Status Updates From Lady in Red (Mad Passions, #2)

“You have something to say?” His voice held the oddest degree of ragged excitement.
Tears slipped down her cheeks. “No.”
“Fine, then.” He hauled back his hand again, drawing his fingers into a fist.
Yvonne closed her eyes. She’d endured enough pain in her life to know she would endure this. She would. For Esme. For all the women who had thought they’d found love and found hell instead, she would endure

“He sent me where I would be forgotten,” she said simply, the words unleashing a jagged slash of pain, twisting her face as if she might cry. But no tears came. “A madhouse, Yvonne. He sent me to a madhouse.”

Finally have some free time to start Mary's story, have a feeling it's going to be a doozy

Well...that confrontation felt a little anti-climactic...a little disappointed.

I've come to really like Powers. He may be inappropriate, lewd and a drunk but he's really a good guy who's been through a lot. He's really endearing. Kinda want him and Mary to be together.