and I quickly moved on. "I wasn't ready to take the final step. Like I said, I needed to build emotional intimacy with someone first. So we'd talk, order food, and watch movies, and-and cuddle."
December 31, 2025
This is a novella where they're strangers who get married for Rich Person Reasons, he's upfront with her from the start that he plans to have mistresses. Then, when the heroine gets tired of that being their status quo, things change.
My 3 star rating is not because he cheats, or doesn't really grovel. I knew that going into this book. It's in the blurb! I'm willing to read cheating, I just gave 4 stars to Silent Flames. So, I'm not being one of those reviewers who is like, "how can an author write cheating, that must mean they are pro-cheating! I hate cheating, even though the author TOLD me that's in this book, I will read their book anyway, for some reason, and rage at them for daring to write it!"
Anyway. My 3 star rating is because this felt like a rough draft of an idea. This story has good bones, but needs to be fleshed out. I know that it's a novella, so maybe it should have been a full length book. It felt like it was skimming the surface of the story, summarizing it for us, rather than immersing us in it. Also, I had no idea that she cheats in return, I was pleasantly surprised, I loved that. I'm always looking for a cheating story where the heroine gets with another man, before ending up back with her cheating husband, to give him a taste of his own medicine. But I hated that this book made me excited about that, and then pulled the rug out from under me, like, "actually, she never fucked the other man." Such a cop out. Such an act of creative cowardice, for the story to have her revenge-cheat, only to later soften it and walk it back.
I expected the hero to not grovel, and to bulldoze her, because the blurb implies that. So I'm not mad that he doesn't grovel. But, he......barely even bulldozes or fights for her? They spend most of the middle of the story apart. And they weren't doing anything interesting while they were apart. They were just vibing, while this story was spinning its wheels, wasting time.
This author seems to like doing that - keeping her characters apart, when the point of a romance is to see them interact, even when their interactions aren't good. Like in her other book Maria Undone, the hero and heroine spend a huge chunk of the book apart. As Cate C Wells showed in her much better recent cheating book, Silent Flames, you need to put the characters in a room together, so that they can argue, throw things, hurt each other through minor gestures. Crash into each other, and have sparks happen. If you put them in separate rooms, there's no opportunity for any of that. And then it just becomes a story about 2 people vaguely orbiting each other, before coming together at the end. That's not very interesting to read.
This book seems to be an old-timey romance set in the modern day, so it also could have spent time digging into that more. Like, they get married for Rich People reasons, and he tells her upfront that he will have discrete mistresses - it feels very Harlequin, very Old World, Old Money. But, social media is mentioned, so it's set today. And it's mentioned that the heroine feels apart from her friends, for being married and rich. That's interesting, there's a lot to explore there. This book just mentioned it briefly and glossed over it. But, there's enough material here that the book could have dug into stuff like that more, developed it, and spun it into a full length story.
I respect this author for writing this, and risking getting 1-star review bombed (since that always happens to cheating romances). It's not terrible, it was a good idea. But, I wish it was better.
My 3 star rating is not because he cheats, or doesn't really grovel. I knew that going into this book. It's in the blurb! I'm willing to read cheating, I just gave 4 stars to Silent Flames. So, I'm not being one of those reviewers who is like, "how can an author write cheating, that must mean they are pro-cheating! I hate cheating, even though the author TOLD me that's in this book, I will read their book anyway, for some reason, and rage at them for daring to write it!"
Anyway. My 3 star rating is because this felt like a rough draft of an idea. This story has good bones, but needs to be fleshed out. I know that it's a novella, so maybe it should have been a full length book. It felt like it was skimming the surface of the story, summarizing it for us, rather than immersing us in it. Also, I had no idea that she cheats in return, I was pleasantly surprised, I loved that. I'm always looking for a cheating story where the heroine gets with another man, before ending up back with her cheating husband, to give him a taste of his own medicine. But I hated that this book made me excited about that, and then pulled the rug out from under me, like, "actually, she never fucked the other man." Such a cop out. Such an act of creative cowardice, for the story to have her revenge-cheat, only to later soften it and walk it back.
I expected the hero to not grovel, and to bulldoze her, because the blurb implies that. So I'm not mad that he doesn't grovel. But, he......barely even bulldozes or fights for her? They spend most of the middle of the story apart. And they weren't doing anything interesting while they were apart. They were just vibing, while this story was spinning its wheels, wasting time.
This author seems to like doing that - keeping her characters apart, when the point of a romance is to see them interact, even when their interactions aren't good. Like in her other book Maria Undone, the hero and heroine spend a huge chunk of the book apart. As Cate C Wells showed in her much better recent cheating book, Silent Flames, you need to put the characters in a room together, so that they can argue, throw things, hurt each other through minor gestures. Crash into each other, and have sparks happen. If you put them in separate rooms, there's no opportunity for any of that. And then it just becomes a story about 2 people vaguely orbiting each other, before coming together at the end. That's not very interesting to read.
This book seems to be an old-timey romance set in the modern day, so it also could have spent time digging into that more. Like, they get married for Rich People reasons, and he tells her upfront that he will have discrete mistresses - it feels very Harlequin, very Old World, Old Money. But, social media is mentioned, so it's set today. And it's mentioned that the heroine feels apart from her friends, for being married and rich. That's interesting, there's a lot to explore there. This book just mentioned it briefly and glossed over it. But, there's enough material here that the book could have dug into stuff like that more, developed it, and spun it into a full length story.
I respect this author for writing this, and risking getting 1-star review bombed (since that always happens to cheating romances). It's not terrible, it was a good idea. But, I wish it was better.
December 31, 2025
This was so bad I can’t even put it into words. Millie is groomed and sold as a teenager to a man a decade older who locks her away alone for a year while he screws his many mistresses. After several years of laying down and letting him walk all over her as the worst fucking doormat to ever exist, one of the asshole husband’s mistresses confronts her and she decides…to do absolutely nothing and carry on living as a fucking doormat with no dignity, self respect or pride. She flirts with another guy. That’s her big growth and payback. This is not romance. Continuing to romanticize relationships like this and women who allow men to treat them like garbage and call it “love” is harmful to women everywhere and should not be celebrated.
December 31, 2025
This book gave some good angst. Moc and H tells h from
The beginning that he will have mistresses and he does. When she finally after 3 years turns the tables on him he doesn’t like it.
The beginning that he will have mistresses and he does. When she finally after 3 years turns the tables on him he doesn’t like it.
December 30, 2025
I’ve read this author before and knew going in that cheating is a common theme in her books, so I was really excited for this one. After waiting so long, I’m happy to say it absolutely worked for me. This was an easy 4.5-star read.
The story follows Alessio and Millie, who are in an arranged marriage set up by their parents. Alessio is about a decade older, and Millie is only twenty-one when the story begins. They’ve been married for two years at this point, having married when Millie had just turned eighteen. From the start, Millie understands exactly what kind of marriage she’s in. Their marriage is open, but only on Alessio’s side. Early on, he’s honest that he will have mistresses, as long as he’s discreet. What Millie doesn’t anticipate is falling in love with her husband.
The turning point happens early when one of Alessio’s mistresses publicly confronts Millie at a gala. Millie handles it with composure, but internally it devastates her. Even though she always knew about the arrangement, she’d secretly hoped it wasn’t real anymore because their marriage felt happy. What I appreciated most is that Alessio doesn’t immediately grovel or promise to change—he simply clarifies that he’ll be more discreet. That moment makes Millie realise she isn’t important enough for him to stop.
From there, Millie begins to put herself first. She decides to go back to university, something she never had the chance to do after marrying so young, and she makes it clear she’s not asking permission. She still plays the role of wife, and they remain affectionate, but emotionally she withdraws. When she forms an emotional connection with someone at uni and Alessio sees her leaving a hotel with him, the power dynamic finally shifts. Suddenly, Alessio is the one spiralling.
He suggests closing the marriage, but when Millie questions why she should, his reaction is very caveman—anger, threats, and attempts to control the situation. Their marriage turns cold, full of misunderstandings. He assumes she’s still seeing the other man, and she assumes he’s still having affairs. Even a trip to Sicily, where they briefly reconnect, doesn’t fix the underlying issues once they return home.
Eventually, everything comes out. Alessio admits that while married to Millie, he slept with four women in total—two before he and Millie ever slept together, when their marriage was still in name only, and two after their relationship was fully established. From his point of view, we see that fear played a huge role in his choices. After he and Millie first slept together in Sicily and she told him she loved him, it terrified him. He tried to end his affairs and wanted to make things work, but jealousy and the realisation that he was in love made him self-sabotage.
Millie admits that she couldn’t have a physical affair without feelings, while Alessio admits that he ran from his. Their honesty is painful but necessary, and it’s the first time they truly communicate.
There’s also a strong family theme running through the book. Alessio’s father admits to his own infidelity, even though he genuinely lovedKatherine, before eventually learning how to love properly and remain faithful. It really feels like the men in this family don’t lack emotion—they simply don’t know how to handle love when it’s real. Love scares them, and instead of facing it, they destroy what they have.
The epilogues were very satisfying. Millie is thriving in her career, Alessio is openly devoted, and their relationship feels earned rather than easy. I also really enjoyed the side characters, particularly Alessio’s sister Gianna, whose story I’m genuinely looking forward to reading next.
Is Alessio someone you’d root for in real life? Probably not. But within the context of fiction, this worked beautifully for me. Messy, emotional, frustrating, but ultimately rewarding—exactly the kind of cheating-trope story I enjoy reading.
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January 2, 2026
3.5 - 4 Stars
Alessio & Millie
I have a weak spot for the Marriage in Trouble trope. I really liked this one. It's well written but the angst was a bit mellow for me. Maybe it dragged in some parts, despite this being under 200 pages. There are several aspects of the story that I loved; a few dramatic scenes that I found stellar. I don't like tit for tat cheating but this one worked for me. In fact, I'm glad Millie went for it, and I especially liked how it made Alessio crazy. It made things interesting. I should add that she didn't exactly cheat for revenge and that could be why it didn't bother me. It was an open marriage after all.
He was a mixed bag of alpha and beta tendencies but that somehow wasn't an issue for me. Of course, I prefered when he went all caveman (even assholey). She was no doormat either. That confrontation between her and OW--impressive. Millie was a class act. Both characters were likable even in their worst moments. No rage reading here, to be honest.
OW/OM drama ✅
Physical cheating ✅ H/h
Emotional cheating? Not for the H; for the heroine, somewhat.
HEA ✅ H/h
Alessio & Millie
I have a weak spot for the Marriage in Trouble trope. I really liked this one. It's well written but the angst was a bit mellow for me. Maybe it dragged in some parts, despite this being under 200 pages. There are several aspects of the story that I loved; a few dramatic scenes that I found stellar. I don't like tit for tat cheating but this one worked for me. In fact, I'm glad Millie went for it, and I especially liked how it made Alessio crazy. It made things interesting. I should add that she didn't exactly cheat for revenge and that could be why it didn't bother me. It was an open marriage after all.
He was a mixed bag of alpha and beta tendencies but that somehow wasn't an issue for me. Of course, I prefered when he went all caveman (even assholey). She was no doormat either. That confrontation between her and OW--impressive. Millie was a class act. Both characters were likable even in their worst moments. No rage reading here, to be honest.
OW/OM drama ✅
Physical cheating ✅ H/h
Emotional cheating? Not for the H; for the heroine, somewhat.
HEA ✅ H/h
December 30, 2025
Millie Is Communally Abused By All Who Gaslight Her About Alessio, Especially Cesare, The Abuser, Buttering Her Up For The Toddlerised Abusers Lovebombing
Call me stupid but she forgives a man who never once asks for forgiveness and never once surrenders control.
Where's the story?
Reading her talk about her HPV and STI ridden pussy is distracting.
This man is only annoyed he got caught.
Love?
Love?
The body is the organ of emotion and his was slipping inside Annabelle and Marguerite over and over while he was slipping inside Millie's pathetic necrotic cunt.
Alessio lovebombing her messy cunt is disgusting, with Annabelle's and Marguerites pussies on his breath too, dirty scumbag.
I love that the women with Daddy Issues are feeling it from the women with actual trauma giving them side eyes for this trash. Love leaving you with the toxic men.
He never grovels or lets her heal, just bombs her with excuses and pretends to be sorry.
I don't care how he feels unless hes forced through ego death.
He is a narcissistic abuser and the abuse is communal.
All.he does is delete a few texts and licks his wounds.
I need ego death.
What a toddler man.
I expected him to be a grounded, mature man, but evidently, having my pussy seen to, well, regularly, means my standards must be too high for the Unseen, Unloved and utterly Unfucked people that this is for.
I can genuinely believe 79% of women can't orgasm, reading this, needing him to add slobbery words to your slipper slabber fest, as he slabbered and spat Annabelle's diseases all over you.
For once, I'd love an authentic response to being fucked over, not this toddlerised one.
Fuck Alessio and his pathetix "dont shut me out now im caught" its toxic and the way she believes him.
He is a terrible human being who can fuck other women when the body is the organ of emotion. What pathetic crumbs Millie and Millies kids will have.
Call me stupid but she forgives a man who never once asks for forgiveness and never once surrenders control.
Where's the story?
Reading her talk about her HPV and STI ridden pussy is distracting.
This man is only annoyed he got caught.
Love?
Love?
The body is the organ of emotion and his was slipping inside Annabelle and Marguerite over and over while he was slipping inside Millie's pathetic necrotic cunt.
Alessio lovebombing her messy cunt is disgusting, with Annabelle's and Marguerites pussies on his breath too, dirty scumbag.
I love that the women with Daddy Issues are feeling it from the women with actual trauma giving them side eyes for this trash. Love leaving you with the toxic men.
He never grovels or lets her heal, just bombs her with excuses and pretends to be sorry.
I don't care how he feels unless hes forced through ego death.
He is a narcissistic abuser and the abuse is communal.
All.he does is delete a few texts and licks his wounds.
I need ego death.
What a toddler man.
I expected him to be a grounded, mature man, but evidently, having my pussy seen to, well, regularly, means my standards must be too high for the Unseen, Unloved and utterly Unfucked people that this is for.
I can genuinely believe 79% of women can't orgasm, reading this, needing him to add slobbery words to your slipper slabber fest, as he slabbered and spat Annabelle's diseases all over you.
For once, I'd love an authentic response to being fucked over, not this toddlerised one.
Fuck Alessio and his pathetix "dont shut me out now im caught" its toxic and the way she believes him.
He is a terrible human being who can fuck other women when the body is the organ of emotion. What pathetic crumbs Millie and Millies kids will have.
December 30, 2025
I liked the setting but the "body betraying syndrome" and her blind love frustrated me.
I'm glad the author made her have an affair but it should have been longer imo.
I'm glad the author made her have an affair but it should have been longer imo.
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January 1, 2026
Putting a pin in this one, I’ll eventually review it. Didn’t like the comparison to Harlequin, if that was the goal, it missed the mark.
January 3, 2026
I liked that this was a cheating book where the FMC finally had enough and stepped out, tit for tat. She was even making plans to divorce him…. But then it was revealed at the end that she didn’t actually go through with intercourse and that was disappointing because of the double standard. And it’s implied that he only saw two women, which I didn’t buy. 3.5 stars for the angst.
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December 30, 2025
Alessio and Millie have a marriage of convenience. Alessio was upfront with Millie right from the start about the fact that he will have mistresses.
When Millie is confronted with the evidence of his dalliance's she turns tables in a way Alessio does not see coming.
Watching Millie come into her own and Alessio scrambling trying to catch up is a delight.
If you like you alpha a holes unapologetic until the death this is the book for you.
When Millie is confronted with the evidence of his dalliance's she turns tables in a way Alessio does not see coming.
Watching Millie come into her own and Alessio scrambling trying to catch up is a delight.
If you like you alpha a holes unapologetic until the death this is the book for you.
December 30, 2025
I like the author but was not sold on the H at all. Zero grovel. Pass.
January 2, 2026
“I couldn't even have an affair right. My second attempt at an undercover rendezvous, and I was rumbled. By my husband. The embarrassment and guilt still wouldn't leave me”
Is this a statement.
As woman author please can we stop downplaying women also cheat when the man cheats.
What guilt and embarrassment? Ohh when he said
“I will always be discreet”
“I will be more discreet next time.”
Ohh sorry when I don’t want to be discreet. Can we women Authors stop making our fellow gender feel like stupid weak women when the men cheat? Seriously.
Stop this. I love when she cheats on him too and he feels the pain she’s been feeling not feeling guilty. Why would I feel guilty and the seggs, oh sweet Jesus. Stop making us feel like we can’t live without seggs 😩😩. Stop that.
What have we been doing before getting married. When he cheats, I cheat. Let’s cheat together.
WTH.
Is this a statement.
As woman author please can we stop downplaying women also cheat when the man cheats.
What guilt and embarrassment? Ohh when he said
“I will always be discreet”
“I will be more discreet next time.”
Ohh sorry when I don’t want to be discreet. Can we women Authors stop making our fellow gender feel like stupid weak women when the men cheat? Seriously.
Stop this. I love when she cheats on him too and he feels the pain she’s been feeling not feeling guilty. Why would I feel guilty and the seggs, oh sweet Jesus. Stop making us feel like we can’t live without seggs 😩😩. Stop that.
What have we been doing before getting married. When he cheats, I cheat. Let’s cheat together.
WTH.
December 31, 2025
It's okay if he cheats on her (and she has to not complain about it) but the minute she cheats on him, all of a sudden he gets all possessive. Miss me with those double standards.
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January 3, 2026note to self - tropes I hate, cheating husband manwhore/virgin clueless heroine doormat. avoid this author.
December 31, 2025
Just ok
This was ok except I...spoiler....was really hoping the author wouldn't have her cheat in any sense . As readers we are looking for a connection between the two main characters. The author tried this by not having a full revenge cheat happen but knowing she loves her husband...as he was still figuring it out...it would have worked for her to just be in those feelings. Why do women authors have to make women devalue themselves by sleeping with someone else as payback? Have her be a jerk when she knows the guy she thinks to cheat with likes her. Just not a fan of that. I get this is a cheating theme but let's let the woman value herself.
This was ok except I...spoiler....was really hoping the author wouldn't have her cheat in any sense . As readers we are looking for a connection between the two main characters. The author tried this by not having a full revenge cheat happen but knowing she loves her husband...as he was still figuring it out...it would have worked for her to just be in those feelings. Why do women authors have to make women devalue themselves by sleeping with someone else as payback? Have her be a jerk when she knows the guy she thinks to cheat with likes her. Just not a fan of that. I get this is a cheating theme but let's let the woman value herself.
January 5, 2026
One star is even more than this book deserves.
Unfortunately I will never getting back the time I wasted reading it so don’t waste your time, it’s not worth it.
Unfortunately I will never getting back the time I wasted reading it so don’t waste your time, it’s not worth it.
January 5, 2026
Communication is the key
Goodness he fought his feelings all the way to the point he almost lost her. She had every right to be angry just wished she took it out more on her husband instead of having an affair of her own.
Goodness he fought his feelings all the way to the point he almost lost her. She had every right to be angry just wished she took it out more on her husband instead of having an affair of her own.
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December 31, 2025The J/P scenes. :)
January 1, 2026
From Rooting to Side-Eye…
Maaaaaan I have been waiting oh so NOT patiently for this one to drop…
Millie and Alessio have a marriage of convenience, marrying when Millie is only 18 years old. I genuinely enjoyed learning how they met and watching the slow shift as Millie began to fall in love with him. Her attitude at 18 honestly made me smile, she had spirit. After being dropped at Alessio’s estate and left there for seven months, she adapts surprisingly well and eventually grows to love the life she’s been given.
She’s content with the friendship she and Alessio share, and over time, her feelings deepen. Things are relatively stable, until one jealous mistress inserts herself, and that’s when everything explodes.
I know I may be in the minority here, but I really disliked Millie’s decision to retaliate by cheating as well. It completely changed how I viewed her character. I’m not a fan of FMCs who use sex as revenge, it doesn’t make them any better than the cheating spouse. Especially in Millie’s case, Alessio’s affairs were purely physical, with no emotional attachment, and she was fully aware of his lack of fidelity from the start.
What bothered me most is that Millie hid her affair, and hers crossed into emotional territory as well as physical. That felt worse to me. By that point, I stopped rooting for either of them. Instead of one flawed marriage, it became two people cheating their way through problems, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. All I kept thinking was them swapping diseases.
Overall this was a really read for a novella, I love this authors work 🤍
Maaaaaan I have been waiting oh so NOT patiently for this one to drop…
Millie and Alessio have a marriage of convenience, marrying when Millie is only 18 years old. I genuinely enjoyed learning how they met and watching the slow shift as Millie began to fall in love with him. Her attitude at 18 honestly made me smile, she had spirit. After being dropped at Alessio’s estate and left there for seven months, she adapts surprisingly well and eventually grows to love the life she’s been given.
She’s content with the friendship she and Alessio share, and over time, her feelings deepen. Things are relatively stable, until one jealous mistress inserts herself, and that’s when everything explodes.
I know I may be in the minority here, but I really disliked Millie’s decision to retaliate by cheating as well. It completely changed how I viewed her character. I’m not a fan of FMCs who use sex as revenge, it doesn’t make them any better than the cheating spouse. Especially in Millie’s case, Alessio’s affairs were purely physical, with no emotional attachment, and she was fully aware of his lack of fidelity from the start.
What bothered me most is that Millie hid her affair, and hers crossed into emotional territory as well as physical. That felt worse to me. By that point, I stopped rooting for either of them. Instead of one flawed marriage, it became two people cheating their way through problems, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. All I kept thinking was them swapping diseases.
Overall this was a really read for a novella, I love this authors work 🤍
December 30, 2025
I really enjoyed reading Alessio and Millie’s story and couldn’t put it down.
I was flip flopping between a three or four star review because at times the story felt like an overview of what was happening rather than being completely immersed in their story, but I think that was down to the novella structure to the story and the need to move it along quickly. Edited to add….I just read it’s meant to be this style, an homage to the harlequin style novels, so the writing is on point for that style of book.
I can see how some readers will struggle as the majority of the book is the main characters dancing around each other. Not so much miscommunication, but rather not communicating at all and the main character being absent due to his feelings. I think that is where I struggled the most, the lack of time actually together and dialogue between them that was either cut off or the mmc leaving on another business trip. However, that’s was the whole point of the book with how their relationship unfolded, so the storyline is the storyline.
It all becomes clear in the end and I was rooting for their HEA, but I can see how some may struggle with the outcome overall as the ending was were most of the revelations took place and a majority of the dialogue between them.
I was flip flopping between a three or four star review because at times the story felt like an overview of what was happening rather than being completely immersed in their story, but I think that was down to the novella structure to the story and the need to move it along quickly. Edited to add….I just read it’s meant to be this style, an homage to the harlequin style novels, so the writing is on point for that style of book.
I can see how some readers will struggle as the majority of the book is the main characters dancing around each other. Not so much miscommunication, but rather not communicating at all and the main character being absent due to his feelings. I think that is where I struggled the most, the lack of time actually together and dialogue between them that was either cut off or the mmc leaving on another business trip. However, that’s was the whole point of the book with how their relationship unfolded, so the storyline is the storyline.
It all becomes clear in the end and I was rooting for their HEA, but I can see how some may struggle with the outcome overall as the ending was were most of the revelations took place and a majority of the dialogue between them.
January 4, 2026
So… this was horrible.
“My wife is a smart woman, if that’s the case.”
“Not if she’s knowingly married to an unfaithful swine. Then she’s a fool.”
That pretty much sums up the entire book, unfortunately.
Because what I wanted was a story where the FMC finds out the MMC cheated, leaves his ass, and then he has to grovel his way back to her. You know—as she fucking should.
What I got instead was a story where the FMC already knows the MMC has mistresses and is fully aware of the cheating, but chooses to live in this delusional little bubble where she pretends he’s faithful and in love with her. And then—shockingly—one of his mistresses confronts her, and her bubble bursts because now she can’t keep pretending their marriage is perfect anymore.
And yet… she still stays. She still sleeps with him. She keeps hoping he’ll magically fall in love with her and stop cheating.
Not once does she grow a spine. Not once does she show any self-respect. And he does not grovel even a single second.
It’s genuinely embarrassing for her. I am honestly baffled that a female author wrote this. It’s been a long time since a book made me feel actual disgust while reading—but this one absolutely did.
“My wife is a smart woman, if that’s the case.”
“Not if she’s knowingly married to an unfaithful swine. Then she’s a fool.”
That pretty much sums up the entire book, unfortunately.
Because what I wanted was a story where the FMC finds out the MMC cheated, leaves his ass, and then he has to grovel his way back to her. You know—as she fucking should.
What I got instead was a story where the FMC already knows the MMC has mistresses and is fully aware of the cheating, but chooses to live in this delusional little bubble where she pretends he’s faithful and in love with her. And then—shockingly—one of his mistresses confronts her, and her bubble bursts because now she can’t keep pretending their marriage is perfect anymore.
And yet… she still stays. She still sleeps with him. She keeps hoping he’ll magically fall in love with her and stop cheating.
Not once does she grow a spine. Not once does she show any self-respect. And he does not grovel even a single second.
It’s genuinely embarrassing for her. I am honestly baffled that a female author wrote this. It’s been a long time since a book made me feel actual disgust while reading—but this one absolutely did.
January 6, 2026
I enjoyed this overall, it checked a lot of boxes for me!
The FMC's reaction to the OW was queen behavior. I loved her for that. I enjoyed the conflict and angst. MMC was redeemable to me.
I think it would've worked a little better if it had been longer & flushed out the story a little more.
It did feel like a bit of a cop out to me that the FMC didn't fully go for the affair. Let these women get some, pleaseeeee.
The FMC's reaction to the OW was queen behavior. I loved her for that. I enjoyed the conflict and angst. MMC was redeemable to me.
I think it would've worked a little better if it had been longer & flushed out the story a little more.
It did feel like a bit of a cop out to me that the FMC didn't fully go for the affair. Let these women get some, pleaseeeee.
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December 29, 2025
I, unabashedly, loved this novella! The writing was perfect, the angst heartbreaking, and Allesio’s regret and repentance was sublime. S.T. Moors writes such heartfelt and believable emotion. Loved this.
In my humble opinion, of course 💙
In my humble opinion, of course 💙
December 30, 2025
5/5
I was very much anticipating this read and it did not disappoint! I stayed up reading this and it was worth it! I am now hoping that Giada and Gino get their own book! Maybe even a novella of Katherine and Cesare!
I was very much anticipating this read and it did not disappoint! I stayed up reading this and it was worth it! I am now hoping that Giada and Gino get their own book! Maybe even a novella of Katherine and Cesare!
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