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Forgiving You
“I didn’t know this type of heartbreak existed.” “It was pure torture to know the man I pictured spending the rest of my life with had moved on.”Newly-wed couple, Christopher and Charlotte Rivers, were expecting their first baby, and they couldn’t be any happier.It was meant to be the best moment in their lives. It was the time when she needed her husband the most. Together, Chris and Charlotte were supposed to welcome their first child into the world.But, no. Chris didn’t show up, and Charlotte gave birth to their first child—their daughter—alone. She waited for days. There were no texts, no calls, no emails from him. Not even from his family.When Charlotte came home days after giving birth, she was hoping her husband to welcome her with one hell of an explanation. Instead, she was met with papers—divorce papers.With all the challenges life throws at them, will they be able to overcome it? Will they be able to forgive each other and rekindle their love and trust?Steamy, romantic, and full of drama—this story will show you that it despite all the setbacks in a relationship, there can always be a second chance. Grab your copy now!
319 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2018
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Melissa Bender
19 books338 followersI'm wife to a FIFO miner. Mother of three. Passionate foodie, and a vivid dreamer. Living in a small beach town in the lovely Tasmania. I spend my time between home and down at the beach… making memories, and capturing the moments.
When I'm not glued to my laptop, I'm either in the kitchen creating recipes, cooking, or having a Netflix binge session. Often, I find myself drifting off into the world of make believe, getting lost inside the stories I write.. I write because it's my passion. I want to create a world for my readers to get lost in.. For them to swoon, and fall in love the way I do with each character made.. Oh, and I love starbursts!
Sweetly, Mel.
When I'm not glued to my laptop, I'm either in the kitchen creating recipes, cooking, or having a Netflix binge session. Often, I find myself drifting off into the world of make believe, getting lost inside the stories I write.. I write because it's my passion. I want to create a world for my readers to get lost in.. For them to swoon, and fall in love the way I do with each character made.. Oh, and I love starbursts!
Sweetly, Mel.
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November 10, 2018
No cheating BUT also no grovelling.
I am so sick of these forgiving spineless heroines.
I am so sick of these forgiving spineless heroines.
December 18, 2022
2 ⭐⭐ - Meh!
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I can not understand that he accepted evidence that his wife was cheating on him, presented by his secretary and did not confront or sought to know the truth of our heroine.
He simply abandoned her and let her give birth to their daughter alone and then presented the divorce papers.
Without talking to her.
He simply trusted strangers, not his wife.
He erased her from his life and still slandered her to family, friends and acquaintances.
And no one ever accepted her phone calls.
She was completely in the dark, not knowing why he left her.
I did not swallow it.
And the bitch secretary just got fired! She should receive punishment and be sued for falsehood. Just a slap in the face at the end of the book did not kill my thirst for revenge.
I wanted blood.
Our heroine forgave him very easily and the author used the plot of a disease so that the reader would feel sorry for him and also forgive him.
An ok reading.
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I can not understand that he accepted evidence that his wife was cheating on him, presented by his secretary and did not confront or sought to know the truth of our heroine.
He simply abandoned her and let her give birth to their daughter alone and then presented the divorce papers.
Without talking to her.
He simply trusted strangers, not his wife.
He erased her from his life and still slandered her to family, friends and acquaintances.
And no one ever accepted her phone calls.
She was completely in the dark, not knowing why he left her.
I did not swallow it.
And the bitch secretary just got fired! She should receive punishment and be sued for falsehood. Just a slap in the face at the end of the book did not kill my thirst for revenge.
I wanted blood.
Our heroine forgave him very easily and the author used the plot of a disease so that the reader would feel sorry for him and also forgive him.
An ok reading.
“Char.” He smiled, gazing into my eyes in a way that made me quiver from the inside. “Fuck the plan. I want a family.”
He was meant to be the one next to me—my own husband who was meant to be holding my hand and helping me through this as I delivered our precious, absolutely breathtaking baby girl into the world.
However, he was nowhere in sight. He wasn’t there to cut our daughter’s umbilical cord or hold her. We didn’t get the birth photos of the moment we became a family of three. I had to do it all alone with the help of a wonderful midwife, as she offered words of encouragement when I wanted to give up.
I would show my daughter just how loved she was in this world.
I had wondered if Chris had been seeing someone else or having an affair with that leggy brunette from his office who always eyed him up and down and scowled at me whenever I visited him at work.
Chris must be joking me; he wants to get a divorce.
“Chris left me. I called when I went into labour, and he said he was on his way, but he never showed up. I haven’t heard from him since then. I thought maybe he was in an accident, or something went wrong, but nothing at all.” I wiped my eyes, shaking my head, annoyed. “Oh, wait. If you call, leaving divorce papers for me to sign on the kitchen bench hearing from him, then yeah, I heard from him this morning when I went home,” I said bitterly. I was never an angry person; always seeing the good in people.
“Why is it that I always give in and feel like I am the bad one?” I hated that I felt this way.
“We aren’t even divorced yet, and you’re already fucking your secretary. Are you trying to fucking kill me even more than you have been?!” I shouted angrily into the speaker.
He completely broke my heart. I was wrong.
“No idea, but I have a feeling Katie has something to do with all of this. Hopefully, he sends the photos to me then we can check them out.”
Was she taking his side now? Saying what happened wasn’t his fault? “I can’t deal with this.” I took my cereal and went to the bedroom.
But then I remembered what he had done, and how he had left me and his daughter.
“I had no one. No one visited me in hospital. My first baby and I were alone. I had to drive home against doctors’ orders because I had no one to help me.”
“You destroyed me.”
“I want you to fire Katie,” I said with seriousness. “I have never involved myself with your work because I don’t believe in doing so, but I want her gone.”
“Wow. I’m blown away. I can’t believe they would do something so horrible. This pretty much destroyed a family.”
I couldn’t jump into bed with him and act as if he didn’t accuse me of cheating, and leave me, asking for a divorce.
“Rule number one when in a relationship: always stand up for your girlfriend, not the fucking whore who’s trying to screw you!”
“All my friends hate me. Your family stopped talking to me, and I was alone. God, so badly I want to hate you, Chris. I really do. So badly I want to divorce you and never see you again, never have to look at you, and just live a life where I hate you.”
Katie was standing on the side of the footpath, looking absolutely stunned to see us both. I didn’t speak to her. I let my hand do the talking and smacked her good and hard. The bitch didn’t know what hit her.
August 31, 2020
This made little sense.
Heroine gets engaged and marries an older, uber-intelligent attorney. Uber-intelligent attorney that blindly believes photos of his wife cheating, even pin-pointed to the day she conceived. OB/GYNs everywhere need his psychic skills.
Hero ditches wife the day she has miracle baby and serves her divorce papers. No confrontation, nada
Heroine proves via tattoo she is not the evil skank that the H, his friends, family and co-workers thinks she is.
Does any of this bother me? No. I am hardened by HP A-holes.
The H comes agrovelin’ and he does a mighty fine poor-pitiful-me job. The heroine does give a sane job of explaining why she’s going to give the schmuck a second chance. I was impressed. She didn’t forgive him right away, but acknowledged she still loves him and he should have a chance to prove himself as he continues to grovel profusely.
Negatives:
What did bother me was her parents that fluctuated from blaming her to blaming him and wanting to control her and the baby. Surprisingly very believable parental behavior.
The H for not loudly and dramatically declaring his idiocy and the h’s innocence to everyone especially to his parents and co-workers once he finds out he is THE idiot and the h is an innocent victim. That way the h might not have been slut shamed at her in-laws party and at the office. Come on!
The relationship with the heroine and her brother was very close. Very, very close. In fact, the h is having a dream of the H holding her only to find out it was her brother. Hmmm.
An out of the blue TV movie disease movie of the week for the H.
Multiple spelling errors. This isn’t Harry Potter so I doubt the seven day infant is a prefect. “Perfect” maybe?
Heroine gets engaged and marries an older, uber-intelligent attorney. Uber-intelligent attorney that blindly believes photos of his wife cheating, even pin-pointed to the day she conceived. OB/GYNs everywhere need his psychic skills.
Hero ditches wife the day she has miracle baby and serves her divorce papers. No confrontation, nada
Heroine proves via tattoo she is not the evil skank that the H, his friends, family and co-workers thinks she is.
Does any of this bother me? No. I am hardened by HP A-holes.
The H comes agrovelin’ and he does a mighty fine poor-pitiful-me job. The heroine does give a sane job of explaining why she’s going to give the schmuck a second chance. I was impressed. She didn’t forgive him right away, but acknowledged she still loves him and he should have a chance to prove himself as he continues to grovel profusely.
Negatives:
What did bother me was her parents that fluctuated from blaming her to blaming him and wanting to control her and the baby. Surprisingly very believable parental behavior.
The H for not loudly and dramatically declaring his idiocy and the h’s innocence to everyone especially to his parents and co-workers once he finds out he is THE idiot and the h is an innocent victim. That way the h might not have been slut shamed at her in-laws party and at the office. Come on!
The relationship with the heroine and her brother was very close. Very, very close. In fact, the h is having a dream of the H holding her only to find out it was her brother. Hmmm.
An out of the blue TV movie disease movie of the week for the H.
Multiple spelling errors. This isn’t Harry Potter so I doubt the seven day infant is a prefect. “Perfect” maybe?
March 22, 2019
I simply adore this author’s gift of writing angst, and it truly pains me to see how brutal the majority of reviews of this story are. This author truly knows how to bring out the kick to the gut, heartbreak and devastated feelings of break ups and divorce, and she has a brilliant talent for writing terrific angst. And in all actuality, THIS is exactly the kind of story I thrive on myself. This story started out so strong too. The angst that Char felt being completely abandoned by her husband, forced to endure an extremely difficult delivery of her baby alone and scared, as well as perplexed by Christopher’s sudden disappearance out of her life. Then to come home and find divorce papers waiting for her. It was all such devastatingly angsty perfection for me.
The whole reason behind Christopher’s insane actions are soon revealed The second half of this story is filled with a lot of family drama from both Chris and Char’s parents acting like assholes, along with many flashbacks to much happier times for the couple, as well as the scheming manipulations of Christopher’s assistant trying to monkey wrench Char out of his life. . Although I adored the first half of this book, the second half of this story started to get an anticlimatic vibe and then tended to drag a bit. Char's trust issues seemed a bit OTT to me and I started to get irritated that she would just not forgive her poor duped hubby already. I think this book should have either been a shorter angsty story with the reveal and the resolving of their issues being towards the ending rather than the beginning of this story, or maybe the story should have been rewritten without the flashback and started as the beginning of this couple's relationship and then putting the devastating heartbreak and drama towards the ending. This story started to feel a bit lost, like the author had let out all the beautiful, angsty elements out way too early, and then wasn't quite sure what direction to take the rest of the story. This kills me to write too, because the first of this story was truly golden, but the rest didn't hold that same enthusiasm that I had during all of the first half. That being said though, this story sucked me in from the very first page, kept me invested (even through the downhill side), and I ended up loving the very sweet ending this happy couple and their family finally got in this story.
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January 27, 2020DNF, so no rating.
(Shouldn't DNFs get one star automatically? I mean, if you just couldn't drag yourself to the end of the book, that has to say something about the book. But I have to leave it unrated just in case the author somehow managed to turn this around after the 60% mark.)
This book squandered a wonderfully outrageous set-up. A loving couple are looking forward to the birth of their first child. The wife goes into labor at home and calls her husband at his law practice to drive her to the hospital. He's incredibly enthused and promises to leave the office immediately, but he never arrives. She has to drive herself to the hospital, where she undergoes a c-section because it turns out the baby is in distress. He doesn't show up for the birth. She recuperates alone in the hospital for 5 days and he never shows up. His family doesn't come. Her parents are off caravaning.
Released from the hospital, she returns to their penthouse apartment with the baby to find all his things gone and divorce papers waiting.
This could be awesome. The author has engaged my curiosity, but I was hoping she would also engage my emotions. I want to feel this woman's bewilderment and betrayal. I want angst. The author doesn't want to deliver angst. In fact, she doesn't even want to sustain my curiosity, since we discover too soon exactly why the husband went AWOL. ()
By the 25% mark, At that point, I actually skimmed ahead in my file, thinking this was one of those KU books where the title story only take up the first 40% of the file and the rest is all previews and "bonus" books. It's not. The story drags on.
At which point I stopped reading because I just didn't care about the characters and I didn't see any indication the book was going to show me how the husband had grown from his egregious mistake.
I'm always looking for indie titles that can fill the vintage Harlequin gap. Despite the promising OTT set-up, this book doesn't fill that need.
(Shouldn't DNFs get one star automatically? I mean, if you just couldn't drag yourself to the end of the book, that has to say something about the book. But I have to leave it unrated just in case the author somehow managed to turn this around after the 60% mark.)
This book squandered a wonderfully outrageous set-up. A loving couple are looking forward to the birth of their first child. The wife goes into labor at home and calls her husband at his law practice to drive her to the hospital. He's incredibly enthused and promises to leave the office immediately, but he never arrives. She has to drive herself to the hospital, where she undergoes a c-section because it turns out the baby is in distress. He doesn't show up for the birth. She recuperates alone in the hospital for 5 days and he never shows up. His family doesn't come. Her parents are off caravaning.
Released from the hospital, she returns to their penthouse apartment with the baby to find all his things gone and divorce papers waiting.
This could be awesome. The author has engaged my curiosity, but I was hoping she would also engage my emotions. I want to feel this woman's bewilderment and betrayal. I want angst. The author doesn't want to deliver angst. In fact, she doesn't even want to sustain my curiosity, since we discover too soon exactly why the husband went AWOL. ()
By the 25% mark, At that point, I actually skimmed ahead in my file, thinking this was one of those KU books where the title story only take up the first 40% of the file and the rest is all previews and "bonus" books. It's not. The story drags on.
At which point I stopped reading because I just didn't care about the characters and I didn't see any indication the book was going to show me how the husband had grown from his egregious mistake.
I'm always looking for indie titles that can fill the vintage Harlequin gap. Despite the promising OTT set-up, this book doesn't fill that need.
June 4, 2022
Great opportunity wasted.
The angst in the beginning is great.
The heroine is giving birth to her daughter and is waiting for her husband who doesn’t come nor answer her calls.
Days go by and the man is still missing.
The poor heroine goes back home after a c-section all alone and finds divorce papers waiting.
She leaves him with her child and goes to one friend of hers after signing the papers with a fu**off.
Some days later her husband sends her other papers to sign because apparently she would have cheated on him and the child is not his.
Weeks have passed. The heroine is alone with her friend and her brother, a very nice man who sadly is not the hero here. And I almost regretted an incest here. Because the brother was really really good.
The hero received some pictures where a woman looking like the heroine was having sex with his friend about the time she fell pregnant so the child must be his.
The heroine is a photographer and finds out the woman in the picture has a tattoo, while she has none.
She sends the picture to the hero and of course he comes back groveling.
Now I expected that the heroine made him grovel until the last page but no, she deprived me of this pleasure because she tells him, of course I forgive you and I don’t want to talk about this accident any more because I want to go on and be happy.
Wtf???
Not at all. It doesn’t work this way.
The hero should grovel and the heroine should divorce him anyway and she should at least date another good man and make the hero jealous.
The sudden forgiveness was like a deflated balloon.
First you climb the angst all the way up and then you leave it there without a proper solution.
Afterwards the book lost all its charm for me.
The hero is sick and risks his life and he thinks it’s his karma for what he did to the heroine but I didn’t want this.
I wanted him to suffer and suffer and suffer again because the heroine didn’t let him see his child and rejected him time and again.
And all his family believed him and rejected her when she gave birth to his daughter was immediately forgiven.
Again, no.
This could have been a great book with a misjudged heroine and a hero who groveled hard, but it was all lost in a very unlikely plot of immediate forgiveness and useless drama of the hero’s sickness.
Best character the heroine’s brother.
The angst in the beginning is great.
The heroine is giving birth to her daughter and is waiting for her husband who doesn’t come nor answer her calls.
Days go by and the man is still missing.
The poor heroine goes back home after a c-section all alone and finds divorce papers waiting.
She leaves him with her child and goes to one friend of hers after signing the papers with a fu**off.
Some days later her husband sends her other papers to sign because apparently she would have cheated on him and the child is not his.
Weeks have passed. The heroine is alone with her friend and her brother, a very nice man who sadly is not the hero here. And I almost regretted an incest here. Because the brother was really really good.
The hero received some pictures where a woman looking like the heroine was having sex with his friend about the time she fell pregnant so the child must be his.
The heroine is a photographer and finds out the woman in the picture has a tattoo, while she has none.
She sends the picture to the hero and of course he comes back groveling.
Now I expected that the heroine made him grovel until the last page but no, she deprived me of this pleasure because she tells him, of course I forgive you and I don’t want to talk about this accident any more because I want to go on and be happy.
Wtf???
Not at all. It doesn’t work this way.
The hero should grovel and the heroine should divorce him anyway and she should at least date another good man and make the hero jealous.
The sudden forgiveness was like a deflated balloon.
First you climb the angst all the way up and then you leave it there without a proper solution.
Afterwards the book lost all its charm for me.
The hero is sick and risks his life and he thinks it’s his karma for what he did to the heroine but I didn’t want this.
I wanted him to suffer and suffer and suffer again because the heroine didn’t let him see his child and rejected him time and again.
And all his family believed him and rejected her when she gave birth to his daughter was immediately forgiven.
Again, no.
This could have been a great book with a misjudged heroine and a hero who groveled hard, but it was all lost in a very unlikely plot of immediate forgiveness and useless drama of the hero’s sickness.
Best character the heroine’s brother.
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December 18, 2022DNF @ 36%
I’m not feeling it. The blurb sets this up, Chris abandons Charlotte when she’s delivering their baby and she returns home to divorce papers. It shouldn’t be hard for readers to guess what caused his reaction… soapy readers can smell wannabe OW machinations a mile away.
I LOVE soapy reads and can totally get behind a nonsense/illogical catalyst for causing relationship strife, but I need suds… and this was like washing clothes in hard water. No suds= no drama.
It takes him approximately 25% to see the light and she forgives him immediately. I might be jumping ship too early, but I don’t know what’s going to fill the rest of the book… cuz I peeked and the wannabe OM/OW disappear. And I can’t take anymore of him being self-loathing and her reassuring him.
Bottom Line- The setup is ridiculous but could've generated whacktastic drama-llama if it had been executed differently.
I’m not feeling it. The blurb sets this up, Chris abandons Charlotte when she’s delivering their baby and she returns home to divorce papers. It shouldn’t be hard for readers to guess what caused his reaction… soapy readers can smell wannabe OW machinations a mile away.
I LOVE soapy reads and can totally get behind a nonsense/illogical catalyst for causing relationship strife, but I need suds… and this was like washing clothes in hard water. No suds= no drama.
It takes him approximately 25% to see the light and she forgives him immediately. I might be jumping ship too early, but I don’t know what’s going to fill the rest of the book… cuz I peeked and the wannabe OM/OW disappear. And I can’t take anymore of him being self-loathing and her reassuring him.
Bottom Line- The setup is ridiculous but could've generated whacktastic drama-llama if it had been executed differently.
November 10, 2018
I think I'm starting to get this author's style, and I'm enjoying it. It throws in a lot of classic themes -- deception, OW meddling, awful families, outside drama and tosses in some very modern sex, and a lot of it.
The H makes a huge, huge, mistake, behaves poorly and irrationally, and then grovels, A LOT. He then makes a noble-minded mistake, and the h has to straighten him out. He probably could have groveled after the noble mistake, but the circumstances were understandable and he actually needed the h's support.
I'm not sure about safety definitions, but I think it is super-safe:
The H makes a huge, huge, mistake, behaves poorly and irrationally, and then grovels, A LOT. He then makes a noble-minded mistake, and the h has to straighten him out. He probably could have groveled after the noble mistake, but the circumstances were understandable and he actually needed the h's support.
I'm not sure about safety definitions, but I think it is super-safe:
November 19, 2018
It was okay - may contain spoilers
I am not a NA fan but this book sounded like it was different but it wasn't really. The heroine's thoughts and behaviors seemed very immature and teenagerish. I just couldn't relate to her. Chris was a good guy, a little clueless, and who wouldn't confront their wife with the evidence of her supposed betrayal? Especially when the pictures didn't even show a face? It just didn't make sense. I liked Adam too, he was the big brother, and I loved how he was so sweet with the baby! It was too cute the way he was always wanting to take care of her. The story of their courtship is also in each chapter and sometimes I just wanted to skip to what was going on in the present but I didn't. It was okay too. There's a lot more going on in the book than just him missing the birth of the baby. That is pretty much resolved in the first 25% but I had a hard time getting through it. I put it down, read other books and then came back but I think it's just not my type of genre. The writing was fine and I didn't DNF it because I was invested and I needed to know how it all turned out. Great epilogue! Safe.
I am not a NA fan but this book sounded like it was different but it wasn't really. The heroine's thoughts and behaviors seemed very immature and teenagerish. I just couldn't relate to her. Chris was a good guy, a little clueless, and who wouldn't confront their wife with the evidence of her supposed betrayal? Especially when the pictures didn't even show a face? It just didn't make sense. I liked Adam too, he was the big brother, and I loved how he was so sweet with the baby! It was too cute the way he was always wanting to take care of her. The story of their courtship is also in each chapter and sometimes I just wanted to skip to what was going on in the present but I didn't. It was okay too. There's a lot more going on in the book than just him missing the birth of the baby. That is pretty much resolved in the first 25% but I had a hard time getting through it. I put it down, read other books and then came back but I think it's just not my type of genre. The writing was fine and I didn't DNF it because I was invested and I needed to know how it all turned out. Great epilogue! Safe.
no-way-jose
November 15, 2018Silliest, dumbest, lamest, stupidest plot ever. How come you’re going to listen to whoever is saying your spouse cheated on you and believe it and you’re just going to leave your spouse without a confrontation? Needing some grow up some folks.
Ohhh... but the guy has cancer... poor baby. NOT. In this book the disease served him right.
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April 15, 2024DNF @ 25%
My friends were right. Wasted opportunity for what could have been some great angst and grovel. I felt nothing. I left off where the H shows up wanting her back. Instead of kicking him in the balls as he deserves, she invites him for a nice stroll. Really?
My friends were right. Wasted opportunity for what could have been some great angst and grovel. I felt nothing. I left off where the H shows up wanting her back. Instead of kicking him in the balls as he deserves, she invites him for a nice stroll. Really?
dont-read-this-itll-just-enrage-you
November 15, 2018If you don’t know your wife well enough to feel comfortable confronting her about her “cheating”, then you shouldn’t be married in the first place.
This plot is just too unrealistic.
This plot is just too unrealistic.
May 23, 2024
I’m not finished yet. I’m at the 40% mark and all I can think is why is the woman always the bigger person in these romances? Like I get that the MMC had a shock and reacted badly to it but I all I can see is he knew her family was not around and he left her to have a baby alone. He knew her parents were road tripping. He knew her brother was away on business because he is her brothers boss. He knew her friend lived far away. The FMC called him and told him her water broke and he said he was on his way but he never shows up. He doesn’t call the ambulance for her. He doesn’t call any of her relatives or friends to go to her. He doesn’t call the buildings doorman to get her a taxi and to escort her to it.
Literally he did NOTHING for a woman in labor!!
He abandoned. A woman alone. In labor. Let that sink in.
She could have died in a worse case scenario. She did in fact have dangerous complications and almost lost the baby. Historically, breach births mortality rates for mother and child without medical intervention are seriously low in reality. So when you think about if she had waited for him, as a truly trusting person would do, or if she had waited too long to help herself to the hospital as this FMC did end up having to do. Seriously think about it. Labor is terrible! Women are internalizing what’s going on and to have to be aware of what’s going on around you can more often than not be too much.
So back to my point, this is a guy who met the FMC because he didn’t want her walking in the rain so he gave a perfect stranger a lift. Granted, men NEVER do these things for women unless they want something in return. But technically the MMC was being a gentleman so he was trying to be helpful. Does this sound like the kind of man that would leave a woman in labor alone??
This is contrary characteristics even in a shocking moment, he should have at least call 911 for her if only to get her out of his house faster so he can abandon her as he ultimately was trying to do. It’s truly disgusting behavior.
Oh wait, he did do ONE thing, he told anybody and everybody that she had cheated on him. He told anybody and everybody that he was divorcing her / abandoning her after she gave birth. He announced his personal drama to the world. This professional wealthy lawyer laid his dirty wife’s business out for anyone to see and the author thinks this makes sense??
No lawyer would do this! He would have quietly handled his personal affairs and no one would have known anything about it other that his wife was gone. Smh.
Honestly, nothing else about this book is relevant. The MMC is not an understandable character. Besides being a “D” of epic proportions his actions don’t match his personality or his career or background. I can skim this book at this point because I’m done.
UPDATE
I’m at 82% and this book just keeps getting worse. My above review was based on the intention behind the betrayal of the MMC and his overall crappiness as a person in general. Now all I can see is how bad this book is. Sentence structure horrors aside, the story makes no actual sense. The author writes like the baby is a year old or something. At the two weeks mark after birth the author writes that the baby is rolling over all by herself. Now at this point the child is feeding herself solid foods but one of the grandparents state how it was hard to believe she was only four months old. Is this child growing using magic time?? Smdh.
Let’s not overlook, the toxic relationship that the MMC and FMC have with each other. This supposed fairytale romance relationship BEFORE the marital interference from the OW (that we never see again from the beginning of the book) can hardly treat each other well unless s e x is involved. The MMC hides things from the FMC and the FMC is mad that she can’t stay angry and bitter with her practically dying husband. The grandparents on both sides are complete douches. The MMC’s parents before were everything accommodating and welcoming to the FMC but after they have the nerve to be insulted that the FMC didn’t tell them about her birth or her name choice or that she left at all. Nowhere in sight are the supposed great in laws from before the book even starts. The FMC’s parents were so terrible that I could see why she had an eating disorder when she was still under their roof growing up.
And as for the brother he was so fantastic and great that I wanted the FMC to end up with her brother. Yeah, I said it!!! This entire book would have been better if the main couple was the brother and sister. Lmbo!!! The author has no clue how to drive the reader to like her characters. She just wrote some nonsense with no direction, believability or cohesiveness.
The melodrama is a bit much at this point. This couple tells each other NONSTOP that they love each other but in ALL the bad times of this story they don’t actually show any love. This marriage seems like it would always fail. Anything else is pure BS.
Seriously, I was trying so hard to give this book a chance. I had actively sought out books with this exact plot betrayal in it, the being abandoned while pregnant or giving birth, but there is simply too much wrong with this story. Good luck.
Literally he did NOTHING for a woman in labor!!
He abandoned. A woman alone. In labor. Let that sink in.
She could have died in a worse case scenario. She did in fact have dangerous complications and almost lost the baby. Historically, breach births mortality rates for mother and child without medical intervention are seriously low in reality. So when you think about if she had waited for him, as a truly trusting person would do, or if she had waited too long to help herself to the hospital as this FMC did end up having to do. Seriously think about it. Labor is terrible! Women are internalizing what’s going on and to have to be aware of what’s going on around you can more often than not be too much.
So back to my point, this is a guy who met the FMC because he didn’t want her walking in the rain so he gave a perfect stranger a lift. Granted, men NEVER do these things for women unless they want something in return. But technically the MMC was being a gentleman so he was trying to be helpful. Does this sound like the kind of man that would leave a woman in labor alone??
This is contrary characteristics even in a shocking moment, he should have at least call 911 for her if only to get her out of his house faster so he can abandon her as he ultimately was trying to do. It’s truly disgusting behavior.
Oh wait, he did do ONE thing, he told anybody and everybody that she had cheated on him. He told anybody and everybody that he was divorcing her / abandoning her after she gave birth. He announced his personal drama to the world. This professional wealthy lawyer laid his dirty wife’s business out for anyone to see and the author thinks this makes sense??
No lawyer would do this! He would have quietly handled his personal affairs and no one would have known anything about it other that his wife was gone. Smh.
Honestly, nothing else about this book is relevant. The MMC is not an understandable character. Besides being a “D” of epic proportions his actions don’t match his personality or his career or background. I can skim this book at this point because I’m done.
UPDATE
I’m at 82% and this book just keeps getting worse. My above review was based on the intention behind the betrayal of the MMC and his overall crappiness as a person in general. Now all I can see is how bad this book is. Sentence structure horrors aside, the story makes no actual sense. The author writes like the baby is a year old or something. At the two weeks mark after birth the author writes that the baby is rolling over all by herself. Now at this point the child is feeding herself solid foods but one of the grandparents state how it was hard to believe she was only four months old. Is this child growing using magic time?? Smdh.
Let’s not overlook, the toxic relationship that the MMC and FMC have with each other. This supposed fairytale romance relationship BEFORE the marital interference from the OW (that we never see again from the beginning of the book) can hardly treat each other well unless s e x is involved. The MMC hides things from the FMC and the FMC is mad that she can’t stay angry and bitter with her practically dying husband. The grandparents on both sides are complete douches. The MMC’s parents before were everything accommodating and welcoming to the FMC but after they have the nerve to be insulted that the FMC didn’t tell them about her birth or her name choice or that she left at all. Nowhere in sight are the supposed great in laws from before the book even starts. The FMC’s parents were so terrible that I could see why she had an eating disorder when she was still under their roof growing up.
And as for the brother he was so fantastic and great that I wanted the FMC to end up with her brother. Yeah, I said it!!! This entire book would have been better if the main couple was the brother and sister. Lmbo!!! The author has no clue how to drive the reader to like her characters. She just wrote some nonsense with no direction, believability or cohesiveness.
The melodrama is a bit much at this point. This couple tells each other NONSTOP that they love each other but in ALL the bad times of this story they don’t actually show any love. This marriage seems like it would always fail. Anything else is pure BS.
Seriously, I was trying so hard to give this book a chance. I had actively sought out books with this exact plot betrayal in it, the being abandoned while pregnant or giving birth, but there is simply too much wrong with this story. Good luck.
March 16, 2022
The story begins with the heroine driving herself to hospital whilst in labor, then waiting for her husband, the H, to arrive. He’s a no show for the birth of their daughter and doesn’t make an appearance the entire time she’s recovering from the Caesarean section. She has to drive herself and newborn back home from the hospital, only to find divorce papers waiting for her in their apartment, with no husband in sight. Whew! After that promising start, the plot/grammar/believability quickly deteriorates. But, have no fear. It’s a romance story, after all, so we’re guaranteed an HEA no matter how convoluted the path to reach it.
Tbh, the book is a mess and doesn’t make sense. The biggest problem, apart from copious editing mistakes, is that the author doesn’t bother to build-up and develop her MC’s or provide information to make their love story credible. All we’re given are superfluous flashbacks at the start of every chapter that are useless. The story seems to be set in an antipodean region, going by the vernacular, but again, the reader is left to make assumptions. The setting (eg landscape/city/country/region/continent) of contemporary romances is important because it provides a backdrop to the story, but we’re not told anything apart from comments about the beach caravan park, the city, or suburbs. The lack of details detracts from the storyline and makes all the other problems, such as the inconsistent timelines and plot holes, more obvious.
And, yeah, I know I’m being nit-picky, but the H’s illness is ridiculous. Not the health issue itself, but the fact that it’s blatantly obvious the author did little to no research about it. The H has been sick for a while but doesn’t go to the doctor until forced to do so. He supposedly has an “Acute Kidney Injury, adrenal failure”. It’s so serious that he needs a kidney transplant to survive. At one point the h even asks the H about chemotherapy as a treatment option, but we’re never told that it’s cancer, or the underlying medical problem causing it. AKIs are episodes of acute kidney failure that are caused by other health complications or an injury, and happen over a few hours or days, not weeks or months. In medicine, “acute” is when a condition is severe and sudden in onset; it’s the operative word in AKI that the author failed to understand, making it implausible.
And that epilogue set five years later is just as dumb. The h explains their firstborn daughter, Lucy, was “already walking and talking”. I’d sure hope so, because she’s more than than five years old!!!! LMAO🤣
Tbh, the book is a mess and doesn’t make sense. The biggest problem, apart from copious editing mistakes, is that the author doesn’t bother to build-up and develop her MC’s or provide information to make their love story credible. All we’re given are superfluous flashbacks at the start of every chapter that are useless. The story seems to be set in an antipodean region, going by the vernacular, but again, the reader is left to make assumptions. The setting (eg landscape/city/country/region/continent) of contemporary romances is important because it provides a backdrop to the story, but we’re not told anything apart from comments about the beach caravan park, the city, or suburbs. The lack of details detracts from the storyline and makes all the other problems, such as the inconsistent timelines and plot holes, more obvious.
And, yeah, I know I’m being nit-picky, but the H’s illness is ridiculous. Not the health issue itself, but the fact that it’s blatantly obvious the author did little to no research about it. The H has been sick for a while but doesn’t go to the doctor until forced to do so. He supposedly has an “Acute Kidney Injury, adrenal failure”. It’s so serious that he needs a kidney transplant to survive. At one point the h even asks the H about chemotherapy as a treatment option, but we’re never told that it’s cancer, or the underlying medical problem causing it. AKIs are episodes of acute kidney failure that are caused by other health complications or an injury, and happen over a few hours or days, not weeks or months. In medicine, “acute” is when a condition is severe and sudden in onset; it’s the operative word in AKI that the author failed to understand, making it implausible.
And that epilogue set five years later is just as dumb. The h explains their firstborn daughter, Lucy, was “already walking and talking”. I’d sure hope so, because she’s more than than five years old!!!! LMAO🤣
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November 4, 2024
Really sorry to the author, but it's one of the worst books I've read this year. I know she does everything herself plus editing, but this really needed it. At the beginning she forgot she had the h have a C-section, but then she was bleeding profusely from a vaginal birth, then it went back to she had a C-section. I very much disliked the FMC here. She was bitchy and uppity. Her husband is basically dying, but she begs him to have sex with her all the time. Like give him a break 😂. Spoiler he doesn't die. He gets the surgery and everything is wrapped with a shiny bow. The H was just an idiot. And for being a lawyer and not asking questions about the photos he received of his "wife" in a compromising position was moronic. He purposely misses his daughter being born because of it while believing his evil secretary Katie. The couple's daughter was talking at 4 months and trying to stand up at 5 months. Umm... Not happening. A little look into how babies progress would have helped the author. All and all really not well done. Really sorry.
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November 10, 2018
Not Sure
2.5-3 Stars
I’m really not sure how I feel about this book. First off the timing seemed all wrong to me, I was never sure how much time had actually passed. I don’t think she would have been fully healed from her c-section when they started fooling around again. She never got cleared by her doctor. The parents in this story were just awful people. I know Chris was hurt with what he thought he saw and thought he had evidence but what he did was really awful and I thought Charlotte forgave him way to easily. Why would his secretary have pictures like that? Why did he believe her and not trust his wife? To leave your wife knowing she is in active labour is just cruel. Charlotte needed more time to process what he did before she even thought of forgiving him.
Adam was a sweet, caring brother who loved his sister deeply and I am glad he was there for her. This story would have been better if it had a good editor because at times the story seemed jumbled and time didn’t make sense and there were grammatical issues as well.
2.5-3 Stars
I’m really not sure how I feel about this book. First off the timing seemed all wrong to me, I was never sure how much time had actually passed. I don’t think she would have been fully healed from her c-section when they started fooling around again. She never got cleared by her doctor. The parents in this story were just awful people. I know Chris was hurt with what he thought he saw and thought he had evidence but what he did was really awful and I thought Charlotte forgave him way to easily. Why would his secretary have pictures like that? Why did he believe her and not trust his wife? To leave your wife knowing she is in active labour is just cruel. Charlotte needed more time to process what he did before she even thought of forgiving him.
Adam was a sweet, caring brother who loved his sister deeply and I am glad he was there for her. This story would have been better if it had a good editor because at times the story seemed jumbled and time didn’t make sense and there were grammatical issues as well.
March 23, 2025
FMC: you missed your daughter's birth—where she almost died—because of a stupid, fake picture. i had to drive home myself after a c section because you abandoned me.
MMC: sorry. take me back pls?
FMC: okay!
I can't make this shit up 😀 If you are expecting grovelling, this is not the book for you.
MMC: sorry. take me back pls?
FMC: okay!
I can't make this shit up 😀 If you are expecting grovelling, this is not the book for you.
Read
November 10, 2018Dnf @ 25%.
Ohhhh boy...
Yup, this was bad.
The blurb intrigued me, what can I say? I'm a sucker for marriage-on-the-rocks stories.
But this was all kinds of bad, in conception, execution, and just the writing in general. Sentences were poorly structured, strangely worded or contained mixed tenses. The prose was very juvenile and the plot was the type of OTT, contrived drama suited to teenagers at best.
The book is simply inexpertly written, kind of all over the place and silly. The emotion didn't match what happened in scenes, was either absent or heavily exaggerated. The heroine's reactions were passive-aggressive and immature. She was set up to be such a pathetic victim all over a misunderstanding and instead of trying to get to the bottom of it chose to be a martyr.
My time is valuable and I certainly don't have enough extra around to read such rubbish.
Absolutely not recommended.
Ohhhh boy...
Yup, this was bad.
The blurb intrigued me, what can I say? I'm a sucker for marriage-on-the-rocks stories.
But this was all kinds of bad, in conception, execution, and just the writing in general. Sentences were poorly structured, strangely worded or contained mixed tenses. The prose was very juvenile and the plot was the type of OTT, contrived drama suited to teenagers at best.
The book is simply inexpertly written, kind of all over the place and silly. The emotion didn't match what happened in scenes, was either absent or heavily exaggerated. The heroine's reactions were passive-aggressive and immature. She was set up to be such a pathetic victim all over a misunderstanding and instead of trying to get to the bottom of it chose to be a martyr.
My time is valuable and I certainly don't have enough extra around to read such rubbish.
Absolutely not recommended.
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October 27, 2019
This book is the dumbest thing I've read in a long while. Everyone was to blame BUT the asshole hero who left his pregnant wife on the day of her delivery, and e-mailed divorce papers to her. The cherry on the pie is probably the heroine comforting him and putting his precious feelings first, instead of acting like a sane person and throwing him out the curb like he did to her, but I guess she gets off on being treated like shit. Between the hero and the heroine idk which one of them is the bigger dumbass.
December 23, 2023
If I had a Time Machine, I’d go back to before I knew about this.
I wanna pass out a spine to both the h & the H of this one. Idk how old everyone was, but the constant back and forth with the parents, the H just walking off instead of saying ANYTHING in his own defense was honestly sickening.
The h might as well have just rolled over to get her belly rubbed. Dude wouldn’t have been able to lick the dirt off the bottom of my shoe after his behavior. 🤷🏻♀️
I wanna pass out a spine to both the h & the H of this one. Idk how old everyone was, but the constant back and forth with the parents, the H just walking off instead of saying ANYTHING in his own defense was honestly sickening.
The h might as well have just rolled over to get her belly rubbed. Dude wouldn’t have been able to lick the dirt off the bottom of my shoe after his behavior. 🤷🏻♀️
February 16, 2024
Where is the groveling, wtf ?
She just accept him just like that?? She went to labour alone, and his husband POS didn’t go to the hospital because he thought she cheated on him, and when she went home she only saw the divorce papers. So when the truth came out, she took him back faster than a lightning 😭 Her daughter almost died during birth, but it’s okay since she luvs him.
And he never really explained where the heroine called him and his secretary answered saying “Hang on. Let me put my top back on.” He just said it wasn’t like that and he was at work. 🥴🥴
What’s up with these authors lmao.
She just accept him just like that?? She went to labour alone, and his husband POS didn’t go to the hospital because he thought she cheated on him, and when she went home she only saw the divorce papers. So when the truth came out, she took him back faster than a lightning 😭 Her daughter almost died during birth, but it’s okay since she luvs him.
And he never really explained where the heroine called him and his secretary answered saying “Hang on. Let me put my top back on.” He just said it wasn’t like that and he was at work. 🥴🥴
What’s up with these authors lmao.
January 18, 2023
A waste of a good plot. the beginning was promising but the whole situation was unrealistic.his reaction after he received the photos, her reaction after her calls were left unanswered.
She delivers without him and she doesn't confront him even after she is served divorce papers. He believes someone else without speaking to his wife.ih..
She delivers without him and she doesn't confront him even after she is served divorce papers. He believes someone else without speaking to his wife.ih..
February 18, 2022
This book was so frustrating because she took him back straight away after giving her divorce papers and leaving her to give birth on her own and all because of the lies he believed about her thanks to his jealous secretary. She was spineless and he didn't even grovel.
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October 2, 2025
26% and I'm out. Charlotte has to be the most supreme on high of all doormats that I've ever read and I just can't put myself through another minute of this ridiculousness
July 24, 2023
it was ok
I loved the idea of the story but not the actual story. If anyone says there is a grovel in this book they are highly mistaken. He does something horrible based off of something that could have easily been disproved with a quick conversation. When he finds out he was wrong I get he was sorry but the doormat who is the h didn’t even really require an apology he was back and that was it. I don’t mind h’s who forgive easily but that was insane. Then the way her parents flipped saying at first that he’s her husband and the baby’s father she needs to give him a chance then when he shows up he’s enemy number 1 and she’s stupid for even talking to him? It didn’t flow well and was inconsistent in parts. Her brother is there almost from day 1 and he forgives the H easy too like WTH? You witnessed the devastation the h went through and you didn’t want to punch the H when he shows up? Also really we aren’t gonna have more then a brief mention of the OW and see her get what she deserves? His family who also ditched the h did even apologize and had the attitude of you forgave the H so we don’t even need to apologize. She had his baby via c-section in the hospital all alone!!!! Wtf!!! Even if she had cheated he could have still been the father!! I like my h’s to not just fall on the Hs D**** when they haven’t proven they are really sorry. All in all not horrible read I read the whole book and I’m very much someone who will not waste her time on a book when my tbr is 100 books deep. I wish the story had been developed more and that both H and h didn’t come across as week as they did.
I loved the idea of the story but not the actual story. If anyone says there is a grovel in this book they are highly mistaken. He does something horrible based off of something that could have easily been disproved with a quick conversation. When he finds out he was wrong I get he was sorry but the doormat who is the h didn’t even really require an apology he was back and that was it. I don’t mind h’s who forgive easily but that was insane. Then the way her parents flipped saying at first that he’s her husband and the baby’s father she needs to give him a chance then when he shows up he’s enemy number 1 and she’s stupid for even talking to him? It didn’t flow well and was inconsistent in parts. Her brother is there almost from day 1 and he forgives the H easy too like WTH? You witnessed the devastation the h went through and you didn’t want to punch the H when he shows up? Also really we aren’t gonna have more then a brief mention of the OW and see her get what she deserves? His family who also ditched the h did even apologize and had the attitude of you forgave the H so we don’t even need to apologize. She had his baby via c-section in the hospital all alone!!!! Wtf!!! Even if she had cheated he could have still been the father!! I like my h’s to not just fall on the Hs D**** when they haven’t proven they are really sorry. All in all not horrible read I read the whole book and I’m very much someone who will not waste her time on a book when my tbr is 100 books deep. I wish the story had been developed more and that both H and h didn’t come across as week as they did.
November 16, 2021
I’ve never read a h with less of a backbone than this one. Yes the H realized he screwed up and took responsibility. However, his wife almost died giving birth to a baby and he wasn’t there. Regardless of what the truth was she was alone and not even for one second did he think about her or the child. Even if she did cheat on him, there was still a good chance the baby was his and he didn’t even think about that. Never once spoke to her about it and just decided to act. And her? The h literally forgave and defended him the moment he showed up, I mean the H punished himself more than she did. Her parents? One second they hated blamed her for their relationship ending and then the next they were upset she was trying. The only good characters were the h’s BFF and brother.
November 24, 2024
Tags: age-gaaap, betrayal, boring-yaawn, doormat_heroine, hero-hurts-heroine, hero-married-to-heroine, heroine-leaves, older-hero-younger-heroine, ow-drama, read, troubled-marriage, unlikable-hero, unlikable-heroine, waste-of-time, weak-hero, weak-heroine
Another spineless heroine.
Another spineless heroine.
September 22, 2019
Having a rough go with this one. I really want to like it, but I’m having a hard time getting over some major things within. I’m at 80% and will continue on b/c I hate not finishing, but I’m just so frustrated.
First off, H does something terrible, and he somewhat grovels, but does it in such a way that he does the thing I really hate most - turns it on himself and makes it all about him with his, “how could I do this?” And, “I don’t deserve you” which means the h is now spending time talking him into staying with her. WTF???????? It just really hits me completely wrong.
There are also odd things in here with timing that frustrate me. Author isn’t clear on time passage, so I’m thinking it’s just been a few weeks, but then the baby is rolling over - which happens typically around 4 months(sometimes earlier, sometimes later), but still - that’s a fair amount of time gone by that isn’t really mentioned directly and every time it pulls me out of the story. It also happens early on when she gets in the shower with the newborn. She had a c-section and it takes a good 6 weeks to fully recover(had one myself) and to attempt to do that, it’s just not the most natural, easiest thing and it again pulls me right out of the story.
Other things that do the same is the inconsistency with the characters. For instance it’s mentioned that she had an eating disorder years earlier, and is mentioned when she is losing weight and not eating after baby’s birth b/c she is so devastated, but then it’s NEVER mentioned again! The parents -both sets - seem to be manic/bipolar b/c they swing from one mood/behavior to another and every time it pulls me right out again. Her parents at first blame her for marriage breakdown and want her to go back to him, then swing completely the other way and want her with them and to divorce and then don’t speak to her again for(assuming baby rolled over at 3-4 months and not at 6 weeks) for MONTHS, but when there is a medical crisis with H she wants them to come so she can depend on them?? When she couldn’t before and they made her miserable??? It’s just weird and not written in a way that feels true to the characters she has created.
20% left and will update and edit review then if anything changes, but I’m doubting it. Yeah, opinion not changed on anything else. Just felt like not fully fleshed out side characters with the way both sets of parents behaved.
I will probably give one more of this author a go and see how it goes.
First off, H does something terrible, and he somewhat grovels, but does it in such a way that he does the thing I really hate most - turns it on himself and makes it all about him with his, “how could I do this?” And, “I don’t deserve you” which means the h is now spending time talking him into staying with her. WTF???????? It just really hits me completely wrong.
There are also odd things in here with timing that frustrate me. Author isn’t clear on time passage, so I’m thinking it’s just been a few weeks, but then the baby is rolling over - which happens typically around 4 months(sometimes earlier, sometimes later), but still - that’s a fair amount of time gone by that isn’t really mentioned directly and every time it pulls me out of the story. It also happens early on when she gets in the shower with the newborn. She had a c-section and it takes a good 6 weeks to fully recover(had one myself) and to attempt to do that, it’s just not the most natural, easiest thing and it again pulls me right out of the story.
Other things that do the same is the inconsistency with the characters. For instance it’s mentioned that she had an eating disorder years earlier, and is mentioned when she is losing weight and not eating after baby’s birth b/c she is so devastated, but then it’s NEVER mentioned again! The parents -both sets - seem to be manic/bipolar b/c they swing from one mood/behavior to another and every time it pulls me right out again. Her parents at first blame her for marriage breakdown and want her to go back to him, then swing completely the other way and want her with them and to divorce and then don’t speak to her again for(assuming baby rolled over at 3-4 months and not at 6 weeks) for MONTHS, but when there is a medical crisis with H she wants them to come so she can depend on them?? When she couldn’t before and they made her miserable??? It’s just weird and not written in a way that feels true to the characters she has created.
20% left and will update and edit review then if anything changes, but I’m doubting it. Yeah, opinion not changed on anything else. Just felt like not fully fleshed out side characters with the way both sets of parents behaved.
I will probably give one more of this author a go and see how it goes.
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February 16, 2025
IMHO, The storyline had great potential to be built into something more intense with respect to the betrayal, the ow drama and more importantly the grovelling part.
There was the angsty start which I crave where the father misses his child’s birth deliberately and leaves his wife alone. She returns home by herself, driving after c-section only to be left with divorce papers.
I loved her response to the divorce papers. Showed me a heroine who stood up for herself instead of her husband’s bullying way to end their marriage. She wrote “f*ck off” on the papers, packed up (right thing to do, again, only imo), went to live with her sister and her brother joining in for support. All good. Her parents join them and they are pretty controlling of her life, refusing to accept she’s a grown woman.
Later, she comes to know that her husband thinks she been cheating and that he believes that the child is not his. He was given photographic proof and verified with the person she apparently cheated on him with. She reviews the photos and sends them back to the husband with proof that it wasn’t her.
There is also drama from his secretary who gave him the photos of his wife’s supposed infidelity and also insinuates that she’s having an affair with the husband. I believe there was great potential to build more here. But I’m saying this only cos I love the whole ow drama.
Where I was thoroughly disappointed - While her journey to facing this mess started off strong, I did not expect her to forget all the mess she was put through and integrate him back into her life like nothing happened. It felt lame. Like she took one look at him and she immediately went back to the affectionate, loving wife who was never wronged. Most of the initiative to smoothen the betrayal of her life came from her - From offering information about the birth he consciously skipped, the daughter he abandoned, inviting him to stay with her, defending him against her parents (who wasn’t wrong about Chris and his actions), preemptively going back to live with him, and so on. H*ll! I don’t even remember him apologising sincerely. She had small reactions to the betrayal here and there. But, to me, it came across like she almost refused to knowledge how big of a betrayal he put her through. She’s probably a better woman than I am, right?
Well… that said, I skimmed through the rest of the book and of course, they have a happy ending.
There was the angsty start which I crave where the father misses his child’s birth deliberately and leaves his wife alone. She returns home by herself, driving after c-section only to be left with divorce papers.
I loved her response to the divorce papers. Showed me a heroine who stood up for herself instead of her husband’s bullying way to end their marriage. She wrote “f*ck off” on the papers, packed up (right thing to do, again, only imo), went to live with her sister and her brother joining in for support. All good. Her parents join them and they are pretty controlling of her life, refusing to accept she’s a grown woman.
Later, she comes to know that her husband thinks she been cheating and that he believes that the child is not his. He was given photographic proof and verified with the person she apparently cheated on him with. She reviews the photos and sends them back to the husband with proof that it wasn’t her.
There is also drama from his secretary who gave him the photos of his wife’s supposed infidelity and also insinuates that she’s having an affair with the husband. I believe there was great potential to build more here. But I’m saying this only cos I love the whole ow drama.
Where I was thoroughly disappointed - While her journey to facing this mess started off strong, I did not expect her to forget all the mess she was put through and integrate him back into her life like nothing happened. It felt lame. Like she took one look at him and she immediately went back to the affectionate, loving wife who was never wronged. Most of the initiative to smoothen the betrayal of her life came from her - From offering information about the birth he consciously skipped, the daughter he abandoned, inviting him to stay with her, defending him against her parents (who wasn’t wrong about Chris and his actions), preemptively going back to live with him, and so on. H*ll! I don’t even remember him apologising sincerely. She had small reactions to the betrayal here and there. But, to me, it came across like she almost refused to knowledge how big of a betrayal he put her through. She’s probably a better woman than I am, right?
Well… that said, I skimmed through the rest of the book and of course, they have a happy ending.
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