Status Updates From Speed Dating the Boss (Cowb...

Okay, I really tried, but this story just doesn't work.
Time to quit...

'next time Marty got married...' WTF until now they were all spontaneous best buds and she was 'the one'

Since when does giving in to everything equal 'strong arm parenting'?

Darling, darling, darling - the endearments and completely taking over Dan's life is creepy, especially as Dan refers to him as his boss. I'm assuming Brown was aiming to create a specific dynamic between them but the vibe is all wrong, this is bordering on uncomfortable.

He arranged a shrink.... Not suggested it, not offered to pay for one, he booked the appointment with no consultation!
Easier to pay shrinks for all his daughters victims than deal with his ghastly daughter!

This book is not a romance, it's the Ariel show, and Ariel is a bitch.
I don't give a shit how pretty her hair is, she's an entitled bitch endangering people for 'fun'.

Gideon is 37.....he's written as a 50yr old doormat! albeit a powerful alpha one of course.

How did the two minute chat at a speed date event turn into a friendship where they known so much about each other? Why would Cris think of Dan and associate Lena with him?

I don't care how pretty the spoilt brat is, starting fights is NOT funny or cute

I officially hate Gideon.
He has a 'powerful presence' for five years has hidden upstairs leaving Dan mid-twenties (isn't the drinking age 21 in America?) to run and face danger in his bar, lets his daughter cause all the trouble. That's it, he smirks and controls on his daughters whim.
Now we find he's smugly known about Dan's crush along and is now stepping in to take advantage.

In the turn of a page I've gone from thinking this was going to pick up to being really annoyed. WHY IS DAN APOLOGISING? his boss and bosses daughter have taken over his life are deciding what he wants/needs overruling him, they're taking advantage of him, amused by situations causing him danger and now arrogantly deciding to date him with no buildup - yet it's Dan apologising!

So Gideon hasn't won me over, and his daughter most definitely hasn't.
But the actual speed dating was cute, would have liked a bit more of it, and the inevitable misunderstanding did make me feel for Dan.

really confused in what Dan looks like, one minute he was yielding a baseball bat looking tough the next he used to have long hair, needs protecting and is being referred to as pretty.

Wait he'd ONLY had ten hours sleep?!?!
WTF I work nights, five hours is my average. Three not uncommon. Seven hours my ideal, anything more is a blissfully indulgent luxury.
For that sleep to be uninterrupted...... >sigh<

Can't picture Dans, not impressed with big powerful Gideon - being your bar manager does not include managing your kid. Your staff are getting regularly injured and you still pandering to the brat and not putting up any barriers...
And NO she doesn't 'have a good heart' she's willfully causing fights were people get hurt, loose money, have to clean up, being pretty is no excuse.