Lucy Blisswood is burnt out on college. She only has one semester left but just can't take any more of any of it. New York, classes, pushing herself non-stop, she is about to lose it. So she told her landlord she wouldn’t be back. But now she had to tell the four most important men in her life. The men who always have loved and protected her unconditionally, or at least she hoped that was true. You see, she had always felt like they blamed her for their mom’s death since she died during childbirth. So she made sure she did everything to please them and more.
So she has nothing to gauge their disappointment or anger against if the current situation she finds herself in takes a nosedive. The first place she went to was Olive Owl. She went to swim in the lake before heading to her eldest brother Grayson’s home to live in her old bedroom. When coming out of the lake, she’s in a bra & panties set. She grabs her t-shirt and shorts but removes the wet garments. While she is under her top. Now, just guess who is there to experience this show but never takes his eyes off hers during the time she removes her bra, yet when he realizes she was going for the panties too, he turns his back to her.
Yup! You guessed it from the last book, Drew. He’s trying to figure out why she’s home, especially with her car. He knows something is off. She doesn't look right; she looks tired and out of sorts. He can’t figure out why she went to the pond to swim when Grayson has a pool. She basically told him she wasn't ready for the family ambush. That's her heartfelt truth. Olive Owl belongs to her family, and she’s a Blisswood, but she makes no mistake that it belongs more to her brothers than to her.
Olive Owl is their passion and business; to her, it’s memories of her childhood and only that. Lucy knows Knox is in Chicago, but she wasn’t expecting Drew to be there. He was sorry. He was doing a last-minute request from Knox. He’s taking Pretzel to his house tonight. She told him she just thought he might be headed to Rooster Sin or out on a date. Her way of prying as casually as possible. He told her no, at least not tonight. There isn’t… anyone. She was like, Right. “You’re not joking about the break, are you? You don’t drive from New York, unplanned, with your car and all, unless you want to move.”
“Don’t start. Not you,” I warn him. He holds his hands up in surrender. “I’ll say no more.” At eighteen, when she went to him and offered herself up to him. He turned her down, and she asked, “Why?” The most important part of what he said was, “I would rather you stay in my life, and this is the only way.” He wiped her tears and walked inside his home, leaving her outside. Now today, “You know what? There is one thing that nearly stopped me from coming back. Want to know what it was?” Drew looks to the sky and then back at me, suddenly mute.
“It’s you.” The biggest headache in my life. He can shape my heart or break it. He lingers in my mind always, the what if. I could scream, and he would come running, but only if it was to save me and nothing more. “I’m not going anywhere, so why did you come?” “Because I’m lost right now… and I hate to admit it, but you are my f-ing compass.” She turns; tears prick her eyes as she gets into her car. He didn’t chase her, and she knew he wouldn’t. Instead, he watches her drive off, because watching her is the one thing he does best.
Drew and Lucy have had this magnetic pool forever, but both feel less than. It stems from totally different places adding up to the same place. Their attraction is out the roof, but Drew’s loyalty to Lucy’s brothers was foremost in his mind when it should have been Lucy.