Very poorly written
Very unrealistic for Derek to lose controlling interest in his company to his soon to be ex wife who was no married to him for a matter of months, who was only working in his company for a matter of months. No board is going to do something so ridiculous over him tearing up his own cottage after finding his wife cheating on him. It was ridiculous foolishness. He has the money for top lawyers, making it even more ridiculous this plot being written.
Ridiculous that Valentina is touted as having bad credit when she has a hospital bill due to an illness her child had, and she’s making regular payments in form of a payment plan. That builds good credit, not make for her having bad credit. Now we’re at two serious flaws in this story and it’s how the story starts off!
Why is Valentina fixing up the cottage he caused destruction in?
Her first day of work and the soon to be ex calls her in to her office to confront her about living in “her” cottage, told the relationship is strictly business after the ex asks if she’s sleeping with “her husband”, then proceeds to tell her to do so to get him to sign their divorce papers? Three strikes and your out, but this isn’t baseball, I press on reading, but seriously consider dropping the book altogether after reading this ridiculousness. And this is now only nine chapters in!
Then the cliché writing of high, have to tell him what his ex said, but a whole week goes by and doesn’t get done, then she is resolved to tell him at the function she ends up attending, yet they fall into having sex and nothing is told bs. Yawn. She is worried about his ex-wife, who the cottage does not belong to by the way, she’s not living there, kicking her out, it is Derek that leased it to her, he’s the one that can kick her out. Is she too stupid for this realization? She’s already too stupid not to have gone to HR and reporting sexual harassment by the ex at the workplace,She’s already too stupid not to have gone to HR and reporting sexual harassment by the ex in the workplace. One would think that she would want to hurry up and tell him so that being kicked out would not happen, because she’s all worried about having just moved her son there. Come on. There was some redemption here though.
She got pregnant at 19, currently 24, so how is it that things happened with her ex, father of her child, SIX years ago? And the child is now 5? Sure child could be 5 if she got pregnant very shortly after turning 19, it did say she got pregnant the FIRST week of school. Later the friend referenced it being six years since last had sex before Derek. MATH IS OFF!
Why does her ex know where she’s living? He would not. She wouldn’t have given him that information, so why is he at Derek’s house? There was absolutely no reason for him to have shown up there, it made less than zero sense. It was crap written in for drama that further diminished the book. It was more ridiculousness. Then it immediately goes to worse with Valentina walks in the house, and Nikki, former booty call, is in there, unknown to Derek. How does she even get to the house? Who let her in without his permission? Everybody else has to have permission to get in. Then the cliche woman response from Valentina, who runs off. Serious eye rolling at this point. Just bad writing. I hate not finishing a book I start, which is very infrequently done, but well on the way to getting there with this one. Then the author wrote the mess again, but this time in reverse with Derek being the one title some false info, believes the stupid thing, despite the fact that Nikki had just snuck in his house and he never thinks of her. And she just up and confessed and it was never recorded. Dom is Derek’s friend and lawyer, the most incompetent lawyer who doesn’t know how to handle anything. Brigit doesn’t get to just file papers and it’s done. Brigit spreads Valentina being reason for the divorce when it’s been over six months for the divorce being started? And I’m done. This book’s story was so poorly written, it is not even a little bit good. I will not be reading the second book.