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I’m so confused wtf is going on

Ew the age gap. Just lowered my interest by like 35%

" 'No!' he cried in protest, a deep wrenched sound which told her how moved he was and she was glad, glad because now he would suffer as she had suffered and would suffer in the future. Gideon had fought against the clutch of love, but now its claws were sunk deep into his flesh and the sight made her shiver with pleasure." !

'he polish and brilliant technique were still there, but there was a new feeling in the playing. It was a change reflected in his body. When he took his applause he was obviously thinner. He had never been less than fit, but now his bones showed through the brown skin, the harshness of them taut.' hero decline!! Idk why I love it when heroes physically ~suffer for love~ or what tht says about me (lol) but it's great

'Her mission in life engrossed her to the fullest. She was an information service. She gathered it and she passed it on, often, Grandie said, much embellished. Mrs Robinson was an artist. She was not content with life as it was—she improved upon it.' Charlotte Lamb was such a great writer -- not always in terms of content, but just her prose itself

If I didn't know that this is a romance novel I would definitely think Gideon was going to turn out to secretly be Marina's father

'I'd never let myself think of you that way! Don't you understand? After the day I came down here and you played to me, I wouldn't allow myself to put a finger on you. I still slept with Diana because it had never meant a damned thing and it didn't seem to me then to have any connection with how I felt about you.'
I hate this kind of logic!

'I thought you'd gone,' she whispered.

'I'll never go. How can I? How far would I get without my heart?'

🥺😩😢😭💔

'Why haven't you gone?' she demanded.
'Breakfast is ready,' he said as if she hadn't spoken. Marina saw that that was how he meant to play it, ignoring her requests for him to go, impervious to her hostility and anger. 'I meant what I said. Our marriage is over.'
'It hasn't even started. Pour the coffee.'

🤣🤣 Poor the dang coffee. 😈🖤🤣🤣🤣

'How can you be such a swine?' Her voice shook as she demanded that and he smiled tormentingly. 'I work at it.'

😈🤡🤩😈🤡🤩😈🤡🤩🖤🖤🖤 yaaaaasssss

Thought it was fitting that Moonlight Sonata popped up on shuffle as I was finishing this :) A HEA, but a hard-earned, through-the-wringer one. Whew!

Even if he was telling the truth and had not had a secret affair with Diana during their marriage, his silence on the subject of his feelings indicated all too clearly that Gideon still put his own needs in front of those of anybody else. That wasn't love.
I adore Ms. Lamb!

She hoped she had hurt him; it would be a small revenge for all the agony he had given her in the past.
Go girl!

hmmm, I didn't think the H had done anything too terrible, I didn't like how the h rejected him and told him to leave 2,3, 4 times - too much

oh-oh, she just got her memory nack

....What? I know forgiveness is divine, but seriously. How is this a healthy HEA?

This chick needs to acquaint herself with terms like "divorce lawyer" & "restraining order." O___o How many times has she told him to get out of the house, yet he doesn't actually leave?! At least get a fucking hotel room, you creepy bastard.