Status Updates From A Widow's Guilty Secret (Ve...

85%
He let the call go to voicemail.

You are a shitty cop. Do your job!

77%
You have to be kidding me! This is no time to be having sex!!!!

72%
Then there's the most awkward scene where I think it's supposed to be sexy or something, but... no.

72%
"This is my family," she told him as she drew away and stood her ground. "It's up to me to find them." She lifted her chin defiantly. "This isn't your fight."

Ummm.... he's a COP. Are you stupid? Also, what are you thinking, you're going to go after the criminals and rescue your sister and baby BY YOURSELF? What?

72%
Since when did she fall to pieces like some fragile China doll?

Well, I don't know, you've already fainted twice in this novel. I'd say this is par for the course.

67%
"She's been overprotective and stubborn like this all her life."

Well, I don't really think it's overprotective and stubborn to wait for the police protection to get here since she was just threatened by someone who said their slit her two-month-old's throat. Yeah... can't believe she's leaving the baby behind at all, actually.

66%
As if to underscore that, out of the blue, he'd been given a second chance and he was going to make the most of it. Lightning had struck twice, it wasn't about to strike a third time.

Whoever had initially called and pressed him into service was not going to be disappointed with his performance.

WTF? Why would you care about what a disembodied voice on the phone says to you and why would you believe

64%
She was definitely a game changer for him. Being with her made him look at the world a little differently - made him feel more the way he assumed a normal person felt.

Made him think about and want things a normal man might want, instead of being the emotionless machine he had become in these last years.

Uh-huh.

64%
He liked to think of himself as fighting trim. At this point, though, he was more like pacifist fat. Or at least he felt that way, stuffed to the gills.

Looking at it, he wondered if Suzy knew about the key. Its existence may have slipped her mind in the face of all this turmoil. Or she was deliberately holding back information.

Or she didn't even know it existed, jackass. Do you remember that he locked his office and never allowed her to go in there? Jackass.

I'm at 60% and basically nothing has happened.

Never underestimate Ferrarella's ability to put you to sleep.

47%
She's fainting again, he's catching her again.

39%
So... her husband has been dead less than 24 hours and her sister is encouraging her to date the sheriff. That's really cold.

39%
He caught himself thinking that for a woman who'd given birth two months ago, she certainly had regained one hell of a figure. That in turn made him wonder what kind of fool the sheriff must have been, to go tomcatting around when he had THAT waiting for him at home.

That's not what cheating is about, you idiot.

29%
He had a razor-sharp mind when it came to solving crimes. Common everyday things, though, like cooking or doing laundry, turned out to be far more of a challenge for him than he was happy about.

Uh-huh.

25%
Then he looks down at her feet and she's wearing four-inch heels. At home. Alone. While taking care of a baby. WHAT?!?? I mean, what?!

I'm at 24% and so far this is pretty boring.

16%
He realized that he was attracted to this women, DEEPLY attracted. Moreover, it wasn't just her delicate looks that had hooked and reeled him in, it was her underlying vulnerability, which he could see she tried to cover up at all costs.

But the very existence of that vulnerability awakened his dormant protective streak, a streak he had thought he'd successfully laid to rest more than a few years ago.

14%
He flashed her another amused smile. Amid the vulnerability, he detected a feisty streak. He found it rather appealing.

11%
Nick turned his attention to the woman he'd just caught. When he'd made his initial assessment of her, he'd judged that she weighed under a hundred pounds. If he wasn't right on target, he was close. Suzy Burris felt as if she weighed next to nothing at all.

UNDER 100 pounds?!

6%
On the surface, Peter was friendly, outgoing, gregarious, but after several years of marriage, she still knew very little about him. And NO details about his childhood.

This is like that book... where she's married to that guy but she's never met his parents... and it turns out he was a raging psycho... You know. That book.

6%
When he'd asked her to marry him, she'd accepted because she'd hoped that her own feelings would grow somewhere along the line and turn into the kind of love that was the foundation of every strong marriage.

She'd said "I do" praying that would somehow trigger the everlasting love she'd secretly always dreamed about.

Between this and the baby, this woman is really dumb.

6%
Despite getting very little sleep the night before because Andy kept fussing, she'd done her best to give patching things up between Peter and her one more try this morning. She'd made Peter breakfast - waffles with eggs and sausages, his favorite - and tried to get some sort of a conversation going.

But she might as well have been trying to program a robot. The words she all but wound up pulling out of he

5%
The baby was supposed to have been that light, and his conception and subsequent birth clearly was a tactic that had misfired.

The baby had been a mistake.

Not that she didn't love Andy more than she'd ever thought humanly possible, but as far as his being the miracle that would heal and save their marriage, well, that just wasn't going to happen.

4%
Melinda has been his first love. Though they became as different as fire and ice, he'd never loved anyone as much as he had loved her. Most likely, he never would.

If something had happened to Melinda, he wanted to help get her back. God knew, if money was the issue, it wouldn't be for long. He had more money than he could possibly spend in a lifetime.

TWO lifetimes.

4%
Melinda started pointing her finger at what she perceived were social injustices, while he, with his well-honed business acumen, became a recognized leader in his field. and exceedingly wealthy to boot.

With his bank accounts totaling in the billions, he, in effect, found himself becoming the enemy against whom Melinda was so profoundly railing.

4%
Remember how things used to be with Melinda. In the beginning. Back when they had been just two overachieving graduate students, wildly in love and bound and determined to leave their marks on the world.

4%
Oil baron Gabe Dawson was in Malaysia on important business, far away from Vengeance, Texas.