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Deceptive Calm

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Aug 13, 2025 11:34AM

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Alpha's Redemption: My Luna Has A Son (Regret #2)

by Jessica Hall (Goodreads Author)

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When There is Nothing Left but Love

by Anonymous

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Christine said: " I'm currently reading this story online. I haven't finished, I'm actually far from finishing as the story has over 1800 chapters and I'm only on 196. My goal is to finish this story, but I have yet to rate it as I'm not sure how I feel. Actually, I'm I'm currently reading this story online. I haven't finished, I'm actually far from finishing as the story has over 1800 chapters and I'm only on 196. My goal is to finish this story, but I have yet to rate it as I'm not sure how I feel. Actually, I'm writing this initial review so that I can sort out some of my thoughts.

***Spoilers ahead***

This book is confusing, mainly because it opens up with Scarlet (the main female character) finding out she is pregnant by her husband Ashton (male lead). Ashton is a stone wall towards his wife. His grandfather forced him to marry her two years ago, and he has never warmed up to her. He barely speaks to her and is an absolute piece of s*** to his wife. He also allows others to be beyond awful to her. He has a woman who he cares for, and we are made to believe he loves at the beginning of this story. Her name is Rebecca, and she was the younger sister of one of Ashton's best friends. The friend passed away and asked Ashton on his death bed to take care of his sister. Ashton agreed and had since dedicated his life to basically watching over Rebecca.

Rebecca is a spoiled piece of work. I mean she's a downright B****!!!!!!! She treats Scarlet as if she were the mistress. To be fair, Rebecca believed she would be Mrs. Fuller not Scarlet, until grandpa stepped in and forced Rebecca to be the side piece so that Scarlet could marry into the family. However, Rebecca always manages to be incredibly awful to Scarlet and Ashton allows this to happen. For instance, Rebecca purposefully pours hot scalding water on Scarlet's hand. Ashton watched it happen, and Rebecca simply says "whoops". Scarlet does not fidget and leaves the room only to run into Ashton's best friend and doctor Jared. Jared stops her and has a nurse take care of the burn before it gets worse. Ashton never said a word to Rebecca or to Scarlet.

Jared also seems to be more concerned than Ashton about Scarlet and her pregnancy in the first few chapters. We find out early on that Rebecca is also pregnant. How do we find out? Because she tried to push Scarlet (who already told Ashton she was pregnant, and he didn't seem to care AT ALL) down a flight of stairs. Scarlet anticipated what Rebecca was planning to do, so she moved to the side and Rebecca lost her balance and fell down the stairs. With that, Ashton rushed past Scarlet to go help Rebecca who was bleeding and ultimately miscarried. Jared, who was with Ashton, asked Scarlet if she planned on defending herself, as it was clear to him that Rebecca's fall was not her fault. Regardless, Rebecca blamed Scarlet and Ashton never said a word on whether he believed Rebecca or Scarlet. Scarlet decided to stay quiet and not explain herself at all. Ashton then forced Scarlet to watch over Rebecca and that is how Rebecca was able to pour hot water all over Scarlet's hand. I'm on chapter 196 as I mentioned and NONE OF THESE ISSUES HAVE EVER BEEN BROUGHT UP OR DISCUSSED!!!!!

Ashton only started to show any concern for Scarlet and her pregnancy AFTER Rebecca lost her child. This of course drove Rebecca mad, and she begged Ashton to have Scarlet abort her baby. Ashton did not want Scarlet to get rid of their baby, so this drove Rebecca to a new level of psycho.

The number of insults and horrible things that happen to Scarlet, in which Ashton just turns a blind eye are just horrifying. Ashton also FORCES her to have sex and he's always quite rough with her. At first, I was taken aback by this, but it got worse at which point I was just flat out shocked that the writer wrote these types of scenes as often as she did. Let me explain with an example; Scarlet worked hard to become a Director at Fuller Corporation. Ashton assigned this random project to Scarlet that could make or break the company. Honestly, I feel like there is more to that part of the story, but I haven't got there yet, so they are either never going to complete whatever path they took us on OR some revelation will come from the chaos that occurred with that project. Because of this project, Scarlet was kidnapped and forced to basically hear a conversation between Ashton and Rebecca. Once the conversation ended, Scarlet was forced to hear them have sex. The way that part of the story was written, I'm not sure if she SAW or just HEARD what was happening. This was the kidnappers form of torture in order to get Scarlet to agree to do something with the project she was handed. From that day on, Scarlet was no longer able to perform her wifely duties well. Her excuse to get him to not have sex with her, was that it was bad for the pregnancy. He could not resist and would force himself on her. So, there was one scene where he forced himself on her and she laid there motionless as he did his thing. Honestly, after reading that (i.e., hello rape), I almost stopped reading, but for some reason I'm still chugging along...when he was done, he saw that she had a pool of blood coming out of her and he panicked and rushed her to the hospital. The doctors basically told him that she could lose this child at any moment, not only because she was still in her first trimester, but because she has an issue where it is very difficult for her to even get pregnant so this baby is basically a miracle - If she loses this child, she may never have another. Does that stop him? No. They still have "rape like" sex as she just lays there and lets him have his way with her.

Throughout the chapters, we do see a shift in Ashton. He is more attentive to Scarlet, and he visibly worries about her. Scarlet sees it as he is worried about the baby, but as an outsider reading in, you can tell he loves her. He's just a really messed up character as are all the characters in this story so it's difficult to tell what is happening. It's like they are all bi-polar without medication. Seriously, you get whiplash from how hot and cold they all are.

Scarlet represses everything that happens to her. Never saying a word to Ashton, so there are a lot of misunderstandings because of it. She starts to realize (after having to spend a few days in the hospital) that something is mentally wrong with her, and it could harm the child. So, she turns to a friend who is a psychologist to help. He tells her that she needs to discuss things with Ashton, otherwise things will only get worse between them. She is clearly holding a grudge from having heard Rebecca and Ashton having sex. She refuses to tell him anything.

In the meantime, there are a lot of men who seem to be willing to come to Scarlet's aid, which starts to show Ashton's jealousy. Scarlet doesn't understand why since she 100% believes he does not love her. He is just waiting for the child to be born. He loves Rebecca and is only remaining married to her because of the unborn child. Scarlet loves Ashton and is ok to stay married to him although she believes his heart will always belong to Rebecca. Side note, Ashton has on more than one occasion told Scarlet that he does not love Rebecca, has never been in love with her AND that he wants to live a happy life with her and the baby. On the other hand, she often asks him for a divorce AND she threatens to kill herself or the baby. It's all very unhealthy behavior.

I'm skipping a lot of spoilers and story in my review, but I needed to write down some of the key highlights from what I have read thus far. The fact that Ashton constantly goes out of his way for Rebecca is strange, I don't think it has to do with his promise to her brother because Ashton has also told her that he needs to focus on his own family, and he's been speaking up for Scarlet more in front of Rebecca. I also love spoilers, so I cheated and read the last page of the story to see where in the world this was going...It actually confused me more, but something I read tells me that there is a reason (beyond the death of Rebecca's brother) as to why he's ignored all of her bad behaviors and has allowed Rebecca to do all of these horrible things to Scarlet. I also think that Scarlet has multiple people who have been watching her unbeknownst to her, so she is never in real trouble. But again, that's just speculation at this point in the story.

I'll update my post/spoilers once I get further in. ...more "

Mar 31, 2023 09:25AM · see review

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