He broke her heart. She refuses to be hurt again...
Mary has always had a crush on Pike but she vows never to fall for him again. With her leg broken, Mary needs to be taken care of. She moved into Holly’s place but there’s no way she can stay.
Her body will betray her.
Pike will not stand to see anyone else looking after his woman. He fucked up big but Mary is his, and he intends to claim her.
He can have her body. He’ll never have her heart.
Every woman he’s ever known has fallen into his lap. He doesn’t have to fight for what he wants. With Mary, he can have her whenever he wants but she’s not giving him anything in return. Her heart is covered in ice and he doesn’t know how to melt it so he can finally be with the woman he loves.
What will happen when he tries to make her his old lady? Can Mary really give Pike a second chance? What will Pike do to finally break the ice that’s keeping him out?
Sam Crescent is passionate about fiction. She loves a good erotic romance and so it only made sense for her to spread her wings and start writing. She began writing in 2009 and finally got that first acceptance in 2011 by Total-E-Bound. She loved creating new characters and delving into the worlds that she creates. When she’s not panicking about a story or arguing with a character, she can be found in her kitchen creating all kinds of havoc. Like her stories the creations in the kitchen can be just as dubious but sometimes things turn out great.
After taking heroine's virginity,hero acts like jerk and they part ways only to come together again when he takes care of her when she has a broken leg.She tries to keep him distant,but he persists untill she caves and they have sex again.Lite MC romance with plenty of steam.Their are some characters that I would love to see books from.Very breif mention of the Skulls and Chaos Bleeds.Looking fw to more in this series.
Choosing not to rate this. The author recently released this series to KU, but definitely not for me. Her newer stuff is definitely better. The age gap in both books gave me the ick. Two grown ass men always having been watching the two FMCs as teenagers until now. 18 year's apart and just gave the image of what most middle aged men dream of. Having a young, virginal bride. Not saying all men, but a lot. Which is why age gap isn't for me anymore unless the FMC is well into thirties. No more of this under 21 BS 🤦. I can't be the only one thinking this.
This book was a total fail and I failed to read any reviews before I bought it, so that’s on me. I only saw that it had tags for a virgin heroine and so I bought it.
That the heroine gives the hero the irreplaceable gift of claiming her virginity was the only thing that brought the swoon in this book. That, and the fact the hero was celibate afterwards.
Otherwise, this was shit. The sex scenes sucked—condom use throughout. There was no emotional connection between the MCs. And the hero degrades the heroine by exposing her to the club “brothers” by fucking her in front of them. That’s NOT a possessive hero or a protective hero, to make his woman the object of other men’s lust when she’s at her most vulnerable, and to cheapen what should belong only to the two of them.
And then, the final turd on this shitshow: a let down epilogue with no babies and only a couple months out.
Not safe. Hero has known heroine forever but still fucks any std trap who springs open her legs for him. He is only faithful to her after they have sex. Heroine is a virgin and belongs only to her hero. Small OM drama, some minor ow. Public sex scene where hero parades her before his buddies and fucks her in front of them. HEA with sucky weak epilogue
Mary had always had a crush, well maybe love, for Pike. Her best friend was the daughter the President of Trojans MC and he had always been the one she had wanted for herself. However, one memorable night that love shattered into a million pieces. Pike had slept with her and had cruelly left her.
Pike knew he royally messed up with Mary. He never saw himself as a settling down man,b ut when Mary is injured he wants to help her. However Mary despises him and when her recovery is halted he takes a drastic measure. He plans on keeping Mary for keeps, but Mary has other plans.
Fantastic read. This series is becoming a quick favorite. Pike was a jerk, a jerk who knows it and yet he continues to be a jerk to Mary. Mary has had a hard life and Pike had always tried to make her life a little bit better, but it was always behind the scenes. When Pike realizes he may have lost her, he creatively tries to win her back.
I actually had high hope for this. I like both Mary and Pike when they were introduced in Control.
But their own story wasn't that great at the start. Mary is whiny, wrecking ball and Pike is a bossy asshole. I actually felt sorry for Raoul and I don't even like Raoul!
For me, the story starts to pick and got interesting when Mary decided to just enjoy Pike while she still can without giving her heart and succumbing to her emotion. And that is also when their chemistry gets really sizzles!
Raoul has his own story a bit in this one. Looks pretty interesting and I cannot wait to get started on the third book. So far, the series has been really good.
Backstory::: Pike humiliated her months ago when he took what he wanted from her recognising her crush and devastating her.
‘This might be her only chance to be with him. For whatever reason, he was taking things to the next level. His hands moved down to her hips, sliding the sweatpants to the floor. She stood naked while he wore everything except for his leather cut
Mary was a virgin, and she imagined seeing porn had prepared her for Pike. Pike was not lacking in the endowment department. In fact, with the size of him, he could have his own porn company and play the lead.
Their union was rough, violent and completely indifferent.
When it was over, he collapsed over her, and Mary stared at the ceiling, wishing she’d told him no. What had started out amazing had soon turned into something disgusting. Her virginity was gone.
“I f**k a lot of women, and a virgin p**sy is not going to keep me locked up in marriage. I’d cheat, Mary, and hurt you. Find someone else, but at least I got what I wanted”.
Callously, he left decimated her feelings and walked away. Oh yes, what a charmer❗️
She’s vows to never be gullible again, yet vulnerable with a broken leg, she needs Pike’s particular ‘brand’ of TLC.
Months later, Pike undergoes a transformation whereby Mary is suddenly G*d’s gift to creation and contrives his inner caveman of not allowing anyone else to care for ‘his woman’. He’s been abstaining from imbibing from random encounters. I guess he deserves a medal.
‘He can have her body. He’ll never have her heart’. Delusional woman!
Club initiation of an ‘Old Lady’ includes Voyeurism. It seems the ‘Trojans’ MC (sounds like a Prophylactic) are separated into two categories, one of which is an old lady (one claimed by a member) status and the other being ‘companionship’ for lack of a better term.
The ‘companions’ are accepted into the club’s lifestyle contingent on being intimate with several members taking turns...one after the other (‘train’).
These ‘companions’ earn their acceptance by an initiation of partying indiscriminately, cleaning and doing other domestic tasks. There is a club protocol or hierarchy between them and the old ladies.
They are a commodity or convenience to satisfy the men..and these women see nothing wrong with being used.
Claiming an old lady, means publicly having sex in front of an audience. They watch and no one is allowed to touch.
Panicked, Mary escaped in a fit of fury, not realising the initiation process.
The other option is getting married, as their marriage approaches, Mary wavers in her conviction realising that the ‘claiming’ means a lot to Pike. Utter rubbish‼️
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I tell you Mary is a much better woman than I am because if I wait years to give my cherry to man, only to have him treat me like dog shit seconds after him popping that precious thing, no amount of groveling will ever get me to forgive him, let alone have sex with him again. Then again I have more self respect for myself than Mary does, so maybe that's why I would have just kept it moving. Must be something about bikers or it could be that these girls are just to damn young to just know any better, hell I don't know. What I do know is that there is no way in fucking hell I would go back to a man who would verbally put me down the way Pike did to Mary. I'm chalking it up to her upbringing and the fact that she was used to being talked down to by her parents which is why, though she tried to fake the funk and pretend that she was pissed and hurt, she did everything Pike told her to do, stupid as it may look to me, for some fucked up reason it made sense to her...
I guessed he redeemed himself in her eyes and I do give him points for remaining faithful to her as in my book that means a whole hell of a lot, so he wasn't a total asshat, still I wouldn't have gone back to him.
Overall this went pretty much the same way as the first book except without all the action, nothing really happened in this book except the crazy budding relationship between Pike and Mary, so while the sex was it's usual Sam Crescent hotness, everything else was a tad bit boring in comparison to her other books. I'm hoping the setup between Raoul and Zoe is leading us into more adventurous territories!
Pike and Mary featured in the first book of the Trojans MC series, readers knew that Pike had done something really bad to upset Mary. That is laid out in the prologue in this story, and yes his behaviour was pretty bad. So much so that Mary now refuses to acknowledge him in any away. All too late Pike realises his mistake and tries to put things right to win Mary for himself. I really liked this story Pike had messed up but he certainly redeems himself IMO. I like a heroine with a backbone and no one could accuse Mary of not having one she certainly made Pike suffer. I can't wait to see who's in the next book.
One of her best I think. I have a love/hate relationship with Sam Crescent. I usually like her books but end up frustrated with either the hero or the heroine.
I really liked both our main characters and truly felt Pike's remorse. Not sure I entirely understood why he was so horrid to her in the first place and frankly 'being scared' is not an acceptable explanation. It was lame and detracted from Pike's redemption.
I regret reading this...Mary has no self respect .As Mary said "I can promise you, Pike, I’m no fool” I kept saying Yes Mary you are a fool. And her "friend" didn't look like much of her friend,along with other that didn't take into account what she wanted they just did it.Terrible book
What I loved: I liked how Pike(h) felt remorseful after how he treated Mary(h). Its was nice to see how he took care of her the whole time.
What I didn’t like: I think if I would have read the first book I would have liked this better. I didn’t like how Mary just jump right in bed with Pike especially how he was the first time they had sex. I guess I just wanted her to make him work harder for it.
***Major Spoilers/ Details/Triggers: h has had a crush on the H. H has sex with the h and makes sure it wasn’t great for her. Afterwards he gets up and tells her that she can now stop thinking about what it would be like with him. That he isn’t the right man for her and he leaves. h upsets ignores the H. When h is hurt the H steps up to take care of her. We find out that the H was worried that he would cheat on the h but since he had sex with her he hasn’t been with anyone. H takes care of the h, shows her that he cares and he wants to be with her. h gives the H a chance. She gets scared when he wants to make her his old lady because he has to have sex with her in front of the brothers. h at first tells him she can’t do it and the H is ok with it an proposes to the her. After a couple of months the h changes her mind. HEA
Final thoughts: This was just an ok read for me. I definitely will read more for this author since I enjoyed some of her other work.
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Mary has loved Pike forever, but Pike done her wrong (starting in the first Trojans MC book). Now, he's trying to make up for what he did and win Mary over. Unfortunately, he's going to have do a lot of atonement. And that's what makes this Sam Crescent more than the usual one - I enjoyed it a lot.
The hero had some sweet moments like building her her dream kitchen (in his house, which was a tad presumptuous) while trying to win the heroine, but they didn’t make up for the rest of his behavior.
1. He took her virginity and purposely made it bad, then ended with some crap like you’re not woman enough for me and I’d cheat on you. [I can’t stand when people treat the ones they claim to love like crap under the pretense of protecting them.]
2. He slept with gaggles of ladies long after realizing he had feelings for the heroine. Granted, he didn’t sleep with anyone else after he forcefully took her virginity, but he tried to sleep with other women. He intended to sleep with other women and even went as far as letting them give him oral and such, but ended up celibate for biological reasons and the heroine didn’t even go near another guy romantically.
3. The heroine insisted she wouldn’t fall in love with him (again) and pushed him away, but that didn’t stop her from allowing him to make all decisions for her. He forcefully took her to his house to recover from her broken leg even though she didn’t want to see him. He slowly moved all of her belongings out of her apartment and terminated her lease so she would have nowhere to go once she healed. She put up the tiniest fights for about two minutes and then let him have his way because he was good at sexing her up.
4. There wasn’t enough grovel. His feelings were hurt a few times after she pushed him away and he got irrationally jealous whenever he saw the heroine with her boss/male friend, but otherwise, his pain and suffering were pretty insubstantial.
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Romance trope: MC; second chance Series: Trojans MC Length: 141 pages
Plot: Mary has been in love with Pike forever, but when he takes her virginity and leaves her right away, she decides she's done pining after him. He's changed his mind too, though, and the two of them will have to figure out where their relationship stands.
Commentary: Very typical offering from this author. Plus-size heroine. A$$hole hero. He has a lot of groveling to do, which he realizes fairly early on. She works really hard to not care anymore - of course she does, but she's trying not to, and it takes a while for her to give in, so that was nice. But there was no reason to keep having sex with him once she decided she wasn't in love with him. At one point she thought about leaving altogether, and I really think she should have. I don't know that either were likable characters. Pike was a jerk. Mary let everyone walk all over her. Their support systems weren't great either. Not my favorite.
Grammar/formatting: awkward dialogue - it feels stilted sometimes, like someone had trouble going from mind to page
Previous book in the series:Control Next book in the series:Lust
Eh. It wasn’t bad but I was pretty bored. I’m not a fan of interconnected stories, and Sam Crescent seems to do that with all her MC series. This couple was immature IMO. The behavior of the MMC was never rationalized satisfactorily for me. He hurt her because he was scared. He isn’t a child and in book one he made it seem like he was all in with her but was simply waiting for her to be ready because of their age differences. Also in book one it was implied that he had sexual demands that she couldn’t accommodate and that was the reason he hurt her. But in this book, he hurt her because he’s a selfish child and yet when she cuts him off it still takes him a few weeks after her injury for him to step up and try to get her back. That’s almost a complete about face on the character that he is being described as for all her life. Smh.
Either way, I was not interested in this book. The s e x is okay at best and pretty blah at worse. The next book is about the disgusting side character of book one and I have no interest in him being made to look like another immature ahole who was sorry AFTER the fact. The author’s continued excuse of “I was not thinking, or I was young, or I didn’t mean it that way”, is simply not a good enough excuse for grown men to do stupid sh!t. Also, you don’t need to be a mature adult to know right from wrong and even a child would know not to do what this character and book three’s character did.
So, again, what is the point of this story or series if it’s always going to be about a dude being a “D”, just because he can? Not interested. Will probably not read the rest of the series for a very long time to come. Good luck.
I didn't read the first book, so I didn't know about how the club "claimed" old ladies. The grovel was semi decent but I wouldn't say good. It felt more like the H pressured the h into being with him. He made life decisions for her and didn't let her make her own choices. But it wasn't in an alpha male way, it felt more like an azzhole way. Still, it was a semi decent read up until that old lady claiming. That was so cringey that I can't even put it into words. I've only read that kind of claiming in barbarian or historic books with a medieval feeling and there it made sense because of the setting. But with an MC club in the modern era? Nah, it would only make sense if the characters' kink was having people watch them. But this h did not have that kink, she had a hard time making peace with it and, again, it felt like she was pressured into accepting it. It should not have happened like that, it was a very awkward scene to read.
Ok, this was a bit better but again, it's not the age difference or size I think it maybe that the the two girls are lovely but boring as shit. The club whores are not even exciting. But my love of all things SC knows the next book is smoking. I did perk up when they mentioned the skulls and chaos bleeds mc.
All of Sam's books have the potential to be great. Interesting characters, good storyline. What I feel is missing is a deeper connection to the characters, more details description of emotions and/or background. Taking the story a little slower and building angst or elaborating more on the characters through a more descriptive narrative may help. Again, potential to be great story.
I thought her giving into him sexually was way too soon. I would have made him suffer longer. What he did was way too shitty I hated him a bit and I didn't like how he was so high handed. His way or no way. Most of the time that works with alpha Heros but he just came off as a jerk.